TINFOIL HAT ALERT: Rush going to rehab to avoid prosecution?

[Paragon]

Curious timing -- I think somebody cut a deal. :tinfoilhat:

[julka]

1. Alan Dershowitz said exactly that tonight on Cable

He knows Roy Black.

He said the FIRST thing a lawyer tells a drug-entangled client is to get his FAT ASS into rehab.

keeps the cops off him, cools the trail, and puts junkie in best light for legal proceedings to come.'

what I want to know is.....what's the rate of incarceration for first time drug possession?

somebody at DU posted that it was 80%, but I find that hard to believe.

[qwertyMike]

2. Standard procedure

Looks good in court

[Clete]

3. Curious timing?

It's a done deal and it was said on the cable news networks this afternoon that this is the advice attorneys give their clients as a matter of form or they will do jail time.

[Paragon]

5. I know

I meant "curious timing" sarcastically. ;-)

[Terwilliger]

4. no need for tinfoil

do you really think Rushie will do any time?

[madmax]

7. Hell no - he's a pillar of society

And I'm Catherine Zeta Jones.

[Oilwellian]

6. Chances are, he won't go to prison

This country has a two-tiered system of justice. If you're rich and white, you don't go to prison. On the other hand, I suspect his job as a radio talkshow host is finished. If corporate america coddles him, they open themselves up to lawsuits from other employees who were terminated for drugs. And we KNOW they aren't about to do that.

On Edit: And now we can add "snitch" on to Rush's list of traits.

[madmax]

8. ROFL!

The penguins are so funny! Love that, thanks for laugh tonight. I need one. ;)

[jobycom]

9. What it does mean

Is that they were closing in on him.

He confessed, then right after his show checked into rehab. Which means to me they were going to frog-march him soon. Or at least question him. Now they can't reach him.

Tipped off by JEB? Maybe, but I doubt the Bush's give a flip about such a lowborn slave. He worked for them, they rewarded him. They don't care whether he survives.

[Clark Can WIN]

10. No tinfoil required

When my asshole exhusband was so far behind on support they were ready to throw him in the slammer, his lawyer had him register with job rehabilitation. No joke. He had been working under the table for his uncle for over a year and telling the courts he was unemployed. But the court had enough and he was looking at real time.

This is common legal tactic when you have an otherwise indefensible client.