Anyone who has chosen to face facts knows that there is no RDI smoking gun.
Right. My POINT was that the great majority of cases are not smoking gun cases. That's what I've been trying to explain.
How do you go from 'no smoking gun' to 'DA's office set its own standard?'
I'll get to that in a minute.
Are you saying that there was enough circumstantial evidence to take this case to trial, without a smoking gun?
YES! Unequivocally, yes!
That the R's should have been arrested/tried based on accumulated circumstantial evidence?
Absolutely. Plenty of people have gone to prison for life or even to death row on less. A WHOLE LOT LESS. Ask Scott Peterson, if you don't believe me. Casey Anthony seems to be on that road now, and they don't even have a body.
And doesn't it concern you that after 12 years there has still not been discovered any smoking gun evidence?
Doesn't it concern YOU that the attempts to GET a smoking gun were refused by the DA's office? I can tell you,
it bothers the hell out of me.
See, that's what I'm trying to tell you about the DA's impossible standard: they would not do things that are standard operating procedure for prosecutors across the country. I'll give you an example.
Do you know how the majority of these domestic homicide cases are solved, Holdon? They're solved by arresting the two parents, throwing them in a jail cell to stew for a while, then giving them the third degree separately until one of them cracks and confesses. That's the truth,
or may I be struck dead. That's how Lisa Steinberg's murder was solved. The NYPD arrested Joel Steinberg and his wife Hedda Nusbaum, threw them in jail, and it worked. Hedda Nusbaum and her lawyer cut a deal, she confessed, testified against Joel for immunity, and he went to prison.
Would you consider a confession to be a smoking gun, Holdon? What the New York cops did with the Steinbergs is EXACTLY what the cops in Boulder WANTED to do to the Rs. The DA said no. He said he didn't charge on probable cause.
That's just the
tip of the iceberg. I can show you incidents where the DA's office interfered with interviews, shot down operations, even undercut their own witnesses.
Does any of this concern you, or am I just talking to myself?
Except the DNA of course, but thats a smoking gun for whoever owns the DNA.
Good luck finding him.