No one will determine the guilt or innocence of the parents. Instead, an expensive and manufactured reasonable doubt will replace the American courtroom with a 24/7 inundation of a crackpot intruder theory, and an occasional crackpot who claims to be an intruder. By delaying a decision, Alex Hunter gave rumor and gossip time to soften public outrage into speculation. Shirking his office's decision to charge, he convened a grand jury. By then, the purchased evidence and testimony of the Ramseys' experts, and their gossip show interviews, had reduced common sense to irrelevancy. "Guilt beyond a reasonable doubt" diminished to an impossible public relations standard. The "umbrella of suspicion" was cast by a rich woman's parasol.
Hunter tossed his obligation to a grand jury because he knew that the proceedings there would be agonizingly slow and, more important, conducted in secret. The rules of procedure for a Colorado grand jury would shift the responsibility to find probable cause to indict from Hunter to a dozen gagged citizens. In time, Boulder's next DA, Mary Keenan Lacy, would adopt the intruder theory and permit grand juror interviews. L. Lin Wood, Ramsey lawyer for their "Shut Up!" lawsuits, made it perfectly clear than any deviation from the intruder theory would make the proponent of common sense a defendant in a civil action. Without the DA's direction or approval, the public will never be allowed to know what the grand jury thought of the evidence.
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good article
