It will be interesting to see how all this plays out, but if he is convicted or even tried in a rather unconvincing trial I would be following the trail back to the DA and to her relationship to the Ramseys. Perhaps they're chummy? Not to imply anything, but it would need to be checked out.
Yes, it will. All reasonable people hope the murderer of that child is finally brought to justice. But no reasonable person wants to see yet another injustice done in this case.
As I've said before, if Karr is eager to get himself killed for this murder, whether or not he really did it, there's every possibility he will plead guilty. That would take the Boulder authorities off the hook. So right now, I think the odds are better than 60-40 that we may never really know the truth.
If Karr insists on pleading guilty, all the Boulder DA needs to do is file the charges, get a court date, bring the man into court and let him file his guilty plea. Then a sentencing hearing would be set. The judge might order psychiatric tests, but if Karr can convince the shrinks he's sane under the legal definition in Colorado, he fries. Like Timothy McVeigh, he might even instruct his lawyers not to file any appeals other than whatever is mandatory under Colorado law. In essence, he would be committing suicide, and we would never really know if he was or was not guilty.
So, if they do charge him, I hope he at least listens to his lawyers and pleads not guilty. I think after all this, the people of Colorado, the Ramseys, Karr, and the rest of us in the general public deserve to hear the evidence presented in a court.