jillycat
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So the attorney for TM has now confirmed that indeed what the defense knows is what the police reports say.
http://m.wmbfnews.com/#!/newsDetail/24996166?orgId=685
"McCollum says prosecutors haven't yet released evidence, as will be required during the discovery portion of the case, so most of what he's seen is coming from police reports.
"I haven't seen anything so far, that really significantly incriminates her," McCollum said."
In regard to the PTL issue, if this was the murder scene, it seems a problem for the state that the officer called TE and they examined the car themselves, then left the area unsecured. (I don't know that the question of whether or not the car was released to TE at that time was ever answered). Plus, a good deal of time had already passed between the murder and the discovery of the car, and this gap will also no doubt be taken up by the defense. Who else might have been there and tampered with or unwittingly destroyed evidence? Etc.
It's obvious to me that LE cherry-picked what they presented today to satisfy the court in their request for no bond, and they have more that will emerge in discovery and at trial. I hope they have what they say they have, because I believe this defense is going to come out swinging and any guilty verdict will be hard won. Unless they have something solid from the landing, I think the timeline on a murder at PTL will be particularly difficult for the state.
I don't doubt the M's are the guilty parties (although I think they've had some help), but in a case of mostly, perhaps entirely circumstantial evidence, and no body, the slope looks a little slippery to me. I could be wrong, but I think if LE had substantial hard evidence, there would have been some negotiating between the state and the defense by now.
I don't believe a thing coming out of the M's mouth, so SM's tale of being cuffed to the bed and having no phone access sounds like a large load to me.
And I never thought Heather was 'in love' with SM or desired to jump back into the affair that night/next morning. I've always thought she disentangled from SM out of fear and a desire to move on. So I really wonder what she was told or perhaps even threatened with to motivate her to go to PTL.
http://m.wmbfnews.com/#!/newsDetail/24996166?orgId=685
"McCollum says prosecutors haven't yet released evidence, as will be required during the discovery portion of the case, so most of what he's seen is coming from police reports.
"I haven't seen anything so far, that really significantly incriminates her," McCollum said."
In regard to the PTL issue, if this was the murder scene, it seems a problem for the state that the officer called TE and they examined the car themselves, then left the area unsecured. (I don't know that the question of whether or not the car was released to TE at that time was ever answered). Plus, a good deal of time had already passed between the murder and the discovery of the car, and this gap will also no doubt be taken up by the defense. Who else might have been there and tampered with or unwittingly destroyed evidence? Etc.
It's obvious to me that LE cherry-picked what they presented today to satisfy the court in their request for no bond, and they have more that will emerge in discovery and at trial. I hope they have what they say they have, because I believe this defense is going to come out swinging and any guilty verdict will be hard won. Unless they have something solid from the landing, I think the timeline on a murder at PTL will be particularly difficult for the state.
I don't doubt the M's are the guilty parties (although I think they've had some help), but in a case of mostly, perhaps entirely circumstantial evidence, and no body, the slope looks a little slippery to me. I could be wrong, but I think if LE had substantial hard evidence, there would have been some negotiating between the state and the defense by now.
I don't believe a thing coming out of the M's mouth, so SM's tale of being cuffed to the bed and having no phone access sounds like a large load to me.
And I never thought Heather was 'in love' with SM or desired to jump back into the affair that night/next morning. I've always thought she disentangled from SM out of fear and a desire to move on. So I really wonder what she was told or perhaps even threatened with to motivate her to go to PTL.
