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"New Casey Anthony attorney is death-penalty expert"

By Douglas A. Berman

The title of this post is the headline of this local article providing some interesting sentencing-related news in a high-profile murder case.  Here are the particulars: The newest attorney to join Casey Anthony's defense team is a death-penalty expert from Chicago who has tried more than 130 homicide cases, her legal team announced today. Professor Andrea D. Lyon is a clinical professor of law at the DePaul University College of Law in Chicago, where she also directs the law school's Center for Justice in Capital Cases, according to a news release. "Professor Lyon has tried over 130 homicide cases. A former Cook County Public Defender in Illinois, she served as chief of the public defender's homicide task force," the statement said. "In 1990 she founded the Illinois Capital Resource Center and served as its director until joining the University of Michigan Law School faculty in 1995...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on May 29, 2009 (boomark / email).