After checking out the Lyon’s site, I ran across some things she wrote:
Defending the Life or Death Case
You must also interview the client’s family and household. This has several purposes: (1) to get information concerning the facts of your client’s life; (2) to give you the opportunity to make your own assessment of your client’s family life; (3) to get information that may assist you in supporting a mental health professional’s findings; (4) to get information concerning the official investigation of the crime and the conduct of the case by the police; and (5) to involve the family in the case.
Family members’ involvement can be key for the following reasons:
• At a sentencing hearing, they make good witnesses.
• Their presence during trial creates an atmosphere in which it is easier to save your client’s life.
• Family support can help make your client more self-assured and a better witness if he needs to take the stand.
• Family support can prevent your client from engaging in self-destructive behavior (e.g., acting out violently in prison or court).
Before you interview your client’s family members, be sure to have in mind some of the different possible reactions they may have. They may mistrust you as a result of prior experiences with lawyers they believe did not do a good job.
The final nuts and bolts in a capital trial comes in the life phase. Mitigation is anything that might persuade a jury to punish with less than the death penalty. In essence, the defense attorney should bring the following three types of evidence to the jury’s attention:
1. showing the jury the good things the client has done throughout his life;
2. explaining how the client became the person he is now, i.e., why he has been violent. This is usually shown through evidence of abuse, psychiatric conditions, addictions, or other family and developmental problems; and
3. convincing the jury that the defendant’s life has value for himself and others.
These are the facts that your investigation of the client’s life helped you to find.
She even mentions the Witherspoon vs. Illinois case just like she did in her motion.
Read her article: Defending the Life or Death Case
I will be interested if she has and will be going by this article she wrote in Winter of 2006.
No where in the article does it talk about crying in the courtroom. Nor does it say to point the finger at an innocent person. And make the media circuit after letting the local news know what is going on.
Good morning. I only have a few minutes–golf tournament. I particularly like No. 1 in the above list. It certainly applies to Casey–NOT. No.2 is dedicated to Cindy. No. 3, every sociopath thinks their life has great value to themselves and others. Oops, Casey, you just flunked another test.
By the way, this is a 10 who is number 1 this morning.
Wakey, wakey everyone. I only have 10 more minutes Of course, because I will be gone the whole day, I am sure something big will happen here. It seems like that happens often.
By the way, wasn’t Mr. NeJame supposed to make some sort of statement on behalf of Tim Miller’s group yesterday? Did I miss that, or is he too busy now with the Tiger Woods fiasco?
I really hate talking to myself, especially when I lose arguments.
Have to go now. See ya all sometime late this evening. Have a good day all.
Have a good day Muesli!
The latest “Duhfense” motions are here:
http://www.wftv.com/pdf/21763533/detail.html
GM, you have got to be kidding me. Guess the motions are what they paid for!
Hi all, I wonder if the Anthonys are out on the high seas searching for Luke, the little boy taken by his dad on a sailboat, heading into storms. They should be out there in the Caylee flotation vehicle!
PS Happy December all…where the heck did this year go????
GM Azrenee!
They are at home living off the $$$ from the media and the $$$ from the fraudation. No time for boating and looking for missing children!
Meow!!
Great post Humble! I especially love # 3 above…This is the part where the whole Anthony family is vilified in court.Lyons will drag Cindy et all through the mud to save her murdress client from the DP.And cindy knows it…im sure there is a lot more dirty laundry comming out we dont even know about yet!
Whoops! after all that i meant # 2 hee hee
GM Eye! LOL! They have sure made their own assessment! Innocent! Roy Kronk did it! LOL
gm everybody! hahahahaahahahah
lyons can cancel this from her list hahahahahahahahaha
1. showing the jury the good things the client has done throughout his life
cma yeah,liar,stealing money,party,alcohol,no job ………
GM Mikka! So true! Wait, what? She could be mother of the year! Ask Cindy!
Did you see the link Smoke posted? I think those are the docs they paid for, the motions!
humble saw it,oh well ,my docs coming soon!
Did you call Kathi B? Maybe she knows!
humble
not yet! 
Get on it! We want the soil docs. we want the soil docs, we want the soil docs, we want the soil docs, we want the soil docs…………
humble
humble,stricky take his time,to make a date for a hearing for bozos motions,he will think,what a waste!
the copkiller in my area ,is dead!!!
now i feel me save again! 
hornsby hahahahahhaha
http://www.examiner.com/x-23328-True-Crime-Examiner~y2009m12d1-Casey-Anthony-will-cash-cow-Casey-cash-it-in-sounds-off-in-exclusive-interview
Mikka, what every hornsby has to say….
