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  • Alternate Character Interpretation: Simonelli may feel like even more of a victim and less of someone with a Never My Fault attitude to anyone who believes that she really was an oblivious bystander at the drug buy who never had a name to give up for immunity in the first place.
  • Unintentionally Unsympathetic: While Alice Simonelli absolutely did not deserve to be a sex slave to a prison guard, the circumstances behind her imprisonment are the results of her own poor choices. She refused to roll on the drug dealer she was pulled over with, even though Carmichael offered her a deal with no prison time. When the two meet again for the murder trial, Simonelli blames all her woes on Abby, the prosecutor who offered her probation. It is later revealed Simonelli was transferred to a tougher prison farther away from her daughter and denied parole for being caught smoking weed, despite her constant crying about wanting to get out and raise her little girl. What happened to her was unforgivable and her desperation to escape the sexual abuse is understandable, but her own decisions and her refusal to take any responsibility doesn't make the viewer take her side against Carmichael.

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