Through whatever improbable series of events you wish to postulate, you are accused, tried, and convicted of a major felony and sentenced to 20+ years in prison before you will be eligible for parole. You have an appeal pending but it doesn’t look good, and because you happen to have a nice piece of change in various offshore accounts, the court declines to let you free on bail pending appeal. As you’re being taken to prison, another series of events ala the Harrison Ford Fugitive results in your having the chance to escape. You’re close enough to the border so that it’s conceviable you can get out of the country for long enough to access your money and get to some country lacking an extradition treaty with the country from which you’d become a fugitive.
Do you try to escape? Why or why not? And what could cause your answer to change?
In a heartbeat. Of course, lacking a passport will be a problem, but I suppose if I have enough money, getting smuggled out of Canada and into Brazil will be no problem.
Why? Because the system has failed. Therefore I shall remove myself from it. With money, my wife can liquidate our assets and relocate to our new manse overlooking Rio.
Hell yeah. If I could get to India, my family would protect me. I could take my mother’s maiden name and just pay enough to get all new papers, and then probably become a schoolteacher.
The last time it happened to me, yes, I ran. Started over in a new country. Now, I do my best to keep my nose clean with my brand new identity…Hans von…er, that is, Tim
Being on the lam the rest of my life would suck but it is far better than me being someone’s bitch in prison the rest of my life. And make no mistake, nice little white-boy like me will be completely at the “mercy” of the other inmates.
Barring being able to run away I’d seriously consider killing myself rather than face the hell that awaits me.
However, if I get to go to Club Fed then scratch all the above and I’ll go serve my time. I am assuming State ass-pound prison here for the above.
Hell yes I would. I’ve never understood the notion that only guilty people run. If I know I’m going to be convicted, I’m not just going to sit there and wait for the axe to fall.
Stop pointing out all the ways that I am careless! :mad:
I am totally goingto frame you for murdering Fred Phelps, even though my actual plan (to manipulate Ann Coulter into doing it by sucking out all his brain juice with a straw) works better if there are no other suspects.
For the reasons jsgoddess and Strinker gave. I wouldn’t want to look over my shoulder for the rest of my life, and though I initially thought I’d have no place to go, I completely forgot one of my very best friends(!) that lives in Australia.