My advice for anyone else should he come knocking on your door is to advise him that YOU will be recording the conversation. Then, DO IT. If you don't have a recorder handy, set another time to talk to him when you do have one. If he balks at being recorded, don't talk. But whatever you do, ADVISE HIM THAT HE IS BEING RECORDED.
This is interesting and I am not surprised in the least but it is going to be hard to prove. Granted there are 2 volunteers saying that he pressured them to change their stories, but still they have to prove it.
The biggest plus (best evidence if they can prove it), is that he misrepresented (lied about) one of the searcher's testimony to the other one. ("...engaged in misleading conduct toward another person").
I am thinking that since Mark represents TES, and they are TES volunteers, Mark is going to file official complaints, file a motion and request a hearing. The two gentlemen will be called to testify under oath as will Mr. Lyon.
If the court should find that he did step outside of his rules, we can be assured
he will be off the case at the least and charged with witness tampering at best.
He will be reported to his PI board who will do their own investigation.
The JAC will certainly review what money is pending due to him, with a renewed interest, and possibly revisit what money has been paid to him so far.
The state will look into what did the defense lawyers know about his tactics, if anyone else ever complained about his approach with them and if they should find that the lawyers knew of, endorsed, encouraged in any manner whatsoever witness tampering, there will be a very serious motion filed with the court by the state to remove them from the case. If that comes to pass, I imagine the court will hold a hearing, much like the one the court held when the defense was alleging that one of the three prosecutors on this case filed the bar complaint against Mr. Baez and the defense was asking that the prosecutors be removed (voluntarily remove themselves) from this case. Linda Kenney Baden did the arguing in court that day.
Here is the hearing section to give an example.
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Mark, and these assistant District Attorneys will not suffer this without a complete, thorough investigation. KNOW THAT. The defendant has a right to a fair trial, and so do the people of the State of Florida these prosecutors represent. Judge Perry is going to ensure a fair trial is indeed what ensues. I have good faith in him.
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Note that Brad had moved up to the edge of the lawyers , he , to his credit spoke up to the judge to say NO, what the defense just alleged earlier in the hearing is NOT TRUE, there is no conflict of interest between TES and his clients, mom and pop. The fact that Todd, Andrea, and Jose stood in court and argued that issue to the court, above the corrections to that claim Brad made, repeatedly was a clue into the ethics and good faith of this defense team. Now here we go again, with a much more serious matter. Judge Strickland must be in stitches.
Watch Mark Nejame at this hearing. He is a strong advocate for TES and he will handle this with enthusiasm, that is one thing I know for certain.
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From Channel 9
www.wftv.com
""I felt in my mind, yes, he was trying to tamper with me, in a sense," Churchill said.
"As far as I'm concerned, it's almost like tampering with other witnesses to misrepresent the truth that way," Reilly said.
Both say the exact area on Suburban Drive where Caylee's remains were found December 11, 2008, was under water and unsearchable until the month before.
Churchill had already been questioned under oath by the defense for two and a half hours, but says that didn't stop the defense investigator from going to his house and lying to him about Reilly's story.
"He basically was asking me if what I said in my deposition was the exact story because he had others who fared differently, one of them being Brett Reilly," Churchill said.
Reilly says he warned Lyons not to twist his words after seeing what the defense has done to others. He says Lyons promised not to, but then found out he did exactly that.
WFTV legal analyst Bill Sheaffer says the defense investigator is traveling through dangerous territory.
"The statute specifically says you cannot engage in misleading conduct," Sheaffer said.
Reilly said he complained to defense attorney Cheney Mason about the situation and both told the sheriff's office." You bet your life there is an investigation going on as we sit here this morning and if warranted there will be a hearing. I saw this somewhere about a year ago regarding how hard Mr. Miller fights to protect the TES volunteers
You don't tug on Superman's cape
You don't spit into the wind
You don't pull the mask of the ole Lone Ranger
and you don't mess around with Tim!
Go Kathi!!!
This is the epitome of why the judge is holding their feet to the fire regarding the trial date. Guess which list these two gentlemen was on that the defense could have talked to, when the judge made the list available to the defense, that the defense never bothered to pick up and Mark had it hand delivered to Baez's office, over a year ago?
The original 32 searchers!!!!
You just can't make this stuff up!
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