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Sure, but the article portrays it as her asking him if he had anything to do with his wife's disappearance. If it's wrong about that, it could be wrong about his "yes". But Fox supposedly is at least reputable, and at least presumably checks out stories b/f publishing them.

Suppose she HAD just asked him "do you know anything about your wife's disappearance?" Well... and he answers YES??!

Even with Vel's earlier scenario--in which Scott claims he killed Laci b/c the satanists made him do it--even with that, Scott would still be a principal. So what if someone "made" him do it? He's not off the hook for murder in that event. And if he merely "knew something" about her disappearance, well, that sounds like he's liable as an accomplice, at least.

I mean, criminal law doesn't vary TOO much from state to state. And I know that in this state, if you take part, you can be held liable as a PRINCIPAL--even if others were doing more of the crime than you were. That is, for example, if you are the getaway driver for the bank robbers, and you never even go into the bank, you can still be convicted of bank robbery, right along with the guys who actually went inside.

And I know you know that, for example, if a man hires someone to kill his wife in some American city, and then hops a plane to Paris, and the hired killer kills her, the guy who hopped the plane to Paris is still legally guilty of murder.

According to Cherry and my recollection, (now that she jolted it), this is not new news.

On your second point, I thought I sort of addressed that in my hypothetical. If one knows something, it doesn't necessarily mean that one actually participated, does it?

Liable as an accomplice doesn't mean full punishment for a capital murder, does it, unless you're being held liable as a principal, and it's probably very unlikely they'd give the "principal" the death penalty, isn't it?

At this juncture, we can only hope that prosecution has a hell of a lot more than they've publicly revealed, and that somewhere in their bank of evidence, there's something of a smoking gun. I just hope they aren't playing too many games with the defense.

My bedtime. I need to be up by 11. LOL