Friday, December 26, 2008 BOULDER, Colo. — A new Boulder County district attorney plans to take a new look at one of the country's most high-profile cold cases — the slaying of 6-year-old JonBenet Ramsey.
Incoming District Attorney Stan Garnett said he'll decide what to do with the investigation in his first 30 days on the job, which he starts Jan. 13. His predecessor, Mary Lacy, publicly exonerated the Ramsey family this year in the Dec. 26, 1996, murder.
"I want to look very closely at the resources of the DA's Office and make a careful decision about what resources to continue to expend on the case," Garnett said.
He said he is thinking of sending the case back to the police. The DA's office took over the investigation in 2002 because of concerns about the police department's handling of it.
Garnett said the police department likely has more resources now and is better equipped to handle the investigation.
Last July, Lacy cleared the Ramseys in the slaying and said new DNA tests pointed to an unknown outsider. Investigators hope to one day match crime scene DNA to a suspect in a growing national DNA registry.
Lacy couldn't run again because of term limits.
Denver defense attorney Larry Pozner said he believes turning the investigation back to the Boulder police is a bad idea.
"The Boulder police were neither fair, nor accurate, in their initial investigation, and there's no reason to think they should be trusted again," said Pozner, past president of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers.
Scott Robinson, a Denver defense attorney who has followed the case, said the Boulder Police Department is far different from more than a decade ago.
Robinson, though, said he's not sure there's much anyone can do in the absence of new DNA evidence or a verifiable confession from the killer.
"The case is as cold as cold can be," he said.
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The Mother did it and the Father helped cover it up.
I do so declare that to be true.
ReplyDeleteReally? I thought it was the son and Mom and Dad both covered it up.
ReplyDeleteSee my email. Too lengthy to post here.
ReplyDeleteAnd hence, I believe she did it.
ReplyDeleteAh! You retain what you read very well.
ReplyDeleteWell, I need to read the e-mail before I can respond at length. But the short response is - you're an idiot!
ReplyDeleteI will send you what I sent Sharliser. Now how about revealing what evidence there is that exonerates the Mother?
ReplyDeleteDidn't the FBI clear her, posthumously, based on DNA evidence?
ReplyDeleteThat was Bode Laboratories, based on "Touch DNA."
ReplyDeleteThat DNA is not the "slam-dunk" you'd think it is and certainly should not have been used to give the Ramsey's a bye. There are just too many other things pointing to Ramsey involvement that cannot be ignored.