Margoo, what a surprise! My point was to Guppy, but since you've responded on his behalf...

We will agree to disagree. Obviously, it is difficult to tell without hearing/seeing the tape, but, IMO, Lin Wood was argumentative and on reading the deposition, I noticed that he constantly interrupted Steve Thomas. Steve Thomas OTOH remained polite and allowed Wood to finish asking his questions. There are people who talk and people who listen. In my experience, you learn more by listening. Lin Wood lost himself some valuable recording time because he kept butting in and got involved in cross-talk and ended up having to restate the question on several occasions. Steve Thomas was absolutely correct to ensure his questions were clear before he answered. Lin Wood also repeated several questions which had already been answered - something that I noticed he did in Beckner's deposition too.

Now thankfully, I am not looking at this case through Ramsey-tinted spectacles, nor am I looking at it through BORG-tinted spectacles (questioning Ramsey does not equate to BORG although RST would have it so). I have no particular feelings about Steve Thomas because his involvement in the case does not change the evidence one way or another. I don't condone what he did and I cringe when I see that he didn't check facts provided by Trujillo and Wickman before committing them to his book.

We learned little of value from Thomas' deposition. Certainly nothing to advance the investigation. It was dirty-underwear laundering that's all.

Rest assured, my book will have all facts verified and sources checked ;-)