Posted on 09/17/2021 10:52:45 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Brian Laundrie, through his lawyer, has still refused to speak with police about the possible whereabouts of his missing fiancé Gabby Petito, whose van he drove home to Florida from out West 10 days before she was reported missing.
Laundrie’s attorney has only released a pair of statements that do not address the missing 22-year-old’s possible whereabouts or last known location.
"I can see why criminal defense lawyer would say, you know what, you can't. You got to stay in the background: Don't talk," said Lara Yeretsia, a leading West Coast-based defense attorney. "but I can also see why it's so difficult in this situation, how horrific it is and what the impact is, because he's the last person who saw her."
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You have to think of probable cause within the framework of what Rehnquist termed the, "totality of the circumstances." If my wife came home from shopping, found my dead body in the house and my vehicle gone, she would call the police who would most likely issue an APB/BOLO for my vehicle, and it would be a reasonable assumption that any person pulled over driving my vehicle would likely have some relationship, directly or indirectly, to the unauthorized use of my vehicle and/or my death.
This case is a little different (from what details I know) because all information available indicates that he was a permissive user of the vehicle on their road trip. I would not be surprised if, given the nature of the trip, he had even been added as a driver on the insurance policy for the vehicle, and had his own set of keys. His driving of the vehicle, in and of itself, would be completely legitimate.
Let’s say a body rurns up and there is foul play but there is no conclusive evidence of foul play by the bf.
Will the bf likely be charged?
Rurns-> turns
(Dumblefingers , but I’m going to plead innocent due to autocorrect)
I’d say your wife would be happy...
The term, "no conclusive evidence," leaves a pretty wide margin of error. Many people think of evidence in a criminal case as a chain composed of links and if you break one or two of those links, the case falls apart. A better analogy, particularly for a circumstantial case, is a rope composed of many threads. Some of those individual threads may be unwound, but the "rope" may remain strong enough to carry the weight of the case.
So even if there is no singular piece of "conclusive evidence," it would ultimately be up to a prosecutor to determine if he/she felt there was enough circumstantial evidence from which a conclusion could be drawn by a jury (in which case it would be, "conclusive"), and in that case, it is likely the BF would be charged.
What you said makes sense it’s just hard to accept that he came back in her van, she didn’t and he isn’t talking/explaining.
As long as she got my car back, probably.
He did.
Why should the boyfriend talk?
If he doesn’t know where she is, there is nothing he can do to add to the investigation. And everyone already thinks he is lying.
If he is guilty, why would he say anything?
Yeah, it sucks for her family. I feel bad for them. But he is doing exactly any decent at toner you would tell him.
I watch TV and see everyone giving an opinion as if they are all Sherlock Holmes. They know absolutely nothing about what happened.
Before Gabby went missing the fiancee’ flew back to FL for several days to help his father with something. I can’t remember what. Then he reunited with Gabby out in Utah and they continued their trip.
What if his answer is, “right after that video.”
No one is going to be satisfied with that answer. So, why bother answering?
Hypothetically, let's suppose Gabby just got fed up with her BF, her family, her job, etc. and decided in the middle of the night to go join a cloistered convent. As an adult, she's free to do that, and under no obligation to let anybody know. The BF would find himself with the keys, the van and really little choice but to drive home alone. One would think that under those circumstances a "normal" person would have called her family, asked if they heard from her, let them know what happened, etc., but but being "abnormal" is not, by itself, a crime.
Why is that strange?
If he said he didn’t know what happened, you wouldn’t believe him. Why bother?
Did you even watch the video!
His silence looks like guilt.
In a courtroom it looks like the 5th Amendment.
Except that pleading the 5th in order not to incriminate yourself also looks like guilt. It’s our right but it makes one look guilty.
“Um, no.”
Um, yes. At least according to the cops at the scene of the stop.
“Girl goes wild, then goes missing. Quelle surprise.”
And he goes back to Florida and clams up never telling anyone she is missing.
Fake text from Yosemite on 8/30 and pulls into home on 9/1. 3000 miles in two days ...
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