We don't know what LE has on JM. He might well have a good chance of walking on these two charges and even get LE chastized and the DA fired for them being so trumped up with what is out there now. We have no idea what the DNA or forensic link is. IT could be very weak.
Though I personally believe that VA LE has caught a serial rapist/killer, without Hannah's body, it may be an uphill fight to get any charges to stick, much less result in conviction. There is a bar that has to be met for evidence to be so entered in court case. His behavior and the college cases aren't not likely to be considered prime evidence, if at all. I do believe it shows a pattern of behavior and will be admissable, but really without some strong stuff more than LE is sharing with us I don't see him necessarily getting convicted. We have no idea what the forensice link is to the MH case, none at all. With MH's remains being skeletal, according to reports, what DNA could they possibly have found on her after lying there out in the elements for 4 months? I'm interested in what was found and where. I think they found a match maybe on that shirt that was found near the stadium, not near MH's body, serious. JM, if placed in the area there at that time could have touched it and not MH. Yeah, I know, not likely on a reasonable basis, but if he weren't in the spotlight now in the Hannah Graham case, doubt that would have had him in trouble. And not a word has been said , has it about a link to that rape case that is DNA linked to MH's case? Or has it? No charges filed on either at this time, in any case.
Usually cops love to pile it on with charges. You get stopped for something, they find a beer with a little left in it, you ran a light, etc, etc, they can have you up to 6, 7 charges, some of them superfluous and a lawyer will usually sweep it down to a core charge which he will then try to have reduced. So that all they have on the table is the Reckless driving and Assault with intent to defile, (and probably some flight charges that I've yet to hear) is indicative that LE and the DA are moving very slowly and carefullly, or they don't have anything. Texas now has some charges regarding false info to police, but all of that is not the issue at all. If there weren't publicity on this case, if it weren't for Hannah being missing right now., I don't know what the risk is for JM. His lawyer has not said much at all. It seems to me he is waiting it out before speaking, and unless there is more evidence in LE's coffers, JM might walk. We don't know.
