Not sure what I think about the whole thing, but on the surface I don't condone it, if it was illegal to do so. $40,000 was way too cheap---I think the NE would have paid a lot more. If there was reliance on a promise, then it should have been in writing.

I don't quite understand the legalities involved. Lin Wood states in his letter:

"All of the above confidential documents and tapes were provided several months ago to Darnay Hoffman, the lawyer for Chris Wolf and Linda Hoffmann-Pugh, in response to federal court discovery requests directed to the Ramseys in the libel action filed against them by Hoffman on behalf of Chris Wolf. The materials were provided to Hoffman pursuant to a federal court protective order requiring that the receiving party maintain the confidentiality of the materials until further order of the court pursuant to the procedures and terms of the order."

So...Darnay Hoffman was under a federal court protective order to maintain the confidentialty of the documents and tapes? Yet the Ramseys supplied the tapes to 3 TV stations. I don't get that part at all...wouldn't both parties be under the same protective order? I'm assuming jameson was not aware of any federal court protective orders when she sold them. If there's any question that a law was broken, IMO, she should reveal the source, if she knows it.

I have to believe jameson's intention were good, and the money way too tempting. On the other hand it appears the Ramseys could have been placed in a legally precarious situation--and then there's the issue of trust. They've been violated time and again--first with the horrible murder of their daughter in their own home, and then the last 6 years of vicious attacks on them and their family..fueled in a large part by the tabloids....and they trusted jameson---and based on Lin Wood's email, that trust was betrayed.

To coin a common expression on these forums--I'm on the fence, but do not condone any actions that are against the law.