Because he doesn't have to. He is cooperating with LE and is on advice of counsel. It isn't his duty to continually implore his innocence to someone who clearly doesn't believe him. It is CR's problem if he doesn't believe MR - not the other way around.
True enough. But then he shouldn't be surprised, offended, or upset about their opinion of him...nor should he be upset about the public's perception of his involvement. As most of us continue to point out, he only has himself to blame. If he is ok with all of this, fine. But he obviously isn't because he said so.
JMO and MOO
BBM
I was thinking about this last night. I really hope that MR doesn't have people around him encouraging him to continue to pursue this "I don't have to and you can't make me" path, because it's been mighty poor advice (IMO). People are absolutely correct in contending that he has no
legal obligation at present to do anything more than he's doing, and should this case ever go to trial, the Fifth Amendment ensures that he can continue to do the same. (His moral obligations are a different matter.)
However, I do believe that it's disingenuous to assert that such behavior won't result in exactly the kind of reaction from many people that he's currently receiving. If you pick up your son for a court ordered visitation, and he disappears within hours of your doing so, and you dodge and avoid questions until your ex-wife calls you out a week later, and then you fail to actively participate in searches, fund-raising, interviews, etc., or to initiate some other kind of activity of your own, people are going to speculate -- people in your town, in the media, and on boards like this.
That comes with the territory you've staked out for yourself.
JMO, IMO, etc.