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Let me understand your argument: TM has been held in jail for three years awaiting trial(speedy trial?), he has not been allowed to see family, he has not been allowed to correspond with family others about the trial, his wife was kidnapped (driver said detained, which may seem to soften her accusation, but an unprivileged detention is a kidnapping), he has been told that he may never see his wife and kids again, basically MCO controls every aspect of physical life when not in front of the court, and you want him to yell to the press that they are liars and corrupt, right before MCO leads him back to his cell?

In answer to both of you--an AP photographer is not an AP reporter. Ted is also conferring with one of his attorneys in this shot and no one knows just how close this cameraman was when he took the picture; they are not allowed close in so I suspect a longer lense. Ted showed up in court with marks that indicate he was beaten overnight before his last appearance in the courtroom. Those are evident on yesterday and today's photos of him, taken by a Reuters photographer covering the trial. He has not been permitted to utter a peep to the press--the consequences of this are severe--normally beatings--on return to jail. This is not the US folks--it's a country where you're guilty until proven otherwise and they treat you accordingly. There have been efforts on Ted's behalf through the State Department and his New York congressional delegation. None of these folks has been able to make their point strongly enough before the Monegasque government but I understand as of this afternoon that State made some headway that will likely end up presenting previously excluded evidence that would help him. Ted's original confession was tortured out of him and of this there is ample testimony and admittance on the part of Monegasque police. As I've noted before, by their law, you cannot retract a confession. Ted, to the laughter of the media in the courtroom, was forced to read his "confession" as the trial opened. No one from the US/Britain could fathom that they don't let someone change the plea, especially given admittance as to how it was obtained.