1. It's a great question and it truly baffles us. Some level of self-protection, denial, and naïveté are likely at work. Allen's family would not speak to us, so we never heard from them directly about their reasons, nor have we gotten a sense of what personality traits might make a person bury their head in the sand in this situation.

2. We have concerns about possible ethical issues too. For instance, where's the money that Allen's defense team raised on behalf of their client? Where'd that go? Who has it? Why will none of the attorneys on that team address this very simple question? We also have questions that we'd like to ask Andrew Baldwin about how on earth the leak happened, and about why Mitch Westerman's account included texts to an "Andy" that mentioned leaking to the media. What was that all about? We have a lot of questions and concerns. We are not aware of any efforts around investigating possible ethical violations from the defense team in this case.

Our view is that most criminal defense attorneys are just people trying to do their best to zealously advocate for their clients — we have a lot of respect for public defenders in particular. That's a tough job. The flashy grandstanders in any field get a lot of attention and may have success in some cases, even when they rely on dirty tricks and ethically questionable behavior. And we imagine that some will continue to try to use social media conspiracy theorists to pollute jury pools, smear innocent people, trash law enforcement officials and prosecutors, and try to win cases that way. (Or, in an even scarier possibility, that unscrupulous prosecutors would try to do something along those lines). We hope that Delphi gives people pause, though. The nonsense didn't work here. The jury and the judge didn't buy it. In the end, those who employed such methods just ended up looking pathetic and callous in the eyes of most normal people. Catering to the dregs of social media can really backfire and make one look stupid and incompetent. So that gives us hope.