Caylee Marie Anthony #161 4/28/10 - 5/10/10

[Ono]

IMO, that little temporary blackout/transfer to the outside where we saw Kathi was getting ready, was deliberate ... maybe to insure no leakage of sound ?????  Because, I think they were discussing the newest motion that Jar filed just this morning---perhaps after 9 a.m.  He refused to tell her about it & told her to go look it up in that exit video.    I still say Baez was very shook & livid as they left.  He even pulled the old "Mark Geargos-talk-on-the cellphone-as-you're walking" routine.

[Ono]

A Promise to Caylee

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=co8sx5O6SsM

So beautiful, so humbling.
Thank you for sharing this.

I've tears streaming down my face now.  Beautifully done.   [ That was one of my favorite songs to sing when I was little. ]

[no rose colored glasses]

A Promise to Caylee

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=co8sx5O6SsM

So beautiful, so humbling.
Thank you for sharing this.

Lovely, thank-you             The mystery expert has to be someone in the medical/mental health field, not sure exactly where they are going with this, but it won't be the Flip Wilson/Devil made me do it routine, it will be look what mom did to me routine. I will bet money on this. And I also will bet money on the sexual abuse angle, which if they can make a jury believe this, it will garner sympathy for sure.

[no rose colored glasses]

IMO, that little temporary blackout/transfer to the outside where we saw Kathi was getting ready, was deliberate ... maybe to insure no leakage of sound ?????  Because, I think they were discussing the newest motion that Jar filed just this morning---perhaps after 9 a.m.  He refused to tell her about it & told her to go look it up in that exit video.    I still say Baez was very shook & livid as they left.  He even pulled the old "Mark Geargos-talk-on-the cellphone-as-you're walking" routine.

He sure did, didn't he, let's start pretending we are talking on the cell phone 

[Scatty]

IMO, that little temporary blackout/transfer to the outside where we saw Kathi was getting ready, was deliberate ... maybe to insure no leakage of sound ?????  Because, I think they were discussing the newest motion that Jar filed just this morning---perhaps after 9 a.m.  He refused to tell her about it & told her to go look it up in that exit video.    I still say Baez was very shook & livid as they left.  He even pulled the old "Mark Geargos-talk-on-the cellphone-as-you're walking" routine.

Ooh! I soo agree. Baez was so upset he was nearly in tears. But that's still no reason to act like he was 6. What I would really love to see from now on is for Kathi to ignore him and treat Cheney like the lead attorney and ask him any questions she might have. That would really get Bozo's knickers in a twist!!
 

[SunnyinTX]

A Promise to Caylee

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=co8sx5O6SsM

So beautiful, so humbling.
Thank you for sharing this.

Lovely, thank-you             The mystery expert has to be someone in the medical/mental health field, not sure exactly where they are going with this, but it won't be the Flip Wilson/Devil made me do it routine, it will be look what mom did to me routine. I will bet money on this. And I also will bet money on the sexual abuse angle, which if they can make a jury believe this, it will garner sympathy for sure.

I might have missed it....but it is known if the payment for the 'mystery expert' was approved or not?

[Scatty]

A Promise to Caylee

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=co8sx5O6SsM

So beautiful, so humbling.
Thank you for sharing this.

Lovely, thank-you             The mystery expert has to be someone in the medical/mental health field, not sure exactly where they are going with this, but it won't be the Flip Wilson/Devil made me do it routine, it will be look what mom did to me routine. I will bet money on this. And I also will bet money on the sexual abuse angle, which if they can make a jury believe this, it will garner sympathy for sure.

Hmm. I think so too. Maybe that's why the A's weren't in court today. I think they've been talked to by the mitigation expert and now the groundwork is starting to be laid. I bet they are trying to show that they were somehow to blame by being abusive, unsupportive, whatever...; they're going to now try to show what a bad relationship they have. Although I don't think that particular ploy would work thanks to all the lies and coverups they already spewed forth in support of KC. I think it may be Lee who's being thrown (or diving?) under the bus. I think GA is a little too self-centered and hung up on trying to be the next John Walsh.

[Wyks]

Nebraska !!!!!!!!! LOLOLOL...

   Present and accounted for!  Uh.... what about Nebraska?   

Hi Wyks!  One of the expert witnesses is from Nebraska ... can't remember which one ... or what side they're on ... I was too busy trying to figure out where the expert entomologist for the State was from in Indiana (IU or Purdue?)  Purdue I hope! 

Hi Newfie!    

Thanks for 'splainin that!  Overslept today, missed the hearing <boooo, hiss!> and have been pedaling to catch up fast. 

