Posted July/7/2010

ATTORNEY GIVES ADVICE ON HORMAN CASE

PORTLAND, Ore. – A prominent family defense attorney has weighed in on the legal developments in the Kyron Horman case.

Mark Cogan, who represented Carl and Raylene Worthington when the couple was accused of child mistreatment and manslaughter charges when they decided to pray for their sick daughter instead of take her to a doctor, warned the public of rushing to judgment.

“Nobody has been formally charged,” Cogan said. “There’s all sorts of speculation innuendo rumor suspicion out there on the internet and public opinion and on television but at this point no formal charges have been lodged and I would just caution people from coming to any premature judgment until facts are in.”

Cogan also had advice for Terri Moulton Horman, Kyron’s step-mother who has been under scrutiny in the press.

“I would advise her to not speak to the news media, to not publish any comments online, to not give any interviews to reporters, to be quiet, to not give any interviews and to allow her defense team to do their work,” he said.

And if she did make a public statement?

“I would refuse to represent a client who is making rash statements in the press and giving interviews,” he said. “If I had a client that was doing that, that would be the end of our relationship.”