MEDIA REPORTS:Caylee Marie Anthony-MURDER TRIAL-(NO DISCUSSION)

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http://www.canyon-news.com/artman2/publish/National_News_1182/Closing_The_Case_On_Casey_Anthony_Murder_Trial.php

Casey Anthony's Aunt Speaks, Exclusive

Pam Plesea is the ex-wife of Cynthia Anthony’s brother Rick. Though estranged from her ex-husband and ex-sister-in-law, she spoke with me after refusing to sell her story to Globe and National Enquirer magazines. 

“None of this surprised me,” said Anthony’s ex-sister-in-law Pam Plesea. “When my son was 4 years old and we threw him a birthday party, Casey was just days or weeks old. Cindy showed up at my home and put the infant Casey up in my face and said, 'What a shame you will never know how it feels to have your own child.' I was mortified. My son was adopted, but he is my child and she then said, 'Oh, I meant that you never will have a girl, and it’s the best thing for a mother. She’s my life now.' Well, 25 years later, I see she is willing to possibly perjure herself for her daughter.”

“She told me that Cindy and George are not being totally honest about that night. Lee was there, Cindy confronted Casey on June 15 and they ended up in an altercation and Cindy choked Casey, Lee pulled them apart, and Cindy called Shirley to tell her that Casey would never steal again and that she had choked her. Then Cindy called her mother Shirley the next morning and told her that Casey had taken Caylee and the car before anyone woke up and was gone. That’s still very horrifying to Shirley. She’s very aged now and the little girl’s death weighs heavily on her mind.”

If this is true, Shirley would've told LE.  I wonder if LE thought they'd have a hard time proving this considering how this family covers for each other?

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http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/
Casey Anthony: Testimony Breakdown
Dan Abrams discusses both the defense and prosecution's strategies
7/02/2011
Video at link.

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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/43617053#43617053
Cindy Anthony testimony under heavy scrutiny  07/02/2011
Video at link.

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Judgment nears for Casey Anthony, as testimony wraps in murder trial
July 01, 2011|By the CNN Wire Staff

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Orange County Sheriff's Department Sgt. Kevin Stenger claimed there did not appear to be any searches for chlorophyll or for bamboo, as Cindy Anthony had claimed, though he did say there was a specific Google search for neck breaking. And Detective Sandra Osborne testified there were no evidence of a chlorophyll-specific search on the computer's hard drive, though there was evidence of searches for things such bamboo furniture.

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http://articles.cnn.com/2011-07-01/justice/florida.casey.anthony.trial_1_cindy-anthony-casey-anthony-george-anthony/2?_s=PM:CRIME

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http://www.cfnews13.com/article/news/2011/june/271806/What-will-happen-Sunday-in-the-Casey-Anthony-trial
What will happen Sunday in the Casey Anthony trial?
Defense attorney Jose Baez, center, comes to the defense table where Casey Anthony sits before the start of court in her murder trial at the Orange County Courthouse in Orlando, Fla. on Monday, June 27, 2011.
By David Fussell, Legal Expert
Last Updated: Saturday, July 02, 2011 1:47 PM
ORLANDO --

What happens after Casey Anthony's defense team wraps up?
Closing arguments
After the jury instructions are read to the jury, one attorney for each side will be allowed to stand up and make a closing argument. In the closing argument each side attempts to explain the evidence in the manner most advantageous to their client. The state gets to give its closing argument first, followed by the defense. After the defense gives its closing argument the state gets one more chance to stand up, and rebut the argument the defense just provided. The rebuttal closing is supposed to cover only the argument the defense provided and not rehash the state’s entire argument. Lawyer’s refer to the order of the argument as the state having the “sandwich” because the state gets to wrap its arguments around the defense’s argument.
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/07/02/casey-anthony-trial-juror_n_889288.html?view=print
Casey Anthony Trial: Jurors Left With Scant Evidence
First Posted: 07/ 2/11 03:45 PM ET Updated: 07/ 2/11 04:16 PM ET
Kyle Hightower, Associated Press

ORLANDO, Fla. — After more than 33 days of testimony, 400 pieces of evidence and sweeping promises from attorneys to prove how 2-year-old Caylee Anthony died, neither prosecutors nor defense attorneys have provided concrete evidence showing whether the girl was killed by her mother.

And when closing arguments begin Sunday, jurors won't forget what they were promised.

During opening statements in May, prosecutors said Caylee was suffocated with duct tape by a mother who loved to party, tattooed herself with the Italian words for "beautiful life" in the month her daughter was missing and crafted elaborate lies to mislead everyone from investigators to her own parents. Defense attorneys countered that the toddler accidentally drowned in the family swimming pool, and that her seemingly carefree mother in fact was hiding emotional distress caused by sexual abuse from her father.

