If it was fabricated, I don't think Werter had a thing to do with it. Why would he participate in a frame up? Because this wasn't a late in the game, reasonable doubt story, this was a detailed who dun it. Joe. If it was a lie, Tommy was the liar. Werter would've had nothing to gain & everything to lose, by lying. The only thing Tommy had to gain, was to maybe take suspicion off of himself, & on to Joe...but he was in much better shape, legally speaking, before he came up with the story. unless...there's something we don't know about that missed detail Steve Brown discovered. If it pointed at Tommy, maybe he felt compelled to explain it away. I would speculate that Tommy's LDT questions might have pressured him, but since he claimed to have been asked only 1 question, I doubt it. IMO, he sounded like he was lying, but if he was, it seems like LE would've been all over him.
I am not sure about the two attorneys fabricating the entire dock story; that would be a bit too obvious. Since neither officially represented their client for
Haleigh, it might not be as much an issue with ethics as it is an issue of each of their clients needing corroboration from the other and thus the attorneys may have honed the story into one they could both tell because, if they were both telling the same story, they corroborated each other. And Werter even stated that because they corroborated each other, "it must be true."
I do believe the attorneys could have at least been passing information to their clients about what the other was saying. I cannot ignore how the story came out initially saying Joe and Tommy went to the MH to steal Ron's guns and Misty was in collusion for a share in whatever profit was made off the guns.
But soon after that story was told, it occurred to one or both attorneys that, should Joe ever be arrested for Haleigh, MC and TC could both go down along with him because IF Haleigh died during the commission of a felony (even accidentally) it could mean a felony murder charge for all three, not just the one who caused Haleigh's death. IMO, in order to get around that pesky felony murder issue, Werter put a different spin on things: Misty was out of the equation and Tommy and Joe went there, not to steal, but to
borrow a gun...
That way, if Joe were arrested, TC and MC would not be in a position for felony murder charges, since everyone would insist that the intent was not to steal, but to borrow. Borrowing is not a felony, so felony murder charges would not apply.
So, in a sense, I think the spiel routinely put out by attorneys is to some extent fabricated, at least in part. Defense attorneys will state as fact anything that casts doubt on the guilt of their client.
I believe the two attorneys were conversing and that if LE did not put the bug in Misty's ear about the dock search, her attorney did. As for why Misty wanted TN and GMS to know in advance about the dock search, I haven't a clue; she was in jail and they were hating on her by then, so I cannot imagine that Misty was trying to help TN/GMS out in any way.
All JMO.
