Caylee Marie Anthony #123 4/14/09 - 4/17/09

[goodnmad]

Thanks Searching that is very helpful.

And incredibly sad to see it laid out like that. Left like trash. Reduced to bones. 

[cookie]

CC----not that was funny!!! ^^^^^^
thanks for giving me my morning chuckle as usual! too funny!

[joesamas mama]

Hi Cage! Long-time Lurker... Just got approved!  It's official! I'm a monkey!
 

Welcome Texas Monkey! I am a Texas monkey Too.

[Sassycat]

Thanks Searching that is very helpful.

And incredibly sad to see it laid out like that. Left like trash. Reduced to bones. 

That should be sent to C&G for a reality check.   

[Sassycat]

Hi Cage! Long-time Lurker... Just got approved!  It's official! I'm a monkey!
 

Welcome Texas Monkey! I am a Texas monkey Too.

Hey LP - how ya doing?    (that was so funny).   

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Searching...nice to see you...hope you are well..

thanks for that info a page or so back...I had never seen that...was staggering to read though...her little bones and the pullup....so sad and so darn cold blooded if you ask me!

[cookie]

Thanks Searching that is very helpful.

And incredibly sad to see it laid out like that. Left like trash. Reduced to bones. 

That should be sent to C&G for a reality check.   

Yes...C&G should see that!

[darla]

Good Morning Monkeys! Welcome to all the New Monkeys I have missed.

I posted last night , not sure if you saw it....but there is a pic of Cain somewhere in cage in the last 2 months. He is sitting at a desk. Monkeys commented that he was not KC"s type. I don't know how to go back and find it...but sure some smart Monkey can. IIRC he has blonde hair. I am thinking it was right around the time of the Feb. 19th doc dump.

[CasuallyCool]

CC----not that was funny!!! ^^^^^^
thanks for giving me my morning chuckle as usual! too funny!

Where's my $100 for allowing you to enter the new cage?   

[Searching]

glad it was useful.It is sad and my stomach turns every time I see it.. but I did print it and did a kinda connect the dots (circles) and noticed she was localized in a half circle.. almost as though she was thrown that way AFTER she was bone...kinda odd... any monkeys can explain how she would have been had animals got her? seems odd way for animals to leave her. There was one area that was not circled that should have been.. 1-38 at the bottom of the grid..

[Searching]

Searching...nice to see you...hope you are well..

thanks for that info a page or so back...I had never seen that...was staggering to read though...her little bones and the pullup....so sad and so darn cold blooded if you ask me!

Thank you cookie... service is coming the end of this week... you monkeys and the cage (my friends) are holding me up right now, with out you all and focusing on these cases, I would be well..not good, on my knees , and not in the same way KC gets on hers     I can not thank you all enough.

[cookie]

CC----not that was funny!!! ^^^^^^
thanks for giving me my morning chuckle as usual! too funny!

Where's my $100 for allowing you to enter the new cage?   

You need me here...I could be your biggest fan! tee hee!

[Searching]

CC----not that was funny!!! ^^^^^^
thanks for giving me my morning chuckle as usual! too funny!

Where's my $100 for allowing you to enter the new cage?   

I don't know about cookie,but I donated mine to the save the squirrels defense fund.

[CasuallyCool]

BREAKING NEWS:  Cindy Anthony claims that she gave law enforcement a picture and phone number of the person that referred her to Zaneida Gonzalez.  Law enforcement has provided the following...

[goodnmad]

just noticed something on that map you posted Searching -- on the far right it says "cardboard heart"

Anyone know about this? My first time hearing it ... I think.

[Searching]

just noticed something on that map you posted Searching -- on the far right it says "cardboard heart"

Anyone know about this? My first time hearing it ... I think.

I am not positive but think it was the backing for the heart.

[darla]

just noticed something on that map you posted Searching -- on the far right it says "cardboard heart"

Anyone know about this? My first time hearing it ... I think.

Good....I think the red heart was found stuck on the piece of cardboard. It is in the pictures of evidence from the crime scene.

[CasuallyCool]

With Casey Anthony's life at stake, court costs will soar
Sarah Lundy | Sentinel Staff Writer
April 15, 2009
When prosecutors decided this week to seek the death penalty against Casey Anthony, they set the stage for what could turn out to be a pricey case for the state and the defense.

Death penalty cases are not cheap. Because the stakes are so high, attorneys file more motions, conduct more research and interview more witnesses. The trials also take more time.

For Anthony, the young mother charged with killing her 2-year-old daughter, the possibility of execution promises to prolong and complicate the trial, scheduled tentatively for October in Orlando.

