[pa mom]

Excellent analysis. And pithy, too!

Always glad to see the bad guys plead guilty. Saves all sorts of time, money and media attention.

[beezdotcom]

Always glad to see the bad guys plead guilty.

Depends. Were other charges dropped to get him to plead to this one?

Someone else on this thread has posited that this case didn't fit Rudolph's usual victim profile, and that maybe something is amiss here. I could see a prosecuter, desperate to get a conviction in this high-profile case, offer a deal to make some of the other charges go away.

I have absolutely no evidence of this, I'm just bored and stirring up trouble... :-)