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Defense: Client's Confessions Are Elaborate Lie
31 Aug
Summary
- Defense argues client's admissions over two decades are fiction.
- Key detective's work called biased, sloppy, and incomplete.
- Proffer interviews showed probable cause, but charges were declined.
Defense attorney Michael Sanft maintained a consistent strategy, asserting his client's admissions over nearly two decades are fictitious. Sanft characterized these statements, made through police interviews, podcasts, and a memoir, as "BULLSH*T," citing time, corruption, and a "lack of actual facts" as central challenges.
He criticized the lead detective's work as "biased, sloppy and incomplete" and repeatedly questioned the delay in charging his client. The defense presented three witnesses, including former police officers and a detective present at a 2009 proffer interview where probable cause was evident, yet the district attorney's office declined to prosecute.
The defense rested its case after a swift presentation, with attorneys expressing exhaustion from the prolonged legal proceedings.