I will keep my comment on that to myself! lol
hornsby picture cma in jail
sitting in jail, [with] the novelty of her celebrity wearing off,” in a stark setting where [she] ” … has had time to reflect” on her possible fate.
Against the static drone of jail house machinery and routine, above the incessant clanking of metal doors, the jangling chains, locks and keys Casey has come to know better than the omnipresent whisper of her own scheming mind, Richard Hornsby, on the other hand, envisions Andrea Lyon’s “voice of reason,” underscoring reality’s bottom line to Casey, taking her aside and saying “Listen, honey, … ” consider a plea.
The wayward, high school drop-out–whose party-hearty life has fizzled from night-clubbing to early wake-up calls for grits or cold cereal–may listen to her new mother-figure, and could cop a deal with prosecutors, says Hornsby.
Mikka, I am thinking it is all a waste of time! What happened to our client is innocent? If she is so innocent, guess they have no proof and are really worried about the dp!
Thanks Mikka! To consider a plea, you have to be offered one. AND for all we know, the state isn’t offering one up! Unless the d-team decides they will write one up themselves.
humble,teh defense dont will take a deal,she must win teh trial to make money of this case!
humble thats what i dont get too,why make all this motions,when bozo think she is innoncent!
Money off the case, that is C&G job!
Doesn’t make sense, they even said they had PROOF she is innocent…guess not!
humble,my wish for next year is,cma locked up with big bertha,she dont will survive!
humble,when this is “true” teh body was not there,she had help!
I guess we must also remember she is NO GUILTY if stealing money, id theft, etc either…even if caught on tape! So there ya go! “GUILTY”
Big Bertha!
ho ho ho Big Bertha is after ya! 
If it wasn’t there, she sure did have help, but it wasn’t Roy Kronk, it was one of her friends!
humble in all this motions i miss teh word “innoncent”,lyons ONLY will help her to dont give her the D.P ,thats all,lyons motions are better for the surpreme court,she dont cant change the florida law!
humble may Annie-Zanny!
humble
i forget killing a child under 12 and she will be a felon = D.P!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Mikka, yea I was reading them. No where does it say innocent. unconstitutional is there big thing, well lets not go there!
Who else? Annie Downing had contact with an Alive Caylee, we know Roy Kronk never did! I say she is a possible candidate!
Mikka, they are worried big time!
humble,yeah some friends from the seagrass appartments!
Back…..was making breakfast.
Morning Mikka
I think the part from Hornsby saying Bozo and Baden taking a backseat in the case is true.Bozo wouldnt even begin to know how to file all those motions…But thats why he gets on tv, to remind people its “his” case.ha ha ha
may she will accuse joy ,she was close to teh body,and her hubby was charged for abuse!
Hi ya Eye! Sad he is such a low life! It is his case, a case he doesn’t have enough experience to handle! BUT as I said last night, it could be the reason for all the stalling, so he will eventually have enough experience…
eye
,bozo make only his media circus,he get paid for it!
Mikka, guess Joy never thought of that!
humble can make bozo a depo with amy,about teh fraud trial??
Humble
I say Shirley the great grandmother did it…she had contact with Caylee, and could have been pizzed when Caylee didnt eat her chili after the visit with “pa pa ” lol
humble,is this odd,does she had a camera with her??she must hear something from teh anthonys!
eye
or jo jo! 
and when the jury see how dcasey pick around in the dirt,its all cristall clear!
Mikka, I don’t think he can! It is all caught on tape!
Eye, they will blame anyone except Casey!
Joy Wray and her pictures…..What a nimrod! She really thought she had some super top secret evidence! ha ha ha Like the detectives would jump all over this info and the case would be solved!!
prosecution say she have 12 witnesses for the fraud trial
Mikka, yes it is! And it will all prove Casey is guilty of murder and guilty of putting Caylee there! Joy W’s so called video and evidence isn’t going to prove anything!
joy
yeah her secrets ssshhhhhh and everybody can read it on teh net! 
Humble 5150
Eye..here is a picture of LP, Tim Miller, the tree…
Mikka, they don’t need any witness’s for the fraud trial, the video is self explanatory!
Mikka, her secrets are safe with us!
5150….hmmm!
Humble…and dont forget the sewer “stream”, that sums it up for her so called slewthing!!
humble
12 witnesses=bank of america!wait when she hear bozo send him teh money and teh bank dont take it!
must go,see ya later!
Mikka
Dont forget the target cashiers…”yes sir, thats her right over there”
Bye Mikka
It will be interesting if the d-team has a written plea for the fraud charges…or maybe a plea deal for the state!
