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Casey Anthony attorney Cheney Mason 'concerned about her safety' (Video) - Washington Post (blog)
Cheney Mason answers questions after his client, Casey Anthony, was found not guilty in her murder trial in Orlando, Fla., July 5. (Joe Burbank - AP) (Watch video of Cheney Mason?s interview here.)
Cheney Mason, one of the attorneys who defended Casey Anthony, said he is ?concerned about her safety and her future? once she is released from jail.
?It?s as much her country as anybody else?s,? Mason told Savannah Guthrie on the ?Today? show Monday. ?She just needs to have some time and counseling and be re-introduced to society. She?s been in lockdown for 23 hours a day for three years.?
Anthony, who was sentenced to four years with time served for lying to police, will be released from jail July 17. The 25-year-old was acquitted of charges she abused and murdered her toddler daughter Caylee. Anthony?s parents, George and Cindy Anthony, have received death threats since the trial ended, according to the Orlando Sentinel.
While many commentators and spectators believe Anthony is guilty, Mason does not. ?I do believe her story,? Mason said. ?I believed it from the first time I met her. I have never for one minute had any doubt at all. She did not kill her child. Period.?
Mason made some strong remarks about the media?s role in the case, scolding those ?who have indulged in media assassination for three years.?
?She was not only tried, but convicted and sentenced by the news media, and that conviction was overturned by the jury,? he told Guthrie.
He explained that the vulgar gesture he gave that was caught on camera was directed at one person he called a ?stalker.?
Watch Mason?s interview below:
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Casey Anthony attorney Cheney Mason 'concerned about her safety' (Video) - Washington Post (blog)
Cheney Mason answers questions after his client, Casey Anthony, was found not guilty in her murder trial in Orlando, Fla., July 5. (Joe Burbank - AP) (Watch video of Cheney Mason?s interview here.)
Cheney Mason, one of the attorneys who defended Casey Anthony, said he is ?concerned about her safety and her future? once she is released from jail.
?It?s as much her country as anybody else?s,? Mason told Savannah Guthrie on the ?Today? show Monday. ?She just needs to have some time and counseling and be re-introduced to society. She?s been in lockdown for 23 hours a day for three years.?
Anthony, who was sentenced to four years with time served for lying to police, will be released from jail July 17. The 25-year-old was acquitted of charges she abused and murdered her toddler daughter Caylee. Anthony?s parents, George and Cindy Anthony, have received death threats since the trial ended, according to the Orlando Sentinel.
While many commentators and spectators believe Anthony is guilty, Mason does not. ?I do believe her story,? Mason said. ?I believed it from the first time I met her. I have never for one minute had any doubt at all. She did not kill her child. Period.?
Mason made some strong remarks about the media?s role in the case, scolding those ?who have indulged in media assassination for three years.?
?She was not only tried, but convicted and sentenced by the news media, and that conviction was overturned by the jury,? he told Guthrie.
He explained that the vulgar gesture he gave that was caught on camera was directed at one person he called a ?stalker.?
Watch Mason?s interview below:
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Casey Anthony Update: Cheney Mason Accuses Public of Being 'A Lynch Mob' - Christian Post
Appearing on NBC?s ?Today? show on Monday, the attorney told Savannah Guthrie, ?I do believe her story. I believed it from the first time I met her which was several weeks before I was formally on the team. I went to her home, her room where all the photographs are, and talked with her.
?I have never for one minute had any doubt at all. She did not kill her child. Period.?
While Mason and his team of defense lawyers, including lead attorney Jose Baez who has notably garnered much fame after the trial, buy Casey?s story, little is known about what really happened to 2-year-old Caylee, whose remains were found in December 2008, nearly six months after she was last seen.
However, as much as the defense has tried to portray their defendant?s innocence, the prosecution and the public have remain unconvinced. Though she was found not guilty of first-degree murder, manslaughter, and child abuse, polls indicate that many still believe Casey Anthony had something to do with her daughter?s death.
Throughout the trial, prosecutors hoped to present evidence to the jury that showed that Casey did in fact murder Caylee. They accused her of suffocating the 2-year-old with chloroform, placing duct tape over her mouth, putting her deceased body in the trunk of her car, and dumping the body in the nearby woods.
