You had both.

That’s a good case and good cases plead out at four years, and the alternative is a trial where a jury decides whether a tired father might have caught a leg in a strap.”

The ribs were never charged.

Three healing posterior rib fractures in a six-month-old.

Highly specific for inflicted injury.

The single most damning finding in eleven hundred pages.

And no charge, ever, against anybody.