Jane Hamsher created Firedoglake and organized its Libby trial team.

Jane Hamsher created Firedoglake and organized its Libby trial team.

Its name is easily explained, she said: “I like lying in front of the fire with my dogs and watching the Lakers.”

A movie producer best known for “Natural Born Killers,” Ms. Hamsher, who recently moved to Middletown, Conn., from California, arrived at the trial just days after cancer surgery and is scheduled for chemotherapy after the verdict.