miss_blue
Lab Technician
As far as Flack's role, my understanding was that he was going to make sure she was walked through the booking and arraignment process and that she would be released either on bail or her own recognizance and that's what he meant by she wouldn't have jail time. Again, that's just me speculating.
Yes. Flack even said that she "won't spend a night in jail".
I would think, and I could be dead wrong, as far as an attempted murder charge her mental state and lack of a prior record would be taken into account. This isn't comparable to what Rikki did, but you see people in the news all the time who have been convicted multiple times of driving drunk, and even killing people while driving drunk; and they've served very little - IMO anyway - jail time and they're still out there driving drunk, injuring/killing people and getting caught. Based on that, it wouldn't shock me that Rikki wouldn't serve any jail time for what she did, especially given the circumstances.
I have seen a documentary thing on TV about a guy who murdered his wife, but got off only with 5 years of jail time because his actions were justified. I understood that if the murderer was provoked in any way by the victim, the murderer gets off more easily.
As far as I'm concerned, what happened to Rikki after that episode was clear and a closed deal. It's true that we haven't found out about the woman who actually shot Ruben. It will be nice if there were consequences for Danny job-wise from this whole thing, but knowing TPTB there won't be any.