[contemplator]

We have done it in the past. Right or wrong, all I'm saying is that it poses the same ethical delimma.

[null and void]

Yeah. He's kept his nose clean for 38 years. Isn't the whole point of the system to effect precisely this change in behavior?

I'd say jail him for some token period of time, including time served awaiting any hearings, etc., plus some longish period of probation, and call it a day.

But that's just me...