IMHO garbage.
I'm no lawyer, but you can't pre-invoke your 5th Amendment privilege. I mean there's no real standing. The Prosecution couldn't have put him on the stand because that was the risk -- he'd invoke, answer nothing and it would confuse the jury to know end.
IMHO KM's attorney is simply earning his paycheck. "Invoking the 5th" has a connotation. It gives the appearance one has something to hide. Protection from self-incrimination. IMO MT could have and maybe should have "invoked her 5th" and not answered questions. Let her attorney do the talking. She thought she could beat the system. Hold out. Keep the salad spinner spinning. She wanted to talk.
Neither KM nor his attorney are under oath in the press. Wanna bet -- his attorney's fingers were crossed behind his back.
Classic posturing for the media. He knows the State isn't calling his client. It's safe to say that KM would have spoken freely on the stand, now!
Possibly KM was offered a sweetheart deal but balked at the terms, opted for hard ball and thinks he can beat the system at trial. If that's the case, I hope his gamble fails spectacularly.
Arranging an alibi for someone in order to give them cover under which to commit murder is conspiring... didn't tell the truth about what he knew for the same reason MT talked a lot but lied more. Couldn't sing without self-incrimination and knew it.
If we could rewind the tape by a few days, call KM to the stand, we can bet our bottom dollar, he'd have pleaded the 5th.
His attorney used the media the same way the Defense and the defendant's family have.
Hogwash.
JMO
