[Dante3]

That is extremely strange.

The fact is Ramos and Compean were sent to prison for a crime that never occurred. Johnny Sutton and Debra Kanof went after men who had limited resources - unlike the wealthy parents of the lacrosse players who at great expense were able to win against Nifong.

[Iwo Jima]

It is strange. I don’t care if Ramos and Compean agreed to it, the court should have refused to seal this record as not in the public interest.

[calcowgirl]

...Johnny Sutton and Debra Kanof went after men who had limited resources...

True. In Sutton's testimony to the Senate, he said:

...we were definitely very interested in plea bargaining.
We are - in 95 percent, maybe more, of our cases work out in plea bargaining.
That is standard operating procedure.

They are probably very used to having people just roll over because they can't afford the alternative.