Blacksmith

I hadn't realized McCanns tried to settle. Is that because the defense argument had to be that Amaral has a right to free speech and his own opinion and this is the actual facts of the investigation?

In other words, they were going to lose?

You'd have thought they would realize that from the beginning and maybe they did, maybe they thought they could scare him and they could get more money without having to have it come out in public that the "disgraced cop" (I bet they made every paper that was going to run the libel trial story agree to describe Amaral that way) was actually not telling anything you couldn't read in "the process"

In fact, I would argue far from being disgraced, he was himself defamed, and was on the right track in ignoring Bundleman (which has now been also disproven as a sighting by SY) and delving into the details around the actual actions of the T9 that night, while the T9 then continued to obstruct the investigation by failing to provide true accounts of their activities on that and other night, despite the fact that having the FACTS could only assist in the Finding of Madeleine.

Who is disgraced now?