ATLANTA (AP) — The special prosecutor in the killing of JonBenet Ramsey accused her parents' lawyer of staging a publicity stunt during a confrontational interview with investigators, a videotape of the meeting shows.

"This is a sham," special prosecutor Michael Kane told attorney Lin Wood in an excerpt of the tape released Wednesday to NBC. Wood's clients, John and Patsy Ramsey, have been under suspicion in the 1996 death.

"You want to go out there and say, 'My clients answered every question.' Well, don't say that, because you're not letting your client answer this question," Kane said.

The exchange came Monday after Kane asked Patsy Ramsey why she didn't seem more concerned about the safety of her son, Burke, now 13, if she believed an intruder killed JonBenet.

The 6-year-old beauty queen was found beaten and strangled in the family's Boulder, Colo., home. No one has been charged.

Kane and six other investigators from Boulder interviewed the Ramseys for 10 hours over two days at Wood's office in Atlanta, where the family now lives. It was the parents' first meeting with Boulder investigators in more than two years.

Wood said he released the tape to NBC's "Today" to show that Kane was overzealous and acted improperly during the interviews and to counter a Boulder police statement that he said implied the Ramseys were less than cooperative.

On the segment of the tape that was broadcast, Kane asked Mrs. Ramsey if she worried about someone accosting her son at a stop sign. Wood objected, saying, "Mr. Kane. Michael."

"What's the objection now?" Kane asked.

"I just wonder, what does this have to do with the investigation into finding who killed JonBenet Ramsey?" Wood asked.

Kane then rose from the conference table, closed his notebook and acted as if he would leave. He said Wood was being an obstructionist for asking him to justify the relevance of an individual question. But in the end, he didn't leave and the session continued.

Wood maintained Wednesday that Mrs. Ramsey fully answered questions about Burke's safety.

Kane told NBC that Mrs. Ramsey did not answer the question, and there were other things "we didn't learn that I was hoping to."

Mrs. Ramsey said Wednesday, "I did answer all the questions. ... They said they had new information. I don't consider it new information."

Added her husband: "The point is, they're foolish questions. What he's trying to do is build a case that we weren't concerned (about Burke) at all because we knew there wasn't a murderer. He's trying to discredit us. It has nothing to do with finding the killer."

The team interviewed Mrs. Ramsey for 7 1/2 hours and her husband for 2 1/2.

Afterward, the couple said they had cooperated fully and had given police other leads on who might have killed JonBenet.

Boulder Police Chief Mark Beckner, who led the interviews, said in a statement Tuesday that the talks were "less than we had hoped for" because Wood said he would end the sessions if questioning became "overzealous."

"We need some time to digest and debrief the interviews and the information we obtained, and we're not in a position to draw any conclusions at this time," Beckner said.

Wood called on Beckner to publicly clear the couple as suspects within weeks.

"They have examined and re-examined every square inch of this family's life," Wood said Tuesday. "The evidence is not there."

Police first interviewed the Ramseys separately in April 1997 after months of negotiations.

A grand jury was convened in 1998 to investigate the slaying but disbanded without an indictment. Critics claim police botched the case early in the investigation and were overly deferential to the couple. But the Ramseys have steadfastly maintained their innocence, saying that there is evidence of an intruder and noting that they passed a lie-detector test.

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