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But the high levels of chloroform in the trunk of Casey?s car, the smell of ?human decomposition,? and the unaffected behavior of Casey following the death of her daughter were not enough evidence for the jury, or at least beyond a reasonable doubt.
Even all of the lies that the defendant told her family and her friends after her daughter went missing left jurors still grappling for more solid evidence.
During the brief interview, Guthrie asked Mason, ?If this trial proved anything beyond a reasonable doubt it?s that she is an accomplished liar. You?re a veteran defense attorney, why do you think she?s suddenly telling the truth??
?Well I don?t know that it?s sudden,? he responded. ?I don?t think her story, her position has changed from the very beginning. People?s awareness of her is certainly greater than it used to be.?
Mason continued to defend his client and stated that though there was no question she told a lot of stories to a lot of people, it was from a protective mechanism and not out of guilt of murder.
He also clarified why the defense team had asked the judge to determine whether Casey was competent to stand trial towards the end of the trial.
?She?s under a lot of pressure. Not only [was] she on trial for her life, but when she [was] not in the trial then she [was] back in lockdown. And just imagine 23 hours a day for 3 years, most people would be drooling. She?s tough, but we needed to find out if she was okay.?
?She?s not mentally ill now.?
Asked if the defense?s accusation of molestation by George Anthony was a ?brilliant defense strategy or a dirty trick,? the attorney revealed that it was not the latter.
?The allegation wasn?t new in trial. It had been made in the public eye from letters written in the jail sometime before that. Sometimes evidence or testimony in trial doesn?t turn out to be what you expected it to be.?
And in other unexpected turns, Casey had also decided at the last minute to not testify during the trial. Mason said that it wasn?t because she was afraid to take the stand, however. She had just chosen not to, and was the only person who would ever know why.
Perhaps it was for the best, however, since throughout the trial much of the public had criticized Casey?s demeanor and expressions, which were cold one second and crying the next. Many felt she was putting on an act.
Though nobody coached her on her mannerisms before the court, Mason did say that he and his lawyers did try to keep her emotions down, which he explained was ?pretty hard to do when family [testified] against her and people [were] calling for [her] blood like a lynch mob.?
Prosecutors tried to use testimony from her mother and father against her in court, with both Cindy and George denying the defense?s claims that they were involved in the death of their granddaughter. Casey?s parents also purportedly told the family lawyer that they did not believe in her innocence.
With obvious strains in their family, Mason told Guthrie that Casey?s relationship with Cindy and George is ?pretty well burned,? though he thought that his client may one day have a relationship with her brother.
Speculation on where Casey will go after her release from prison on July 17 ? less than a week away ? is buzzing, with some saying that she will flee the country because of the negative reaction from the public. In a recent Gallup poll, about two-thirds of Americans believed Casey is still guilty of murder.
She, as well as Mason and her parents, have already received death threats following the jury?s not guilty verdict.
But Mason believes she won?t leave the country. ?She just needs to have some time, counseling, and be reintroduced to society,? he revealed. ?She?s been in lockdown for 23 hours a day, for 3 years.?
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Attorney Says Palmgren Property Has Been Available For Search From The Start Says Gail Palmgren Had ?Psychotic Episode ?
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Says Gail Palmgren Had ?Psychotic Episode? Week Before She Disappeared
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Attorney Lee Davis said the husband of a missing Signal Mountain woman has been open to a search of all his property from the day his wife vanished.
Attorney Davis said, ?I told Signal Mountain (Police) in the first 15 minutes of talking to them about the case that they were welcome to search any of Matt Palmgren?s property.?
He said about 10 days ago a formal order was signed by himself and Neal Pinkston of the district attorney?s office allowing permission of a search of the Palmgren home in the St. Ives subdivision, of the family?s lake house northeast of Montgomery, Ala., and of their storage shed.
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Gail Palmgren disappeared April 30 in her crimson red 2010 Jeep Rubicon.
Attorney Davis said he does not know if the searches have been carried out, but he said he knows that authorities went through the lake house. He said the authorities have also been at the home on Signal Mountain, but he does not know if they have been inside.
He also said he spoke to a couple in Hoover, Ala., who said Ms. Palmgren ?had a psychotic episode? while at their house a week before she disappeared.
