There's always such a rush to judgment. It makes a fair trial hard to get.
judge not that ye be not judged
The good thing about writing fiction is that you can get back at people.
An outline is crucial. It saves so much time. When you write suspense, you have to know where you're going because you have to drop little hints along the way. With the outline, I always know where the story is going. So before I ever write, I prepare an outline of 40 or 50 pages.
I'm alone and outgunned, scared and inexperienced, but I'm right.
I was a lawyer for 10 years, and several of my clients had the misfortune, through no fault of my own, of going to prison. I visited them occasionally.