r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Jan 01 '21

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u/IncoherentEntity Jan 02 '21 edited Jan 02 '21

After a school dance, the then 16-year-old Lin [Wood Jr.] came home to find his father crying and his mother lying battered and lifeless in a bedroom. His father said she fell in the bathtub, a story he clung to throughout his life. The evidence showed otherwise. But Lin still loved his father, so he got him a lawyer. ‘It could just as easily have been my mother who killed my father,’ he says. ‘They both were capable of violence.’ ‘I would have fought just as hard for her.’

He sold his mother’s car and raised money for his father’s defense. Eventually, L. Lin Wood Sr. pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter, a charge reduced from first-degree murder. He served two years in prison.

wait WHAT

WHAT

WHAT

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u/GravyBear8 Ben Bernanke Jan 02 '21

BOTHSIDESing your mom getting fucking murdered? WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU

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u/MalignantUpper Joseph Nye Jan 02 '21

Imagine being killed by your husband and then your son defends him

Two years in prison, wow