That's likely Tim Huntington then.  He's a bug expert (forensic entomologist) in Nebraska.  I think he's on the wrong side of the fence in this case - for the scream team.  He's probably been around too much formaldehyde or sumpin.  heh.

 

[Northern Rose]

Not sure if this has been posted.

Lyon has been busy with her sister taking about media and human rights.  This is interesting.

Media and Human Rights in America Symposium

Start: Apr 7 2010 - 9:00am
End: Apr 7 2010 - 4:00pm
Body:

The symposium will include four top-notch panels, focusing discussion on how the media impacts human rights in America. The symposium will feature themed sessions concerning justice in journalism; new media and human rights; media and the death penalty and media, race, ethics and justice. The symposium is open to the public. Reservations are required and can be made through the SMU Cinema and Television Department at (removed)


8:30 AM – Registration
Meadows Museum (Entry Hall)
5900 Bishop Boulevard
Dallas, Texas 75205


9:00 AM – Welcome
Meadows Museum (Jones Great Hall)
Featuring:
Rachel Lyon, SMU Cinema & Television
Tom Mayo, Maguire Center for Ethics and Social Responsibility
Mark McPhail, SMU Corporate Communications and Public Affairs

9:15 AM – 10:30 AM: “Media, Race, Ethics and Justice”
Meadows Museum (Jones Hall)
Moderator: Tom Mayo, SMU Dedman School of Law
Professor Mayo teaches courses in the areas of health care law, bioethics, medical-legal humanities, constitutional law, family law, administrative law, and legislation.
Speakers:
David Harris, Houston Institute for Race and Justice at Harvard Law
David J. Harris is the Managing Director of the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice at Harvard Law School and has widespread experience in civil rights issues.
Kaia Stern, Houston Institute for Race and Justice at Harvard Law
Kaia is the Director of the Pathways Home and Prison Studies Project at Harvard Law School
C. Lee Harrington, University of Miami
Ms. Harrington is a Professor of Sociology, Women's Studies Program Affiliate at the University of Miami and specializes in media studies as well as women and gender media issues.
Mark McPhail: Chair of Corporate Communications at SMU’s Meadows School of the Arts, author of Dr. McPhail is the author of two books, Zen in the Art of Rhetoric: An Inquiry in Coherence, published by the State University of New York Press, and The Rhetoric of Racism Revisited: Reparations or Separation?, published by Rowman and Littlefield.


11:45 AM – 12:15 PM: “Media and the Death Penalty”Meadows Museum (Jones Hall)
Moderator: Rachel Lyon, SMU Cinema & Television
Speakers:
Jeanne Bishop -- Murder Victims Families for Human Rights / Illinois
Andrea Lyon, Author and Associate Dean Clinical Studies, DePaul College of Law. Professor Lyon serves Director of the Center for Justice in Capital Cases at DePaul University College of Law. Professor Lyon has tried over 130 homicide cases, both while in the Public Defender’s office and Lyon is a nationally recognized expert in the field of death penalty defense and a frequent continuing legal education teacher throughout the country.Craig Watkins, Dallas District Attorney
Inaugurated in January of 2007, Craig Watkins is the Criminal District Attorney for Dallas County. He is known for taking the “smart on crime” approach to criminal activity and is a known advocate for civil rights.
Steve Mills: Chicago Tribune – Pulizter Prize winner, Steve Mills joined the Chicago Tribune as a reporter in 1994. For the past 11 years, he has written about the death penalty, miscarriages of justice, police torture and other issues in the criminal justice system. He wrote the November 1999 series, ``The Failure of the Death Penalty in Illinois.'' Mills and Armstrong also wrote the June 2000 series, ``State of Execution: The Death Penalty in Texas.'' Mills, Armstrong and reporter Maurice Possley reported and wrote the December 2000 investigative series, "Executions in America."


12:45 PM – 1:45 PM: Luncheon
Meadows Museum (Gates Room)
Speakers:
Rachel Lyon (SMU CTV) and Mark McPhail, SMU Corporate Communications & Public Affairs (Intro)
Dean (Jose) Bowen, Meadows School of Art (Welcome)
Keynote Speaker:
Rick Halperin, SMU Human Rights Education Program (Keynote)