Attorney Davis said Ms. Palmgren ?showed up uninvited? and spent two nights with the family friends.
He said the husband, an attorney, told him, ?Gail was flat f??- up. She was out of her mind.?
The couple said Ms. Palmgren had her two children with her, and she noted she had not gotten them any Easter candy. They said the wife took Ms. Palmgren to a store and they became separated. Ms. Palmgren then called the police on the couple, claiming they were trying to take her children away from them.
They said that weekend Ms. Palmgren told them she believed someone was following her and trying to get her tag number.
The husband said she took side roads on their way to their house from her lake house - and the trip took four and a half hours instead of the normal two hours.
Attorney Davis said of the case, ?No one in law enforcement has accused Matt Palmgren of anything. They continue to treat it as a missing person case.?
He said Mr. Palmgren continues to work to locate her, including hiring former Chattanooga Police Department major crimes detective Mike Mathis to try to track her down.
He said, ?This case involves more than one jurisdiction and state so we felt he could work more quickly than law enforcement agencies.?
Attorney Davis said one witness attorney Mathis wants to interview is Carol Coppinger, who said she saw Ms. Palmgren on a remote trail on Signal Mountain in the red Jeep on the afternoon and evening of the day she disappeared. She said another woman was in the Jeep with her.
The attorney noted that Matt Palmgren has lost both his wife and his job. He said, ?He?s under tremendous stress. It?s very hard. He?s trying to take care of two small children with the help of his mother.?
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Updated: Attorney general declares warden land deal illegal, plans to void it - knox.VillageSoup.com
Augusta ? The Governor's Office released a statement July 11 declaring that the attorney general has found the sale of state-owned property to the Maine State Prison warden to be illegal. The AG's office is declaring the transaction void.
Prison Warden Patricia Barnhart and Sheehan Gallagher paid $175,000 to the state to buy a Ship Street Circle parcel that includes three houses and more than five acres of property extending down to the St. George River, according to Maine Bureau of General Services Acting Director Betty Lamoreau.
In addition, the Thomaston Planning Board meeting scheduled for July 12 to look at the warden's proposed subdivision of the property has been postponed, according to a town office spokesperson.
Gov. Paul LePage issued a statement Monday regarding a recent opinion from Attorney General William Schneider. The opinion involves the purported sale of real estate to a state employee and a subsequent lease back to the state of a building located on the property.
In a July 8 letter to Department of Administrative and Financial Services Commissioner Sawin Millett and Patricia Barnhart, Attorney General Schneider wrote, ?Because Ms. Barnhart is employed by the State as the Warden of the Maine State Prison and was so employed during the time period in which this transaction took place, it is my opinion that the Contract, Release Deed, and Lease and Memorandum of Lease are void under the terms of title 17, section 3104 of the Maine Revised Statutes.?
"No trustee, superintendent, treasurer or other person holding a place of trust in any state office or public institution of the state shall be pecuniarily interested directly or indirectly in any contracts made in behalf of the state or of the institution in which he holds such place of trust, and any contract made in violation hereof is void," the statute states, according to the letter.
"We suggest that the parties and their counsel meet as soon as possible to discuss the process for unwinding this matter," Schneider wrote in the letter.
The attorney general first became aware of the land deal Friday, July 8, according to Brenda Kielty, special assistant to the attorney general. She said the attorney general had no prior involvement.
The real estate transaction involving property located at 22, 26 and 30 Ship Street Circle in Thomaston began in the fall of 2010 under the previous administration and was consummated through the Department of Administrative and Financial Services in June 2011.
Under the direction of the 124th Legislature, the fiscal year 2010/2011 budget was to be balanced, in part, by booking $1.5 million in anticipated revenue from the sale of a list of state-owned properties, which included the Ship Street Circle properties in Thomaston.
LePage was informed about the sale last week and had no prior knowledge of the deal, according to the statement. Upon review of the details the governor issued an executive order immediately. The order establishes that the Department of Administrative and Financial Services will create internal policy guidance for sales of state-owned real estate.
?While it is disconcerting that questions about this sale were not raised during this process, I am confident the measures I am taking now will prevent similar situations from occurring in the future,? said LePage.
?The people?s business is to be done openly and Mainers must be able to trust the process in which state business is conducted,? LePage said.
