The following document contains the official indictment for Budd and Robert Asher, as well as two articles commenting on the charges. Whether or not you believe the charges is up you, but regardless it’s a very interesting read and it details the scandal very well.
I believe the indictment, not the conviction, was the tipping point for Budd as it represented the ultimate betrayal of the system. Going to trial meant the end of his clean record and forever changed his relationship with the people of Pennsylvania. Even if he was found innocent he would never be able to erase this blemish, he would never truly be exonerated. It was the first set down a dark path from which he would never return…
“I thank the good Lord for giving me 47 years of invigorating challenges, stimulating experiences, many happy occasions, and, most of all, the finest wife and children a man could ever desire. Now my life has changed, for no apparent reason. People who call and write are exasperated and feel helpless. They know I’m innocent and want to help. But in this nation, the world’s greatest democracy, there is nothing they can do to prevent me from being punished for a crime they know I did not commit.” - RBD
