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Mental Issues...

How many times have you looked at someone and thought to yourself, "Could that person be all that they appear to be?"  Well, here we go with Cold Serial by B. Grovner.  You will find with reading this book that everyone is not what they appear to be.  The main character is the only consistent one in this story.  He takes you on a scare emotional ride that makes you think twice about meeting someone in and taking them home with one the first date.  The police didn't realize that he was not eluding them, he was not running at all.  He was right in their own backyard; living his day to day life and enjoying it.  Until one day he got greedy and began to get careless.  That's when his world started to fall like dominoes. When someone holds things inside so close, one day they are going to erupt and how they erupt may be in a day way.  With having a mother that didn't care and a father that walked out on him at a young age.  This man harbored so much resentmen

Still Can't Believe This...

I have read this story over and over again and I'm having a hard time wrapping my mind around the fact that a Jury of her peers found her to be guilty and a Judge sentenced her to 20 years in Prison.  Now, this is not a matter of race nor gender on my behalf, but I'm so confused.  Being a former Paralegal and an Advocate for Prison Reform, as well as forming working with Inmates, I'm finding this disturbing. This lady did not commit murder, nor did she commit an assault, however, the Judge found it in his heart to sentence her to 20 years in Prison for the crime of assault.  And not just assault, but aggravated assault.  The only crime that I have is that she was in possession of a deadly weapon in which she only fired a warning shot to ward off her abusive husband.  She did not shot him, nor did she shot at him.  There is a difference. The crime was committed by her husband...abuse is abuse.  Whether is physical, mental, verbal, financial, emotional, or neglect...a