The executive order is as follows:
An Order Increasing Oversight Over Sales of State-Owned Real Estate
WHEREAS, the State of Maine owns real estate that may not be in active state use;
WHEREAS, the sale of these properties will allow them to be put to higher and better uses;
WHEREAS, it is the duty of State Government to ensure that such sales are conducted in a fair and open manner; and
WHEREAS, prior sales practices have provided insufficient oversight;
NOW, THEREFORE, I, Paul R. LePage, Governor of the State of Maine, hereby order as follows:
1. The Department of Administrative and Financial Services shall establish internal policy guidance for sales of state-owned real estate. Such policy shall include, at a minimum, the following controls:
1. A reasonable period of public notice for all properties to be sold, to be advertised according to customary real estate sales practices;
2. An Affidavit by prospective purchasers that such purchaser is not in violation of
17 M.R.S.A. � 3104;
1. A review of any proposed sales by the Office of the Attorney General;
2. A review of any proposed sales by a committee of Department directors, to include the submission of an evaluation report to the Commissioner; and
3. A signed statement by a person with experience in real estate transactions that the proposed sale price is commercially-reasonable.
2. The Department of Administrative and Financial Services shall immediately suspend all pending real estate sales until a review substantially similar to the policy outlined in Paragraph 1 is conducted. The Department may proceed to closing each sale only upon the express approval of the Commissioner.
The effective date of this Executive Order is July 11, 2011.
Thomaston planning board meeting postponed
Barnhart and Gallagher had proposed a seven-lot subdivision on Ship Street Circle, according to previous comments by Town Code Enforcement Officer Peter Surek.
The project was scheduled to go before the planning board at its July 12 meeting, but the meeting was postponed, the town office confirmed July 11.
Surek said an engineer representing Barnhart and Gallagher contacted the town office on the afternoon of July 11 to postpone the meeting.
Attorney General's office mentioned in documents
According to documents and emails released by the Maine Bureau of General Services, officials did raise questions about the sale during the negotiations and talked about contacting the Attorney General's office.
The discussion of Barnhart buying the property started with an email Sept. 2, 2010, from Denise Lord, formerly of the Maine Department of Corrections, to Chip Gavin, former director of the Maine Bureau of General Services.
"The warden asked if there was a possibility that she might purchase the house she is living in currently," Lord wrote. "...Is it possible that BGS could consider this? Not sure if there are any prohibitions or concerns about this and will respect your decision."
In the same email, Lord noted that the Department of Corrections would like to keep the use of one of the Ship Street Circle homes as temporary housing for newly hired staff.
The prison has been providing the warden with housing as has been the tradition. However, state officials say the state is not obligated by the warden's contract to provide her with housing.
In the deal, the state and Barnhart agreed to a sale price on the property of $175,000 with a four-year lease back to the state to use one of the three houses on Ship Street Circle for $1 per year.
Discussions of the deal took place Jan. 31 with an email from Jonathan Leahy, an associate broker with CBRE/The Boulos Company, to Director William Leet of the Division of Leased Space.
"Patti [Barnhart] is happy to provide the facility rent-free for four years, but if the DOC [Department of Corrections] requests a renewal for a fifth year, she would expect a market rent," Leahy wrote. "She would like to continue having the lawn/plowing/trash handled by the state. Currently it is handled by a prisoner work program. Is it possible for this to continue? She has requested that the state pay 1/3 of the annual real estate taxes once due."
"I believe we can accommodate all of the requests of the buyer excluding the payment of 1/3 of the annual real estate taxes," Leet wrote Feb. 8.
As part of the final agreement, inmate work crews provide mowing and landscaping work on the property, remove trash and clear snow, Lamoreau and Department of Corrections Associate Commissioner Jody Breton confirmed July 6.
"I am not sure if it is legal for us to provide those services without owning or leasing the property," Leet wrote in an email March 1.
"I have been trying to get an answer from the AG's Office," he wrote March 9. "Corrections and BGS are OK with it; we just need to be sure it's appropriate and legal."
Kielty said she asked around at the Attorney General's office July 11 and cannot find any reference in its emails or records to the land deal. She also noted that of the employees she talked to, none had any memory of any calls or discussions of the issue.
