It doesn't gloss over the staged break-in claim at all. She deals with it in multiple ways. She mentions the dispute over whether Filomena's shutters were open or closed, she mentions the lack of obvious signs that someone went through the window (like fibers or blood or whatever on the window sill), and she mentions Judge Massei's rather silly claim that obviously Rudy wouldn't have burgled the home he had partied at. I also don't think the book is pro-defense. I think the book is objective, which comes across as pro-defense because an objective look at the evidence makes it hard to see it as plausible that Amanda and Raffaele were involved.