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You are a court reporter? Guess what I don't believe it, and you are free to prove me wrong, because every court reporter I know carries a recorder with them, (1) so there will be an original record of the statement, and (2) so that the reporter can go back and check her transcription against the real record.

I was on a federal grand jury in Bridgeport, CT for two years (we met 3 days per month) and the court reporter only used her shorthand typing machine deal. No tape recorder.

That is in court, that is not for a deposition or a confession. Plus, neither of us know whether the reporter also had recorder in court that you just didn't see.

Some of you guys are here just to disrupt, which I really don't understand, there is more to do in life. But for those of you who truly want to discuss the issue, think about why you would want to take a video or audio confession. A video confession shows the demeanor, affect, stability, state of mind, of the confessor. It is the number one insurance against getting a confession thrown out. Think of what it would have done in this case. If Ted had been caught on video tape confessing, just hours after the incident, I would have jumped on board and said the guy was guilty. But here, there is no tape. And the confession, I believe, came days after the incident. More importantly, it came after his wife had been detained in MCO.