Corie, 40, is charged with murdering her son Barrett Walsh at their home in Frankfort, Illinois, on September 1. Corie Walsh, the Lindsay Clancy-obsessed mother who allegedly hung her two-year-old son before trying to kill herself, has retained Casey Anthony’s former lawyer Andrea Lyon, known as the “Angel of Death Row.
“This is a tragedy for the Walsh family all of whom are mourning the loss of this child,” Lyon said in a statement she provided to the New York Post regarding her new client’s case.
The former law school dean was a member of Anthony’s legal team in the lead-up to her trial in 2011.
Andrea is dubbed the “Angel of Death Row” because of her record of wins in death penalty cases.
The Corie Walsh case
Chicago-based Andrea, of the Lyon & Kerr firm, joined Casey’s defense team as a death penalty expert in May 2009, according to the Orlando Sentinel. She quit in July 2010, with Casey’s lead attorney Jose Baez citing “financial issues. Managing a 22-lawyer unit, she tried over 130 homicide cases and defended more than 30 potential capital cases at the trial level, including taking 19 capital cases through penalty phase. In 1990, Andrea founded and directed the Illinois Capital Resource Center representing all of the death row inmates in Illinois. It adds, “In January of 2015, Andrea was awarded Operation Push’s Rev.
“It is our hope that through a thorough presentation and investigation of the facts, that all of us will come to see this heartbreak for what it is. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and President Lyndon B. Johnson Dream-Makers Award. A winner of the prestigious National Legal Aid and Defender Association’s Reginald Heber Smith Award for best advocate for the poor in the country, she is a nationally recognized expert in the field of death penalty defense and a frequent Continuing Legal Education (CLE) teacher throughout the country. She has been designated as learned counsel in the federal defense system. A neighbor found Corie’s son hanging by his neck from the rafters.
“It is also a tragedy in that Corie herself was experiencing a psychotic episode at the time this happened,” she added. The Lyon & Kerr website says, “Her legal work began in the Cook County Public Defender’s Office where she rose to become Chief of the Homicide Task Force. Corie later described Barrett to police as the “anti-Christ” and the “devil,” per the New York Post.
