Then WTH did Mason do this?!?!
I heard you opine that this is exactly who would take over the case (Judge Perry). Certainly Mason had an inkling, too. For the life of me, I do not understand this strategy. Wayyyyy too risky, imo.
I Think I almost se a path to why they would do this. It indicates a powerstruggle in the defensecamp.
1. Mason Cheney -who has a stated goal of bringing some order to it all.
2. Jose Baez - Complete drek as a lawyer, in deeply over his head. But has the defendents heart and mind. Lead council
And Lets not firget the ladies LKB and AL. Specialists at misdirection
The path goes something like this, CM comes on on his glory. He must adress several problems. Alot has been said both to the media, and more horribly to the court. Alot of really damaging things. SO CM's approach is simple.What they need to do is get that entirety of Baez led incompetant crap out of the courts memorie by trial.
1. The first step is to get teh judge to recuse himself. Complete BS or not, A new judge must be assigned
2. The defense is really gambling on this defense approach
3. Once the judge is changed, Baez must be gotten rid of.Let him be himself, just enough to get trounced by the new judge. And Baez gets bounced.
When all is said and done, CHeney M should be standing on the top of the heap, with no longer cocouncil Baez, A judge who has not been hearing 18 months of arguements from the defense, and hopefully a sane professional.
So in essense he almost engineered a completely clean slate without effective knowlege of the case or what has gone before. It affirms that he is in charge of the defense now, and it eliminates the errors made by those before him. It also eliminates the judge who would remember all of this stuff
The risk side of it, is they do not know exactly what they are going to get. But that can be buffered by the knowlege have had Baez tanking the case fr 18 months already.
The downside