"It can make the case 10 times more expensive. It's a very complex issue that has to be litigated by both sides," said Kevin McNally, a Kentucky-based death penalty attorney who is director of the Federal Death Penalty Project, which collects information on federal cases.

Jurors face tough scrutiny
Capital punishment cases need a special jury, and the case comes in two parts: the guilt-innocence phase and the penalty phase — all adding days or weeks to the process.

The first hurdle is selecting a jury. A juror on a death penalty case must be willing to sentence someone to die if needed. That shrinks a potential jury pool, eliminating people who say they can't vote for the death penalty no matter the circumstances.

Unlike other cases where jurors are questioned in groups, jurors in death penalty cases are interviewed individually.

"It is a battle over each one," said Richard Dieter, executive director of the Death Penalty Information Center. "It can take weeks. ... That doesn't happen in regular cases."

Veteran defense attorney Cheney Mason said it took three weeks to pick a jury in the first-degree murder case against his client, Nelson Ivan Serrano, who was sentenced to death in 2007 for the murders of four people in Polk County.

Once a jury is picked, the trial begins with the guilt-innocence phase, like most trials. Prosecutors present their evidence, and the defense tries to poke holes in the case.

The jury then decides whether the defendant is guilty of first-degree murder. If the jury finds the person guilty, the trial moves to stage two: the penalty phase.

Prosecutors present "aggravating factors" — outlined by law — that add weight to the argument that the person should be sentenced to death. Those factors could include whether the killing was committed in a cold, calculated and premeditated manner.

The defense then puts on its case, presenting "mitigating circumstances" why the defendant's life should be spared, such as the defendant acted under extreme duress.

"It's a second trial within a trial," Mason said.

That's where much of the cost starts to ratchet up.

More work, higher costs
The two phases often mean double the work for defense attorneys.

To prepare for the penalty phase, they do intensive research into the client's background. Every school record, medical record and even birth record may be examined, Mason said.

Mental health issues are explored, if they weren't already, he said.

Some defenses pay a mitigation specialist to dig up anything positive they can about the client. These details could sway a juror to vote against the death penalty.

"It's totally time-consuming," Bartow defense attorney David Carmichael said.

A private attorney in a death penalty case can charge $100,000 to $500,000 in attorney's fees. Mason said he would need to have several hundred thousand dollars more available to pay any experts needed and other costs to prepare for a defense.

In 2006, defending three killers who beat six people to death in Deltona cost more than $1.37 million. Troy Victorino and Jerone Hunter got the death penalty. The third, Michael Salas, got life in prison without parole.

Victorino's court-appointed attorneys spent nearly $35,000 in investigative costs and $19,000 in mental-health evaluations. Hunter's court-appointed attorneys spent $33,000 on mental-health experts, according to bills submitted to the court.


State's bill also rises
It is too soon to say how much the Casey Anthony case will cost the State Attorney's Office.

TV Guy Hal Boedeker's commentary on the Casey Anthony case coverage Prosecutors' spokesman Randy Means said death penalty cases are not budgeted separately from other cases. But because capital punishment cases typically take longer and have two parts, he says they cost more than non-death cases.

The time prosecutors put in is "three to 10 times as much," Dieter said. "Time is worth something. ... That means they won't be spending it doing something else."

More cost may accrue in the penalty phase if the defense has experts testify. Prosecutors would put their own experts on the stand to counter the arguments, Means said.

Seminole-Brevard Chief Assistant State Attorney Wayne Holmes agreed with Means.

Many of the "aggravators" that need to be shown are often used in the guilt-innocence phase. The "mitigating" details are what need to be fought.

All of these costs come from prosecutors' budgets, which are funded by taxpayers. Holmes said that is why he keeps track of any major expenses requested by attorneys.

[goodnmad]

just noticed something on that map you posted Searching -- on the far right it says "cardboard heart"

Anyone know about this? My first time hearing it ... I think.

Good....I think the red heart was found stuck on the piece of cardboard. It is in the pictures of evidence from the crime scene.

ok, so the heart sticker that was on the tape had come off and was stuck on a piece of cardboard?

now, I recall the pic.

Thanks

[darla]

just noticed something on that map you posted Searching -- on the far right it says "cardboard heart"

Anyone know about this? My first time hearing it ... I think.

Good....I think the red heart was found stuck on the piece of cardboard. It is in the pictures of evidence from the crime scene.

ok, so the heart sticker that was on the tape had come off and was stuck on a piece of cardboard?

now, I recall the pic.

Thanks

The best I remember that is how it was. It matched the residue on the duct tape. That chart just makes me sick on my stomach. It is bad enough that she killed her, but to leave her there for 6 months is just more than I can stand. I would love to pull the switch on her.