Eh, I feel that the Fouke-Pelissetti thing is completely immaterial to solving the case.

Even if one or both of them lied, what does it change?

So you think that Fouke and Pelissetti are making up falsehoods and lying about where they saw suspects etc and doing it just because they fancy a bit of a giggle? I would suggest that if a Police Officer is fabricating certain claims in their report regarding a suspect then the overwhelming probability is that they are doing so because of something they either know, or strongly suspect about that suspect but are not willing, or not permitted, to disclose it.

I am mindful that previously I have stated that people in general don’t always need reasons to lie and that some people are just liars and lie for the sake of lying. But these are not your every day attention seekers, they are sworn SFPD Officers.

As you know, there is a document that specifically states an eight year old identified someone as possibly being the person responsible for Paul’s murder. If Fouke and/or Pelissetti know how this came about, lets say, just for example, Pelissetti stopped a guy on the night of Oct 11 and the witness positively ID’d the man as being the person who had just minutes before been at the cab, and Fouke and Pelissetti are keeping this information to themselves and are not saying who it is the witnesses ID’d then you would consider that immaterial and not of importance? I happen to think one of these two, maybe both, know something or saw something on the night that they are not willing or allowed to repeat. If you think that Fouke decided to lie ‘just cause he can’ and its of no real significance, that’s up to you.

But as I said, the unarguable fact is, Fouke did fabricate the part of his eye witness evidence by falsely claiming to last see a White Male turning left at the intersection of Jax & Mple and heading for the Presidio when he was, in fact, going up steps and toward a residence.

If I am at the scene of a murder, and I am asked for a statement, if I say I saw a suspect run up a hill and the police proved I was lying, what do you think that would do for my credibility? In what context would the police now view me, potential witness? Or Potential suspect? You think they would, after discovering a lie in my statement, just readily accept everything else I say and overlook my false claim? No chance! I’d be interrogated with demands to explain why I lied!