[Mike Fieschko]

I think Shanley is going to tell all. This case will be a circus.

Shanley is 71, I believe.

A long prison sentence is unlikely to be very threatening: how much longer can he expect to live? (Please, no remarks about what welcome he will receive in prison.)

I don't know what the range is in Massachusetts for sentencing, so, what advantages could a prosecutor offer for a plea bargain?

What would the prosecutor offer 'in exchange' for Shanley telling prosecutors everything he knows?

[ValerieUSA]

There are sickos dying to read all the lurid details of this porn story. He'll tell to sell books and feed the unnatural lusts of readers.

[american colleen]

Well, I wasn't looking at it like a plea bargain thing. Pure speculation on my part, but this guy Shanley claims in letters that he had been molested as an altar boy and seminarian by two priests who were the predecessors of Cardinal Medeiros. It appears that Shanley was using blackmail against Cardinals Medeiros and Law.

It seems to me that if Shanley wanted to avoid prison, he would have left the country. He knew the jig was up and there he was, holed up across the street from his residence.

No making sense of such a sick mind, but maybe he was just waiting to be arrested.