I’m with Jonathan. I think the idea that we should have any great sympathy or sense of outrage over Winona Ryder’s predicament is flatly absurd. If you don’t want to believe your lying eyes after watching that tape, that’s your problem. But the idea that she’s not guilty strikes me as flatly goofy and approaching self-delusion of pro-OJ levels. If you believe in the looking-for-trouble school of justice, then Winona got everything she deserves. Millionaire movies stars who steal for thrills deserve more, not less, shame and punishment than the rest of us. And if the prosecutor was over-zealous, who cares? The risks for Winona were higher than for the rest of us, but the “need” to steal was much, much lower. My fondness for women’s prison movies notwithstanding, I don’t necessarily think she should go to the slammer. But I hardly think she’s been treated unfairly.