Just commenting here:
First, LE certainly haven't given the public much info on this entire case. Just comfort stuff, to make us all feel a little better.
Second, remember the commitment hearing, the prosecution didnt' want to share too much during the hearing (or they didnt' have it)
Third: remember the SoL QUOTES on the other forums, one of the sleuthers here discovered that and turned it in to LE.
Fouth: I really wonder if they have nothing else still, maybe they are waiting on expert sleuthers to find something, like you're suggestion above..........(?)JK
OR simply they are holding are their eggs until they HAVE a grandiose case and are waiting to tell the defense. They do have to tell them everything, right? So he can build a defense...........???
about what I
bolded: tomkat, that certainly is the question of the moment right now, I think: Just what
do they have?
But we just gotta wait!
It's natural that the prosecution would want to "hold their eggs", as you say, as long as possible. (That's probably one reason the indictment itself reveals nothing beyond what we have known).
I hope one of our lawyer types will correct or add to the following comments, as needed, but, as I understand: The discovery phase, when the prosecution turns over more information to the defense, does not begin, I
believe, until after the arraignment.
When it does begin, the prosecution does not exactly have to turn over
all its "eggs", I think, but yes, it does have to share with the defense all of certain kinds of evidence, as well as anything substantial it might have in the way of evidence that would tend to point away from SM (exculpatory evidence).
I think the defense will be privy to all forensic results, for example, but I am not sure that the prosecution has to share a list of all its witnesses (maybe, but not clear on that ...it may be that the defense gets a list but not info about what the witnesses will testify ...? Just not clear on that point.)
I do hope maybe we will hear further from some of the lawyers who post here. (One thing, though: I think there is an attitude that it is best not to try to look too far ahead just now, since, until the arraignment, we don't know for
certain that SM won't plead guilty/make a deal, etc., and a trial be avoided all together.)
It's a waiting game right now, IMO.