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Originally Posted by gmw
But here, again, it would be interesting to have some idea of the real, human motives behind it all, some idea what they actually believed versus what they simply thought they might get away with (which, in the light of the Newark trial, seems a peculiarly foolish assumption).
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I don't see a lot of cost in pursuing a strategy of trying to get away with it. It maximizes immediate returns and the day of reckoning could possibly be pushed off forever, or at least forever in practical terms. Stonewalling and pursuing a policy of wearing the claimants out can be very successful, especially since, which ties back to a point you've been making, people generally get the justice they can afford, at least in the US; it holds true for both civil and criminal cases.
There are complicating factors which make it not so much an either/or of what they actually believed v. what they could get away with it; add in a huge dollop of wishful thinking and willingness to theorize out of one's fundament - especially when there's a payoff involved in maintaining one's "expert" status.