Posted on 04/28/2006 3:11:12 PM PDT by kristinn
Edited on 04/28/2006 3:20:03 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
Rush Limbaugh's attorney has issued a statement announcing a settlement of the Florida prosecutor's investigation into alleged doctor shopping by Rush Limbaugh.
Details have been read by Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh. Basically, the charge of doctor shopping is dismissed, with some conditions.
In response to media and other inquiries, Roy Black, Rush Limbaugh's attorney, released the following statement today concerning a settlement agreement with the Palm Beach County State Attorney's Office to end the investigation of Mr. Limbaugh:
"I am pleased to announce that the State Attorney's Office and Mr. Limbaugh have reached an agreement whereby a single count charge of doctor shopping filed today by the State Attorney will be dismissed in 18 months. As a primary condition of the dismissal, Mr. Limbaugh must continue to seek treatment from the doctor he has seen for the past two and one half years. This is the same doctor under whose care Mr. Limbaugh has remained free of his addiction without relapse.
"Mr. Limbaugh and I have maintained from the start that there was no doctor shopping, and we continue to hold this position. Accordingly, we filed today with the Court a plea of 'Not Guilty' to the charge filed by the State.
"As part of this agreement, Mr. Limbaugh also has agreed to make a $30,000 payment to the State of Florida to defray the public cost of the investigation. The agreement also provides that he must refrain from violating the law during this 18 months, must pay $30 per month for the cost of "supervision" and comply with other similar provisions of the agreement.
"Mr. Limbaugh had intended to remain in treatment. Thus, we believe the outcome for him personally will be much as if he had fought the charge and won."
The actions taken today are as follows:
-- The State Attorney has filed a single charge of doctor shopping with the Court. The charge is being held in abeyance under the terms of an agreement between the State and Mr. Limbaugh.
-- Mr. Limbaugh has filed a plea of "Not Guilty" with the Court.
The formal agreement between Mr. Limbaugh and the State Attorney will be filed with the Court on Monday. The terms of the agreement are substantively as follows:
-- Mr. Limbaugh will continue in treatment with the doctor he has seen for the past two and one half years.
-- After Mr. Limbaugh completes an additional 18 months of treatment, the State Attorney has agreed to drop the charge.
-- Mr. Limbaugh has agreed to make a $30,000 payment to the State of Florida to defray the public cost of the investigation.
Your post #659...reeks of "Do you know who I am? What arrogance.
Then why even bother being on a thread about a guy you have no interest in, other than to persecute?
"If you have never had serious chronic pain you really can't form an opinion, IMHO"
My GF's brother has some sort of migranes that render him useless unless he takes high powered pain killers. His life is a constant cycle of debilitating pain or then being high as a kite. He's hooked on the pain killers and there's nothing that can be done for him.
You have missed my whole point. ---
Before he could be forced to pay, he must be brought before a jury, the case presented against him, and the jury find the evidence proves beyond a resonable doubt that he is guilty. Apparently, the prosecutor did not have suffucient evidence to make that strong a case.
Exactly. End of discussion.
To end the freeking persecution. He can't go shoot the damn prosecutor to get him off his back. He has an advantage Tom Delay doesn't have. It has been years now since the prosecutor went on the witch hunt.
I don't think I have.
But I was talking about a 'message of support' of another kind.
Anyway that's what's fun about FR- the snarking.
Again, we disagree.
Let it go.
2006-4-13
Previous posts pertain to-
1) Prez's ties to Big oil
2) Arguing whether this is a Christian nation while referencing Adams, which on its OWN does not indict you as a Liberal troll. Many argue this point on the board. Among the sum of your other posts? Suspicious in extreme.
3) Urging pacifism and "diplomacy" in Iran
4) Stating you wouldn't want Rush near your children as though he was guilty of, I don't know, sleeping with an intern half his age...
You are a troll.
For the most part I think this is a correct assessment. Rush is a big fish. You reel this kind in. He ain't no catch and release.
There probably would not be so much animus towards Rush from this board if he would occasionally give attribution to FR when he steals ideas from the forum. It is amazing how often he begins discussing a subject shortly after the supporting article is posted here. Several Freepers have experienced sharing ideas/concepts with him only to have them claimed as his own later.
I'm not aware of any 12-Step programs being introduced during detox; maybe they are. Most people in detox are still on the first few parts (words) of the 1st Step. Admission takes some quite a while; powerlessness even longer.
Not everyone comes to AA or the others via an institutional setting where a supervised type of detox would be an element.
People may *be* detoxing when they first see the 12 Steps and they may *see* the word God in the 3rd Step and not read past that to "as we understood Him," but their brains are probably not yet unscrambled, if so. It wouldn't register.
I haven't ever heard any uninitiated say that about inanimate objects, but I've heard many sponsors say it to sponsees. Sometimes that's all that will work.
None of this really has to do with what a court orders a person to do and believe me, plenty of courts order defendants to attend meetings for so many days, usually 90. The God issue never comes up in that decision, that I'm aware of.
Oldfriend is Rush's former call screener?
Culmination of a 3 year battle.
Lawyer Harry Potter, on Oberman's just said the mugshot was the worst part of it. LOL!
Thank you, rod. You made the pertinent point.
He has not lost his effectiveness one iota!
Are you now saying you are not a "Rush fan?"
I thought I read he plead "Not Guilty". Did he actually plead "No Contest"?
In both criminal and civil trials in the United States, a plea of "nolo contendere" means that the defendant neither admits nor disputes the charge. This is also called a plea of no contest or, more informally, a "nolo" plea. "Nolo contendere" is Latin and literally means "I do not wish to contend." Spiro Agnew famously approximated it as "I didn't do it, but I'll never do it again." In making such a plea, a defendant accepts that he or she may be found guilty by the court without ever admitting to the act(s) charged. This plea is only recognised in the U.S. In other common law countries, a criminal defendant is requested to plead either "Guilty" or "Not Guilty". If a person fails to speak or uses different words, "Not Guilty" will be placed on the file as the presumptive plea. No formal plea is required in civil matters where paper pleadings are used.
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