Prosecutor in Sexual Assault Case May Have Offered Defendants the Special High School Alumni Plea Deal
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Even though 17-year-old Savannah Dietrich of Louisville wasn’t charged with contempt of court after violating a court order by tweeting the names of two teens who sexually assaulted her, she’s still had to cope with the fact that her attackers were offered an exceedingly lenient plea deal. That deal, according to a public accusation that Dietrich’s attorney Thomas Clay levelled against chief prosecutor Paul Richwalsky, was allegedly so lenient because Richwalsky serves on the Alumni Board of Trinity High School, which the boys attended at the time of the assault.
According to the Courier-Journal, the deal proffered by chief prosecutor Paul Richwalsky included 50 hours of volunteer work and ensured that the boys’ convictions would be erased when they each turned 19½ if they completed a diversion program. It was after Judge Angela McCormick Bisig lifted the case’s cone of confidentiality that Clay accused Richwalsky, chief prosecutor in the juvenile court division of the Jefferson County attorney’s office, of offering the boys “favored treatment” in the form of a plea deal that deputy division chief of the public defender’s juvenile division Emily Farrar-Crockett described as “completely unheard of.”