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Originally Posted by Heady
It's hilarious that you use the term team.
It was yourself who said "Why do we still read revots33 & poorskillz posts" correct...... Here's the answer....From a lawyer on reddit,Calicrimdeflawyer..
PREFACE: You may wonder why so few lawyers post on these subs. It's not for lack of interest in this case. I can tell you there's plenty of people in my high-volume office who are interested. And Strang and Buting give packed house MCLE lectures to eager lawyer audiences, including an upcoming one in Riverside I will likely attend. The dearth of lawyers on here (at least for me) is likely because we have not had the time to meaningfully sleuth the entire trial record. Thus I've refrained from commenting in the (impressive) fact-investigation / "theory" discussions, though they are interesting to read. The few posts I've made are limited to topics I think may be of interest to you all, and that add to the discussion unrelated to such "theories".
Against this backdrop, from my brief time on Reddit, I've been puzzled by some user(s), who are obviously attorneys (presumably working full time, though that's just speculation), who must have spent the thousands of hours, post-MAM, scouring the trial record so well to acquire such an impressive knowledge--not to mention the time it takes to write thousands of walls of text in long posts and comments on MAM subs--unless of course, they've known of all the details of this case long before MAM broke.
Maybe some of you TTM'ers have shared this puzzling thought about such user(s).
If you have, you might be interested to read about the story of the embarrassing online sockpuppetry that ended the careers of two Louisiana federal prosecutors, which I can't help get out of my head.
Here are a couple of news articles, and a link to the full DOJ report condemning their unethical behavior.
Couple of articles:
http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-d...e-sock-puppets http://observer.com/2015/04/federal-...n-new-orleans/
And here's the DOJ report (not OCR'd, if someone wants to fix that and reupload, be my guest):
https://assets.documentcloud.org/doc...report-opr.pdf
EDIT : I disagree with those who suggest that just saying weirdly nice things about DAs / investigators, or anyone who claims to have personal knowledge, is shilling. My test for proper suspicion is much narrower, and winnows down only people that I think we have legitimate cause to suspect.
(1) They post A LOT (thereby allowing readers to get a good feel for the depth of their knowledge)
(2) Based on the extent of their posts, it is evidently clear that they are attorneys or former attorneys.
(3) Based on the extent of their posts, they show an uncanny fluency of the trial records and all of their intricacies, beyond what one would expect from a typical internet sleuth (let alone one with a demanding full time job).