[TommyDale]

"...I can also see why a prosecutor would strike a deal because if it did go to trial Ritter would win."

How do you know he would win? Are you Scott Ritter? Are you the fired Assistant DA? Are you psychic? I would dare say that there was substantial evidence, including his computer files, to convict. My hunch is that the ADA made a deal either because she was lazy, or was possibly bribed. She WAS fired, right?

[Burkeman1]

yes- she was- after the story came to light and her boss- a man with ambition- fired her.

[billhilly]

Burkeman is only practicing his Massassachusetts religion.