I don't know enough about this.

It's a rough-and-tumble, swaggering electorate who like to see the guilty punished to the max, ... I don't know that a plea deal is in the cards. It depends on the political wishes of the prosecutor.

The government would have to give up the ghost on seeking the death penalty, the sentence being life in an institution instead of in jail [with the rest of the prison population] without the possibility of parole, ... That's the only guilty plea that would be acceptable.

There is very little other justification for him to go before the grand jury now, unless he feels the need to re-explain something to them so they don't do something that puts him in legal jeopardy,

advocate.

has criticized the exclusionary rule . . . and [as an appellate judge] has favored police powers over privacy concerns.