Caylee Marie Anthony #152 11/20/09 - 12/09/09

[crazybabyborg]

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[tupelohoney]

Tupleo? I fixed your hiccups!   

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[Northern Rose]

Anthony Defense Team Explains Actions
Casey Anthony, 23, Charged With Murder In Death Of Daughter

POSTED: Monday, November 23, 2009
UPDATED: 11:30 pm EST November 23, 2009

ORLANDO, Fla. -- Two of Casey Anthony's nationally recognized defense attorneys said they were just doing their jobs -– and the state's -- as they made national television appearances naming the man who found Caylee Anthony's body as a suspect in the girl's death.

VIDEO: Tony Pipitone's Full Interview
http://www.clickorlando.com/video/21675305/index.html

"It's an attempt to do the state's job for them. We brought them evidence," said Linda Kenney Baden during an interview Friday with Local 6.

Others, though, wonder if it's not a calculated ploy to contaminate potential jurors with information that may never make it into their client’s murder trial.

Neither Kenney Baden nor co-counsel Andrea Lyon could cite any evidence that former meter reader Roy Kronk had any contact with Caylee while she was alive -– unlike their client, who was the last person seen with Caylee.

"The evidence we have is circumstantial in nature," said Lyon. "The evidence the prosecution has against this young woman who they are asking the state of Florida to kill is entirely circumstantial."

They also conceded they have no evidence of human decomposition in any of Kronk's vehicles, unlike what the state claims its experts will say was found in the trunk of Casey Anthony's car.

Last week, the defense team filed a motion asking the judge in Anthony's murder trial to let them introduce "prior bad acts" of Kronk, based on unsworn, videotaped interviews with former wives and estranged family members.

The women claim he has a history of using duct tape to perpetrate violence, and his son said he told him he had found Caylee's body about a month before he actually led police to the remains on Dec. 11.

Kronk tried three times in August 2008 to draw law enforcement's attention to what he thought may have the body in the woods, but a deputy who finally appeared failed to thoroughly check and was fired because of it, according to the sheriff's office.

From the beginning, defense attorneys have decried what they call law enforcement leaks about evidence purportedly against their client, and have moved for a change of venue from Central Florida because of the publicity those leaks have created in the local media. Yet they have repeatedly taken to a national audience -– including viewers in Miami, where they want the trial moved -– to comment on inflammatory, unchallenged assertions included in defense motions filed the day before they take to the national airwaves.

Asked if they're not doing the same thing they accused the state and detectives of doing, Kenney Baden said, "The local media, with the exception of some of the reporting that we have seen, ... has taken everything they've seen at face value or the leaks they saw early on and publicized them improperly against our client. Here we're at the national media because at least they will give Casey a fair shake."

But the national media has also left unchallenged some sweeping statements made by the defense, at least one of them inaccurate, according to some of more than 12,000 pages of information released to attorneys and the public in a legal process known as discovery.

In an interview last month with CBS News' 48 Hours, Kenney Baden and co-counsel Todd Macaluso focused on so-called mystery DNA found on the duct tape that was placed around Caylee’s skull.

"Another party that did not belong the FBI, did not belong to the law enforcement, did not belong to Casey or any of her family members (left DNA) on that duct tape," Kenney Baden said on 48 Hours, as Macaluso chimed in, "A stranger. There was a stranger involved."

But a DNA expert consulted by Local 6 said it is possible that a tiny fragment of DNA was deposited by an FBI fingerprint unit lab analyst. She would be the second analyst to have contaminated the tape during testing; the FBI found enough of a DNA sample elsewhere on the tape to confirm that material came from a DNA analyst.

But the so-called mystery DNA was so miniscule, only a partial profile could be produced. It is significant enough to exclude the Anthonys and other known subjects, but it does not exclude the FBI fingerprint analyst.

Still, Kenney Baden and Lyon continued to promote the mystery DNA theory during their media tour last week.

Asked if she was aware the one FBI employee could not be excluded as the source, Kenney Baden stated, "I am aware of exactly the alleles with regard to it, but there is no indication that that person contaminated the evidence."