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Is Casey's attorney getting fired? - 10Connects.com
Orlando, Florida - The rule of thumb in the Casey Anthony murder trial is expect the unexpected. Just when you think you have it all figured out in the high-profile capital case, chaos ensues.
Such was the case on Saturday. It was Day 28, and Judge Belvin Perry warned everyone that it would be a full day.
On most weekends, Saturday court proceedings have been half days. However, last week strayed from the norm in dramatic ways. Last Monday, the judge became so frustrated with both sides that he sent everyone home before the jury ever made it in the courtroom.
The defense was accused of not providing the opinions of a key witness to the state in order for prosecutors to prepare for cross examination.
Then, on Wednesday, the judge ordered a half-day due to a previously-scheduled budget meeting.
Each day was filled with stop and starts, due to continuous objections by both sides.
Then, this past Saturday there was more drama that fueled rumors like wildfire among trial-watchers and legal analysts alike. Court proceedings were suddenly halted.
No reasons were given.
Defense counsel Cheney Mason told the judge that he needed to talk about some "issues" in the trial.
The hallway was full of witnesses ready to testify, but the jury never even made it into the courtroom. That's when Mason and Casey Anthony were seen going into the judge's nearby chambers.
WFTV reporter Kathi Belich?tweeted a statement saying that Mason was heard yelling in the judge's chambers.
Then, Casey was seen coming out of the room crying. That's when the bombshell dropped.
Judge Perry?made an announcement that shocked everyone and caused theories to begin circulating rapidly.
Perry called it a "legal issue."?And, that was it. Court was inexplicably adjourned until Monday morning.?
What was this all about? ?And why was it that the defendant was seen staring down Mason on Friday. Were there problems within the defense team? ?Was Casey fighting with her lawyers?
Does this mean that Cheney Mason could be fired?
The rumors are raging at this point. ?Something to keep in mind is that Judge Perry told everyone in court that the "legal issue" at hand did not involve a previous argument that morning about a witness' testimony. Some say the "issue" could be a plea bargain. ?Others say it is an attorney problem. ?
Then, there are additional analysts who claim that discovery has continually been a problem for the defense. Casey's lawyers have faced issues in this case of not providing the state with opinions and findings of witnesses. Prosecutors have continually called out Baez. ?The state claims it cannot properly prepare for cross examination without all findings being provided.
In fact, the judge made reference this very issue, saying it is "getting old" and that "some things never change." Judge Perry told lead defense counsel Jose Baez at one point earlier in the case that "violations, if there are any" would be dealt with at the close of trial.
The judge even made reference to the Florida Bar Association looking into some issues.
Baez was allowed to continue with his presentation of the case. However, some legal analysts are saying that the judge is only postponing the inevitable.
One analyst explained the analogy to 10 News, "You know when you've heard your mother say, 'Just wait until your father gets home' and that's when you'll really get in trouble? ?That's similar to what the judge is saying here. ?Baez can continue, but in the end, he could face sanctions."
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Updated: Attorney general declares warden land deal illegal, plans to void it - knox.VillageSoup.com
Updated: Attorney general declares warden land deal illegal, plans to void it - knox.VillageSoup.com
Augusta�? The Governor?s Office released a statement July 11 declaring that the attorney general has found the sale of state-owned property to the Maine State Prison warden to be illegal. The AG?s office is declaring the transaction void.
Prison Warden Patricia Barnhart and Sheehan Gallagher paid $175,000 to the state to buy a Ship Street Circle parcel that includes three houses and more than five acres of property extending down to the St. George River, according to Maine Bureau of General Services Acting Director Betty Lamoreau.
In addition, the Thomaston Planning Board meeting scheduled for July 12 to look at the warden?s proposed subdivision of the property has been postponed, according to a town office spokesperson.
Gov. Paul LePage issued a statement Monday regarding a recent opinion from Attorney General William Schneider. The opinion involves the purported sale of real estate to a state employee and a subsequent lease back to the state of a building located on the property.
In a July 8 letter to Department of Administrative and Financial Services Commissioner Sawin Millett and Patricia Barnhart, Attorney General Schneider wrote,�?Because Ms. Barnhart is employed by the State as the Warden of the Maine State Prison and was so employed during the time period in which this transaction took place, it is my opinion that the Contract, Release Deed, and Lease and Memorandum of Lease are void under the terms of title 17, section 3104 of the Maine Revised Statutes.?
