[george wythe]

From what I heard through the local grapevine, the prosecutor has considered several times dropping this investigation; he's being pressured by the constant media attention to the case, and the continuing prodding by his political grandfathers. He's also angry at the cheap personal attacks from the defense attorneys.

Unless Rush's medical records are full of smoking guns, I doubt the prosecutor will go too far with this case.

If I had to make a prediction today, I will say that a drug diversion program will probably be the outcome. Since Rush has already attended rehab, he might be given credit for his 'time served' doing rehab and given probation.

[longtermmemmory]

respectfully, that is not how the program works. I have run a few clients through the program.

Essentially it is a pretrial release program. The condition of the pretrial release is one year of treatment and one year of drug testing. i do not believe they will give rush credit for the program he has completed because they will still want to keep him on the hook for the one year of testing.

The chief SA brought criticism down upon himself by trying to play games from the outset. If it had been any other member of the FL bar, the complaint would have been sent to committee and cause found to proceed.

As for attacks from defense attorneys, he should be used to that by now even without Rush.