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cas-fortuit t1_je2hm9r wrote

I’m not conflating anything. Of course trial can take months, if not years. That has nothing to do with my comment.

According to the article, this is the timeline:

  • ex wife Angela pleads guilty and is sentenced in October 2017.
  • POS Ian Diaz is arrested in May 2021.

Why did they wait 3.5 years to arrest him after the ex wife was sentenced?

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SardScroll t1_je2h1bt wrote

That's my point. You (at least seem to be) conflating arrest and start of trial, or the real start of trial; technically arraignment, where they ask "how do you plea", has to be done within 48 hours or they can't hold you, but the point is the next bit of trial can be months or years after arraignment, which is messed up but here we are.

Though I did say I phrased my comment badly, a left over of an earlier draft.

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cas-fortuit t1_je2eou1 wrote

She did take a plea. That’s in the article and my comment. But the moment she took a plea (if not sooner), they should have had probable cause to arrest him, and yet they waited 3.5 years to make an arrest. Why? There would be zero reason to wait to simply make an arrest unless she was claiming he wasn’t involved or something, which seems crazy.

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Derp_a_deep t1_je2dhy3 wrote

His friend Jay told the cops where the victim's car was ditched. No one knew that. Jay 100% was involved with the killing and/or body disposal. No rational person would conclude that Jay did this on his own. Adnand is a murderer, without any reasonable doubt.

I'm blown away that people were celebrating his release.

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pungen t1_je2bo5q wrote

The hard part about a lot of murders is if other illegal stuff was going on concurrently, people will try so hard to cover it up that it interferes with the murder investigation.

A friend of mine was murdered a couple years ago and it took them over a year to make a charge even though they knew who it was from the start. Because everyone close to this guy was involved in other illegal business (they were running a scam ring and selling meth) nobody would talk to the police because they didn't want to get themselves in trouble.

It felt like there was a whole lot of that going on with Adnan's case too. Everyone involved gave stories that seemed like lies, even the person who found her body. We will probably never know the whole truth.

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