Sterlingov just got sentenced to 30 years and didn’t get a million dollars. He appealed. He needs the money. People who pled don’t. It’s that simple. This is a basic bit of logistics. The people who appeal will create binding precedent — the outcome of their cases decides the laws that will be written for all of us. Only so many cases will get funded. Spending a months long social media campaign raising money to fight a case and then pleading out is fraud, and it is fucking us because Sterlingov, a completely unfunded case, is going to determine the interpretation of these laws.