Well, I think most people try hard to be their best at their chosen career. And most people do want to advance themselves in some way. She has to leave aside the deaths of four people in order to absolutely do her best defending a DP client.
I think she is frustrated and very reluctant to go to trial. Most of us know why (I know you know why). There's going to be so much more evidence and it is all going to be terribly damning. BK knows that. AT knows that.
So she stalls and does what she can. Other criminal defense attorneys are watching and taking notes - but if this continues to expand as the decades go by, we can reasonably expect that murder trials will take 5-8 years to happen. Or longer. So sad for the families. I'm not sure what can be done, aside from whoever organizes the state level of funding to put their foot down. The reason they have sealed her budget records, IMO, is to keep the good People of Idaho from finding out where all those dollars are going (it would outrage the public and bias the case, obviously).
It's such an odd stalemate. BK sits in jail (presumed innocent) but cannot provide the proof of alibi that would keep him from a murder trial - so he gets to sit there. Forever? Is that the plan? Poor Judge Judge.
Here is my conjecture: Judge Judge knows that DP cases take longer to get trial and has a good sense of what the outer limits might be (timewise). The Prosecution is ready to go. The Defense appears to be running in circles with the same types of complaints/motions over and over. At some point, this will all stop and it will go to trial (but not this March). I doubt it will be scheduled near the end of year holidays, either - so we're looking at early 2025 at best, and probably Spring 2025, at the rate things are going. THEN, there will be more haggles (AT will surely have the basic pre-trial motions, such as change of venue or change of judge - although she'd be dumb to swap out Judge Judge, who has bent over backwards for her). Summer 2025?
Anyone else want to guess?
IMO.
