Minutes before Danielle van Dam's remains were found Feb. 27, David Westerfield's lawyers were brokering a deal with prosecutors: He would tell police where he dumped the 7-year-old girl's body; they would not seek the death penalty. ......... The deal they were discussing would have allowed Westerfield to plead guilty to murder and be sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole, said the officials, who spoke on condition they not be identified. Prosecutors were seriously considering the bargain ....."The deal was just minutes away," one of the sources said.
I honestly don't think for a minute the majority of them thought that,or anything else about Westerfield. To them,it was all about the parents being "swingers"and they wanted them punished for this. They didn't and don't give a damn about a little girl being murdered because they had a more serious offense on their alleged minds,"sex". This is the same group of people who were more outraged about Bubba-1 getting blow jobs than they were about treason and all the other actual crimes he comitted.