?No trustee, superintendent, treasurer or other person holding a place of trust in any state office or public institution of the state shall be pecuniarily interested directly or indirectly in any contracts made in behalf of the state or of the institution in which he holds such place of trust, and any contract made in violation hereof is void,? the statute states, according to the letter.
?We suggest that the parties and their counsel meet as soon as possible to discuss the process for unwinding this matter,? Schneider wrote in the letter.
The attorney general first became aware of the land deal Friday, July 8, according to Brenda Kielty, special assistant to the attorney general. She said the attorney general had no prior involvement.
The real estate transaction involving property located at 22, 26 and 30 Ship Street Circle in Thomaston began in the fall of 2010 under the previous administration and was consummated through the Department of Administrative and Financial Services in June 2011.
Under the direction of the 124th Legislature, the fiscal year 2010/2011 budget was to be balanced, in part, by booking $1.5 million in anticipated revenue from the sale of a list of state-owned properties, which included the Ship Street Circle properties in Thomaston.
LePage was informed about the sale last week and had no prior knowledge of the deal, according to the statement. Upon review of the details the governor issued an executive order immediately. The order establishes that the Department of Administrative and Financial Services will create internal policy guidance for sales of state-owned real estate.
?While it is disconcerting that questions about this sale were not raised during this process, I am confident the measures I am taking now will prevent similar situations from occurring in the future,? said LePage.
?The people?s business is to be done openly and Mainers must be able to trust the process in which state business is conducted,? LePage said.
The executive order is as follows:
An Order Increasing Oversight Over Sales of State-Owned Real Estate
WHEREAS, the State of Maine owns real estate that may not be in active state use;
WHEREAS, the sale of these properties will allow them to be put to higher and better uses;
WHEREAS, it is the duty of State Government to ensure that such sales are conducted in a fair and open manner; and
WHEREAS, prior sales practices have provided insufficient oversight;
NOW, THEREFORE, I, Paul R. LePage, Governor of the State of Maine, hereby order as follows:
1. The Department of Administrative and Financial Services shall establish internal policy guidance for sales of state-owned real estate. Such policy shall include, at a minimum, the following controls:
1. A reasonable period of public notice for all properties to be sold, to be advertised according to customary real estate sales practices;
2. An Affidavit by prospective purchasers that such purchaser is not in violation of
17 M.R.S.A. � 3104;
1. A review of any proposed sales by the Office of the Attorney General;
2. A review of any proposed sales by a committee of Department directors, to include the submission of an evaluation report to the Commissioner; and
3. A signed statement by a person with experience in real estate transactions that the proposed sale price is commercially-reasonable.
2. The Department of Administrative and Financial Services shall immediately suspend all pending real estate sales until a review substantially similar to the policy outlined in Paragraph 1 is conducted. The Department may proceed to closing each sale only upon the express approval of the Commissioner.
The effective date of this Executive Order is July 11, 2011.
Thomaston planning board meeting postponed
Barnhart and Gallagher had proposed a seven-lot subdivision on Ship Street Circle, according to previous comments by Town Code Enforcement Officer Peter Surek.
The project was scheduled to go before the planning board at its July 12 meeting, but the meeting was postponed, the town office confirmed July 11.
Surek said an engineer representing Barnhart and Gallagher contacted the town office on the afternoon of July 11 to postpone the meeting.
Attorney General?s office mentioned in documents
According to documents and emails released by the Maine Bureau of General Services, officials did raise questions about the sale during the negotiations and talked about contacting the Attorney General?s office.
The discussion of Barnhart buying the property started with an email Sept. 2, 2010, from Denise Lord, formerly of the Maine Department of Corrections, to Chip Gavin, former director of the Maine Bureau of General Services.
?The warden asked if there was a possibility that she might purchase the house she is living in currently,? Lord wrote. ??Is it possible that BGS could consider this? Not sure if there are any prohibitions or concerns about this and will respect your decision.?
In the same email, Lord noted that the Department of Corrections would like to keep the use of one of the Ship Street Circle homes as temporary housing for newly hired staff.
