Orlando’s ongoing attraction in the courtroom is scheduled to appear in court again Friday April 1, 2011. Casey Anthony is fighting for her freedom and perhaps her own life as she is being charged with first degree murder with the state asking for the death penalty if she is found guilty. She has been accused of killing her two year old daughter, Caylee Marie Anthony.
Caylee’s remains were found in the woods within walking distance of the Anthony family home on December 11, 2008. They were stuffed inside a laundry bag which was then placed inside a garbage bag and she was thrown away like she was nothing but a bag of trash. The child was not even reported missing until 31 days after she was last seen. Her mother told authorities that she was searching for her daughter on her own.
The case has some very disturbing evidence against the mother but is mostly circumstantial evidence. Can this be enough to convict her? I say it might be hard but I feel the state has enough that can indeed bring back a verdict of none other than guilty from the jury. Jury selection begins on May 9th.
The defense feels they can not get a fair trial for their client in Orlando. To be honest I don’t think it matters where they are now. With an honest group serving on the jury panel listening to what evidence they do have they will probably find her guilty, I am just not sure if they will agree to the death penalty. I guess we will just have to wait and see.
In the meantime cfnews.com is reporting a private detective that at one time worked for the Anthony family is scheduled to be deposed at the Florida State Attorney’s office today at 2 p.m. Dominic Casey also was at one time working for the defense team.
Dominic Casey was videotaped while searching in the same area that Caylee’s remains were found. He was seen talking to someone on the phone and it looked as though the person he was on the phone with was telling him where to look. Although the definite identification of who he was talking to still is not known, it has been said that it could have possibly been either a psychic, his daughter or Lee Anthony.
The word is out now that as of Friday evening a local attorney from Orlando has signed on to represent Dominic Casey.
The defense team is fighting the system really hard to have some of the evidence that the state has against their client thrown out. I assume they know if the evidence is allowed in the trial it will hang their client. Will her own words come back to haunt her? Better yet will her own mother’s words pull in a guilty as charged verdict from the jury?
The defense team is challenging the prosecutions use of the cadaver dogs that they claim detected the scent of decomposition in the trunk of Anthony’s car and also in the play area where Caylee use to play in the family’s back yard. Their expert witness, Dr. Scott Fairgrieve says the canines are not scientific instruments and he insists that there is error involved with the scenting ability of a dog.
The defense team is questioning the air samples and chloroform asking if it is actually evidence or can it just be considered junk science. Their own forensic chemist, Dr Kenneth Furton directly disputes the prosecutions witness, Dr. Arpad Vass’s findings saying there are no scientifically validated methods capable of identifying the presence of human remains based on the presence or absence of specific chemicals. Furton is also says such evidence shouldn’t be admitted in court. He stated, “In some cases, novel methods turn out to be unreliable.â€
Defense expert and noted forensic pathologist Werner Spitz is challenging the Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Jan Garavaglia’s conclusion that the duct tape found on Caylee’s skull was placed there before decomposition. He says her statement is flawed since there was no DNA from Caylee found on the tape. Based on what he finds, there is no scientific information available that the death was at the hand of another as Dr. G says.
I guess we will just have to wait until Friday when the hearing resumes finding out if the defense is going to get what they are asking for on this. If they don’t will they take another stab at Judge Perry like children throwing temper tantrums? Are they going to try to delay a much overdo trial even longer? Well I will be watching the hearings to find out.
Caylee needs some kind of justice here. I pray that she will get it when this trial is finally over. Let’s keep the children like Caylee Anthony, Haleigh Cummings, Adji Desir and even the adult children like Zachary Pittman along with all the other in our prayers that have been abused, kidnapped or murdered. They need to be protected. I pray that an answer to stop all this against the children of the world today will come soon.
Jan Barrett
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I hope Dominic Casey is asked about Bozo telling him if you find Caylee call me first.
That is a big whoops, you call Law Inforcement fist. You do not go out and tramp around where the remains are.
Was what was Bozo thinking, was it get his own team their first, ws it cover up we do not know. But I do not trust this team.
They are officers of the Court they all know better then to pull this trick.
I may throw something at the TV if Mason call’s Casey a little girl again, far from it she was a adult not a girl.
