So you see zero risk in evidence coming to light that LE might be holding to their vest for future use? Zero risk in the prosecutor feeling this "is just going to mess up my case"? Zero risk in tainting the potential jury pool? Zero risk in changing the general climate to where a prosecutor could feel a conviction will be harder than it otherwise would be?
Because that would be where we disagree. OTOH, I'm not arguing in absolutes which seem to be the corner you and Sammi are painting me in. I'm just saying the specter of this civil suit brings an element of risk to the criminal prosecution that would not exist otherwise.
We can debate the percentages until we're blue in the face, and I wonder if you're arguing more from the ideal point of view rather than the realistic point of view, but that doesn't really matter unless you really are arguing there's zero risk the criminal case. To that I would vehemently disagree. Otherwise we're just disagreeing on percentages and that would be an opinion difference.
Each case is different so I agree about that.
But I stand firm in saying rare is the prosecutor that wants to see a civil case brought forward that touches so closely to the active criminal case that LE is still actively investigating. If you disagree with that statement then nothing else I could say about why that statement exists is going to get us any closer to agreeing and we'll just have to leave it there and wish you a good night.
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I do agree with you that there is not a zero percent chance that it will harm the criminal case, something could come to light that would derail or effect the criminal case.
In civil suits like this generally even if LE and the prosecutors office are not actively helping, I'm sure they are keeping tabs on the civil case, and communicating with the spierers re: 'don't bring this or that up, we're waiting to use that to spook the POIs,' etc... I also don't necessarily think that the spierers would be privy to a lot of LE's information, so I don't think that they would bring up evidence thats being kept quiet, but one of the boys might.
Thank you for explaining your line of thinking a little more, I don't think we're going to completely agree on this topic, but I understand where you're coming from! Hopefully the civil suit will bring important information to light that will help the spierers heal and help LE proceed with the criminal investigation