ThinkTank
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The emphasis on "mitigation" really caught my attention too! That is usually considered in the penalty phase of a trial, not in the guilt/innocence phase.
This is obviously Lyon's strategy - getting the family involved. This is straight from Lyon's instruction manual Defending the Life-or-Death Case. excerpt: 'Family members involvement can be key for the following reasons'. http://www.wisspd.org/html/training/ProgMaterials/Conf2006/DDEFE.pdf
I am just not quite connecting the dots on why Lyon is pressing for unmonitored, unrecorded family jail visits? Lyon can get whatever family history from KC (KC's distorted self-serving version of course), separate from getting the family history from Cindy (her distorted June Cleaver version of Anthony family life) and from George (telling whatever Cindy tells him to say). Why does there have to be "forced" (IMO KC wants nothing to do with her family) jail visits? Lyon can accomplish her goal without forcing KC to sit through visits with her parents and brother, against her will.
My impression is that Lyon is trying to steer the ship in the ways that she believes will work to get KC out of the death penalty, but she will most likely meet with MUCH resistance from this dysfunctional family.
This is obviously Lyon's strategy - getting the family involved. This is straight from Lyon's instruction manual Defending the Life-or-Death Case. excerpt: 'Family members involvement can be key for the following reasons'. http://www.wisspd.org/html/training/ProgMaterials/Conf2006/DDEFE.pdf
I am just not quite connecting the dots on why Lyon is pressing for unmonitored, unrecorded family jail visits? Lyon can get whatever family history from KC (KC's distorted self-serving version of course), separate from getting the family history from Cindy (her distorted June Cleaver version of Anthony family life) and from George (telling whatever Cindy tells him to say). Why does there have to be "forced" (IMO KC wants nothing to do with her family) jail visits? Lyon can accomplish her goal without forcing KC to sit through visits with her parents and brother, against her will.
My impression is that Lyon is trying to steer the ship in the ways that she believes will work to get KC out of the death penalty, but she will most likely meet with MUCH resistance from this dysfunctional family.