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So because this sister says on national television that the neighbor said she was scared, but that wasn't the case, we just take her opinion as scientific fact? I mean, I get the inclination to give deference to family and friends of victims, but rationally, those are the last people we should...

I didn't take what her sister said to be a rebuttal at all. Just that the email mentioned it, but that she had never given the impression that she was scared in the past...

Not sure if it has been discussed her or if any reference has been made to it in media reports. But are we sure that Lauren was killed on the 25th? I mean, is it possible that she was kept alive somewhere, obviously against her will, for days before she was killed? I'm sure the police know by...

I can't think of a single earthly reason why she would have gone to the library w/o her Bar Books, laptop, keys, wallet, cell-phone...but with her Mercer ID to look something up? Other than my legal research class my 1L year, I never looked anything up in the library. The entire law library is...

I highly doubt the ID is significant. I went my entire last year of law school without mine (I had lost it the summer before). If Mercer is like most private schools, as a graduate student, you really don't need it for much, especially not after graduation. As long as you know your student ID#...

Nice catch & attn to detail. I also think there may be more to it than we know.

Thanks backwoods...btw, whenever I see your username, I can't help but hum "Rollin' down backwoods, Tennessee byway..." And yes, it's just theory. I have no earthly idea what is going on with this case. I dealt with LE in Virginia as an intern and now in another part of GA and I've never seen...

Regardless of whether there is a bar to the FBI investigating, there is no way, now how that they don't have the complete results of their first sweep back from the FBI. And yes, they took a second sweep a couple days ago. But unless they are idiots, they know what to grab at the get-go/first...

I agree. And they are legally permitted to ask for help with forensics. BUT, it is a farce to think that the FBI and the GBI has not gotten back to them. I've waited for forensic evidence in far less "interesting" (to the public) cases.

There might be several current and recent cases, but what I'm saying is that by federal law the appropriate legal authorities have to show that they fall into one of those exceptions. That's the law straight from the US Code.

The exceptions are the ones I noted...and even if they fall into those exceptions an "appropriate state official" has to request their help. So...basically, if MPD requested the help of the FBI they had to show that they had reason to believe it fell into the serial killer, interstate traveler...

He doesn't have a 6th amendment right to counsel because he hasn't been charged. But he has a 5th amendment right to counsel. So, if he was mirandized for the burglary, for which he was charged, but then asked about the uncharged, unrelated murder (for which he had not been charged), what he...

If he was mirandized for the burglary, then anything he says about the burglary after being arrested is admissible. It does not extend to anything he says about the murder. Anything he says about the murder can essentially be thrown out. It's just the law.

I wholeheartedly agree with that. As a lawyer (yes, he is a lawyer, not yet an attorney), I can't imagine him, unless being heavily medicated, agreeing to a deal like that. But the thing is, noone has to offer him a deal. The legal system is won by the people that were monopoly winners as kids...

Haley's disappearance was an interstate possible kidnapping issue.

Wondergirl, I adamantly agree. I am a prosecutor and I will say that this whole thing has been handled very professionally in some ways and very unwisely in others. I think at this point, unless they've got a complete ruse going on, they don't have what they need to have (and I can say I am...

I've worked on a case where the FBI was involved and I can say with certainty (unless there has been a huge spike in possibly serial homicide cases) that they have a turn-around rate, at least on the first piece of evidence, of 5-10 days. The GBI turnaround is about the same. MPD has most likely...

I think they want it to be SM sooooo badly. And maybe it is...but from the fact that they've removed his whole freakin' apartment and still don't have enough to make an arrest (and don't believe for a second that the FBI hasn't gotten back to them- their turnaround is impeccable) is not a good...

I've only been an attorney for a couple of years...all I will say is it is a game we play. And it's tough. Because on one side, it does help law enforcement (who get attorneys to make these deals) solve cases, but you can't help but notice that it can occasionally ruin people's reputations and...

No disrespect was meant...in any way. I don't think large age gaps are odd at all for previous generations, but I just know that they are very rare in mine. Especially a 21 year gap. Personally I think all women would benefit by finding guys at least 5 years older than them. Hah.