Humble
I figure if they dont its because they want to go to trial to prove a point about how hard it will be to seat a jury.But the 11th is pre trial, isnt that a last ditch effort for both sides to air out any squabbles?
Eye, it is enough time, but Baez is pretty busy doing the media circus! And not to mention commenting on other stories he needs to just shut-up about!
Well i wonder if Lyons will butt in on this case…it really has nothing to do with her DP duties.I bet she doesnt trust Bozo to even argue this simple case….
Humble Yeh he needs to take his own advise and “zip it”
I think she is involved in the fraud case too! I believe she had written a bogus motion for it! She is a legend in her own mind!
It’s funny, after finding out he is claiming ALL these cases and he won the shooting one, I wonder if it is really him taking on the cases or is it his buddies at the “FIRM”
bbl…
Humble
Like i said then, she doesnt want Bozo screwing chit up and running his mouth, after all they will meet a couple of these witness again at the murder trial.Poor amy, and we think Kronks got it bad, she has to face him twice
Ok Humble ill talk to you later, keep away from the golf clubs!
Hummmm its lonley now for sure, guess ill go lurk around.Bye!!
mikka
interesting article on the Salt Lake Examiner
read what ….gracieangel says.(in the comments)
Right on gracieangel!!
Incidently, I live here and I think this article pretty much stinks. It creeps me out. I am disgusted with the part that says that casey would not be a danger to society.
OH and you know that, Hornsby??? I say if you can murder your OWN beautiful little daughter, what would stop you from doing other S*** ??? She was a danger to society BEFORE she killed her child and it is STUPID to say that she is not a danger now………WHO GIVES A RAT PATUTE anyway …when you snuffed out the life of a beautiful little girl!!!
oh yeah………..jurors are NOT the killers. They are just intelligent people that want justice for a precious little girl that never had the chance to grow up and live and laugh and marry and have children and go to school and have a boyfriend, a husband and love other people.
“Killers” are selfish heartless mothers who murder their precious children because they are in the way.
Lyons’ definition of “KILL” is COMPLETELY different from the true definition. The murder of INNOCENT blood is “KILL”
I really don’t know how these defense attorneys sleep at night. They are as bad as the people they defend.
Here is the problem with “life in prison”. After 20 years or so, the victims are forgotten, and some weak-minded politician lets the criminal out on parole. Surprise, you then get four murdered police officers (whoops) or an escaped killer on the loose in Texas (who knows where doing who knows what). Execute these vermin. It is the only answer that a rational society would make. I am so sick of hearing “they had a bad childhood, or they really didn’t mean it”. It is funny how scary these people are when terrorizing other people but they cry like little girls when the state tries to execute them. Most criminals are very cunning con-artists. Like our “friend” Casey.
WMJ ..that’s why the are called *cons.. or *X cons.. there is no such thing as an X-con..
WolfmanJack
well said!!!!!!!!!
nannab
YUP!
Well, maybe if the id of the dad comes out, he can go there in 20 years and put up a fight.
pam bondi about cma
http://www.examiner.com/x-7403-Tampa-Crime-Examiner~y2009m11d20-Pam-Bondi-in-Casey-Anthony-The-Untold-story-of-Caylee-Anthony-watch-full-video
to get information that may assist you in supporting a mental health professional’s findings” GEE shouldn’t that be up to the mental health professional and not some scumbag lawyer? Who cares if miss piggy lyon agrees with a mental health professional, what in god’s name does she know about it??
Yeah and good luck showing all of the wonderful altruistic things Casey has done in her life.
Stealing 300$ from her grandma’s bank account by using the routing number from a BIRTHDAY check, stealing checks and bankrupting her ‘best friend’ (only took her a week to clean her out), sleeping with a confirmed 4 or more men while ‘in love’ with Tony ‘the mook’ Lazarro, Cussing out her dad, not graduating high school (not her fault, naturally), lying about virtually every aspect of her life for years…
Did she ever do anything good? Ever? How far back would they have to go? I mean maybe she made a valentine or something for Cindy when she was 3 years old, but that would be about it. An utterly disgusting waste of life.
Hello everyone…So what do you think Lyons is going to give as Casey’s great gift and should be kept alive??
Thank you for the link Mikka…I really like Pam Bondi. Not because she is on the states side, but she says it the way it is. Plus she now has made me really happy…I didn’t know the state could go and/or with the crime and still get the dp.
New blog
http://humbleopinionforum.net/2009/12/01/chit-chat-01dec09/#comment-19312
Just read the Lyon article…….good luck with that strategy with the family support in the courtroom (HA!HA!)that will go over like a lead balloon. The defendant won’t even look at her parents.
Hi Sue! Welcome! Family support, I think they are considered hostile at this point!