I think the judge will be fairly scathing, by end of trial. I have no idea if the trial will be fair. So far, the vDs and their neighbor haven't been the best witnesses for their daughters' disappearance-- they keep trying to find the possible motive for DWs involvement, in the publics' own sense of personal shame and guilt.
Why are police no longer using his real name? Maybe Peter Damon van Dam discoved Daniel-le wasn't his?