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Dominick Dunne of Vanity Fair is about the only one.

Do you have a link? Also, which major media figures think Maher (Ted) is innocent? Surely if you care about his conviction, you would want to out these people to help drum up public support for Ted. Wouldn't you?

The media present at trial are on hand to report and give impressions on what they see going on. I think we'll see some interesting pieces soon enough. The verdict was just rendered--give it time. Dominick Dunne has written about Ted Maher in several of his Vanity Fair pieces and talked about Maher on Larry King Live a number of times. It's not for Dominick or anyone else in the media to pass personal judgment on Maher, but none would tell you they are comfortable with the way the trial went. It was a staged circus and that usually doesn't end well for the defendent.

I don't know of any link, but I have been reading Vanity Fair for years and Dominick Dunne has written something about this case nearly every month. He is convinced that Maher was framed, probably by the "grieving" widow herself, who wanted all the Safra money but became impatient because Edmond was not dying fast enough for her. Lily Safra is now one of the richest women in the world and flaunts it very ostentatiously. Maher is just a poor dumb American who got pressured into a confession that cannot be retracted under Monaco law. He was probably told he would face execution for double murder unless he confessed to accidentally killing Safra and the maid. A great deal of evidence has been suppressed in this trial, acording to Dunne. Dunne has collected stories from dozens of people he has met who knew or worked for the Safras. Remember that Dominick Dunne helped get the Martha Moxley murder case reopened. He is an ace sleuth concerning high-society murders and he does not believe Ted Maher did this one.