[riverdawg]

” ...you don’t have to be charged, indicted, tried and found guilty to end up in front of a judge for sentencing.”

I’m not a lawyer, but at a minimum it would seem that you have to be charged (or “indicted”) for a crime in order to be allowed to plea guilty to it! In any case, this article from Politico (I know ...) indicates that Gen. Petraeus *was* indicted.

http://www.politico.com/story/2015/04/david-petraeus-sentence-classified-information-117290

[meatloaf]

The evidence against Petraeus was never presented to a grand jury. Here’s what happened.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/how-david-petraeus-avoided-felony-charges-and-possible-prison-time/2016/01/25/d77628dc-bfab-11e5-83d4-42e3bceea902_story.html?hpid=hp_rhp-top-table-main_petraeus-215pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory