Alvin Kamara pleads no contest to lesser misdemeanor charge, jury trial is cancelled; civil suit also settled on confidential terms

liveoakh said
The prosecutor Offered the deal, the day after Greene settled w/ Kamara for an undisclosed amount of money. The timing would suggest his case was was weakened by that development. Would you not agree?

You do realize that Greene and the DA have likely been in discussions well before these things were resolved? The case wasn't weakened by it. They probably knew that Greene was attempting to settle and waited til that was resolved before doing the plea deal. I imagine one wasn't going to happen without the other. Settling the civil side didn't necessarily preclude settling the criminal case though.

liveoakh said
Really? Why would the DA care about them working it out. This is pure fantasy. Kamara kept pushing this along, not the DA. It's 10 days from the trial, of course the DA was ready to go to trial. What DA wouldn't be?

How do you know this? A DA has a large number of cases they deal with at any given time. Of course Kamara's team did what they could to get the best outcome possible, and it worked out that they got a plea they could live with.

liveoakh said
If the DA was looking to make a deal, then why wait to the twilight hour to offer a plea? The DA literally offered the plea, the day after Greane was bought off.

DAs are always looking to offer plea deals. I have no doubt they traded offers well before they finally came to an agreement. That's really not surprising. Neither side wanted to go to court because of the risks involved, so they're going to try and settle as over 90% of all cases do.