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serf • today at 7:30 PM • 5 replies • view on HN

the fact that you're quick to tell me you're a pardoned felon but not why gives me a creepy feeling, and I say that with a lot of felon friends and family..

probably not the detail to omit to try to hook a readership..

technical aside : on low bandwidth connections your site acts really inconsistent and weird; it appears to be downloading those on-hover sound files.


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ChrisMarshallNY • today at 8:44 PM

It may be a bit of a "hook." He mentions that he explains it in the book, and provides the first chapter. It's probably in there.

I was a nasty felon, but as a juvenile (13). I got clean at 18, so my adult record is unblemished; but nowadays, I would probably be tried as an adult.

No, I'm not not gonna mention why, here. It's just a distraction.

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bko • today at 10:22 PM

At 18 he hit his father in the head with a baseball bat. Not sure if he killed him.

That's all the info in the first chapter of his book. It's kind of gross gleeful description of the act. Don't think the book is for me.

In the comment he says he was homeless at 19 so at most he got less than 2 years prison.

selectodude • today at 8:43 PM

https://sos.ok.gov/documents/Pardons/204490.pdf

That’s his pardon. That’s about all we got though, the record was expunged.

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aftbit • today at 9:50 PM

It is not hard to figure out at all. The first chapter of the book is linked on his site.

https://buford.bg/books/buford-versus-oklahoma-1