But there is an e-mail, at page 8710 of the discovery, showing the analyst who could not be excluded did swab the duct tape in question.

The two attorneys are part of an impressive legal and forensic team assembled by Casey Anthony's original attorney, Jose Baez, prompting many to wonder if they're being paid and, if so, how. Asked if they're being paid by anything other than the publicity attached to the case, Kenney Baden said, "We don't think publicity is payment, but we don't discuss payment at all, but publicity isn't payment for any lawyers, all of us are not in this case for publicity."    

When prosecutors questioned whether entertainment deals were funding the defense, Baez denied it or any other conflict of interest. After a closed-door meeting with the attorneys, Judge Stan Strickland said he was satisfied there was no conflict.

"We're doing our best to see to it that she gets a fair trial with real investigation and real hard work and real motions practice and challenging the evidence the way it ought to be done," said Lyon. "The idea that there's something shady or weird about actually interviewing witnesses and talking to people and digging deep and trying to find out what really happened as though that's somehow cheating – that’s what a good lawyer does."

Casey Anthony has admitted in a court paper that she has refused a plea agreement, but when asked if a plea were still possible, the attorneys balked.

"She did write that affidavit, she did make that statement," said Lyon, adding, "but as I said, that's something we cannot discuss. That would be inappropriate."

Asked how their client was holding up in the Orange County Jail, where she's been held without bond since her indictment on Oct. 14, 2008, Lyon said, "She's scared. I mean, wouldn't you be scared? She's scared. She's sad. She's grief-stricken and she's terrified."

http://www.clickorlando.com/news/21706174/detail.html

[Fanny Mae]

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Asked how their client was holding up in the Orange County Jail, where she's been held without bond since her indictment on Oct. 14, 2008, Lyon said, "She's scared. I mean, wouldn't you be scared? She's scared. She's sad. She's grief-stricken and she's terrified."

http://www.clickorlando.com/news/21706174/detail.html

Yippee!!! I hope she really is scared. But somehow I doubt it. 

[rmcalo]

LKB and AL describe Casey as: "this poor young girl" who made "a stupid mistake" by not reporting her daughter missing.

This is a glimpse into their defense strategy. Sorry, folks, but it is not merely a "stupid mistake" to fail to report your daughter missing for an entire month -- all the while partying, having sex, and telling everyone around you that she's at various theme parks and beaches. It is an act of utter callousness and cruelty. It is the act of a killer.

And anyone who has seen Casey in those Fusian pictures, thrusting her boobs into another girl while her daughter was (as we all know) dead, will never, ever view her as "a poor young girl."

If she didn't want to end up on death row, she never should have murdered her daughter. Plain and simple.

[trimmonthelake]

http://www.cfnews13.com/News/Local/2009/11/23/casey39s_lawyers_making_new_allegations.html
 Equusearch Lied, Casey’s Lawyers Claim
Tuesday, November 24, 2009 5:44:23 AM

ORLANDO -- There are new developments late this afternoon in the case against Casey Anthony and new accusations by her defense team.

In a motion just filed with the clerk's office, Jose Baez and Casey's defense team accused Tim Miller and his Texas Equusearch group of lying to the court.

Casey's defense lawyers are disputing the fact that Equusearch said only 32 people searched in the area where Caylee Anthony's remains were eventually found.

The defense says they've found more people in the course of their own investigation ..

And as a result, they want the judge to order Equusearch to turn over all records relating to their search for Caylee Anthony.

[trimmonthelake]

Good Morning Monkeys.   

[QuietMonkey]

LKB and AL describe Casey as: "this poor young girl" who made "a stupid mistake" by not reporting her daughter missing.
This is a glimpse into their defense strategy. Sorry, folks, but it is not merely a "stupid mistake" to fail to report your daughter missing for an entire month -- all the while partying, having sex, and telling everyone around you that she's at various theme parks and beaches. It is an act of utter callousness and cruelty. It is the act of a killer.
And anyone who has seen Casey in those Fusian pictures, thrusting her boobs into another girl while her daughter was (as we all know) dead, will never, ever view her as "a poor young girl."
If she didn't want to end up on death row, she never should have murdered her daughter. Plain and simple.

