The county Attorney said,in defending his position in not indicting him to begin with,that he could have indicted him but he might very well have been found not guilty.Which, as you know sara, could be said of any defendent, in any case, anywhere, at any time.
No. Romley didn't indict him because he didn't want to be the first to indict a Catholic bishop in a sex abuse case, so he gave him a way out, which was to relinquish authority over sex abuse cases to someone else, and he had O'Brien sign an agreement that said, basically, that O'Brien was guilty.
You hit it on the head again... EXACTLY....
The DA had given him a way out.
It appears that sovereignty, or irony, may have just taken that option away for good.
The agrement was posted here. O'Brien said as much as "I am guilty" in his agreement. The spinning of the agreement however was becoming way to clintonesque...
The manslaughter charge will not be so ambiguous.