Rosalie Bolin - What is her role? **MERGED**

[suzihawk]

Just catching up and have not read all of the posts. This woman divorced her husband and left her four young daughters to marry an inmate on death row. She is not an attorney. Bolin, as a death penalty mitigation
specialist, was hired specifically to work the
penalty phase of a trial, to persuade a jury to
choose a life sentence over death. Hers is a
very narrow specialty, one that relies on an
ability to research and introduce mitigating
facts about a defendant’s past and childhood,
or their psychological or medical conditions
......Bolin is one of the state’s most skilled death
penalty mitigators, and her work on the Dubose
brothers’ trial is a testament to that ability.
Though the case dealt with one of the city’s
most horrific and high-profile murders — the
slaying of 8-year-old DreShawna Davis — two......

http://www.folioweekly.com/documents/mitcir.pdf

That article in 'Folio Weekly' was written right after she was fired.

 

[strawberry]

So this is the larger woman with the dark hair and today we found out her name. There are numerous blogs written about her, not very nice ones and a few msm news articles.

Does anyone have any ideas or views on what her role is in the Casey Anthony case?


Death Penalty Specialist Gets Axed
Public Defender Cutting Ties With Expert Whose Husband Is On Death Row

POSTED: Thursday, July 22, 2010
UPDATED: 6:33 pm EDT July 22, 2010

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- If you search the name Rosalie Bolin on the Internet, several blogs come up -- blogs with titles like "Bolin the Butcher" and "Rosalie Bolin the Liar."

http://www.news4jax.com/news/24355618/detail.html

More details at link

Wow! Just wow! She worked for the Public Defenders office, left her hubby to marry a convicted murderer? Where does the DT find these people?? You sure can't judge a book by it's cover! She looks like a sweet grandma.:loser:

 

[strawberry]

This is all very appalling. Who is permitting her presence? Her "hands across KC" grossed me out today. If I was KC's mother, I would be pissed.

The one article says she was banned from Hillsborough County Jail for caressing an inmate. Sorry I don't have a link, I read a few. Take it for what it's worth because I can't remember if it was MSM or a blog.

 

[strawberry]

Can you imagine what the state thought when they heard this addition to the team? Oh, to be at their happy hour table.

I hope they all have rides home because they have to be pounding down the shots!

 

[suzihawk]

I can't help but wonder if the DT were unaware of all this or if they knew and hired her anyway. Either way... it speaks volumes. :loser:

 

[strawberry]

"20/20" once watched while Rosalie Martinez, who left a husband and four children behind, married a convicted serial killer by speakerphone just before he was sent to death row.

http://abcnews.go.com/2020/US/story?id=1052747&page=1

I swear I must have seen this...it sounds awfully familiar. I was thinking "Prison Wives" but maybe this is where I've heard this.

 

[LiveLaughLuv]

Wow, just wow....so many have been invovled in ICA's case, many who have felonious charges that started with KFN! It appears all the scum come out of the woodwork for financial gains...I do hope this just totally backfires...ICA must really feel confident she will be set free...but her breakdown yesterday tells me otherwise...

I don't give a darn how many DP mitigation experts Baez recruits...those jurors, once they hear the evidence, IN IT'S TOTALITY, will see who is actually responsible for Caylee's demise...the only debate will be, does she deserve to live or die for her actions...

ICA should woman up and take the consequences of her actions...she and only she has the ability to save her own life...JMHO

Justice for Caylee

 

[Jomo]

In her blog, she brags about all of her pro bono work. I would think that she is pro bono and that is why the defense has accepted her help.

If you ask me, she is a death-row groupie and will use this platform to promote her own cause.

She looked way too happy and smilie to be in the courtroom supporting basically a "stranger". We know that she had not seen KC prior to her being shipped for jury selection. We know that RB works primarily in the St-Pete area so KC is a new three-day friend, just the kind the KC likes to manipulate. I'm 100% sure that KC can smell a needy person from 10 miles away, like a decomp dog on a truck! Casey is using this new "friend" to play mind games within her defense team and the potential jurors.

They deserve each other!!!!

