As bizarre and improbable as it sounded, elements of Mr. Minor's confession turned out to be true: The prosecution and the defense agreed that Mr. Locker, a motivational speaker in financial trouble, had wanted to kill himself and make it look as if he had been murdered so that his family could collect on millions of dollars in insurance money.
While normally the guilty plea means admission of guilt, this is only true if prosecution is criminal, not political," said Vasily Kirov, a Best Gore editor, in a statement to VICE News sent the night before Marek's day in court.
That could be true; vindictive prosecutions have happened in our justice system before and they will happen again.
"If in fact this is true, and the prosecution concealed this new information, it is more than shame on them.
Yes, the SEC came out with guns blazing when it first accused Goldman of malfeasance back in 2010, but as Occupy Wall Street came and went, the ardor for true Wall Street prosecutions cooled.
At times, it felt too strange to be true – or, as the prosecution argued, too strange not to be true.
It maintains two sets of books, he said, exhuming an old — and discredited — accusation that would have been grounds for prosecution if true.
The Jamaican-born coach was eventually given a relatively mild sentence, largely because the jury was unimpressed with the prosecution's "true devil" of a witness.
The other way forward would have been long, arduous court trials that may have resulted -as was the case with the Getty's Marion True - in a successful prosecution.
If true, this would destroy the prosecution's case, which is that the Libyans loaded a suitcase containing a bomb on to a flight from Malta to Frankfurt, routing it for transfer to the New York-bound flight.The prosecution may be able to ignore Mr Bollier's evidence, or undermine it.
