Rainsong,

I think you've done an excellent job (post #16) capturing the malicious intent of these interrogations --- all the threads that Jams has so kindly published. I agree that this is characteristic of all too many investigations, resulting in at what appears to me to be a 15% error rate of convictions for our best efforts, as shown by B. Scheck et al. I also completely agree with you that Lin is doing an very professional job here of protecting his clients from this maliciousness which was misrepresented to the Ramseys as a fresh look at the case and at new evidence.

I think we'd all prefer that the Pollyanna view of our criminal justice system that we see on TV was true. Unfortunately, and as you pointed out, here in the real world, we need Lin Wood's and "Perry Mason's." I wonder what the error rate would be if there were not such people.