It will take 18 to 24 months for her first appeal to be decided, IMO, especially if it's done by a public defender. First the entire trial transcripts must be compiled and then each motion, all testimony, including the killer's pro se stints, pre trial motions, all evidence & exhibits must be reviewed by the appellate attorney to find any valid appellate issues. Then the appeal must be reviewed by
Juan's office who then files a response and then the appellate judges review it and decide if the appeal has merit. My guess is it will not be expedited as it is a LWOP case. In the interim, the killer will have to wait while the wheels of justice slowly turn.
Hope the commissary sells medication for gastrointestinal reflux disease.
If it were my daughter, I may think about spending some of the appellate fund on an independent attorney now vs later, but I don't know if the killer would be able to reestablish her indigent status once that money ran out. That is a question for an attorney. Otherwise, why don't they use it now?
I can see two scenarios:
1. Jodi wants all the "fund" money for her commissary trust, 'cos she has no way of getting anything substantial in there 'til the end of time. Ergo, stay indigent and get a free appeal, and keep all the rest.
I know, I know, she's told her groupies that if there are any leftovers, they're going to two charities. Ummmm, no charity is going to take the money: it's toxic. They sure don't want to do a St. Jude, with laundered money, no less. And then, since when has Jodi told the truth about anything? Her minions actually believe the money in her "trust" is beyond her reach? Bwahahaha! Jodi has told as many lies about money as any other topic: e.g. where she got her lavish pre-jail money supply, how much of TA's money she stole, how she could afford to rent cars, steal Travis' BMW and accidentally on purpose wreck i never anticipating he'd demand she pay him back, dye her hair, get brazilians, all those clothes she owned, all the makeup....
And then the money has her mother's hands all over it, not to mention MDLR's. Since the one messed around with the bankruptcy laws, and the other messed around with laws in general, they are just so really safe and trustworthy for folks to be relying on to keep their hands out of the till! NOT!
2. Jodi has decided she's going to lose the one free appeal she's permitted, and in order to go into the next round (i.e. post conviction relief), she will need a private attorney. But who's she kidding here? JSS would preside over "post conviction relief": no chance in hell that'll work. If anything, JSS will solifidy her position in the next few years: no way she's gonna reverse it! Start praying that JSS gets re-elected, folks.
