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Good post - I'll take my time and read it over...

BTW - Does anyone else realize that Blacks letter offered NOTHING ?

... what he was "willing to do" was exactly what he had been doing !
Read it again... "require him to CONTINUE his addiction treatment"...

.... and what conversely? ...if they don't drop the investigation he'll start taking drugs again ?

He was admitting NOTHING and willing to give up NOTHING - it was an offer of NOTHING.

No don't be dense, are you new to the limbaugh threads. FL has a drug court intervention program. The offer in the letter is to consent to the jurisdiciton of that program. If you fail to complay with that program there are criminal court consequences.

It was a serious offer. It also offered the prosecutor a political bone. He would have been able to be the hero of brining Rush to the jurisdiction of the court. He would have gotten his mug shot. He would not have gotten the adjudication or confession. But when you negotiate you get some and give up other points.

I also would mean the prosecutor would be able to claim his investigation was vindicated. Now the SA has wasted MORE money and time; and in the end will have nothing but probably a reprimand or suspension. ANY Bar discipline finding will cost him his job. (and possibly the lawyers around him)

True or false.
All business with the SA is presumed 'on the record' unless,
a) both parties agree in advance that something is off the record, or,
b) specific exemption is written in law.