Just after 1:10pm Jose Baez had his turn to offer Opening Statements. The State had created a strong case in their statement, and this afternoon we got to hear the defense. I have joked many times that Jose Baez would claim that Caylee Anthony was abducted by aliens and taken to Area 51. It turned out that I was not too far removed from my ridiculous idea.
It took no time at all to deal with those pesky missing 31 days. The child was dead, she drowned in the family pool. It was an accident!
Casey Anthony was too scared to report the event because of her father. As a young lady her father George had sexually abused her. Baez also alluded to the possibility that Casey’s brother Lee may have also been involved.
The real corker though has to be Roy Cronk. According to Jose Baez, Kronk was likely in possession of the body for several months before actually depositing the remains where they were found by Kronk.
I view this scenario as a Kronk Of BS!
Last Sunday on our radio program a well known lawyer Mannie Barling explained to us all that   there were traps that an attorney can fall into during the Opening Statements. I can’t remember the legal term, but it boils down to….  The jury has long memories, you had better be able to prove what you are saying or you are toast!
Jose Baez has set his sails, now we can only wait and see how the wind blows for him.
Is it a risky strategy to play the sexual abuse card? George and Cindy Anthony are on both the State and Defense witness lists. Obviously the defense will move to have them declared ‘Hostile’, one wonders if the State will take the same position? Certainly Cindy and George have witness value, but they also present challenges. An asset can quickly become a liability.
Maybe the most telling part of the Opening Statement by Jose Baez was his avoidance of the Zanny The Nanny defense.
Oops have to cut this short, State has just called George Anthony as the first witness….
Simon Barrett
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Follow-up comment rss or Leave a TrackbackWhether the spin on Caylees death are truths or lie, be assured that all of this will come back to haunt those who participated. I live in Fla and am a senior cit however, when we retired in Vegas in 2008 we knew of this case. As a retired Atty and med prof as well, i can tell you that Floridians and elders do not sit well with blame esp when it is used to cover up the death of a child?
If all of us will remember, Casey has lied from the beginning and now if i am right daddy may drop the bomb on her..However, he will never admit (if sex abuse happened) that he ever touched his daughter and as a prof i doubt that he ever touched her other than to correct her behaviour. The defense is struggling to find a way out of this dilemna and we can be assured that its just getting started..Hold on to your hats.
Last, in the end the defense will fold because the Pros has a game plan
So where did Kronk get the body? Baez is the most stupid lawyer I have ever seen. Unless he wants to kill his client on purpose.
ITA Biaz left out the part on who put the body where and how did Kronk hide it without getting any of his dna etc on it? Maybe because it didnt happen? lol jmo
I felt so much compassion for George Anthony. I thought it so low down when the defense atty graphically described an alleged incident. They have made this case about Casey. I hope now that the parents see the character of their daughter that they cooperate with the prosecution and truly seek JUSTICE FOR CAYLEE.
Baez might have just as well put the needle in his clients arm with that opening statement. All or part of this could be true, execution was all wrong, to lay all the cards face up like that.
The problem in all of this is that whole family told a lot of mistruths and they knew what had happened from day one, June 16th or was it more like June 15th? Thinking it was the latter, but come up with the 16th to protect Cindy. They lied to make money off this death of their grand daughter and thats one thing I cannot forgive. If they are in fact throwing Casey under the bus for their own wants and needs, they are guiltier than Casey is in all of it. How did Kronk ever get his hands on Caylee? George pass her off to him? Or was it DC? I think they all need to go to the cooler for a long time. Downright crazy!
How is Biaz going to discount all the roots twined around the blankets and skeleton? No way that body was placed there by Kronk when they claim. And why would he wait to report it?
And Biaz left out in his story who put Caylee there in the first place? Maybe because it was his client? jmo
I’ve always said the whole family had some involvement in this but this is sooo stupid it defies all logic and understanding! I could go point by point but the prosecution will be doing that as we go. Casey sure has some guts to think we or anybody with a brain will see it this way. I don’t think the death penalty will be given though because she is clearly insane and delusional.
If George Anthony cheated on his wife and lied to her about working,
What would this make him ?
If he could do this then he is capable of covering up anything.
Maybe the defense claims could be true.
George did a lot of sly things in all this. How does anybody explain his lying away? He got caught up in credit card gambling and nigerian scams and he and Cindy blamed KC, but they never did anything about it, because they knew it was not true. Cindy lied about all this money that she actually freely allowed KC to use, then turned it around to make her own daughter look bad.
George did lie about work. Always remember George is a man who knows a lot about a lot of things.
Wasnt jose told in 2008 by prison officials that private contact with a jail inmate is
against the rules, didnt he have to be told several times while visiting casey to keep his hands off of her. So someone who is abused by there father, the attorney hits on her too.
Gives her lots of hugs and kisses.
This entire thing makes my skin crawl.
Oviously this family is disfunctinal, but I dont believe for one second george had anything to do with caylee’s death. To me
if casey was molested by george it doesnt have anything to do with the death of caylee.
I have serious doubts George ever land a hand on casey, I think casey is a liar and wants to escape the death penalty. this is the only way to do it.
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