mom_of_five
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It's just my opinion, but I think not naming a POI at this time comes down to one significant reason: they want to find Kyron FIRST. I pray they do.
so in OR do you have different rights if you are a POI or a suspect? or is that just a media type term there?
What gets me is that the family was ok with letting the public know that Terri was the last one to see Kyron... What are they running the case?
wowsa - well, two things that stood out to me:
the risk to the public is low (that leads my mind in one direction only)
and
I adore that sherrif! (I may have a tiny crush now) :blushing:
At least we can confirm that Terri was the last person seen with Kyron.
This has always been my understanding.ie, no legal meaning but a practical meaning.This comes up in every single case, so checking to see if there was anything new in that regard.Jbean, we talked about this same thing in the Venus Stewart case in which her husband is the POI.
POI has no legal designation. It's a term that LE assigns to what years ago they would have termed "suspect." They do this for very good reason.
Here's a good article about it. http://www.ajr.org/Article.asp?id=4042
Officially, "person of interest" means..well, nothing. No one has ever formally defined it — not police, not prosecutors, not journalists. The terms "accused," "allege," "arrest" and "indict" all are dealt with in the Associated Press Stylebook, but there is no listing for "person of interest." Similarly, the U.S. Attorneys' Manual — the official guide to federal criminal prosecution — uses the terms "suspect," "subject," "target" and "material witness," but "person of interest" gets no mention. So what are reporters to do?
"The reporter should be on notice that it is a vague term that has no real understandable definition," says Gerald B. Lefcourt, a New York defense attorney and past president of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. His advice to journalists: "You have to ask the police what they mean."
MUCH MORE at link above.
Is Terri being treated as a suspect?
She's cooperating.
Is she a POI?
He can't answer.
Interesting response to lie-detector question. He seemed very uncomfortable with that question and cut off the conference very quickly.
Interesting response to lie-detector question. He seemed very uncomfortable with that question and cut off the conference very quickly.
In the family statement they said this will be the first Father's Day without Kyron, Father's Day isn't untill Sun. how do they know he won't be fount before then? Or do they know he is no longer with us?
conversely I am not a sociopath and I failed a polygraph on my name and birthday.If LE suspects that someone is a sociopath, they may not even bother with a polygraph. To explain this at the PC would be more than difficult.
From MIT: "Sociopaths can outwit a polygraph."
http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2007/lying.html
From Penn State: It ( a polygraph test) is useless against sociopaths."
http://live.psu.edu/story/29457