> You should read up on this too then. His lawyers did manage to extract a plea deal with no jail time, but then MIT wouldn't sign off on it.

and so they didn't..

I predict that this will be the main area of interest when Abelson's report comes out. Why did MIT insist on jailtime?

> Let's be specific, are you trying to claim that Aaron stood a small chance at actually be sentenced to 35 years,

No.

> or are you just talking about jail time at all?

Yes.