Oh I so agree with you rmcalo, this was not some stupid mistake! Espciallly not a 31 day long stupid mistake. Give me a break! She didn't just not report her daughter missing, she also didn't even tell her own parents, on top of that avoided them for 31 days and gave excuses why they couldn't see her. HELLLLOOOOO do they really write it off as a stupid mistake and think everyone else is going to agree with them???? Please, please don't tell there is even one person, besides them, that will think the same thing!!! No way, there can't be unless it's a child who has no idea of the complexities involved with being a repsonsible adult, especially a parent. Did KC really say to herself when her daughter was suddenly gone out of her site, "oh well, she'll turn up"? "Gee, let me get dressed up in that awesome little blue dress tonight and go see if I can find her in the club", "hmm, maybe she's at target"? "Oh I have no money to shop there, better go steal someones checkbook so I can shop while I'm looking". Maybee KC couldn't look for her there without shopping at the same time???
Then, she mistakingly continued her mistake when faced with her parents and police to say Where is Caylee? She mistakingly makes up a story about Zanny T Nanny, even mistakenly giving a name for her a family and an apartment too. She mistakinly told police she had a job, and even made the mistake of giving names of co-workers who never existed. Gee, to make so many mistakes as she's had, and to have all these "people" go all over national tv to defend her mistakes and point their finger at other possible "supsects", boy she's got it made!! NOT!

[trimmonthelake]

http://blogs.orlandosentinel.com/entertainment_tv_tvblog/2009/11/casey-anthony-her-attorneys-tell-wkmg-shes-scared-sad.html

Casey Anthony: Her attorneys tell WKMG she's scared, sad
posted by halboedeker on Nov 23, 2009 11:49:47 PM
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How is Casey Anthony doing knowing that her life is on the line?

"She's scared. Wouldn't you be scared?" defense attorney Andrea Lyon told WKMG-Channel 6's Tony Pipitone. "She sad. She's grief-stricken. And she's terrified."

WKMG offered a well-promoted interview with Lyon and fellow defense attorney Linda Kenney Baden. Anthony is charged with first-degree murder in the death of her daughter, Caylee.

The CBS affiliate started its 11 p.m. newscast with the interview, then saved the rest of it for 10 minutes later in the telecast. The better to keep viewers watching during sweeps month. The entire 18-minute interview can be seen at the station's Web site.

Pipitone, one of the market's best reporters, pressed the attorneys on several points that fascinate people who have been following the case. He asked if the attorneys were being paid by anything but publicity because their client has no money.

"We don't think publicity is payment," Baden said. "All of us are not in this case for publicity."

Lyon said the defense team is "doing our best to see to it that she gets a fair trial."

Pipitone asked: Would Anthony be open to a plea deal? Lyon said they couldn't discuss the issue, because it would be inappropriate.

In an interview last month with CBS' "48 Hours Mystery," defense attorneys pointed to a stranger's being involved in the crime. They raised the issue based on mystery DNA that was found on duct tape with Caylee's remains. Pipitone confronted the attorneys with the possibility that the DNA could have come from an FBI lab technician. Baden played down that possibility, yet Pipitone cited an e-mail that shows the lab tech cannot be ruled out as the source of the DNA.

[trimmonthelake]

I cut my post off.   

Pipitone asked if there's any evidence that meter reader Roy Kronk had any contact with Caylee Anthony when she was alive. The defense last week raised the idea that Kronk, who found the child's remains, should be considered a suspect in her death.

"The evidence that we have is circumstantial in nature," Lyon said. "The evidence that the prosecution has against this young woman, who they're asking the state of Florida to kill, is entirely circumstantial."

Pipitone's take on that: "The unspoken answer is no."

Baden pounced on Pipitone's question about whether the defense is trying to divert attention from Anthony. "It's an attempt to do the state's job for them," Baden said. "They pointed the finger at this poor young girl who did something very, very, very stupid in terms of not reporting her child missing."

Baden also explained why the defense had given an interview to Pipitone: "The local media, with the exception of some of the reporting that we've seen from you Tony, and that's why we're here, has taken everything they've seen at face value or the leaks they saw early on and publicized them improperly against our client."

