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4. Another prosecutor, who was not involved in the case, coached the judge, without other counsel knowing, and convinced him to throw out the plea deal;



That's a serious violation of American law by both the judge and that prosecutor unless a formal - and _extremely_ unusual - process is used to appoint an judge's "adviser" of one sort or another. It's nearly automatic grounds for removing the judge from the case and both can be hauled before the Bar to defend their license to practice law.

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6. The same renegade prosecutor is the one that just leaked the Grand Jury testimony to ABC (and is the only one interviewed in the article).



Leaking grand jury testimony is usually a felony. A final ruling hadn't been issued: the trial phase wasn't even over.

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The prosecution and the defence agreed on the appropriate length of punishment. Whether you think that was right or not, they had a plea deal that was (apparently) within the sentencing guidelines


American law allows a judge to reject a plea agreement and it happens from time to time (Bank of America vs. SEC is another example right now). It would have been completely reasonable for the judge to have rejected the agreement on the basis that it was too lenient - that the prosecutor was giving special treatment to a favored person - but not as a result of private fact and law gathering outside of the court.

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Noone is defending sex with under-age girls



Agreed - the only interesting question to me is the political question of what the Swiss will do. Normally they'd probably see "child rapist" and just hand him over. But given actions by the US over the last year against the Swiss banking sector they probably prefer to just thumb their noses at Washington, and I think that the prosecutor's proposed settlement gives them a way to do that and let him go back to France.

Keep in mind that France and Poland are not neutral on this at all - both strongly want him freed by the Swiss: the Swiss would not be going it alone by freeing him. The Swiss can gain a lot of goodwill with a neighbor by freeing him, and for the Swiss brownie points with France are more important than with the US.
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