5th Degree Assault
I railed up and punched him as hard as I possibly could in the ear.
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I railed up and punched him as hard as I possibly could in the ear.
READ MOREI am lucky to think of my criminal acts as fun nights with friends, not the incidents that ruined my job prospects.
READ MOREPretty much every crime that I’ve committed is something that I morally justify to myself. Here’s a small list.
READ MOREIt took me longer than it should have to forget about him, but even a minute would have been too long for that bum.
READ MOREProbably four weeks out of the night we were drinking.
READ MOREWhen you’re 14, you’re not thinking of the consequences. We just wanted to have fun and get away with it. And we did.
READ MOREBut what I found myself doing was leaving school, from which I had no friends or acquaintances really, going over to the shopping mall that was across the street, trying on clothes, and stealing them.
READ MOREI picked up hundreds and hundreds of dollars of drugs
READ MOREI haven’t had the luxury to forget it—yet. But I hope to.
READ MOREI think about James a lot and about what might have happened to me if I had been caught.
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