JMHO

 

[Marina2]

“I felt his isolation, his confinement, his loneliness,” she was quoted as saying. “It affected me. … And it left me breathless.” (Read the full story at http://bit.ly/rosaliebolin).

Lady, you're not the only woman he left breathless.

 

[2goldfish]

the entire defense team turns my stomach. that is all I can say.

 

[watergirl]

Wow, she is actually married to Oscar Ray Bolin (convicted serial killer on death row) - there are threads right here on websleuths about him.

Fool for Love?
She gave up everything--her home, her husband, her children--for a man whose future likely holds only death row. Was she duped? Or did Rosalie Martinez find true love with an improper stranger?

http://articles.latimes.com/1996-09-16/news/ls-44389_1_rosalie-martinez

More details at link

But "my Oscar," as she called him, was no killer, Martinez insisted, and she talked unabashedly of her romantic fantasy of riding off into the sunset with Bolin once she proved his innocence.


I think her and ICA belong together in the RV.

 

[momshrink]

In her blog, she brags about all of her pro bono work. I would think that she is pro bono and that is why the defense has accepted her help.

If you ask me, she is a death-row groupie and will use this platform to promote her own cause.

She looked way too happy and smilie to be in the courtroom supporting basically a "stranger". We know that she had not seen KC prior to her being shipped for jury selection. We know that RB works primarily in the St-Pete area so KC is a new three-day friend, just the kind the KC likes to manipulate. I'm 100% sure that KC can smell a needy person from 10 miles away, like a decomp dog on a truck! Casey is using this new "friend" to play mind games within her defense team and the potential jurors.

They deserve each other!!!!

JMHO

Absolutely right! A thanks was just not enough! Plus she left her four young daughters for the death row husband. Fits right in with ICA.

 

[watergirl]

If I were part of the defense team, I'd have to ask myself what positives this addition makes to the team? What is she able to contribute to help their client?

I'm not getting it.

I think they just needed another pro bono female babysitter for ICA. RB pets her and smiles and handles her with kid gloves. AF will cave here and there, DS as well, but methinks nobody on her team can discipline her consistently or seem to want to. And along comes RB... riding her own train. Perfect. Mwahaha.

 

[momshrink]

I think they just needed another pro bono female babysitter for ICA. RB pets her and smiles and handles her with kid gloves. AF will cave here and there, DS as well, but methinks nobody on her team can discipline her consistently or seem to want to. And along comes RB... riding her own train. Perfect. Mwahaha.

I think you are right - the rest of the DT has work to do - lawyer work- and cannot babysit such a needly, demanding, narsistic, unpredicitable client. I think they are finding that they do not even like her. JMO

 

[Sammiejam]

Did anyone else find her blog (google Rosalie Bolin setting record straight)
where she denies the allegations against her and talks about writing and casting "The Real Wives Of Death Row"?

She is an *ODD PERSON*

 

[JDzWife]

Mason promised us a "AHA moment"... well, here it is for me. Not exactly a AHA moment, but an OMG.. moment.

No wonder so many people are following this case. It's not because ICA is a superstar or a celebrity..has nothing to do with her. It has to do with all the jaw-dropping people around this case. I am just flabbergasted at this latest addition of RB. I am truly speechless. Brings new meaning to this being a "death is different" case.

 

[Turnadot]

“I felt his isolation, his confinement, his loneliness,” she was quoted as saying. “It affected me. … And it left me breathless.” (Read the full story at http://bit.ly/rosaliebolin).

Lady, you're not the only woman he left breathless.

Just reading that excerpt made me feel sick.

No. Words.

Well, no words that wouldn't get me a TO.

:sick:

 

[dog.gone.cute]

Respectfully snipped by me

I don't believe she is an attorney. She's a death penalty mitigation specialist.

Thank You. I guess I "assumed" she is an attorney.

So RB is a "DP mitigation specialist" ... hmm .. the DT and ICA must be REALLY WORRIED !

 

[Blue_Dolphin308]

Although for the last two years Martinez was a social worker with the Hillsborough County public defender's office,

from http://articles.latimes.com/1996-09-16/news/ls-44389_1_rosalie-martinez

She could be brought in to be the social worker for Casey during the trial

 

[amandab]

I had to Google that, , but I do believe you're right.