re: Update: Collins to speak with BR police after draft

lsupride: Why do you care what bbap and lsufball think what "suspect" means when we all know that he isn't a suspect. Proof: BRPD's words
bbap is confused (he is an Indiana fan claiming to be an LSU fan)
lsufball is confused (fball=football and he has a baseball picture)

Collins is currently not suspect

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its not semantics. there's a pretty clear cut definition of "suspect". and you're not a suspect just because the police want to talk to you.

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you would think that he would voluntarily meet with BRPD asap to remove any cloud over draft day. Makes no sense.

Leave and never come back

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It could be argued that meeting with the police might make it seem worse.

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I'd like to hear this argument, because I don't see it.

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not much. it's a term police departments use to escape potential lawsuits when they don't have hard evidence they need. it has little bearing on whether they suspect someone of having committed a crime

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This is a true statement. They hardly use the term "suspect" anymore.

I assume it has something to do with cell phone records or hunting for cc footage wherever Lael remembered being at the time.

Kid is busy and needs someone to help out at home getting the police what they need.

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Shaft's posts are gone because I RA'ed his dumb arse last night. Downvote me quoting him a few pages back, but Shaft Williams is the rant at its worst.

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I'm with you on that. He was very clearly implying that he had some sort of incriminating knowledge, which is pretty shameful in addition to being total bullshite.

And to those who find it suspicious that La'el didn't come back straight away, people can't immediately meet with police all the time even though they're only a mile from the police station, much less in Chicago at the draft.

I didn't see anything indicating he is a suspect. The Advocate indicated BRPD said he was one of many people they want to interview. It's not uncommon to interview friends and acquaintances of murder victims for a variety of reasons. BRPD specifically indicated he was not a suspect.

I think his lawyer's/agent's comments clouded things more than anything else out there, talking about hiring a PI to determine where he was at the time. There was no mention of anyone asking his whereabouts other than his lawyer indicating they were gathering information as to his whereabouts. That was strange and seemed to blow things out of current proportion.

Maybe the police told the lawyer they wanted to know where he was at the time of the murder. We don't know.

La'el is probably taking advice from that lawyer/agent, as well, and he may have advised him to put the interview on hold until after the draft. If he did, it probably would have been better for the lawyer just to have said that and included that La'el doesn't have any information regarding the murder, but will be glad to answer any questions the police may have when the draft is concluded. Still makes it look like the draft is more important than the murder, but the lawyer takes the hit a bit more than La'el, perhaps. Bottom line is surely there were better comments the lawyer/agent could have made.

Right now, this appears to be much ado about nothing with regard to La'el.(Not much ado about nothing with regard to the murder.) All indications are that he's a standup guy and until someone proves otherwise, that's my opinion. Hopefully, the teams will think the same way.

I think it is a little more complicated than that dude.