Wood is the type of lawyer that REALLY believes in his client's innocence before he accepts a case and he wouldn't permit Cain to dance around the truth in a presser (not that Cain would anyway).
As to other meetings 14 years ago, she was probably much younger and thinner than now. I saw her wedding photos the other day (they have since been scrubbed, I think) and she was quite beautiful back then.
“Wood is the type of lawyer that REALLY believes in his client’s innocence before he accepts a case and he wouldn’t permit Cain to dance around the truth in a presser (not that Cain would anyway).”
I assume Wood already watched Cain pass a polygraph before he would allow him to agree to a future polygraph in a press conference.