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Originally Posted by April
It was difficult to not be able to support a friend when they are accused because you don't believe their defense story. I'm sorry for any pain this causes the family. I certainly don't intend it but I also know that it is the truth as I see it.
I'm just glad he is not sitting in that prison anymore.
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The best way to support Ed Steele would have been to tell him that he was full of shit early on. Then he could have thought about a more viable defense. But I don't expect a woman to do that.
And actually he did contemplate a different defense. Steele acknowledged in his letter to Jim Giles dated 1 August 2010 that he had not been in his right mind. At one point some beginning steps were being taken toward a medical defense. Documentation about Steele's consumption of drugs was submitted. But for whatever reason that alternate, probably much more viable path was discontinued.