LE wants to interview the parents separately

[tehcloser]

Right. In a case like this where LE is keeping so mum, there's a lot of stuff we don't know for fact.

I guess it's up to individuals to make up their minds by what LE means by "unrestricted", and then make up their minds whether this attorney would risk all her credibility lying to the media.

So, yes. You kind of have to follow a logic trail and fill in the blanks with your own experience and viewpoint.

BBM

I can't believe LE would do that either............

 

[Marshmallow]

Her lawyer has said that. She strikes me as VERY professional and not some clowny quack who misspeaks.

I think the atty has an agenda and it is to say these things to get people who are anti-LE to go into an uproar. I do not find her truthful. She has a purpose and it obviously worked, antiLE people are forgetting about the missing child and focusing on a rumor.

 

[linda505]

The the last line of the original post in this thread says to me that LE want the parents without an attorney. IMO These are the words of LE


Investigators want the parents of missing 11-month-old Lisa Irwinto submit to separate interviews and answer a list of "tough questions" that detectives "need answered."

Kansas City Police Capt. Steve Young made his statement as the investigation into the toddler's disapperance entered its fourth week without any suspects or leads to the girl's whereabouts.

The focus of the investigation remains on the parents, Deborah Bradley, 25, and Jeremy Irwin, 29.

"We need them to sit down apart from each other, with detectives, and answer the tough questions detectives have for them concerning what they may or may not know about anything, who came and went [the night Lisa disappeared]," Young told ABCNews.com. "There's a whole list of things that they may know."

Young said he is "not disputing" family attorney Joe Tacopina's claims that the family has cooperated and answered other questions, such as specific questions regarding tips and leads. But that is not sufficient, he said.

"The bottom line is detectives need to sit down with them unrestricted and they need to answer questions that we need answered," he said.

 

[cluciano63]

So what if LE wants to sit down with the parents alone, without lawyers? Of course they want that. It is not like they are trying to demand it. But they should want it, and in many cases, they would get it. This case has become so much more about the parents' rights than Lisa being missing, IMO, it is sickening.

 

[JeannaT]

BBM

I can't believe LE would do that either............

LE hasn't said what "unrestricted" means to them. Only Short has said what they've demanded.

So no one is accusing LE of misrepresenting what "unrestricted" means, the simply haven't said.

 

[Marshmallow]

The the last line of the original post in this thread says to me that LE want the parents without an attorney. IMO These are the words of LE


Investigators want the parents of missing 11-month-old Lisa Irwinto submit to separate interviews and answer a list of "tough questions" that detectives "need answered."

Kansas City Police Capt. Steve Young made his statement as the investigation into the toddler's disapperance entered its fourth week without any suspects or leads to the girl's whereabouts.

The focus of the investigation remains on the parents, Deborah Bradley, 25, and Jeremy Irwin, 29.

"We need them to sit down apart from each other, with detectives, and answer the tough questions detectives have for them concerning what they may or may not know about anything, who came and went [the night Lisa disappeared]," Young told ABCNews.com. "There's a whole list of things that they may know."

Young said he is "not disputing" family attorney Joe Tacopina's claims that the family has cooperated and answered other questions, such as specific questions regarding tips and leads. But that is not sufficient, he said.

"The bottom line is detectives need to sit down with them unrestricted and they need to answer questions that we need answered," he said.

unrestricted to me means having the parents actually answer the questions instead of not answering and playing look at me on tv. LE would not publicly ask anyone to forgo their rights, even though those who do not like LE would wish it to be so.
I believe LE would just like the parents to stop playing games and answer important questions so they can try to find this family's missing child. Games are cute on tv but this is a missing baby and the family refusing to cooperate is not helping find Lisa. LE wants the family to participate in helping.

 

[In da Middle]

Her lawyer has said that. She strikes me as VERY professional and not some clowny quack who misspeaks.

Yes. She has been around the block a few times and with KCPD.

 

[JeannaT]

So what if LE wants to sit down with the parents alone, without lawyers? Of course they want that. It is not like they are trying to demand it. But they should want it, and in many cases, they would get it. This case has become so much more about the parents' rights than Lisa being missing, IMO, it is sickening.

Of course they want it. I'm sure any cop would much rather have unrestricted access to a witness/suspect, without an attorney present.

They are saying they have questions that need answers, and they are apparently refusing to ask them if their conditions, that the Irwins waive their right to counsel, are not met. And they are now coming out in the media saying they have questions and the family refuses to answer.

The family, IMHO, refuses to waive their right to counsel.

So it's a stalemate. LE has questions (I actually doubt they're new questions) and refuses to ask them in a situation where their counsel is present. IMHO of course.

 

[Wise Old Owl]

The the last line of the original post in this thread says to me that LE want the parents without an attorney. IMO These are the words of LE


Investigators want the parents of missing 11-month-old Lisa Irwinto submit to separate interviews and answer a list of "tough questions" that detectives "need answered."

Kansas City Police Capt. Steve Young made his statement as the investigation into the toddler's disapperance entered its fourth week without any suspects or leads to the girl's whereabouts.

