I know you may find it unsavory, but the defense can call witnesses, force them to testify, put forth (ahem) "alternative" theories (which the judge may well disallow if they are over the top) call "expert" witnesses and so on and so forth.
A well represented defendant has allot of room to operate here, and MG is making the most of it.
It doesn't bother me. I like to see these things happen so that when the smoke clears no one has to second guess themselves and there's no remorse about the sentence.
Freedom is unique in the sense that we can't give it back.
You know, you can't come along later and tell someone: "Whoops, we screwed up.. here's your 10 years back." Once you take it, it's gone for good..
So I like to see these things and I like to be sure.
I have found many things about Mark Geragos to be unsavory, from before Laci Peterson was murdered.
The defense can do a lot of things, true, but the police and the entire world don't have to come to a standstill while they take their time supposedly doing all these clever things.
They can do the stuff you listed, but they can't do the stuff I listed. A criminal defendant is not given special rights. He is merely allowed the chance--many chances, really--to preserve all the rights which he as a citizen had in the first place.
We all like to be sure. But very few things are sure in the realm of human behavior.
I DON'T like to see these things--things like overuse of the media to spread smoke around and deliberately lead gullible would-be jurors around by the nose. Oddly, the media is not a central part of most of the criminal trials held in the United States.
Thanks for telling me what I'm talking about! Jhoffa, you know you can tell me what I'm talking about anytime!