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Bringing over twall's post from the thread about the children's interview being cancelled.

Interviews of Baby Lisa’s young brothers on hold

Today’s planned interviews of Lisa Irwin’s two brothers has been postponed.

It may never happen now, because the case took a bizarre turn late Thursday as two attorneys for the family appeared to be in open conflict.

Kansas City attorney Cyndy Short said she had heard reports that New York lawyer Joe Tacopina had fired her from the case.

“He’s not in a position to fire anyone,” Short told The Star. “I work for the client, not him.”

Police told The Star’s reporting partner, KCTV-5, that Tacopina indicated the much-anticipated interviews with the brothers might happen next week.

Tacopina declined comment to The Star.

But Short said that if she has her way, the interviews with the brothers, ages 8 and 5, would likely never happen — for the sake of the boys and the case. The brothers were interviewed earlier, and she’s worried about additional trauma to them.

http://www.kansascity.com/2011/10/27/3233889/interviews-of-baby-lisas-young.html#ixzz1c4pCcKHn
 
SurfieTX said:
Kansas City attorney Cyndy Short said she had heard reports that New York lawyer Joe Tacopina had fired her from the case.

“He’s not in a position to fire anyone,” Short told The Star. “I work for the client, not him.”


Read more: http://www.bellinghamherald.com/201...-with-lisa-irwins-brothers.html#ixzz1c4oLaC8Z
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I just heard this on the news. WTH is going on?!?! So now they're going to have a public argument on whether or not she's fired?! I didn't think this case could become more circus-like but it seems as if it has.
 
nursebeeme said:
wow is this one big mess or what?!!!
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Agree, what a mess. It would be much easier for a defendant to get a fair trial if the defense attorneys did not immediately start trying to taint the jury pool with constant media appearances. And in this case there's no defendant to begin with, just an innocent baby girl who is the victim and whose name, LISA, is rarely mentioned by team defense.
 
Even though I have my suspicions as to why she got fired, I would really love to know the real reason.

Oh and who fired her??? The benefactor?
 
Well, Ms. Short doesn't want the boys to be questioned due to "additional trauma". I don't understand. It has already been confirmed that the boys would be interviewed by child specialists, non-threatening method and setting, no detectives in the room, detectives and parents' team could watch from afar (I presume).

I will never understand how another professionally-conducted interview to answer questions based on the new story from Debbi (totally different tale of events than when the boys were questioned the first time) is assumed to have the power to potentially traumatize these boys more than the fact that their sister is missing and they might have been able to help, but weren't allowed.

Plus, I'm sorry, but Lisa has undoubtedly been traumatized radically. I don't see why the parents would allow the lawyer to decide that some potential trauma to the boys is not worth saving Lisa from certain immeasurable trauma, unless the parents (and probably the attorney) know for a fact that Lisa's trauma has ended and she is not alive.

See ya Ms. Short. :seeya:
 
Well I'm totally confused because I thought JT was the one who stopped the interviews. What a mess. :banghead:
 
Judge Janine was just on Fox and confirmed that Short IS off the case. She further stated that there WAS a call placed from one of the cell phones. The the call supposedly went to voice mail according to the person receiving the call. Her initials are MW. I am using MW because even though this woman's name was mentioned on MSM, I am not sure if I can say it.

No interview with the boys. (we suspected that)
 
Woah! Fired? I liked her. Maybe she was too nice. :waitasec:

Was she fired because she was in favor of the boys' interview going ahead?
 
Lawyer fight?

Wow.

In the meantime...remember Lisa, guys? She's the little girl some of us are still desperately trying to find!
 
LaLaw2000 said:
Judge Janine was just on Fox and confirmed that Short IS off the case. She further stated that there WAS a call placed from one of the cell phones. The the call supposedly went to voice mail according to the person receiving the call. He initials are MW. I am using MW because even though this woman's name was mentioned on MSM, I am not sure if I can say it.

No interview with the boys. (we suspected that)
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I thought if the person's name was mentioned in MSM, we were allowed to post it. Who is it? Any relation to the family? Thanks
 
LaLaw2000 said:
Judge Janine was just on Fox and confirmed that Short IS off the case. She further stated that there WAS a call placed from one of the cell phones. The the call supposedly went to voice mail according to the person receiving the call. He initials are MW. I am using MW because even though this woman's name was mentioned on MSM, I am not sure if I can say it.

No interview with the boys. (we suspected that)
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what what what???????

will there be a link to this?
 
Debthree said:
Woah! Fired? I liked her. Maybe she was too nice. :waitasec:

Was she fired because she was in favor of the boys' interview going ahead?
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LOL...according to the latest she didn't want the boys interviewed. Very confusing. :banghead:
 
~n/t~ said:
Even though I have my suspicions as to why she got fired, I would really love to know the real reason.

Oh and who fired her??? The benefactor?
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I believe she was retained by the family before the BS/JT circus came to town wasn't she? If that is the case, then the family fired her on the advice of someone.

MOO
 
Debthree said:
Woah! Fired? I liked her. Maybe she was too nice. :waitasec:

Was she fired because she was in favor of the boys' interview going ahead?
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I think she was fired because of what happened yesterday. Promising media tours and press conferences and the boys being interviewed and then pulling it all away at the last minute using the "exhaustion" excuse.

That was a major blow to the parent's credibility. A very bad move. And if it was all her doing, then I could see why they would fire her.

MOO
 
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