Mark Means shared this on his Twitter this morning that he’s been informed the prosecution has been seeking out ‘off the record’ interviews. His source said that “refusal to release autopsy results for T. Daybell to her children was an attempt to coerces children to give incriminating statements”.
You can see that tweet and his following tweets about the same thing here
https://twitter.com/meanslaw/status/1403301836799369219?s=21
He also links to Emma’s interview with CourtTV
in my opinion, I wouldn’t be entirely surprised if this was true. We already know the Prosecution was willing (and did) to meet with witnesses (Zulema and Sunmer) before they ever talked to police first. We know of the gray area that was in and the arguments surrounding if a prosecutor committed misconduct by doing that; many, like those on CourtTV, said they teach their first year law students to have such situations just to avoid the APPEARANCE of impropriety. Given the limited experience of the prosecution for larger complex cases like these, I wouldn’t be surprised if they did try and leverage the information from the autopsy report against some of the children. We already know Emma has said something just like this before, that the Sheriff told them they could see the report after if and when all of her and her siblings came to meet with a detective. And that she was unsure why they’d have to meet with a detective just to get this report on how her mother died. In the video, I was reminded that Emma said they were never even told of her mother’s exhumation and they found out in the media two weeks after the fact.
