re: #350 Obdicut

Why on earth do you believe that, rather than that federal prosecutors tend not to prosecute unless they have a very solid case?

Your logic is really missing on that one. Or rather, it’s backwards.

I disagree. Fed prosecutors use their postions as a stepping stone for other political offices (See: Mary Beth Buchanan et. al). If there was any chance at all of getting a conviction they would have taken it to trial or they would have tossed on every charge they could think of in order to get him to take a plea. In this case they gave him a slap on the wrist. That tells me they didn’t have crap other than the entry under false pretenses.