October 17, 2001 news article - - my question - - when will this deposition be unsealed?<P><BR>Attorneys move to block release of deposition <P> By Pam Regensberg <BR> Camera Staff Writer<P><BR> Attorneys for a former Boulder detective involved in the JonBenét Ramsey murder investigation moved<BR> Tuesday to block his deposition in a related case from becoming public. <BR> An attorney for John and Patsy Ramsey promised to fight Steve Thomas' assertion that the deposition,<BR> conducted Sept. 21 in Denver, is confidential. <BR> L. Lin Wood, based in Atlanta, also said Tuesday that depositions of high-ranking officials, including Police<BR> Chief Mark Beckner and former District Attorney Alex Hunter, involved in the nearly 5-year-old homicide are<BR> to come. <BR> The deposition is part of a lawsuit filed by former Boulder County journalist Chris Wolf against the<BR> Ramseys. In their book about the 1996 murder of their daughter, John and Patsy Ramsey named Wolf and<BR> a former housekeeper, Linda Hoffman-Pugh, as suspects in the case. <BR> Wood termed Thomas' attempt at keeping the deposition private the "height of hypocrisy" and something<BR> the federal court in Georgia will not tolerate. <BR> "This is a man who has written a book accusing my clients of murder," Wood said. "Steve Thomas does<BR> not want the public to know the truth. When truth comes out, the people who were attacking the Ramseys<BR> want to run from the truth." <BR> Wood said his clients want everything put on the table and the murder file made public. <BR> In that vein, Wood has subpoenaed Thomas' files related to the investigation, including some Boulder<BR> police reports related to the murder case. <BR> Thomas was out of the state and could not be reached for comment. His attorney in Atlanta, Sean R.<BR> Smith, did not return a telephone call to the Daily Camera. <BR> Thomas was one of several investigators on the Ramsey case. The 6-year-old was found beaten and<BR> strangled in the basement of her family's home Dec. 26, 1996. No one has been charged with the crime.<BR> Thomas, who resigned from the Boulder Police Department in 1998, wrote a book about the investigation,<BR> alleging that Patsy Ramsey killed her daughter. The Ramseys filed a libel lawsuit against Thomas in<BR> March. <BR> In a one-page fax to Wood's office on Tuesday, Thomas' attorneys in Los Angeles said their client's<BR> deposition is confidential based on sections of the confidentiality order entered by U.S. District Court<BR> Judge Julie E. Carnes in Atlanta. <BR> <b> "It is my clear belief that when the public learns about his testimony, they will realize Steve Thomas ...<BR> would have been fired in 1997, probably prosecuted, without question disgraced and would not have been in<BR> a position to write a book and make hundreds of thousand of dollars," Wood said. </b><BR> Contact Pam Regensberg at (303) 473-1329 or regensbergp@thedailycamera.com. <BR> October 17, 2001<P><BR><a href="http://www.thedailycamera.com/extra/ramsey/2001/17lram.html";>http://www.thedailycamera.com/extra/ramsey/2001/17lram.html<;/a>