Originally Posted by Webby

Oh, I am no "expert" either BW

Apparently a high amount of the "witness testimony" fell apart in the court - not particularly because the prosecution was active, but more when the judge asked simple questions which could not be answered - and these ended up conflicting with other potential defense witnesses. Basically.. there was a hell of a lot of lying going on among the witnesses. If they were think they were helping the guy - they made a real foul job of that

There are other items.. can't remember em all, but the conflict is beyond a level which would be acceptable. One was a cab driver claiming something for the defense - but the cab company were called and that cab driver was no where near where he claimed to be that day and (can't remember what paperwork), but if he was being truthful - it would have been reasonable to have records of him passing a certain location (signing in) - and his cab was not on that list

The defendant himself actually tried to bribe several people to give him an alabi - and probably the worst attempt was to offer the murdered girl's mother a few thousand dollars not to press the case/give evidence.

Bottom line - irrespective of guilt or otherwise - the case was amazingly crappy, simply because of the largish numbers of people lying and when asked reasonably simple questions - could not get the correct answers or a level of consistency in the answers to make them credible witnesses.