Rachel Shannon

The preferred practice is for police agencies to coordinate with prosecutors on serious cases.

Grand jury presentations on cold homicide cases involving complicated fact patterns can rarely be commenced and completed within six days without prior coordination.

The DA's office released a statement that went on to say that the DA's office had only been consulting with the New York State Police on issues during the investigation.

Hoovler's office said that the DA was, quote, neither alerted to the defendant's imminent arrest nor given an opportunity to review the 17-page felony complaint in advance of it being filed with the court.

It was also said that Edward's attorney wasn't given access to speak with him until nine hours before his scheduled arraignment hearing.

He was supposed to speak with him via Zoom, but they said that they couldn't get a connection.

So he isn't sure if the prison is at fault or if it's Edward's fault.

So he said that he would have been going into that hearing with pretty much no evidence to defend his client with.

There also was issues with wheelchair accessible transport vehicles.

It just seemed like this whole thing was a mess and there wasn't communication and whatever else was going on with the DA's office and police, they are not commenting on.

Some people think that there's a little bit of bad blood because of the situation.

I don't know.

They aren't really saying, but this does not seem to be the best of situations to say the least.

There was also said to have been a potential conflict of interest between Hoovler and this case since he had previously represented a client that is a witness in Megan's case.

So he said that it is in best practice for the case to be handled by a special prosecutor instead.

So, the last article that I have seen about this case is from May of this year.

It looks like Edward is still out and free while the McDonald family are still waiting patiently for a new hearing and a new arrest.

I don't exactly know what they are doing behind the scenes or what is taking so long, but as of right now, he is still out of jail.

So, that is all of the information that we know as of right now.

I am so curious to see what will come of the case, if there will be any new charges anytime soon, if he will be back in jail, or what will happen with that.