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Quote: Originally Posted by tomkat So that means LE still doesnt' have enough evidence. TK and I are not making judgments about what we haven't seen . . . we're making judgments about LE's motive for undertaking a week-long landfill search at this late date after subjecting over 200...

What keeps you from being ready? If it's more than a hunch, I haven't read about it on these threads. If it IS a hunch, that's OK, but that's what I meant by "wishful thinking." Wouldn't it be nice if LE has tons of evidence? But they don't -- either they have (my opinion) just what...

http://www.13wmaz.com/news/article/143826/175/Search-Resumes-for-Lauren-Giddings-Remains "Mann says the FBI made the decision to search the landfill several weeks ago, but didn't mention if any new evidence points there". It is very significant, I think, that the FBI initiated this search...

bbm . . . Agreed, BW. She was applying for a capital defenders position. Makes me begin to doubt everything these reporters write. This article doesn't say anything new at all does it?

"But, as Bessie said, Winters doesn't want to confuse the jury with tidbits like SMD's concern about having picked up something when it can be so easily explained away and opens the door to the whole dog reliability issue." I posted that above. What I mean isn't that Winters himself would not...

No. I haven't seen Winters in court.

Right. Unless they were told these are "cadaver dogs" then their (Steven's) thinking that he might have picked up LG's scent by being in her apartment makes sense. But, as Bessie said, Winters doesn't want to confuse the jury with tidbits like SMD's concern about having picked up something...

Well . . . It's probably less upsetting to a doglady to say that the jury didn't believe the handlers. Or, didn't believe the reliability of the handlers' interpretations of the dogs' actions. I agree with SS that we probably will not see HRD evidence in the trial of this case. If we...

Patterson simply got it wrong. Notice on the video that he's counting on his fingers when he says something like "it must've been 2008." I think we're clear now that TM & SMD were roommates during SMD's last year of college, that would've been 2007-2008. SMD then was in law school 08-09...

As I understand Mercer, the law school is physically and socially separate from the college campus and its students. The professor who called TM MUST have been a college prof, because TM never attended Mercer Law School and its professors would not have ever met him. Except for the relative...

100% right, BW. Sorry. I apologize for the vague reference. That was said by the poster you quoted. My bad!

I agree, BW, and also that Buford was not trying very hard to convince the magistrate that probable cause did not exist. I think he was trying to place doubt in the public mind that SMD did it. That is, he was trying to make clear that the story told by the roommate did not match the current...

Just my intuition, but I'll wager that we'll find that BB's statement about only 3 master keys will have to be significantly revised. If the keys were as tightly controlled as she suggests, then SMD would have had to go the "bump key" route that AA suggested threads ago. In light of the direct...

If it's like the last one, I'd call them regular non-events!

Having seen the uncut vid of the hearing, this is one of those several times when Patterson seems (to me, JMO) to be speaking half-truths. It's clear that he does not want to outright say "DD had a master key." But, nonetheless, from the tone of his voice, the inflection, the body language and...