My heart breaks for the Grinstead family, there's no way for me to understand the torture they've endured all these years. One day of not knowing what happened to your baby is one day too many, to think about living that nightmare every day for 4,135 days paralyzes me in fear. But as painful as every delay is for Tara's loved ones, another delay or two will be the lesser evil in order to make sure Duke has a fair trial, meaning 1 trial. I'm afraid if Judge Reinhardt continues to deny the defense's requests despite the gentle warning in the Georgia Supreme Court's opinion and pushes forward with the trial there will be an even longer and costlier delay with a second trial. I've heard people in the community make comments and I've read remarks from others online accusing the Merchant/Gibbs team of using this funding argument as a stall tactic. They can point their finger at the defense all day long blaming them for dragging this out but if a few local LE officers and one former GBI agent had actually done their due diligence when they received that tip in November of 2005 about Ryan and Bo, I'm pretty sure I wouldn't be typing this post right now.
