Monaco police GOT the "confession" they wanted out of Ted Maher.
These Ted Maher threads on Free Republic have continually stressed that outrageous fact.
Once an honorable person has been slandered, smeared and demonized, it is very difficult to restore his reputation.
Monaco prosecutor Daniel Serdet fed this false confession to Time.com's Thomas Sancton for the December 20, 1999 article.
Sancton used three other reporters and three plausible yet bogus "witnesses" to flesh out the original Serdet lie.
Ted made clear beginning with the visit of the Consul December 8, 1999, that "what I do, I do for the safety of my family".
The bruising on the back of his head ("occipital") noted in Monaco's appellate document is consistent with Ted's account of having been hit on the back of the head.
The bruising of his toes is consistent with the account of having been snatched off the street into a van and having his toes broken with a hammer--by whom?
Ted slipped a piece of paper to the consul in that first visit with the two words "Russian Italian".
Now, in the third year, we have a writer of the stature of Dominick Dunne telling Larry King before a national audience, "I am absolutely fighting every month for Ted Maher."
This after a thousand days is a big boost.
It was only after a year and a half, June of last year, that a national audience was told, by this same famous writer, that Ted's confession was got out of him.
Dunne tenaciously pursued his instincts and evidence in the Moxley-Skakel case, and was vindicated.
He's now pursuing the Safra-Maher case with the same intensity.
Dr. Michael Baden is certain to have much to say about the forensic evidence--particularly the infusion of blood of Vivian's thyroid, and her other infusions, the "combat bruising" in Dunne's language.
Michael Griffith is already pursuing various nullities, not the least of which is Ted's illegal interogation without attorney present.
The Monaco kidnapping and passport theft committed against Heidi and her brother are the subject of a separate suit working its way through New York court.
[Oddly, Lily's retained Stanley Arkin who successfully defended Natasha Kagalovsky, wife of Konstantin Kagalovsky, former head of Russia's Menatep Bank.]
The Safra family filed objections, and Lily retained Brendan Sullivan, who successfully defended Oliver North in Iran-Contra, an epic irony considering the Iran-Contra allegations described in Brian Burroughs' Vendetta.]
The Marseilles Consulate announces the departure of Martha Melzow and her replacement by Ellen B. Thurburn as Consul. Thurburn was most recently Consul in Estonia, and prior to that, Benin.
Ted's latest priest "broke his hip" and thus is "unable to visit".
Ted's prior two priests were removed for their sympathetic support.
Judge Richet departed for Paris, suddenly and without explanation--odd, as her unprecedented second term had not expired--
Odder still, for as Profonde Gorge said, she'd got that reappointment because "she is obedient to the police".
With apologies to Tennyson, "judges come and judges go, but the police state goes on forever."