Go to jail: the cost of bad writing

It’s hard to plead innocence in a court case when your autobiography boasts of many similar crimes, as reported in this Wired blog. At least this is what Asant Kahari found when a judge admitted large portions of his autobiography, Birth of a Criminal, as evidence when he was tried for a con trick. Being dooced (fired for blogging) is one thing, but a prison sentence is another.

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