Baby Lisa Irwin Missing: New Lawyer for Irwin Family
The parents of missing baby Lisa Irwin have obtained new legal representation. John Picerno joined New York lead attorney Joe Tacopina, replacing attorney Cyndy Short just three days after she was dismissed.
The fall out came as a disagreement developed between Short and Tacopina as to how to proceed with the case.
"Tacopina and I were not able to work as a team…our goals and our approaches are so different that one of us had to go," Short said.
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During her time on the case she represented both Deborah Bradley and Jeremy Irwin for free.
On Wednesday, Picerno offered no comments to the media concerning the case or his role in it.
Irwin’s version of events that occurred the night she disappeared state that when he came home he discovered the lights on and the door to Lisa’s room ajar.
Police have not named any suspect so far in the case. They are critical of baby Lisa’s parents due to the fact that both of their stories have inconsistencies, as well as describing them as uncooperative at times.
Lisa Irwin disappeared from her crib at the family's home on North Lister Avenue. Bradley stated she checked on the baby late in the evening. She was also drinking wine with a neighbor on the front step that night after putting Lisa to bed.
Jeremy Irwin left early in the evening to go to an overnight electrician's job at a local Starbucks. He returned home around 4 a.m. and found the baby missing.
Doubts arose after Bradley, the baby’s mother, admitted to sitting on the front steps with a neighbor and getting drunk on wine while her husband was working the night Lisa went missing. She could not recall if she had checked on Lisa before she went to bed at 10:30 p.m.
Thursday marked one month that baby Lisa went missing.
