The reason I asked is that I found out yesterday who it was and why they were driving around - it wasn’t exactly LE, but I get the impression they were on the phone with LE at the time and they all knew what was going on. I just felt like I was really in the dark because I was under the impression that a Black SUV driving around Brooklyn that night was just a rumor. I guess it really did happen, but had no connection to the MT case at all.
I hope the legal team speaks better than they write, bc, to me, that sentence reads...the particulars of the case are reasonably obvious. 
This is too true, and sometimes ends up being a double edged sword (innocent until proven guilty... helps the innocent, but the guilty can use it to their advantage).
Am I reading this correctly? The only reason given by his legal team to support the necessity of a PI is "the amount of attention this case has received"??? So, the legal team wants the notoriety that comes with such a high-profile case. However, without a PI, the legal team can't do the leg-work to "gather the particulars" of the case, via subpoenas, depositions, research, fact-checking, etc. such that the defendant is assured effective counsel? The case wouldn't have received nearly so much attention if he had come forward immediately and saved the family weeks of agony.
I agree that with translation of spoken words into different languages from a 'non-native' speaker, there are major potential misinterpretaions due to colloquial or dialectical differences that are subtleties hard to suss out, especially in a legal setting with major stressors such as immediate translation by an interpreter and confirmation by the speaker in a court of law that what was translated was accurate, etc. These difficulties, although professionals will do their best to overcome, could be fodder for the accused. Like, CR's lawyers claiming he misunderstood Miranda rights, questions from LE, the Judge at the preliminary hearing, etc. JMO
Do you believe that he has little recollection of the “majority”or “some” of what he did?
To me the block memories story sets him up not to have to answer to the murder itself. Whether truth or lie, it seems to conveniently skip over the multiple sharp force trauma part.
MOO there is no way he can be lost in a small town that he has lived around for 4 years unless he is starting to get "Sometimers". He frequently went to Casey's in town, didn't he ? I think I read that. He also was in town visiting IM and their daughter. I'm not buying, and I don't think a jury would either, that MT would threaten to call the police over CR asking for directions. Either way, she only threatened. CR said so himself. That implies she wasn't actually dialing. He always had the choice to keep rolling away from her. Plus, there have been other articles on here indicating that CR was following behind another young woman while she was walking and she called and told her boyfriend, I believe. There are probably others as well that haven't come forward yet, or who have spoken to LE but not the media. I think he chased lots of girls. Maybe just the others didn't mention the word "police" or stayed in less secluded areas where he knew he would be spotted.
I’m more concerned that the defense will of course do all they can to get at least one sympathetic juror they can convince there’s “reasonable doubt.” Unless the defense comes up with something extraordinary I don’t think acquittal is likely, but depending on the jury composition I can see this not being a slam dunk for the prosecution at all.
an example of a case where someone filed an appeal listing "denial of a request for a private investigator at public expense" as one of the reasons.
