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"Fine, the 70-year old lawyer and self-styled taxpayer advocate sent to jail 'indefinitely' by a ticked-off Superior Court judge (was) released abruptly last night."
On Examiner.com Los Angeles, Laura Lynn said:
"Attorney Richard Fine was released from jail Friday, according to an LA Times article and children's rights advocate Janette Isaacs."
Isaacs suggested that Yaffe may have released him on Yom Kippur (a day of atonement for Jews) as "a symbolic act."
Los Angeles Daily News writer Troy Anderson said Fine told the paper, in a phone interview, that his release showed "right will win over might. This is really a great day for Los Angeles and for California."
He'd written Yaffe recently, requesting a new judge because of his retirement. He then speculated that Yaffe may not have wanted to hand someone else his "complicated case....I guess Friday it all came to a head and Yaffe suddenly decided he wanted out of all this and decided to release me."
Perhaps he also wished to close it ahead of his retirement, or even had second thoughts about his outrageous sentencing of a man deserving praise, not indefinite punishment for serving the people of Los Angeles County heroically and selflessly.
Until September 17, he'd spent 563 days in solitary confinement, the longest ever for an attorney (or perhaps anyone) for contempt of court. Emerging, however, his spirit was as high as last May after the Supreme Court denied his petition, saying then:
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