If I were innocent and my intention in hiring an attorney was to have a professional advise me and help me through a legal minefield and media storm, I'd be dismissing my attorney and hiring another one right about now. There was need to announce that statement ahead of time for one thing, all that did was chum the water and get the sharks circling wondering what juicy titbit was to come. Then the wording of it, whoever approved that for release should be fired. It was a manipulative, thinly disguised, self-serving sympathy grab with an implicit media gag order.
A simple: "My client has no comment at this time and requests that her privacy be respected while she mourns her son" would have sufficed. It may not have gotten the media off her back immediately but the media knows the public has a short attention span and, with no new news, after a time of LH keeping her head down, doing and saying nothing controversial they would have drifted away to the next big thing. For her legal team to then compound the initial statement snafu and have a 'leak' fuelling the fire with thinly-veiled hints of a defamation suit piloted by no other than Lin Wood says to me either they are letting the client overrule their good sense and run her own case or they are concerned more with garnering publicity for themselves in a high profile case that they are with responsibly representing their client.
A simple: "My client has no comment at this time and requests that her privacy be respected while she mourns her son" would have sufficed. It may not have gotten the media off her back immediately but the media knows the public has a short attention span and, with no new news, after a time of LH keeping her head down, doing and saying nothing controversial they would have drifted away to the next big thing. For her legal team to then compound the initial statement snafu and have a 'leak' fuelling the fire with thinly-veiled hints of a defamation suit piloted by no other than Lin Wood says to me either they are letting the client overrule their good sense and run her own case or they are concerned more with garnering publicity for themselves in a high profile case that they are with responsibly representing their client.