I don't understand why it won't be dismissed for 18 months. I've never heard of such a thing.
Dan Abrams is saying that Black's press release is a "bit" misleading. To say the least.........LOL.
WEST PALM BEACH — Rush Limbaugh was arrested Friday on prescription drug charges, law enforcement officials said.
Limbaugh turned himself in to authorities on a warrant issued by the State Attorney's Office, said Teri Barbera, a spokeswoman for the State Attorney's Office.
The conservative radio commentator came into the jail at about 4 p.m. with his attorney Roy Black and bonded out an hour later on a $3,000 bail, Barbera said.
The warrant was for fraud to conceal information to obtain prescription, Barbera said.
Black said his client and authorities reached a settlement on a single count charge of doctor shopping filed Friday by the State Attorney will be dismissed in 18 months.
Prosecutors seized Limbaugh's records after learning that he received about 2,000 painkillers, prescribed by four doctors in six months, at a pharmacy near his Palm Beach mansion. They contend that Limbaugh engaged in "doctor shopping," or illegally deceived multiple doctors to receive overlapping prescriptions.
Limbaugh has not been charged and maintains he's innocent. He has acknowledged he became addicted to pain medication, blaming it on severe back pain, and took a five-week leave from his radio show to enter a rehabilitation program in 2003.
Very, very common form of plea bargaining. (It's called "deferred prosecution" in federal court). If you don't get in trouble for 18 months, the DA drops the charge; if you do something else during that time, you get hit with the new charge plus the old one.
The theory is that, on a minor charge, the most the judge would give you if you were convicted is probation. So the plea bargain gives something to both sides-- the DA gets to put you on probation, as if you were convicted, but you get the charge dropped at the end, instead of having a conviction on your record.
Unless I counted wrong that brings us to November 07'. I wonder if they are trying to teather him politically during the beginnings of the primary season. I wouldn't put anything past the Rat Ba$+&rD$ Dem's in West Palm Beach.
And I never heard of something being called "an agreement" if he enters a plea of not guilty.
No contest or guilty, then it's a plea bargain. But not "not guilty".