Wudge said:
Moreover, rather than just let Helena Stockley tell her story on the witness stand, Blackburn told her that she would be indicted for murder if she did so, which was, obviously, yet another major incident of evidence suppression and witness coercion by Blackburn.
Helena did testify in front of the jury, and told the court and jury the same thing she told Segal, that (among other things) she didn't know where she was and didn't kill anyone. Even with Bernie's intense efforts trying to force her to confess to something she didn't do, he couldn't make her do that. Wade Smith even affirmed to Judge Dupree that she'd told the defense the same thing she told the prosecution, so this new claim that she "changed her story" seems a bit strange to me.
And of course it shouldn't be forgotten that despite their implications that Stoeckley was at the scene, the defense didn't even want to call her to the stand:
THE COURT: How about Stoeckley?
MR. SMITH: Maybe the Government would like to call her.
THE COURT: You do not?
MR. SMITH: At least at this moment, we do not.
THE COURT: Well, now, listen, enough of the thing is enough, Wade. If you are going to ever call her, you call her right now or I am going to release her from her subpoena.
MR. SMITH: Judge, I understand what you are saying. Let me just say this: that woman made the most outrageous statements to a lady at the hospital when she got her nose fixed that you have ever heard.
THE COURT: They could not be any more outrageous than the ones she has made.
MR. SMITH: They are. They are more outrageous. They are more incriminating, and, Judge, we don't know what she is going to do. We don't know what she is going to say.
THE COURT: Well, call her.
MR. SMITH: We don't want to.