2:00 PM – 3:30 PM: “New Media and Human Rights in America”
Meadows Museum (Jones Hall)
Moderator: Derek Kompare, SMU Cinema & Television
Confirmed Speakers:
Charles Nesson, Berkman Center for Internet at Harvard Law
Professor Nesson is the Founder and Faculty Co-Director, Berkman Center for Internet & Society. Harvard’s work with internet policy, advocacy and law is world renouned.
Shawn P. Williams, Dallas South News
Shawn Williams is the publisher of Dallas South, a blog that he started in June of 2006. Dallas South works to promote positive images of African-Americans in the media.
Danny Schechter
Schechter's media experience in the major U.S. corporate media is considerable. His career began as the "News Dissector" at Boston radio station WBCN. His work specializes in investigative journalism and producing programming about the interface between human rights, journalism, popular music and society.
Schechter is also the executive editor of www.MediaChannel.org,
for which he is the "blogger-in-chief" and writes a nearly-3000-word daily blog entry on media and society. known as the “news dissector,” Mr. Schechter is a speaker and writer on media issues.
Evan Smith is the CEO and Editor in Chief of The Texas Tribune. He spent nearly 18 years at TEXAS MONTHLY, stepping down in August 2009 as the magazine's president and editor in chief. Previously he served as editor for more than eight years—only the third person to hold that title. On his watch, TEXAS MONTHLY was nominated for sixteen National Magazine Awards, the magazine industry's equivalent of the Pulitzer Prize, and twice was awarded the National Magazine Award for General Excellence. Smith has a master's degree in journalism from the Medill School at Northwestern University.


3:45 PM – 5:0- PM: “Journalism and Human Rights”
Meadows Museum (Jones Hall)
Speakers: Joe Domanick, Associate Director of the John Jay Center on Media, Crime, and Justice at the Justice and Journalism Institute USC Anneberg School. Professor Domanick teaches journalism at the USC Anneberg School for Communication and is an award winning investigative journalist and author. He has had numerous articles featured in publications like the The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times Magazine, Los Angeles Herald Examiner, San Francisco Chronicle, and the Washington Journalism Review.
Craig Flournoy, Associate Professor Division of Journalism, SMU Flournoy served at the Dallas Morning News, and has written for the Columbia Journalism Review, Journalism & Mass Communication Educator and the Newspaper Research Journal.
Renee Ferguson, NBC News Chicago: Shorenstein Fellow at Harvard Journalism School. NBC 5 Chicago's Renee Ferguson has been honored with one of the nation's most prestigious broadcast journalism awards, the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia Award, for her UNIT 5 investigative series, Strip Searched at O'Hare. Ferguson is the recipient of seven Chicago Emmy Awards, the DuPont Award, the Gracie Award, the Associated Press Award for Best Investigative Reporting.
Camille Kraeplin: SMU Journalism Professor, teaches Journalism and Human Rights Course, among her many accomplishments.
Sponsor:
“Media and Human Rights in America” is a presentation of the SMU Division of Cinema/Television, with support from Nathan Cummings Foundation, Meadows School of the Arts, Division of Corporate Communications, The Cary M. Maguire Center for Ethics and Public Responsibility and Dallas International Film Festival.


http://dallaspeacecenter.org/node/4892

[Wyks]

http://wdbo.com/localnews/2010/05/anthony-defense-team-cant-keep.html

<snipped>

But Perry also made it clear that he will be scrutinizing the billing for every expert the defense brings in to make sure it's a good use of taxpayer money.