The prison has been providing the warden with housing as has been the tradition. However, state officials say the state is not obligated by the warden?s contract to provide her with housing.
In the deal, the state and Barnhart agreed to a sale price on the property of $175,000 with a four-year lease back to the state to use one of the three houses on Ship Street Circle for $1 per year.
Discussions of the deal took place Jan. 31 with an email from Jonathan Leahy, an associate broker with CBRE/The Boulos Company, to Director William Leet of the Division of Leased Space.
?Patti [Barnhart] is happy to provide the facility rent-free for four years, but if the DOC [Department of Corrections] requests a renewal for a fifth year, she would expect a market rent,? Leahy wrote. ?She would like to continue having the lawn/plowing/trash handled by the state. Currently it is handled by a prisoner work program. Is it possible for this to continue? She has requested that the state pay 1/3 of the annual real estate taxes once due.?
?I believe we can accommodate all of the requests of the buyer excluding the payment of 1/3 of the annual real estate taxes,? Leet wrote Feb. 8.
As part of the final agreement, inmate work crews provide mowing and landscaping work on the property, remove trash and clear snow, Lamoreau and Department of Corrections Associate Commissioner Jody Breton confirmed July 6.
?I am not sure if it is legal for us to provide those services without owning or leasing the property,? Leet wrote in an email March 1.
?I have been trying to get an answer from the AG?s Office,? he wrote March 9. ?Corrections and BGS are OK with it; we just need to be sure it?s appropriate and legal.?
Kielty said she asked around at the Attorney General?s office July 11 and cannot find any reference in its emails or records to the land deal. She also noted that of the employees she talked to, none had any memory of any calls or discussions of the issue.
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Casey Anthony Update: Cheney Mason Accuses Public of Being 'A Lynch Mob' - Christian Post
Appearing on NBC?s ?Today? show on Monday, the attorney told Savannah Guthrie, ?I do believe her story. I believed it from the first time I met her which was several weeks before I was formally on the team. I went to her home, her room where all the photographs are, and talked with her.
?I have never for one minute had any doubt at all. She did not kill her child. Period.?
While Mason and his team of defense lawyers, including lead attorney Jose Baez who has notably garnered much fame after the trial, buy Casey?s story, little is known about what really happened to 2-year-old Caylee, whose remains were found in December 2008, nearly six months after she was last seen.
However, as much as the defense has tried to portray their defendant?s innocence, the prosecution and the public have remain unconvinced. Though she was found not guilty of first-degree murder, manslaughter, and child abuse, polls indicate that many still believe Casey Anthony had something to do with her daughter?s death.
Throughout the trial, prosecutors hoped to present evidence to the jury that showed that Casey did in fact murder Caylee. They accused her of suffocating the 2-year-old with chloroform, placing duct tape over her mouth, putting her deceased body in the trunk of her car, and dumping the body in the nearby woods.
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But the high levels of chloroform in the trunk of Casey?s car, the smell of ?human decomposition,? and the unaffected behavior of Casey following the death of her daughter were not enough evidence for the jury, or at least beyond a reasonable doubt.
Even all of the lies that the defendant told her family and her friends after her daughter went missing left jurors still grappling for more solid evidence.
During the brief interview, Guthrie asked Mason, ?If this trial proved anything beyond a reasonable doubt it?s that she is an accomplished liar. You?re a veteran defense attorney, why do you think she?s suddenly telling the truth??
?Well I don?t know that it?s sudden,? he responded. ?I don?t think her story, her position has changed from the very beginning. People?s awareness of her is certainly greater than it used to be.?
Mason continued to defend his client and stated that though there was no question she told a lot of stories to a lot of people, it was from a protective mechanism and not out of guilt of murder.
He also clarified why the defense team had asked the judge to determine whether Casey was competent to stand trial towards the end of the trial.
?She?s under a lot of pressure. Not only [was] she on trial for her life, but when she [was] not in the trial then she [was] back in lockdown. And just imagine 23 hours a day for 3 years, most people would be drooling. She?s tough, but we needed to find out if she was okay.?
?She?s not mentally ill now.?
Asked if the defense?s accusation of molestation by George Anthony was a ?brilliant defense strategy or a dirty trick,? the attorney revealed that it was not the latter.
