[aristeides]

As DAnconia55 has explained, he could well both be guilty and have been set up. Indeed, the fact that this case was sealed makes that seems very likely. If he was both guilty, and just unlucky enough to be caught, why was the prosecution sealed?

[Lancey Howard]

If he was both guilty, and just unlucky enough to be caught, why was the prosecution sealed?

And why did the assistant fail to inform the DA about this case??
The stench in this whole affair is overwhelming..

[Lancey Howard]

The Schenectady Daily Gazette reported yesterday that Albany District Attorney Paul Clyne fired veteran Assistant District Attorney Cynthia Preiser last week for failing to inform him of the case against Ritter..... Clyne said that as a "sensitive" case, it should have been brought to his attention.

Somebody needs to start talking.

[cyncooper]

Here's what I think, just based on the info at hand and observing Ritter's strange behavior over the years:

He has engaged in this behavior due to his own base impulses.

He was caught, *perhaps years ago*, and the information has been used by the holders of this information to have Ritter behave in particular ways.

The information certainly was sealed and I would argue that it certainly was NOT the Bush administration, as some have argued, that was behind that happening, nor did the administration use this information to have Ritter make his appearances and issue certain statements. I have my own ideas who may be behind it.

So when you say "set up" I was rejecting any implication that Ritter was caught doing something he wouldn't normally be inclined to do. If you say "set up" that someone was monitoring his activities because they received a tip that he was malleable due to a certain, uh, "character flaw", then that is possible. Again, I would reject the Bush administration or republicans as the master-mind to such a ploy because I don't see one single positive thing that Ritter's actions and words have done for them, but most of all because I don't believe this administration engages in using such as Ritter in such a way.