[drjulie]

"He sure looks guilty in my book, too, but it bothers me that so much of this info was leaked to the press, and that everyone knew where he had gone fishing. If anyone ever wanted to set up this jerk, or cast suspicions on this jerk, the police sure helped...."

Good point...but...why would someone want to set him up? If this is what Geragos wants to argue then he is going to have to come up with an answer to this question. (I know the defense technically doesn't have to prove anything, however, I think a jury will want some kind of reasonable answer to this question.)

[Devil_Anse]

why would someone want to set him up?

Sandylapper is the only one who has even a halfway decent hypothetical answer to this question: that Scott hired someone else to do Laci in, that he didn't pay them or didn't pay them enough, and that they turned around and put the murder on him.

Which scenario, if true, STILL MAKES SCOTT GUILTY OF CAPITAL MURDER.

I don't believe the scenario (no offense, Sandy) but at least it's an explanation of sorts. Which is more than we've gotten out of the defense, during this prelim, as they cast their nets out and just expect that judge to believe that someone gratuitously went to all the trouble of setting up this insignificant manure salesman.