What story would CR be telling his attorney for his attorney to come up with that suggestion? CR supposedly didn't remember the 15 minutes leading up to the altercation or the actual altercation.
Regardless, even if he was interrupted, it still seems like an odd suggestion if his attorney was interrupting mid-story and suggesting memory loss. The attorney wouldn't know the remaining story that might be useful for his client's case and technically the statements claim CR doesn't remember the 15 minutes prior.... I'm not sure how the attorney would suggest CR might have memory loss for parts of the story CR would have already told him before the attorney realized his client had been punched, if that makes sense!
IMO, what Akh is suggesting makes sense. And that is what attorneys do, not bashing them, at all, but interrupting before a client goes too far in a story to interject or coach them is very, very typical.
To answer the question of what he might have been relating, well we just can't know that. But, IMO, he could have been trying to relate the story, and maybe even trying to pull one over on his attorney, for example, by faltering and saying the details are fuzzy when the atty then suggests that he doesn't really remember anything, and then, from there, together they pinpoint the last thing he remembers clearly, probably being at Kilroys.
In his favor is the video of the altercation, and IMO, the amnesia claim might be why LE won't let anyone see the video. In it, CR is being knocked to the ground by a sucker punch to the head from ZO. Any atty worth their salt is going to see the amnesia claim as CRs ticket out of trouble, maybe even for
his actions after the altercation!
But, then we have CR not pressing charges. He knows the amnesia is a slippery slope because the others might try to blame him for something he doesn't remember. It's a waiting game for him to see who gets blamed for what in the end, and how much he remembers. But that punch is his defense.
What is LE keeping from us about the altercation, and what does CRs atty
not want him to reveal about it? It doesn't have to be something he did. Maybe the atty doesn't want to tip off anyone who was there. Perhaps CR
was saying something like, all he remembers is so and so saying this and that,
and this one was there and that one was there, etc.
There's other variables, for example the security at Smallwood. Did they break up the altercation? If not, why not? For a place that touts to the parents what great security they have, you'd think with their banks of cameras and video monitors, a whole room dedicated to it, they would have interrupted it, and
determined that Lauren was PI, and either made sure she stayed in or threaten to call LE. Also, they allowed someone (ZO) who was banned from the property to be there, and cause irreparable harm.
Both the owners of Smallwood and owner of 10th and C are long-time upstanding (lol) citizens of this town. With clout. Yet the owners of Smallwood would not be bothered to turn over their surveillance video, they had to break down the doors with a battering ram and seize the video footage of the altercation. Was their security compromised during the altercation? Are we really to believe they didn't view the altercation before not allowing LE to have it willingly? Most security systems like their can be viewed remotely. And lots of BTown business owners can sit at home and watch their employees. So it is likely, IMO, that the Smallwood owners knew what was on that video before LE viewed it. If what was o.n that video proved negligent on their part, they could lose
everything
What security is supposed to do, and what they actually do, might be at play here. Whether or not it's "cool" to turn a blind eye and let these underaged kids be PI at Smallwood is not up for debate. If security was at the altercation,
LE should have been called. Getting a PI could have saved Lauren's life, and kept all these kids from being murder suspects. But wow, that would have given Smallwood (yet another) bad rep.
I don't want to upset fellow WSers by continuing to focus on the altercation,
but something happened during this that certain as yet unknown people don't want us to know. How did the altercation break up? And after, did security allow ZO to stay, or did he get kicked out again?
ZO's roommate BB worked construction somewhere right around there. I mean, people are bringing up construction, and here's someone close to a POI,
living with a POI, who's working construction. Regardless of the Private Is
believing ZO's story, I don't believe he or anyone else has been officially ruled out.
And the fact that CR didn't press charges, leads to a question--were they friends? And had a falling out that night because ZO was jealous, not protective? But then, after what followed, did ZO then help out?
Because no one gets a pass, IMO, until this is settled, it could be any combination of these people, even after she was reported missing.
Several of the POIs are now living near each other, working together, and working down the block from each other, in a state tonly one is from. But not CR. Yet as long as he continues not to remember, they are alibiing him right out of the story. IMO, that is suspicious.
