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Time (Amazon Prime). On Sept. 16, 1997, Robert G. Richardson and his wife, Sibil Fox, co-owners of a now-defunct hip-hop clothing shop in Shreveport, La., committed armed robbery at a Louisiana credit union and unwittingly initiated a protracted and painful battle against the state’s criminal justice system. Richardson’s wife, nicknamed Fox Rich, was sentenced to 13 years prison for driving her husband to the bank, but she accepted a plea deal which reduced her time behind bars. (She served three-and-half years in total.) Her husband, Rob, refused a deal and received an undoubtedly excessive, devastating sentence: 60 years at the Louisiana State Penitentiary.
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