I saw that too, and while I am not a lawyer, I believe Winters is an "Officer of the court" and allowed to serve the warrant. I think he is really looking at this case as a big deal for him , and it is. I hope we find out a lot at the 2 oclokc news conference, because from the appearance based on what little we do know, and how long it has taken fro FBI results to come back ( I think we are still waiting on them) I have reasonable doubt and it looks like they rushed to charge McD prior to the Aug 4th bond hearing. On the other hand, kind of like like OJ & Casey Anthony, If not McD, then who ?
I'm responding to the line I respectfully bolded in your post.
I see exactly where you are coming from, but I've always had a hesitation to rule somebody IN because there was no other known person to rule out. I guess I've found it reckless to assume the one and only known POI is always going to be the guilty party because of so many other cases I'm aware of where there was an unknown person in the picture and nobody knew to LOOK for or talk about, speculate or theorize about anything to do with that person because we had no idea that person was the culprit.
For example, Elizabeth Smart was taken by someone from her home. Long story short, it was a baffling case, but one man's name materialized due to a particular kind of hat he wore, and he took his own life in jail from the intense judgement by the media, (specifically Nancy Grace, who named him and showed his face over and over and said he was the guilty man) but he was NOT THE RIGHT MAN. HE WAS AN INNOCENT MAN. He did nothing to Smart, yet he was placed deep inside the pressure cooker and he cooked his own goose because that was easier than taking on the great numbers of people that were being swayed by Nancy Grace and other members of the media who were turning the public into mad vultures circling him, just waiting.
This ruined this man's life. And he ended it. Sad to know he was truly an innocent man because we all saw the real low life sob that took Smart from her bedroom...and it was NOT the man everyone was pointing at. (They only pointed at him because he was the
ONLY one whose name was continually brought forth by someone in the media who thought it appropriate to drag him to his demise behind her little red wagon. In the end, she didn't apologize for being as wrong as two left shoes. She went on exercising the errors of her gut.)
So, my point is, just because one person is known and happens to be the only person the public has to launch their hatred toward at this specific time, does not always mean there is no other person involved. I realize in this case that SD has been charged, but the evidence must speak before I tear down a man's reputation, education, and his whole life with an
assumption of guilt. I prefer to assume innocence until I can see all the cards on the table and a jury does their duty.
My
gut tells me so much about so many things, even saved my life, but the truth is, we all have one. I can feel something in my
gut all day long, but my gut has to wait in the hall when a trial begins.