Joe Picerno has done it again. The recent graduate of the Joe Tacopina school of “How To Make Your Clients Look Guilty”, made a statement that had to make even Tacopina wince. In the custody battle for 8-year-old Blake Irwin, Picerno made the following statement “They have to prove there have been changed circumstances of a continuing and substantial nature.” Someone needs to clue Picerno in, when your drunk and supposedly pass out and your baby goes missing, it does seem to be substantial. Just because Lisa was small, does not constitute it not being substantial. Unless someone failed to tell the media that Lisa arrived home on a bus or just flew in from somewhere, it is continuing. I have sit at my computer at times and actually wondered how Picerno and Tacopina got the reputation that they seem to have. Neither one has ever said one thing that can be proven, as to the innocence of their client or clients.
This next remark is enough to lose the whole case. He says that Bradley and Irwin are good parents and the only strike against them was October 4th. Hmm. your drunk, your baby goes missing, you stop helping police, you move back into your house, so you can get back to a normal life, less than 2 months after she is missing, and that is a strike? More like an atom bomb, Joe old boy.
Picerno all of the sudden has a change of heart. He has yapped from the get-go that the police have called Deborah Bradley and Jeremy Irwin suspects. Now here is where he suddenly remembers that the police did not say they were suspects. He says, (Oct 4), the night someone came into the home and the baby was kidnapped, Jeremy and Debbie according to the KCPD and the FBI, are not suspects. Wait, I know, pick me pick me, I know the answer. Picerno was out of town the day the police said that his clients were not suspects. Picerno just read that online and now he understands. See, just a common misunderstanding. (need to add here, clients denotes that there is more than one client, so Jeremy is included as one of his clients)
Blake Irwin, might need to start packing unless the judge is blind and has not read anything about the case. He will see how Picerno has said, that the police consider their clients suspects. That is a whole ‘nother can of worms. Deborah is drunk, someone comes in, through a window that is not normally open and has been left open by Bradley, turns on all the lights, kidnaps Lisa, takes 3 cell phones, spends the next 3 hours and 34 minutes in the woods behind Bradley’s home, tries to call Megan Wright’s phone, tries to access Bradley’s voice mail and the internet and then just disappears. Sounds like we have a winner. Sounds like something only an idiot or someone who was DRUNK, might do.
Back to the custody suit, I agree that Rasleen Raim has not seemed to care about Blake until now. I believe for that fact, she will probably lose this suit. It will not be because the defense has presented a strong case for Jeremy Irwin. Picerno should have just stuck with the “she has not tried to see the boy ever” defense. Joe is backpeddling so fast, he is probably in the middle of California or the Atlantic Ocean by now.
Joe better hope the judge does not notice how he nor Tacopina, ever call Lisa by her name. That is a sign of disassociating yourself from that child. The parents have not done such a bad job of that either. So, when you do not call a missing baby by it’s name, and you just get on with your lives, that does not look good for Jeremy Irwin. I am almost ashamed to say it, but I still think that Raim should not get custody. That would add to the trauma this young boy has suffered. Do I think he is completely safe with Deborah Bradley? Probably, he has a better chance of running away from her drunk self than Lisa did.
There is no sure winner in this, Deborah Bradley has an alcohol problem, you do not drink heavily several times a week, and not have a problem, You do not mix anti-anxiety medication with alcohol. You do not drink to the point of being drunk, when you are the only adult in the house with a six-year-old, an eight-year-old and a 10 month old. Since Jeremy was usually at home at night, the children have a chance, unless he drinks also. There is no where that I can find, any evidence that he did. With the bills piling up, and Deborah having to have her win, he probably cannot afford to drink, He has to work to keep her ladyship in wine.
With Deborah most likely to keep drinking and maybe drank even more, with the guilt, I believe she must have over what happened to Lisa, Jeremy should make other arrangements for the kids if he is going to take a side job. The most intelligent solution would be to have Deborah seek help for her drinking. That, I fear, will never happen.