Nothing mysterious, no evidence. Everyone figured his buddy would squeal to spare himself jail time. Nada. The 17-yo girl in question wouldn’t testify either. Also, she had since started an OF site and prosecution felt she would get torn up as a witness.
However, is this really the same as “no evidence”? -
The recommendation comes in part because prosecutors have questions over whether the central witnesses in the long-running investigation would be perceived as credible before a jury.
Sounds like they did have evidence, but it was more about the reaction of the jury to the witness for other reasons.
Yep.
Mysteriouslydropped, iirc.Edit: It wasn’t mysterious, there were legitimate reasons.
Nothing mysterious, no evidence. Everyone figured his buddy would squeal to spare himself jail time. Nada. The 17-yo girl in question wouldn’t testify either. Also, she had since started an OF site and prosecution felt she would get torn up as a witness.
After educating myself, agree - nothing mysterious.
However, is this really the same as “no evidence”? -
Sounds like they did have evidence, but it was more about the reaction of the jury to the witness for other reasons.
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I had understood that the girl wouldn’t testify and the DA didn’t want that in any case?
Link?
(You were all thinking it, I just care less about my fake internet points)
I wasn’t