I voted yes because it's obvious that TLM was the other perpetrator here. And she has given LE a detailed account of what happened that day. She was not alone. This is huge. Just think of all the other cases we follow on here where the evidence is circumstantial at best and there are no eyewitness accounts and they are convicted. We have the other participant here telling the jury exactly what happened. MR has no alibi for that day and evidence likely points to him as the other participant so I really don't see how his defence is going to get him a not guilty verdict.
I think TLM's testimony will be riveting. She has taken responsibility for her part and she is not wasting the taxpayer's dollars with a trial. Nor did she try to cut a plea deal like Homolka. While the defence is going to try to smash her credibility with her past actions, her actions when she confessed are going to outweigh that in the minds of jurors IMO. She was instrumental in bringing Victoria home to her family and took responsibility for her part in this horror. That will count for something.
Because there was a kidnapping involved, MR has no choice but to go for broke here, and I can understand why he has chosen to considering his family is willing to provide him with decent legal counsel, but unless he has indisputable evidence that he could not have been the other person, and obviously he does not, then he is going to be charged for this crime. There is no reasonable doubt here. Either he was there or he wasn't. No one can not have any alibi for approximately 7 hours of the day unless it was the middle of the night and they were home alone sound asleep.
Personally I think he is wasting the taxpayers and his mother's money but that's his right.
MOO