Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear. "When do you plan to stop beating your wife, rechtub?"

As usual, pynchme leads the charge of the Blight Brigade into the Valley of Fear-Fever, where Cassandra (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassandra_%28metaphor%29) meets the endocrine system and all thought is lost.

Excellent point, Rehctub, vis a vis Ferguson. No doubt he's a grub of the dirtiest sort, but he may well be carrying the can for one not yet uncovered. What should be done? I'm frankly unsure. If the other party has not surfaced again, is it reasonable to assume s/he is no longer a threat, as Ferguson has claimed on his own behalf?

Pynchme- your case does indeed highlight a significant problem, although I can imagine it making sense in the context that criminal proceedings highly regard broad witnesses denying the crime occured to prevent wrongful convictions- although I think it's a highly unreliable context in the days of forensic sciences- unlike yesteryear when it was as close to solid evidence as they would be able to muster- excluding the case of Brimble where all of the participants may have been involved- or an alternate case where a series of participants blamed one as a patsy, as two hypotheticals.