& I do believe Ray Gudice has this pegged exactly right. & the deal with Ron proves that. If he has committed some crime, (besides drug trafficking), & I'm guessing that he has, then LE offered him this deal because they need his information, to move forward. & Ron's a smart guy when it comes to looking out for himself, & he's sharp enough to know when the jig is up. But realistically, his deal isn't all that grand...it's not like all charges are being dropped in exchange for information. He's still looking at a lot of prison time, so I'm guessing that LE thinks he needs to be punished. They're not treating him like an innocent father whose butt got dragged into the trafficking, by Misty. which, (of course), makes me think of TN. I don't remember her exact words, but she made the comment that the best thing (for Ron?), would be for Haleigh to be found, so it's MOO, & this is just a GUESS, that Ron knows where Haleigh is. & TN knows Ron knows.
I believe that is a crock and here is why. According to Kim Picazio, when LE confronted Ron with concrete information they gathered which suggested he was involved in his daughters disappearance, LE shut down this part of the investigation simply because Ronald said: They are lying. Why in the heck would they accept Ron's word as the Gospel truth? :banghead: I believe if LE followed up on the evidence that Kim talked about and Ron disputed, LE would have eventually found HaLeigh or had enough circumstantial evidence to charge and convict Ronald with. Many cases are solved by cops who trust their instincts and it appears these instincts have been suppressed in those working on HaLeigh Cummings case. Even Rons character witnesses at his sentencing hearing will be bias. Will Rons previous drug charges and other offences be mentioned at his sentencing hearing?
Kim Picazio said Misty refused to go in to talk to LE, but we know she was picked up by LE and questioned on several occasions and she was willing to cooperate until she was yelled at. Yet when LE confronted Ronald Cummings with concrete information they had about him, they refused to stand up to him and they backed off. LE appears to have accepted everything Ronald said as the truth and everything anyone else says as a pack of lies.
Kim Picazios comment about Ronald smirking and putting the screws to Misty while he was on his knees holding his daughters photo makes me suspect Ronald planned HaLeighs disappearance to make Misty pay for her rendezvous with Gregory Page although Ronald adamantly denies he was hurt. If Ron planned to abduct HaLeigh from her bed, he had to keep tabs on Mistys whereabouts that entire evening IMO. It would be nice to know who else Ronald called Monday evening besides Misty and Tommy. I think Ron keeps his hurt feelings to himself so when Misty hurt him, he devised a plan to stab her in the back.
Levi Page asked Raymond Guidice, If you were representing Ronald, would you be advising him to be giving up information now? And Raymonds reply was, You know I really wouldnt. So Im hoping this error in judgment by Mr. Shoemaker will cost Ronald.
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KIM PICAZIO: Well Ill tell you, that when I was on this case, and I have said this on the News many times, that Ronald was refusing to go into Law Enforcement, he wouldnt go in to cooperate with regard to his child, he would not go in, and neither would Misty, so he had lawyered up very early, even before we even knew publicly that there were criminal lawyers involved. There were, and we were getting lots of frustrating comments etc by Law Enforcement because if no one talks in Florida and in all of the States, you cannot just bring someone in by the hair, and force them to undergo interrogation, it is not how it works in the Unites States. So, unless they had something to charge him with, they could not bring him in and force him to talk; and he didnt, which was very telling to everybody watching this case. Why isnt this guy helping find his child? Why isnt he helping? And I do know that also, as I was in my private investigations looking for this missing child, there were many times we would run into information that was concrete, dead on. We would have those people brought into LE or encourage them to go into LE. LE many of times would already have the information, or maybe we could just supplement it, and LE on each time would sometimes confront Ronald and he would say they are lying. That is all they would get, theyre lying. This is a guy who even withheld from Misty on the day after his child is missing, he is on his knees crying with HaLeighs photo to the cameras, yet he turns around and smirks at Misty and is asking her if she has something to tell him with regard to her fantastic weekend. He was actually more concerned about putting the screws to his girlfriend that she had been sleeping around that weekend with a Gregory Page, than his missing child! That was what he was worried about.
LEVI PAGE: Let me say something here for a minute. Lets bring in Crystal Sheffield, and lets see what she has to say about Ronald, lets bring in Marie Griffiths, lets also bring in his ex-girlfriend that he has a child by, which he is a deadbeat dad, Amber Brookes. So lets bring all those people in and lets have them testify and lets see what they have to say about Ronald. Its probably not going to be good. But I want to go to Ray Guidice; you are a Criminal Defense Attorney, what if you were representing Ronald, would you be advising him to be giving up information now?
RAY GUIDICE: You know I really wouldnt and I will tell you why. I think I would take my chances on sentencing on the drug case first, see how well, or poorly, we did at that sentencing hearing, and then decide whether or not I had a good proffer, as was expertly described earlier by prior counsel as to what it is procedurally; he can always make that proffer after sentencing. And that sentencing whatever he gets, can always be downgraded or resentenced if he really has a nugget or a gem of information. So, I think I would hold off, keep my powder dry at this point in time. Second problem is, I think, that if I was on the State Attorneys side, Id say, Wait a second, and you know Levi I love you, but you have led the charge of calling the dad a liar etc, etc, for the last year and a half, now who exactly is going to believe his new story on the eve of sentencing? That story comes with quite frankly a suit of dirty smelly clothing on it. So, if I was his counsel, I think I would hold tight, and unless and really Queen for a Day is a great description of the blue light special, unless I was really get out of jail free pass getting, I dont think Id testify right now. I think Id sit tight because I really do think good lawyers in the State Attorneys office, the prosecutors office, are going to say, Hey wait a second, it is awful darn convenient that after all this time on the eve of sentencing he now finally going to cough it up. I dont think a whole lot of people are believing that. Im not.