The people want Justice for little Caylee, RIP
I found this interesting, Simon and jan what is your thought.
Casey Anthony Drama Final Act Approaches.
http://womenincrimeink.blogspot.com/
I am all the way in California, Thank you Jan, I enjoy reading your articles. I hope no matter who is invloved with the murder of these children that there is JUSTICE!
I really do hope they come to a plea deal, Like LWOP. Tax payers don’t need this, especially right now. Besides, I can’t believe that soeone who had no job in the first place was allowed to keep Baez and then was able to have a dream team like this. If it was any one of us, we’d be stuck with a DP public defender.
there will be a guilty verdict because she IS GUILTY!!!!!! $indy,the perfect family you tried to show the country has been destroyed.your killer daughter is a pathological liar,thief,5xconvicted felon,tramp.georgie wont or cant hold a job.he even thru his dad thru a plate glass window.anger management issues?leeette is a giggling girl,has poor hygien habits ,looks like a hobo(sorry hobos}and seems to be IN LOVE with his sister.then theres u,you are a controlling,manipulative bitch who also lies constantly.your neighbors confirm this.the thought of u being a former nurse is disturbing to say the least!there is no where in this country u can go that people wont know what u are.youn have made blood money from the murder of caylee and still trying to make more.your daughter should get a lethal injection and the rest of the scamanthonys should go to jail for lying,obstrucion of justice and destroying evidence.THE ANTHONY FAMILY NAME MEANS LIARS!!!!!
The clown team is going in a different direction, I would love to see them put Casey on the stand make our day.
Bill Shaeffer
http://www.wftv.com/video/27347083/index.html
I agree Jan, I’m not sure she will be given the death penalty. I do think there is a good chance that she will be convicted though. I pray that the jurors can connect the dots and contemplate how ghoulish it is that Casey drove around with her daughters stinking, decaying body in the trunk of her car. To me that says it all. Evidence, character wittness, mental health evaluation all rolled into one.
I think without a definitive cause of death, the death penalty might be a stretch. I agree that LWOP is the best we can hope for.
And yes, I do find high irony in Sindy’s own words being the lynch pin to the case. It is too bad that GA and CA have chosen to stand with their daughter (to cover their own plethora of real or imagined sins) rather than with the true innocent of the case, their precious granddaughter.
Can someone, ANYONE tell me why Casey has NOT been given a lie detector test or that truth serum drug?????? That would answer so many questions. Why NOT????? I know that Bozo would NOT want this, but I would love it. Anyone??
After watching that video that Pat put on here….. I’m sorry, there is no way in hell that George killed Caylee. Not only that, but I think that theory for the defense would go out the window once the SAO brought up the fact that Casey claimed “Zanny” the nanny took her. And then from there she blamed everyone else (her ex & his father). Then they blamed Mr. Kronk. Casey has no way out of this at all. She is guilty and her and her dream team know it. At this point, I think they also know they lost before it has even gotten started. The best thing to do at this point is to bed SAO for LWOP. They will probably accept it due to the financial burden this has put on the tax payers, It will also give Caylee some kind of justice.
Why is it theese girls insist on having theese babies when they know deep down they are not ready to take on the responseabilty,even if they truly want to give it a try & then change their mind, GIVE UP the child to someone who is intrested,in this case the grandparents maybe. There are so many girls out there that go through the trouble of hiding the whole pregnancy and then throw theese babes into a dumpster. Take a little more time and effort and drop the baby off at a hospital,church,some safe place and give the child half a chance. I know its not the easiest thing to do to go to your parents with news like this and I know as a parent its not the news you really want to hear from your teenager, but now is the time to step up and take on a situation where your son or daughter is gonna need you the most. Be there for them this could be the test in life where you can show them that you are there for them no matter WHAT ANYBODY ELSE THINKS. There is always an option – before – during – and after the fact. It might even open the lines of comunacation between you and yours, lets face it teenagers and young adults can sometimes be trying on any parent. Maybe in Caylee’s (and the other childrens names) it will open some eyes,hearts and minds and they wont forget the trust and bond that was there when they needed someone the most,which should be their parents. So much greif could be avoided.
Kathy-
they know she would never pass. and LE knows the truth. Casey killed the little Angel Caylee Marie.
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