Do you mean they were about to indict Ramsey's and he pulled the plug?! :O Omg that scum bucket!
Yes, that's pretty much what I mean in a nutshell!
And when I say people on both sides, I mean exactly that. On the RDI side, you have Henry Lee and Dan Caplis (just to name two). And on the IDI side, you have no less than Bryan Morgan, Patsy's own lawyer, who expressed that sentiment
It would not be the first time that Hunter had done this. In his book, ST recounts the case of Thayne Smika, the likely killer of Sid Wells. Hunter sabotaged THAT Grand Jury by cutting a secret deal with Smika's defense attorney.
So, the evidence seems stacked in favor of the view that Hunter deliberately "pulled the plug" (I like how you phrase that!) on the Ramsey Grand Jury.
If we accept the premise that he did, that leaves us with the BIG question: why did he do it? Several possibilities present themselves, ranging from legitimate to illegitimate.
The first possibility is that Hunter simply felt that the Ramseys had suffered enough and that no justice would be served to society by imprisoning them. (I can sympathize with that idea.)
The second possibility, one which ST subtly points at, is that Hunter simply had no confidence in his ability to bring a case, especially against a big-time, bulls**t artist like Hal Haddon (who just HAPPENED to wield a lot of power in the Democratic Party, which Hunter HAPPENED to belong to) and the jury-friendly say-anything-for-a-buck-experts that the Ramseys had hired.
(Just to get off subject for a minute, if there's ONE thing that the OJ Simpson trial did well, it's that it exposed just how the constant parade of experts has fouled up the jury system. Fact is, no matter how ridiculous your claim is, there's SOMEONE out there with a whole mess of letters after his/her name who will present it as gospel. I'm sure there's an accountant in Hollywood right now who can prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that
Titanic LOST money!)
The third possiblity, and quite possibly the most disturbing, is that Hunter pulled the plug because he knew that if he went forward with a case against the Rs, all of his dirty dealings over the past 25 years would come back to haunt him. There was something Henry Lee said to Hunter just before the GJ was set to make a decision that hints at that:
"If you go forward with this, you will have to confess your own sins."
That about sums it up. In outlining this scenario, I have often used the comparison to Nixon and Watergate. Most people think that Nixon resigned rather than face an investigation and impeachment hearings because he knew he'd done wrong and wanted to spare himself and the office of President the indignity of being dragged through the mud. But there are some people, like my brother, who believe that Nixon resigned because he was afraid that an investigation would uncover something even WORSE than the Watergate break-in itself.
Well, Lee's comment seems to hint that Hunter had SOMETHING (God only knows what) he didn't want people to know. This may also explain why Hunter did not want the Grand Jury in the first place and why he hamstrung the specialists (by their own admission). Lest we forget: Hunter only called a Grand Jury because the Governor told him to either do something or he would. ST's resignation letter had riled the public and the Governor's office was feeling the heat. The GJ in this case was nothing more than a dog-and-pony show from the very start.
I've tried to explain this to others, Stef88, and they just don't listen. (I won't name names--
we all KNOW who I'm talking about.) Hopefully, you will.