So the attorneys threw a bouquet in playing press critic. I won't disagree. Pipitone has deepened the public's understanding of this long-running saga with his knowledge, persistence and reporting. WKMG is lucky to have him.

http://blogs.orlandosentinel.com/entertainment_tv_tvblog/2009/11/casey-anthony-her-attorneys-tell-wkmg-shes-scared-sad.html

[QuietMonkey]

http://www.cfnews13.com/News/Local/2009/11/23/casey39s_lawyers_making_new_allegations.html
 Equusearch Lied, Casey’s Lawyers Claim
Tuesday, November 24, 2009 5:44:23 AM

ORLANDO -- There are new developments late this afternoon in the case against Casey Anthony and new accusations by her defense team.

In a motion just filed with the clerk's office, Jose Baez and Casey's defense team accused Tim Miller and his Texas Equusearch group of lying to the court.

Casey's defense lawyers are disputing the fact that Equusearch said only 32 people searched in the area where Caylee Anthony's remains were eventually found.

The defense says they've found more people in the course of their own investigation ..

And as a result, they want the judge to order Equusearch to turn over all records relating to their search for Caylee Anthony.

I don't think they lied of course, but doesn't her lawyers call that just a "stupid mistake"?? Of couse I don't think they made a stupid mistake either. I think it's just more finger pointing, and more poor poor KC, and everyone's picking on her when she's just an innocent young woman sitting in jail for something someone else did. Boo Hoo Hoo, Waaaa Waaaa Waaaa!!!

[QuietMonkey]

I cut my post off.   

Pipitone asked if there's any evidence that meter reader Roy Kronk had any contact with Caylee Anthony when she was alive. The defense last week raised the idea that Kronk, who found the child's remains, should be considered a suspect in her death.

"The evidence that we have is circumstantial in nature," Lyon said. "The evidence that the prosecution has against this young woman, who they're asking the state of Florida to kill, is entirely circumstantial."

Pipitone's take on that: "The unspoken answer is no."

Baden pounced on Pipitone's question about whether the defense is trying to divert attention from Anthony. "It's an attempt to do the state's job for them," Baden said. "They pointed the finger at this poor young girl who did something very, very, very stupid in terms of not reporting her child missing."

Baden also explained why the defense had given an interview to Pipitone: "The local media, with the exception of some of the reporting that we've seen from you Tony, and that's why we're here, has taken everything they've seen at face value or the leaks they saw early on and publicized them improperly against our client."

So the attorneys threw a bouquet in playing press critic. I won't disagree. Pipitone has deepened the public's understanding of this long-running saga with his knowledge, persistence and reporting. WKMG is lucky to have him.

http://blogs.orlandosentinel.com/entertainment_tv_tvblog/2009/11/casey-anthony-her-attorneys-tell-wkmg-shes-scared-sad.html

Oh, she just did something very very very stupid!!! How could the police be so cruel to keep and charge this poor young woman for doing nothing wrong but make a stupid mistake??? How dare they pick on her and blame her for her daughter "missing". It's just horrible to see that the police would even think this unfortunate young woman would even harm her daughter. It's not her fault squirrels died in her car and left their decomp odor around the same time. It's horrible that they would pick on this young lady just so that the real killer can go free. Why would they even think that the last person to see her alive, the one in charge of her, the one with the decomp odor in her car, the one who gave lie after lie after lie, why would they even suspect her of doing anything wrong?? Dang its all a conspiracy and they're making her the scape goat! Oh puh-lease!!!!!

[Jesse]

You can tell that BOZO and the BEASTY girls are not on the same page. How many times has someone asked how Casey was and bozo said he was not going to go into information like that and here you have the beasts saying how terrified she is.
I hope Mark Nejame cuts them off at their ankles with the new claims

[ChikN China]

