[SoCal Pubbie]

If he pleads out it's because he doesn't want a lot of negative publicity coming out, including all past affairs, possibly discussion of another Laker's exploits, and the like. If he had any sense he would have spend one one hundredth of the money on a high class call girl last year instead of going for a freebie from a not so attractive hotel employee. Clients pay them to go away, in the words of Charlie Sheen.

[sinkspur]

If he pleads out it's because he doesn't want a lot of negative publicity coming out, including all past affairs,

If he had "past affairs", while married, it's likely the women would have come forward or DA Hurlbert would have sought them out.

[Chantal]

If he pleads out it's because he has some skeletons in his closet and also he doesn't want Shaq to testify against him. Anything but that......