Submitted by John Stauber on
The judge in celebrity thief Winona Ryder's shoplifting conviction has ordered that no juror speak publicly about the case for 90 days to lessen their ability to profit from appearances and interviews. Columnist George Hesselberg notes that "no juror in a movie star case would talk for free, so that means until three months are up, we won't get to know what really happened. But I was not a juror, so here is what really happened: A millionaire tried to steal some expensive clothes and got caught. She will not go to jail, even though it is suspected she has done this before. Meanwhile, not one media outlet or Web page noted the irony that elsewhere in California, victims of the 'three-strikes and you're out' rule are spending years, even lives, in prison for stealing less."
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