The focus of the investigation remains on the parents, Deborah Bradley, 25, and Jeremy Irwin, 29.

"We need them to sit down apart from each other, with detectives, and answer the tough questions detectives have for them concerning what they may or may not know about anything, who came and went [the night Lisa disappeared]," Young told ABCNews.com. "There's a whole list of things that they may know."

Young said he is "not disputing" family attorney Joe Tacopina's claims that the family has cooperated and answered other questions, such as specific questions regarding tips and leads. But that is not sufficient, he said.

"The bottom line is detectives need to sit down with them unrestricted and they need to answer questions that we need answered," he said.

BBM

Interesting choice of words there - something I've wondered about as well.

JMO

 

[In da Middle]

So what if LE wants to sit down with the parents alone, without lawyers? Of course they want that. It is not like they are trying to demand it. But they should want it, and in many cases, they would get it. This case has become so much more about the parents' rights than Lisa being missing, IMO, it is sickening.

No. Nobody should be expected to be questioned by LE unrestricted without representation.

 

[Marshmallow]

LE hasn't said what "unrestricted" means to them. Only Short has said what they've demanded.

So no one is accusing LE of misrepresenting what "unrestricted" means, the simply haven't said.

Short has said what she needs people to think, not what may be true.

and Lisa is still missing while her parents play media games and avoid cooperating.

no wonder LE wants them to actually answer questions that might help locate Lisa instead of this little game the parents and thier attys are playing.

 

[JeannaT]

Short has said what she needs people to think, not what may be true.

and Lisa is still missing while her parents play media games and avoid cooperating.

no wonder LE wants them to actually answer questions that might help locate Lisa instead of this little game the parents and thier attys are playing.

And there you go. Two people looking at the same set of facts and coming up with exactly opposite conclusions. Se la vie.

I'm out of here for the afternoon. My house is even starting to SMELL dusty, not just look dusty. : (

 

[Marshmallow]

No. Nobody should be expected to be questioned by LE unrestricted without representation.

and other than a rumor no one has proven Le requested it.
and as these little games get played, Lisa is still missing and the parents still refuse to help.

 

[linda505]

All I know is that if I am innocent or guilty and "IF" LE has indicated in some way to me that they think I am guilty in previous "unrestricted" interviews, then I am absolutely going to have my attorney there.

 

[cluciano63]

Well, gee, I hope the parents feel good if they gain sympathy from the masses for clinging to their rights...good for them. They'll show those mean old police.

Meanwhile, isn't their little baby missing?????

 

[LancelotLink]

Well, I'm going to have to hope there is a video of this interview. I've seen some shoddy reporting in a few cases, and this one ranks right up there with hints and innuendo.

In this article, the reporter seems very happy to tell me what the lawyer said, instead of providing me wih quotes. Thanks, but no.

From the CNN report: I bolded the only part of the snippet we are discussing as FACT that was in quotes.
http://www.cnn.com/2011/10/26/justice/missouri-missing-girl/index.html?hpt=hp_t2

But the attorney representing Jeremy Irwin and Deborah Bradley, parents of 11-month-old Lisa Irwin, said the couple is not opposed to separate interviews, but do not want what police requested -- an unrestricted interview with no attorneys present.

"Being questioned separately is not the issue," said attorney Cyndy Short. She said the couple has been cooperative and has previously been interviewed separately as well as together. They don't mind being interviewed separately as long as the detectives are fair, open-minded and non-accusatory, she said.

When a reporter tells me what someone said, that tells me that the someone either does not want to be quoted, off the record, unwilling to stand behind the words, or never even said what the reporter is telling me they said. I only treat what I see in quotes as havng come from the person being interviewed.

 

[SilkySifaka]

Well, gee, I hope the parents feel good if they gain sympathy from the masses for clinging to their rights...good for them. They'll show those mean old police.

Meanwhile, isn't their little baby missing?????

As far as I know it is the police who went to the media and masses on this. Otherwise we wouldn't have known about it.

 

[linda505]

BBM

Interesting choice of words there - something I've wondered about as well.

JMO

I agree - I wonder that also - who else came and went that night that either of them had knowledge of

 

[CharlestonGal]

Well, hopefully one side or the other will come along and clear this up.

It's sad that there even are two sides here at all.

 

[LancelotLink]

Well, gee, I hope the parents feel good if they gain sympathy from the masses for clinging to their rights...good for them. They'll show those mean old police.

Meanwhile, isn't their little baby missing?????

Yep. This is nothing more than more spin from the lawyer. You know, I really wish these parents would find other attorneys. Short and Tacopino hae done nothing but give the media more fuel for the fire.
I would like to think the parents, assuming they are completely innocent, would at some point weigh the time wasted on this tit for tat, battle of wits, trying to force LE to show their hand, with time wasted in finding the foul fiend who absconded with their child.

This just makes me think the parents are more concerned about their own lives. Which makes me think there is another reason why these parents are showing no sense of urgency.