- Maybe. For a month there was no chance of charges being filed. Then the story got picked up.
That is also a maybe. It could be that the facts of the case were so strong that charges were inevitable, and that the police really screwed up. And there are guys that should have gone to prison but never did, because of police misconduct. Hell, many of them are police. As it stands, there is enough evidence of a crime to bring murder charges. He may be guilty, he may be innocent. The important thing is that it gets decided in a courtroom. Speculating and insinuating that charges were filed baselessly merely to assuage the public is just that, -speculation and insinuation. From what we know, you could make just as 'strong' of a speculative case that the police didn't arrest him when they should have in the first place.There are guys who are in prison for 20+ years, then the story gets picked up and prosecution misconduct is discovered.