Patterson was clearly a bad character, a serial con man with no scruples whatsoever. The "lying for Jesus" position attempts to re-write his long history of antisocial behavior and demonstrates zero empathy for his victims. Everyone from phone companies to grocery stores to camera stores, an insurance company, little old men and ladies, Club registrants, creditors, on and on.
In court this absolutely is evidence you want in front of a jury. When adjudicating a decision about whether he believed in bigfoot when he was defrauding all those PGF clip three-dollar entry fee viewers. His investors, a lot of them, listed in Greg Long's book. He sold rights multiple times, just like The Producers (came out ironically in 1967).
You want that in front of the Jury so reasonable people can hear all the creditors, the 400% ownership investors in film rights or whatever it was, all the family store owners or service providers, the long list of victims step up on the stand to talk about how Roger Patterson lied to their face, all of them. That Roger Patterson's singular defining character trait was that of a con man.
And hear his brother-in-law just repeat exactly what he said Roger Patterson's Bigfoot expeditions amounted too: Beer and women. A jury needs to hear that when deciding whether Patterson actually believed.
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