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Originally Posted by jimkski
Your first paragraph assumes there's been an appeal of some sort, which we don't know. See my last post...appeals are very time consuming and expensive, and can take years to complete. An unfortunate fact of the legal system, but very true.
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Sorry if I phrased things a bit awkwardly. To be honest, I wasn't assuming that. In fact, that's why I said
"while Aries666 post tells the STORY of what happened, we don't have access to what's actually happened behind the scenes with regards to her appeals and other legal actions." I was just trying to acknowledge that she may...or may not...have entered an appeal, but we don't know "what" ever happened since all we have to go by is an old post from years ago.
Of course, I still think it's shitty -- given the overall story of what happened to her -- that the porn community never chipped in and got her a proper lawyer to appeal the case. And the only reason I say that...and the reason I presume that's true...is because IF that had actually happened, I'm sure it would have made the porn world news circuits (for example, the AVN web site) and you'd be able to Google Sylvia's name and find SOME kind of updates on her case. I mean, if nothing else, assuming that any kind of appeal was filed, you'd think that any competent lawyer would have been out talking to any media outlets that would have been willing to listen to him, to get some kind of emotional support working in her favor.
I posed a question before and asked: has anyone actually ever tried writing to her in jail to get an update? What I find interesting is that the only information that still seems to be available is that old, lengthy post which has been re-posted in TS forums again and again and again. But I've never seen any kind of follow-up AFTER that post, nor if you Google and do any kind of digging can you seem to find out very much beyond it. Which again, leads me to believe that either NOTHING ever happened with the appeals process (perhaps due to money or other factors on Sylvia's side of things) OR (as you noted, Jimkski) maybe something was filed, but it's gathering dust and moving along at a snail's pace.