It's official, all charges dropped. So what was he trying to achieve?

It got him out of Thailand, back to the States, a million dollar lawsuit for wrongful arrest and a fortune from "Sicksty Minutes" or "Sleaze R Us Mag".

What a shame.

Just heard that Sonoma County are extraditing him for Child Porn.

can he really sue, and win, for wrongful arrest when he publicly confessed to the crime?

I don't think he can sue, not after he supposedly confessed. Since the DNA didn't match up and there are strong arguments that he was not in Boulder when JonBenet was murdered, my guess is that he wanted out of Thailand. I think it was sick to give her family hope of closure knowing all along it was a lie. If there is a lawsuit it should go against him. Thankfully he is apparently wanted by the California authorities. He deserves to be nailed for something.

I wouldn't be shocked to see him sue someone over this ordeal. His atty was speaking publicly yesterday about how horrible it was that he was dragged all the way back to the states without any forensic evidence. If that doesn't sound like the footwork to a lawsuit, I'm not sure what does.

I suspect that the lawyer's hyperbole was just that, anything less than a vigorous defense of his client leaves an atty open to legal probs of his own...he's just a public defender, so his duty to his client is pretty much wrapped up with his "get out of jail free" card...while that doesn't preclude the family from hiring some legal eagle to start a wrongful imprisonment case, it would be a weak one, since this whole dungpile was started by this sad sack contacting a number of people (including the Ramseys) to lead everyone to believe that he might know more than he seemed to know...as I suggested in my earlier post, he seems to have wanted his fifteen minutes, & now that he's gotten it, maybe we can all go back to ignoring him again...

...& of course, he still has the child porn rap in CA to deal with, so he still has some defending to do before he can mount an offense...

One of the newsie's had an analyst describe him as being a "nothing". He has nothing to identify him in his personal life. He's been a failure at being married, and also as a teacher.

Now his name is known throughout the world.

I was talking to my students about it today and also listening to a radio morning show talk about it.

He is away from the child he was currently after. I'm ok with the results.