?The allegation wasn?t new in trial. It had been made in the public eye from letters written in the jail sometime before that. Sometimes evidence or testimony in trial doesn?t turn out to be what you expected it to be.?
And in other unexpected turns, Casey had also decided at the last minute to not testify during the trial. Mason said that it wasn?t because she was afraid to take the stand, however. She had just chosen not to, and was the only person who would ever know why.
Perhaps it was for the best, however, since throughout the trial much of the public had criticized Casey?s demeanor and expressions, which were cold one second and crying the next. Many felt she was putting on an act.
Though nobody coached her on her mannerisms before the court, Mason did say that he and his lawyers did try to keep her emotions down, which he explained was ?pretty hard to do when family [testified] against her and people [were] calling for [her] blood like a lynch mob.?
Prosecutors tried to use testimony from her mother and father against her in court, with both Cindy and George denying the defense?s claims that they were involved in the death of their granddaughter. Casey?s parents also purportedly told the family lawyer that they did not believe in her innocence.
With obvious strains in their family, Mason told Guthrie that Casey?s relationship with Cindy and George is ?pretty well burned,? though he thought that his client may one day have a relationship with her brother.
Speculation on where Casey will go after her release from prison on July 17 ? less than a week away ? is buzzing, with some saying that she will flee the country because of the negative reaction from the public. In a recent Gallup poll, about two-thirds of Americans believed Casey is still guilty of murder.
She, as well as Mason and her parents, have already received death threats following the jury?s not guilty verdict.
But Mason believes she won?t leave the country. ?She just needs to have some time, counseling, and be reintroduced to society,? he revealed. ?She?s been in lockdown for 23 hours a day, for 3 years.?
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Attorney wants trial in Ohio deputy's death moved - Cleveland Plain Dealer
LEBANON, Ohio (AP) ? An attorney for a man charged with murder for a deputy's death during a high-speed police chase has asked the court to move the trial.
Attorney Clyde Bennett's motion filed Wednesday in Lebanon says Marcus Isreal is a black man accused of killing a white deputy and cannot get a fair trial in predominantly white Warren County.
U.S. Census figures show the county has a 3.3 percent black population.
The Cincinnati Enquirer reports that Bennett's motion also says extensive media coverage would prevent a fair trial.
Isreal, of Middletown, pleaded not guilty to murder and other charges in Sgt. Brian Dulle's (DOOL'-ee) death.
Authorities say Dulle was putting out stop sticks to halt a speeding, stolen car driven by Isreal when it struck him.
Bennett says the crash was accidental.
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Attorney wants trial in Ohio deputy's death moved - Cleveland Plain Dealer
LEBANON, Ohio (AP) ? An attorney for a man charged with murder for a deputy's death during a high-speed police chase has asked the court to move the trial.
Attorney Clyde Bennett's motion filed Wednesday in Lebanon says Marcus Isreal is a black man accused of killing a white deputy and cannot get a fair trial in predominantly white Warren County.
U.S. Census figures show the county has a 3.3 percent black population.
The Cincinnati Enquirer reports that Bennett's motion also says extensive media coverage would prevent a fair trial.
Isreal, of Middletown, pleaded not guilty to murder and other charges in Sgt. Brian Dulle's (DOOL'-ee) death.
Authorities say Dulle was putting out stop sticks to halt a speeding, stolen car driven by Isreal when it struck him.
Bennett says the crash was accidental.
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Attorney wants trial in Ohio deputy's death moved - Cleveland Plain Dealer
LEBANON, Ohio (AP)�? An attorney for a man charged with murder for a deputy?s death during a high-speed police chase has asked the court to move the trial.
Attorney Clyde Bennett?s motion filed Wednesday in Lebanon says Marcus Isreal is a black man accused of killing a white deputy and cannot get a fair trial in predominantly white Warren County.
U.S. Census figures show the county has a 3.3 percent black population.
The Cincinnati Enquirer reports that Bennett?s motion also says extensive media coverage would prevent a fair trial.
Isreal, of Middletown, pleaded not guilty to murder and other charges in Sgt. Brian Dulle?s (DOOL?-ee) death.
Authorities say Dulle was putting out stop sticks to halt a speeding, stolen car driven by Isreal when it struck him.
Bennett says the crash was accidental.
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