If you are the wife of an inmate, you have undoubtedly had this question come up. The answer depended on the person asking the question. If it was a trusted friend who was just not in the loop, I felt comfortable saying, "Um, he is spending some time in jail for something he did when he was 15 years...
When the judge read, "we, the jury find the defendant GUILTY as CHARGED", my head and heart dropped. What? What about the statue of limitations? What about his character? What about our baby in my womb? What about...? I thought that my life was over. Here was my husband, a hard-working, wonderful...