[woofie]

A possible federal case against Ritter could include the charge of using the Internet to entice a minor to engage in criminal activity, sources said.

Over the last week, former prosecutors have questioned the way the Ritter case was handled. Albany County's Clyne, while not discussing the Ritter case, said he would not approve of charges involving the luring of a teenager girl over the Internet to a sexual encounter to be disposed of as a low-level dismissal. Former Assistant U.S. Attorney Don Kinsella, who retired last year as head of the Albany office's Criminal Division and is now an attorney in private practice, feels Ritter may have gotten off easy.

"He was allegedly involved in what otherwise would be felony conduct, and it was charged as a Class B misdemeanor and disposed of and there's no apparent good reason for it, given the seriousness of the alleged conduct," Kinsella said.

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[Williams]

BINGO! I was wondering how with all the concern about children being lured into sex with adults, a charge like this was one of those dismissed if you stay out of trouble for 6 months misdemeanors. Now we know it isn't.

He got one hell of a special break and the media is largely silent on this as well. Explains why the assistant DA was fired.