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Lawyer Jailed For Contempt Is Freed After 14 Years
H. Beatty Chadwick has been in a staring match with the judicial system for the past 14 years, and the system just blinked. Chadwick was ordered to pay his ex-wife $2.5 million after their divorce. He refused to pay saying that he couldn't because he lost the money in a series of "bad investments." The judge in the case didn't believe him and sent him to jail for contempt. That was 14 years ago. Last week another judge let Chadwick go saying that "continued imprisonment would be legal only if there was some likelihood that ultimately he would comply with the order; otherwise, the confinement would be merely punitive instead of coercive." Chadwick, now 73, is believed to have served the longest contempt sentence in US history.
If you can defy court orders, the system loses all of its terror and, consequentially, all of its power.
You heard it here first: the US court system is a tool of terrorism.
Oh, say does that Star-Spangled Banner entwine / The myrtle of Venus with Bacchus's vine?
I can see why you'd end up divorced if you ever married.
in that it gives us insight into who you are. I think this "bitter man" mentality says everything about your personal defects, and next to nothing about women in general. Whenever I hear this kind of bitching I immediately wonder what kind of looser attracts the kind of woman you describe, or alternately, how clueless you must be to have overlooked the boundless clues to your mates deficits. I've been with my wife for a dozen years. She has almost always made twice my salary - often earning a solid six figures. We don't separate out finances, and she has never begrudged my sometimes extravagant purchases of giant TVS, toys, music, whatever. If she were to split today, far more than half of what we have would rightly be hers to take. I suppose it's possible we could have a terrible breakup sometime. But I know her better than anyone, and I can't see her making it so bad as to negate the many incredible years we have had together. I think in general - with exceptions of course - people deserve the mate they find. All told, you probably just suck. And I'm super awesome.
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