Exactly. The inadmissibility of telepathic scans of the accused,
and even the *prohibition* against same, is the reason Sinclair wasn't
and couldn't be scanned by Lyta in the pilot. I could've explained this
in some detail, but the pilot was already *so* exposition heavy that I
figured it'd be better to wait until (I thought at the time) the next
few episodes, which would get into that. (That was when I figured we'd be
going straight to series.)

Another example of what was assumed to be a lapse in story logic, but
which was actually a plot point....

jms