However, a medical examiner never determined precisely how Caylee died, and 25-year-old Casey Anthony's DNA was not found with her daughter's skeletal remains when they were found in December 2008 in a wooded area near the Anthony family home. The defense team never offered firm proof of how the girl died, either, and never offered any evidence that Casey Anthony was molested by her father, George, who has firmly denied the claim.

"This is an emotional case and I think they made some promises early in the opening and they have not been able to deliver," said Tim Jansen, a former federal prosecutor and criminal defense lawyer in Tallahassee. "(The jury is) going to be very skeptical in their closing arguments. When I do my closing arguments, I can tell you right away if they are listening to me, if they are agreeing with me or if they turn the other way and it's not a good feeling to lose a jury."
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http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Justice/2011/0702/Casey-Anthony-trial-As-it-draws-to-a-close-deep-mysteries-remain
Casey Anthony trial: As it draws to a close, deep mysteries remain
In the Casey Anthony murder trial, there's been no confession, no eye witnesses, and no direct physical evidence capable of telling the tale with scientific certainty. Closing arguments begin Sunday

By Warren Richey, Staff writer / July 2, 2011
On the eve of closing arguments, the Casey Anthony murder trial is ending exactly as it began – shrouded in mystery over what really happened to Ms. Anthony’s two-year-old daughter, Caylee
Nearly 100 individuals testified and more than 400 pieces of evidence were presented to the jury in a month-long trial. But it is still unclear precisely how the toddler died.

There’s been no confession, no eye witnesses have come forward, and investigators have found no direct physical evidence capable of telling the tale with scientific certainty.

Nonetheless, on Sunday morning in the Orlando courtroom of Chief Judge Belvin Perry, prosecutors will attempt to sidestep that glaring hole in their case while urging a jury of five men and seven women to find Casey Anthony guilty of the premeditated murder of her daughter.

If convicted, she faces a possible sentence of death by lethal injection.

Prosecutors have presented a theory that Ms. Anthony used chloroform to subdue her daughter and then murdered her by pressing pieces of duct tape over her mouth and nose.

They say she hid the body in the trunk of her car for several days until it began to decompose and smell. Then she dumped it in a wooded area about a quarter-mile from the family home. The skeletal remains were discovered six months later in December 2008. ::snipping2::

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People pay their respects to Caylee as the Casey Anthony trial winds down

ORANGE COUNTY -- 
In the woods of Suburban Drive, there's a memorial with a patriotic theme, not far from where Caylee Anthony's remains were found on 2008.

On the eve of closing arguments in the trial of Caylee's mother, Casey, people are gathering, leaving flowers and stuffed animals and American flags, in honor of the little girl they never met, but fell in love with. This memorial is down the road from an original memorial that had been overloaded with stuff animals and toys, pictures, balloons and flowers. Some said they were upset that the original memorial had been taken down.

 

http://www.cfnews13.com/article/news/2011/july/273228/People-pay-their-respects-to-Caylee-as-the-Casey-Anthony-trial-winds-down

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http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/07/03/us-crime-anthony-idUSTRE7620Y720110703
Lawyers get last chance to sway jurors in Casey Anthony trial
By Barbara Liston
ORLANDO, Fla | Sun Jul 3, 2011 7:53am EDT

(Reuters) - Closing arguments in the murder trial of Casey Anthony, accused of killing her toddler daughter Caylee, are set to begin on Sunday when prosecutors and defense lawyers get a last chance to sway the jury.
When they are done, the sequestered jury will receive instructions from Judge Belvin Perry and retreat to a private room to decide on a verdict without hearing directly from Casey, 25, who chose not to testify in her own defense. ::snipping2::

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http://www.christianpost.com/news/casey-anthony-trial-v-new-fla-death-penalty-law-51802/
Sat, Jul. 02 2011 10:28 PM EDT
Will Casey Anthony get the Death Penalty if Judge Likes New Ruling?
New ruling could be considered in high profile trial
 
In his 94-page ruling, U.S. District Judge Jose Martinez found that Florida's capital punishment rules are flawed.

In more legal terms, the Miami judge declared that the state’s death penalty is “unconstitutional because jurors are not required to make findings beyond a reasonable doubt on the aggravating factors that can increase a guilty defendant's sentence from life to death," the ruling stated.

“The defendant has no way of knowing whether or not the jury found the same aggravating factors as the judge," Martinez wrote in the ruling.

