southern_comfort
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Been right up on that fence with you for quite a while now, southern_comfort.
Your point about the lack of an emphatic proclamation of innocence certainly is an interesting one. I know I've seen that brought up time and again in the media site comments, etc.
With Buford, I've always thought that pre-trial table-banging just might not be his style. He might get to that in front of a jury, not sure. Hogue now -- I'm not sure about him. Maybe he is about to start fist-banging...? Couldn't really detect that direction in the little public statements we have heard from him though... .
I think that, especially with overwhelming focus in recent years on some high-profile cases, defense attorneys have a difficult audience for pre-trial public statements. The public is primed to mistrust them, no matter what approach they use. Ultimately, of course, pre-trial perception is not really the main focus of their duties ... but guess it DOES matter, in one way and another.
I've had the feeling (just a deep hunch, not something I can explain through logic), from the very beginning, that there was going to be a huge twist and shocker somewhere in this -- and, of course, one could say Lauren's death and the aftermath has been nothing but a series of twists and shockers! But after every one of them I have sort of asked myself: Was that it, what I've been expecting? And somehow I keep having the feeling there is more to come.... I don't know what (if anything) "it" will be -- maybe a cascade of the sort of damning evidence you mention. I just don't know.
I totally agree that pretrial perception is not a primary duty, and I keep reminding myself that depending on circumstances, silence by the defense at this point could be the wisest course of action. Otherwise, with the din on the other side proclaiming his guilt from every rooftop, I might have been knocked off the fence by now.
I have the same feeling about a real shocker coming - but also can't factually or even logically support it at this point. So much doesn't make sense and is unknown, and the various fact patterns that could theoretically fill in the blanks are bizarre. I could come up with some theories, and I do sometimes privately, but they are purely speculation.