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How those plea bargains feelin' now?

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# How those plea bargains feelin' now?

by [Advocate Staff](https://valleyadvocate.com/author/websupportcmonitor-com/) October 17, 2006

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I admit that my jaw dropped when I read [today’s news alert](http://www.masslive.com/news/republican/newslog/index.ssf?/mtlogs/mass_therepublican/archives/2006_10.html#195661) in the *Springfield Republican* about the dismissal of all charges against racketeering and bribery defendant Peter Davis. Of 13 defendants, Davis was the only one to allow his case to go to trial. The rest [took plea bargains](http://www.masslive.com/springfield/republican/index.ssf?/base/news-0/1157728204162950.xml&coll=1) in this very prominent case involving employees of the Springfield Housing Authority.

According to the report by Stephanie Barry, the statute of limitations for the evidence expired on July 9, 1999. Fraud charges were brought against the defendants five years later.

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Readablehigher is better: 100%100 of 100 pages; All 167,893 sitesBetter than 47%; Pages whose own text is in the HTML the server sends, enough of it for their kind.
Cleanhigher is better: 72%middle page; All 167,893 sitesBetter than 51%; Of the words before script, the share that are the page and not menus, footer and forms.
Costshown, never scored: 216,937tokens; About 2,169 a page; To read every page once. A long page that answers well is not worse for it. Tokens are estimated at about 4 characters each.

How its pages spread on Clean

Its middle, 72%

100 pages measured.

Against its rivals

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	Readinghigher is better		Costnot scored
Site	Readable	Clean	Tokens a page
valleyadvocate.comThis site, 100 pages	100%	72%	2,169
elizabethspiers.com64 pages	89%	97%	2,715
bustle.com100 pages	100%	94%	1,391
syracusenewtimes.com100 pages	100%	None	2,949

First of 4 on Readable, third on Clean.

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	What an agent getshigher is better		Signals		Costnot scored
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/	530	63%	Yes	None	1,407	No h1
/2006/10/11/test4	327	52%	Yes	Yes	1,233	Nothing
/2006/10/12/i-think-i-figgered-it-out	339	53%	Yes	Yes	1,266	Nothing
/2006/10/23/show-of-hands-citizen-journalism-survey	344	53%	Yes	Yes	1,317	Nothing
/2006/09/03/johnny-mac	345	53%	Yes	Yes	1,279	Nothing
/2006/09/28/not-your-space-myspace	345	53%	Yes	Yes	1,294	Nothing
/2006/10/03/devine-assessment	340	53%	Yes	Yes	1,291	Nothing
/2006/10/19/city-farmers-host-biotechies	389	56%	Yes	Yes	1,431	Nothing
/2006/10/20/dumping-in-the-city	403	56%	Yes	Yes	1,381	Nothing
/2006/10/14/wolfs-in-new-hampshire	403	57%	Yes	Yes	1,356	Nothing
/2006/09/02/wimpy-white-guys-with-guitars	397	57%	Yes	Yes	1,396	Nothing
/2006/10/02/uli-week-follow-up	420	58%	Yes	Yes	1,476	Nothing
/2006/10/14/that-damn-librarian	422	58%	Yes	Yes	1,362	Nothing
/2006/09/28/kinky-starting-to-look-hinky	473	61%	Yes	Yes	1,490	Nothing
/2006/09/17/redundantly-redundant	500	62%	Yes	Yes	1,502	Nothing
/2006/07/28/welcome-to-my-universe	493	62%	Yes	Yes	1,567	Nothing
/2006/10/19/that-damn-trevor-banks-wisconsin	517	63%	Yes	Yes	1,518	Nothing
/2006/10/17/how-those-plea-bargains-feelin-now	525	63%	Yes	Yes	1,666	Nothing
/2006/10/10/where-we-live	537	63%	Yes	Yes	1,699	Nothing
/2006/10/19/springfield-and-exit-strategies	541	64%	Yes	Yes	1,627	Nothing
/2006/09/24/but-i-like-it-too	549	64%	Yes	Yes	1,546	Nothing
/2006/10/07/sorry-doc-i-gotta-reschedule-ive-got-a-playoff-game-tomorrow	558	65%	Yes	Yes	1,684	Nothing
/2006/10/19/parking-at-museum-park	567	65%	Yes	Yes	1,700	Nothing
/2006/08/09/im-a-bad-feminist-i-think	567	65%	Yes	Yes	1,605	Nothing
/2006/10/02/fragile-stability-fcb-quarterly-report	575	65%	Yes	Yes	1,701	Nothing

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