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You are right about one thing, I have an emotional attachment to the case b/c I think he was set up. But that is not enough before a judge in the US, much less MCO.

There are reasons, I believe factually undisputed reasons that TM should not have been convicted:

1. Suspect confession. Written in french, no video or audio tape, signed days (not hours) after the event, signed after TM's wife was detained, the particular language shows that it was not transcribed from an upstate NY native (written in common parlance used by french).

2. Cause of death. This is one that really bothers me. To convict TM of anything, they needed to prove he started the fire that enveloped the villa. To convict him of Safra's death, they would have to demonstrate Safra died from the fire TM started. Problem is, Safra's body was cremated before TM's defense could conduct an indepenant autopsy. Safra, and his nurse's bodies were key pieces of evidence. If they died of something else, say blow to the head or bullet, TM would have been exculpated. But the evidence was destroyed. Essentially, TM never got to subject that evidence to cross examination. It was needlessly
destroyed, the bodies could have been cremated later.

Independant reports, even MCO reports, showed that the fire in the basement caused the conflagration. So, I don't think there was ever any evidence that the wastepaper basket set the entire house on fire.

3. 3 year detention without trial. In the states, this would have been thrown out on speedy trial defense.

4. Security team is sent home on same night, security alarm disconnected.

5. Safra made calls from safe closet, they knew where he was, yet MCO police impeded his rescue, actually detaining his own security personnel.

6. TM's cuts, in all the detractors, never describe them. From the description of the cuts, one they were too severe to be self inflicted, not the carefully planned superficial cuts claimed. Second, they were the wrong hand (TM is right handed, the cuts (meaning angle and traverse of the body) would not, and in some cases, could not have come from right hand person.

7. TM's wife is kidnapped.

Those are some of the reasons why I think he is innocent. I have not, and do not, support any other jailed person or cause.