10ofRods
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What would be the strategic reasons for the defense to want to delay the preliminary hearing?
Well, one reason could be to keep him in jail (rather than in prison) for longer?
I think we're going to see the overall defense strategy will be delay, parry, delay.
Also, this gives the defense time to organize some expert analysis of some evidence (there's likely more than just one DNA sample to reanalyze) and by then, public interest will have waned quite a bit.
And, the only other I can think of is that Ms. Taylor wants him to see the totality of the evidence (GPS, Google searches, any other digital evidence; more video than has been referenced so far, etc) and influence his plea. IOW, to soften him up a bit for a plea bargain. Her best advice to him might not be what he wants to hear right now.
He certainly looked wan and those shaving scratches say maybe he's not use to the dull blades of a small county jail.