Word: conditionals
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...There are people that can control their physiological functions - perhaps by thinking of other things while being questioned, so you wouldn't necessarily increase your respiration. The point is that it would be useful for Condit to use this to clear himself, but I can certainly understand why, if somebody is innocent, they'd be reluctant to put themselves in a situation where there might be a false positive...
...What about the police search of Condit's DC apartment Tuesday night? It's been ten weeks since Levy disappeared - what could police hope to find in his apartment...
...forbid if she's dead and they find evidence on her body that creates an association with Condit, then he's got to explain that. Even that is not absolute proof, but it's suspicious. Part of forensic science is interpreting the evidence, and you can interpret in different ways. Not only do you have to reconstruct the events leading up to the crime, but after you do the analysis you've got to interpret...
...Condit being treated as a murder suspect, though there is no murder investigation at this point, and the police insist that he isn't a suspect...
...think there's no question that Condit is a suspect. They don't want to say that he's a suspect because at this point there's no crime. She may have committed suicide, she may have been abducted, she may have left the country. She may not want to be found, though I think that's extremely unlikely. Someone can be convicted of murder without a body, but there's no evidence of a crime yet. They have to be careful calling him a suspect. He's the center of attention, basically...