Right. He would not overtly demand perjury from her, and even Gottlieb probably would not. But there are certainly ways to make the point without coming out and saying it directly. You just raise a series of questions that set the person's mind in a certain direction, with no actual threats or promises.
Here's a little something to chew on: in serious cases, the DA nearly always has a meeting with the victim (for a variety of reasons). The fact that Liefong avoided meetings with Mangum and Kim is suggestive to me that he expected and directed certain things be done a certain way and wanted no possibility that he would be directly connected with those acts, hence the Gottlieb buffer. Clearly, Liefong and Gottlieb have an "understanding". How strong it is remains to be seen.
Catching up here, trying to refocus.
How unusual is it that an investigator or Nifong did not interiew any of the three lax players?