Well, if the Utah trial doesn’t hang him pretty good, I’m pretty sure the feds would be happy to to do it all over again. The option should still be there.
As I understand it, Utah still uses the firing squad. By a lighter charge or lesser penalty, perhaps they could load 2 rifles with blanks instead of just 1…?
Evidentally, the attorney is a crackpot and not actually defending Mitchell.
From this site:
http://tv.ksl.com/index.php?nid=84&sid=15013
*A lawyer who briefly claimed to represent kidnap suspect Brian Mitchell seems to have been ousted from the case after making remarks that raised many eyebrows over the weekend.
A high-profile case like this one tends to draw people like moths to the flame. And sometimes they get burned. That may be what happened to an attorney who claims he had a jailhouse meeting with Brian Mitchell.
Larry Long is known primarily as an attorney for people charged with drunk driving. He sends this form-letter advertising his services to many if not all inmates booked into the county jail. One line says, “Even if you feel you are guilty, DON’T PANIC!”
On Sunday he reached for the big-time, claiming to represent Brian Mitchell.
In a weekend interview with KUTV, Long made remarks many lawyers considered unprofessional, if not downright strange. He said Mitchell deserved a light sentence because he didn’t KILL Elizabeth Smart. He claimed Mitchell loved her. And he referred to her nine-month “adventure.”
Long seems to be lying low after the weekend interview. He’s not returned phone calls. His office staff won’t reveal his whereabouts. *
Nice link Diane.
Can Larry Long be disbarred for such deceit?
I’m still confused by his referring to Mitchell as “the perpetrator” when he claimed to be his council. If he had been Mitchell’s lawyer, couldn’t Mitchell appeal any guilty verdict by claiming incompetent council?
My question is how does he sleep at night?
In a coffin, filled with the soil from his native land.