Something I have thought about – does it really matter what the outcome of any “trial” is in SB?? I’m guessing there is only one jail in SB – the one in the Sherriff’s office right? And usually if you are suspected of murder you are not going to be tried in a local court like the one in SB. So what, really, is going on with MM’s “trial” or arraignment or whatever?? She can’t leave SB to go to trial anywhere else. I’m guessing that neither Gold nor Regina would want lawyers and investigators from outside SB coming to SB to investigate the crime. So I’m actually wondering if Gold and Regina were somehow working together to try to contain the crime to SB and actually have the whole thing post-poned. I think Gold wants something to happen BEFORE anything would go any farther with the trial and he was just giving Regina what she wanted as his way of helping make sure nothing about the situation leaked out of SB.