It is my understanding and I agree with you that she did lie to the Albuquerque police and the FBI agents while being questioned in Albuquerque and that she finally admitted her story was false. It is my further understanding that in a subsequent conversation Wilbanks had with the Duluth police chief that she uttered a false statement. This apparently took place after the Duluth PD was informed by the NM police that they had her in custody and that she'd admitted her abduction was false.
Obviously, a Georgia law has been broken or the Gwinnett County DA would not have taken this to the Grand Jury. Is the DA mistaken? Is the Grand Jury wrong?
And she hung on to her lies (and those lies kept changing,) to LE until LE was fianlly able to force her to admit them as such. She would otherwise have kept on lying to them, therefore causing LE to hunt for kidnappers and rapist(s) in blue vans (Felons.)
"Is the DA mistaken? Is the Grand Jury wrong?"
DAs are routinely mistaken, usually from arrogance and political pressures. Juries are not usually instructed properly or properly prepared to make such decisions.
I would say, as with all court cases of unknown evidence, that we simply need to wait and see what is presented by the DA. Considering that this is now a high profile case, the DA had better be right.
They're miffed!