[Velveeta]

Seems like quite a gamble to reject the plea.

[Devil_Anse]

It would be a gamble regarding his criminal case, but accepting the plea would have given a finality to the civil suit(s) against Schuss. I mean, all the plaintiff(s) in those civil suits would have had to do to prove that Schuss killed Rosenberg, would be to introduce the criminal court record of his guilty plea.

Picture Mr. Schuss testifying in the personal injury civil suit. "I didn't kill him, I punched him, but it wasn't my punch that killed him... yada yada yada." The plaintiff's attorney would then say to Schuss, "Well if you didn't kill him then why did you plead guilty to killing him????"