Well, Erin, I commend the fairness of your approach. I just don't think it's warranted in Browne's case.
For the psychic part of it, again, if people are willing to pay her, based on their own choice, then more power to her.
As for the legal issue, I think that even if she was pleading down for a reason we don't know about (although I think I can make a pretty safe guess), as a person who makes her living on the trust of others, and who puts herself forward as a force for the greater good, if she were innocent of the fraud charges it seems likely to me that she'd
say so, good and loud, and show some evidence to her buying public that she has integrity. Instead she said, nolo contendere! (which I respect as much as I do people who invoke the fifth amendment during a murder trial.) She's not a corporation trying to protect it's shareholders, she's a human being who did what she had to do to minimize the damage to herself and her pocketbook.
I know that intuitively.
