Wings of Light, you've put me in a tough spot, so let me put it this way:
1) If I had a dollar for every time someone close to a killer said they were convinced they were completely innocent, I'd be a rich man.
2) Pamela Mackey is a defense lawyer for the Haddon Law Firm, which the Rs hired. She makes her living convincing people that someone is innocent. Lawyers are the best con artists in existence.
It just doesn't do it for me.
I obviously completely understand where you are coming from. Those points are both often very true.
However...
'Someone', and that person's attorney (she wasn't directly, but I know she worked on it extensively with Haddon, and handles all of their big cases now), are two very different things. I've dealt a fair bit with attorney's, and you develop a very special relationship with them... they really truly get to see who you are... and they get to know their clients VERY well - including if they are or aren't credible. Especially over a period of ten years.
Additionally, I didn't ask for the information. I wasn't prying trying to figure out what she thought, she volunteered what she said. And also knowing her character... which is, extraordinarily sweet, understanding, and caring unless she's in the courtroom, etc... which is a huge difference from someone like, say, Harvey Steinberg, who's 'bedside manner' would make most people cringe. My point being, this wasn't someone trying to convince me of something... it was a matter of fact statement to back up something else she was saying.
I don't expect to change anyone's mind or anything, perhaps she was lying, or perhaps the Ramsey's are very convincing themselves. I do think that it's valuable to know what she thinks, and that it should be weighted in one's mind when looking at the evidence. In my mind, if someone as smart as her, who has dealt with many, many criminals (she was a public defender for years too), and who worked on the case and probably spent hundreds of hours with them... thinks their client is innocent... that weighs pretty heavily for me.