Indeed, the judge, unaware of the aggravating factor or factors found by the jury, may find an aggravating circumstance that was not found by the jury.”

Martinez said the Florida Supreme Court has not found that the state’s method of imposing capital punishment violates the Constitution, even in light of the 2002 U.S. Supreme Court decision he is citing.

Whether or not Chief Judge Belvin Perry, who has been presiding over the Casey Anthony case for the past 33 days, will follow the new ruling is yet to be seen, but he could attempt to modify jury instructions to comply with the decision, according to legal analysts.

“What this means is that death penalty cases in Florida could be challenged because it addresses fairness,” said Rob Lowell, a defense attorney in Atlanta, Ga. ::snipping2::

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http://www.cfnews13.com/article/news/2011/july/273314/Defense-completes-closing-arguments-in-the-case-against-Casey-Anthony

Assistant state attorney Linda Drane Burdick listens during the state's closing arguments in the Casey Anthony trial on Sunday, July 3, 2011.

[Blonde]

http://abcnews.go.com/US/casey_anthony_trial/casey-anthony-trial-heated-summations/story?id=13987381
Casey Anthony Trial Becomes Heated During Closing Arguments
By YUNJI DE NIES and JESSICA HOPPER
ORLANDO, Fla. July 3, 2011
Video at link.

[Blonde]

http://www.wftv.com/news/28433629/detail.html
Emotional Day: Tears, Anger, Laughter In Casey Murder Trial
Posted: 8:35 am EDT July 3, 2011Updated: 7:45 pm EDT July 3, 2011
 
During the defense's closing argument Sunday afternoon, prosecutor Jeff Ashton bellowed an objection after attorney Jose Baez referred to Ashton as a "laughing guy" and pointed to him. Judge Perry sustained the objection and a sidebar was called. The attorneys then went behind closed doors with Judge Perry.

After reviewing the video of the "laughing guy," Judge Perry decided to give the prosecutors and the defense a warning. Judge Perry told Ashton and Baez and the other attorneys that any other incidents will result in their removal.

An angry Perry stopped Baez's argument after he referred to Ashton as "this laughing guy." Television showed Ashton smiling behind his hand at Baez's contention that the prosecution's forensic evidence was based on fantasy. One of Perry's written orders is that the attorneys not show emotion to the other side's statements.

Ashton apologized and said he tried to hide his expressions. Baez also apologized.

Earlier during the state's argument, Ashton said Casey wanted a relationship with her boyfriend, to go out with her friends and to live the carefree life she had before Caylee's birth.

"Something needed to be sacrificed, that something was either the life she wanted or the life thrust upon her. She chose to sacrifice her child," Ashton said during his 90-minute argument.

Ashton stated Casey had a choice saying, "A life tethered through a child or a life free." ::snipping2::
 

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http://www.wftv.com/news/28438713/detail.html
State Says Drowning Claim Absurd; They Kept Promises
Posted: 5:34 am EDT July 4, 2011Updated: 11:04 am EDT July 4, 2011
ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. -- Prosecutors in the Casey Anthony murder trial told jurors they kept their promises, alluding to defense claims that never materialized.

Prosecutors also said it is "absurd" to think her 2-year-old daughter drowned or that Casey's father, George Anthony, covered up Caylee Marie Anthony's death to make it look like murder.

Monday marks day 46, including jury selection, in Casey's trial. She's accused of killing Caylee. ::snipping2::

[Blonde]

http://www.cfnews13.com/article/news/2011/july/273705/The-Case-Against-Casey---The-jury-now-deliberates
The-jury-now-deliberates
The Case Against Casey - The jury now deliberates
By Jacqueline Fell, Adam Longo and Kelli Cook, Team Coverage
Last Updated: Monday, July 04, 2011 12:06 PM

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Casey Anthony goes over paperwork during a break on the final day of arguments in her murder trial at the Orange County Courthouse in Orlando on Monday, July 4, 2011.

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http://insession.blogs.cnn.com/2011/07/04/jury-instructions-in-the-casey-anthony-trial/
Jury Instructions in the Casey Anthony Trial
Posted: 12:53 PM ET

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http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/07/04/us-crime-anthony-idUSTRE7620Y720110704
Casey Anthony murder trial goes to jury in Florida
By Barbara Liston
ORLANDO, Florida | Mon Jul 4, 2011 12:59pm EDT
(Reuters) - The jury in the first-degree murder trial of Casey Anthony began deliberations on Monday afternoon as the trial entered its seventh week with no break for the Independence Day holiday. ::snipping2::