Another Democratic witch hunt
Greitens’ attorneys have criticized Gardner’s handling of the case, particularly her hiring of private investigator William Tisaby, who Greitens’ lawyers have accused of perjury.
Because of the questions surrounding Tisaby’s credibility, Gardner’s presence in the interviews he conducted opened her up to being a witness.
“When we started to learn the investigator, Tisaby, was going to have problems, Kim Gardner being part of those interviews becomes an important part to the defense’s case,” said defense attorney and legal expert Kristi Flint. “Having the problems with Tisaby, and his credibility issues, then put Gardner as a witness because her investigator is no longer there for her.”
Given the problems with this case, the fact they don’t have a photograph, the fact they stopped looking for a photograph, the fact they don’t have anyone who saw a photograph or that it was transmitted to someone, it’s going to be a difficult case” Flint added “I imagine there is going to be a lot of thinking before it’s filed again.”
Greitens was accused of taking and transmitting a nonconsensual photo of an at least partially nude woman with whom he had an affair in 2015.
The woman, who has been identified only as K.S. in court filings, has testified that Greitens bound her hands to exercise equipment in March 2015 in the basement of his St. Louis home, blindfolded her and removed her clothes before she saw a flash and heard what sounded like the click of a cell phone camera. She has said Greitens threatened to disseminate the photo if she spoke of their encounter but later told her he had deleted it.
during her deposition, the woman also said she hadn’t been talking about the picture much because she wasn’t sure it wasn’t just a dream.
The prosecutor also demanded all of the reports to her be given verbally (thus there would be no record to contradict). She further admitted right off that she didn’t have enough information to win a case, and requested that the trial be postponed until October.