I have been catching up on reading, and I have to tell you that I am absolutely GOBSMACKED and sickened by the comments made by esteemed pioneering (her words, not mine) attorney Andrea Lyons. Calling jurors "killers"? Her remarks about female attorneys and what they wear at home? (Sorry, I cannot even write the work she used, only "strap....") She is so much more intelligent that the judges? I am absolutely livid! 
But, then I look at the other members of the team: JB himself, LKB and her husband, the clown from California with the bar complaints, etc. They all seem to play loose and free with the rules, constantly distract from central issues of the case with ridiculous accusations, grandstand in the media, and on and on. I am sick of their traveling "Dog and Pony Show", where they constantly accuse the state and the police of "leaks". I keep yelling "Sunshine! Sunshine, you idiots! This is Florida!" They say they will reveal all "at trial." I say if you got it, bring it now, or do you like your client lingering in jail? I curse like a sailor, talk back to the TV, and flop on my sofa in despair.
I guess what I , along with all you, struggle with is that the little girl who is the central person in this case has gotten lost. It is not about justice for her at all. An innocent child was horribly murdered, and I cannot even let my mind meander to what she must have suffered at the hands of her killer.
I feel helpless and scared as I watch all this nonsense playing out on a daily basis, and I pray so hard that the evil individual responsible for robbing this world of Caylee will be brought to justice. And I hope and pray that one day soon we will see her murderer led off to Lowell, never to be seen or heard from again. And I pray that those who have lied or obstructed or subverted justice will be held accountable for what they did to dishonor the memory of this child.
Sorry to be such a downer, especially because I am so new here, but today, I just feel supremely frustrated that this case has dragged on and on and on.
Thanks for letting me spill my guts.

[Jesse]

ChikN China,you just said everything all of us want to say too. Good post. This is obscene. THEY are obscene....

[SunnyinTX]

Good Morning Monkeys.   

Good Morning trim and all monks old and new

[goodnmad]

Scared? Imagine how Caylee felt. Do any of these people care?

Casey is scared because she has to face the consequences of her actions. If she didn't want to face the consequences, she should not have taken the action. She did far worse than not reporting her daughter missing. She killed her and dumped her like trash right off the side of the road. Then she lied and lied and lied and caused even more pain and turmoil for her family and friends. What a selfish b****.

Grief-stricken? If she is, it is because Casey has lost her "beautiful life" -- NOT because Caylee lost hers.

 

[SunnyinTX]

I cut my post off.   

Pipitone asked if there's any evidence that meter reader Roy Kronk had any contact with Caylee Anthony when she was alive. The defense last week raised the idea that Kronk, who found the child's remains, should be considered a suspect in her death.

"The evidence that we have is circumstantial in nature," Lyon said. "The evidence that the prosecution has against this young woman, who they're asking the state of Florida to kill, is entirely circumstantial."

Pipitone's take on that: "The unspoken answer is no."

Baden pounced on Pipitone's question about whether the defense is trying to divert attention from Anthony. "It's an attempt to do the state's job for them," Baden said. "They pointed the finger at this poor young girl who did something very, very, very stupid in terms of not reporting her child missing."

Baden also explained why the defense had given an interview to Pipitone: "The local media, with the exception of some of the reporting that we've seen from you Tony, and that's why we're here, has taken everything they've seen at face value or the leaks they saw early on and publicized them improperly against our client."

So the attorneys threw a bouquet in playing press critic. I won't disagree. Pipitone has deepened the public's understanding of this long-running saga with his knowledge, persistence and reporting. WKMG is lucky to have him.

http://blogs.orlandosentinel.com/entertainment_tv_tvblog/2009/11/casey-anthony-her-attorneys-tell-wkmg-shes-scared-sad.html

Thanks trim!  Well I am sure the State is very happy that LKB and AL are working for them .....I hope both of the keep talking and making that hole they are digging bigger and bigger.....

[ChikN China]

ChikN China,you just said everything all of us want to say too. Good post. This is obscene. THEY are obscene....

Thanks, jesse. I have to believe that somehow, someway, someday, they will all be held to account for their actions. All of this could have been so different, if people had just done the right thing. Why does that seem so hard?

[SunnyinTX]

You can tell that BOZO and the BEASTY girls are not on the same page. How many times has someone asked how Casey was and bozo said he was not going to go into information like that and here you have the beasts saying how terrified she is.
I hope Mark Nejame cuts them off at their ankles with the new claims

Jesse, I am hoping right along with ya!!