"They can bill whatever they want to bill," said Perry. "What they get paid is a horse of a different color."

~~~~~

[no rose colored glasses]

A Promise to Caylee

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=co8sx5O6SsM

So beautiful, so humbling.
Thank you for sharing this.

Lovely, thank-you             The mystery expert has to be someone in the medical/mental health field, not sure exactly where they are going with this, but it won't be the Flip Wilson/Devil made me do it routine, it will be look what mom did to me routine. I will bet money on this. And I also will bet money on the sexual abuse angle, which if they can make a jury believe this, it will garner sympathy for sure.

I might have missed it....but it is known if the payment for the 'mystery expert' was approved or not?

I am not sure about the mystery expert and payment.

[Wyks]

Nebraska !!!!!!!!! LOLOLOL...

   Present and accounted for!  Uh.... what about Nebraska?   

LOL--when Baez replied that one of his experts was fom there it was funny as it is so far away from Orlando & Judge Perry was hoping to cut costs and get as many local or nearby experts as possible.

  

Thanks Ono!  Would have loved to have seen Judge Perry's face when Baez was explaining that!! 

[Northern Rose]

Seems like Lyon talked about the case at that conference I posted above. 

DISCUSSING HUMAN RIGHTS IN TEXAS; AYERS BANNED IN MONTANA, I-PAD: What Is It?

<snipped>

So much for media educating the public.

There was a lot of discussion about the outrageous amount of incarceration in this country and in this state. Prisons are a three billion dollar a year business and they keep a lot of people employed—and contained, especially people of color. They are, in the view of these activists, the new slave plantations, institutions that punish the poor and make the rest of us feel superior.

There were some deep if academic insights until Andrea Lyon got to speak about her experiences as a lawyer representing inmates charged with capital crimes. Her big case is one in which every American knows about if only because every media exploited the case to death.

It is the case of Casey Anthony the Florida based mother of a pretty young daughter named Cayles who she is accused of murdering although the evidence is hardly definitive.

Thanks to Nancy Grace on one of the CNN networks, this story became an almost nightly soap opera in which no detail went unemphasized, ad nauseum, and no accusation was disregarded. Her mother was turned into a monster with little mitigation or even counter argument.

Her lawyer, straight outta Chicago, a large, brilliant woman who disdains makeup and calls Gil Scott Heron her favorite poet, has been demonized along with her client with constant bashing by bloggers and journalists who seem to reject the very idea that her client deserves a defense. Most of the media has been hostile too as if she killed the child.

Her association with case has prompted a steady stream of invective residents of the Internet sewer. She is the author of the acclaimed “Angel of Death Row.”

She is suing the State of Florida for funds for the defense which it sounded like she expects to lose before she can even mount it, She compared the experience to the Salem Witch Trial, although it sounded even worse. It is like Alice in Wonderland, “first the verdict and then the trial.”

Hearing all this makes you sick and angry, especially at media people who get caught up in the ratings game that drives the murder porn industry, The sicker the story, the bigger the audience. No wonder Andrea is considered an angel of death row. He has won awards for being among the best representatives of the poor in America. You can see it in her bearing: she takes no shit and can out argue the most demented DA.


http://www.newsdissector.com/blog/2010/04/09/discussing-human-rights-in-texas-ayers-banned-in-montana/

[trimmonthelake]

http://www.wesh.com/news/23461168/detail.html
Judge Allows Casey Funding Records To Remain Open
Hearing Held Thursday At Orange County Courthouse
POSTED: 11:59 am EDT May 5, 2010
UPDATED: 4:41 pm EDT May 6, 2010
ORLANDO, Fla. --
A judge denied a motion from Casey Anthony's lawyers on Thursday to seal all state records indicating how her defense is funded.

In the motion, Anthony's attorney, Jose Baez, said their case could be compromised if every invoice that they submit for reimbursement from the state becomes a public record.

Baez said the public disclosure of the invoices could lead to "rampant speculation as to the defense strategy."

"Closure is essential to a fair trial," Baez said. "I can't imagine the floodgates that would open."

Now that Anthony has been declared indigent, she qualifies to be reimbursed with state tax dollars for certain expenses.
Prosecutors argued that since the public is paying for Anthony's defense, "they're entitled to know what they're paying for."

Last week, Judge Belvin Perry said Anthony's money matters are urgent because there are two more hearings scheduled for next week, when the defense is likely to have to bring some of their experts to town.

Perry did rule that some information in the records could be redacted and specific situations may require hearings to determine whether information should be sealed.

The defense needed to have authorization from Perry to begin spending money. The team also needed to know how much will be available.

Perry launched in to an exhaustive examination of the list of experts the state should pay for on behalf of Casey Anthony's defense. Perry whittled down some of the spending.

"If you're only going to have one testify, why do I need two?" Perry said. "No sir, one."

Perry did grant most of the 20 experts the defense asked for. He rejected a $6,000 allocation so the defense could buy and run tests on two Pontiac Sunfires, identical to the one Casey owned.

Many want to know where the money is coming from.
"In general, I think the public probably has a right to know what they're spending taxpayer money on," one resident said.

The hearing was held at the Orange County Courthouse.

Defense attorney Richard Hornsby has experience with similar situations.

"I think it's a fair request, and it's in line with what Judge Perry has already said he would allow them to do," he said.

Anthony is in the Orange County Jail being held on no bond on charges of murder in the death of her daughter, Caylee.
Caylee's remains were found in a wooded area off Suburban Drive near the Anthony family home in December 2008.

Anthony maintains a nanny by the name of Zenaida Gonzalez kidnapped Caylee.
Video: Judge Keeps Funding Records Open  http://www.wesh.com/video/23478355/index.html

[trimmonthelake]

Thanks NorthernRose.   

[Northern Rose]

She is still busy pimping her book.  Maybe she really needs to make room in her garage for the car again and needs to get rid of the boxes of books?       

Thursday May 13, 2010
ANDREA LYON
Start: 12:00 pm
End: 1:30 pm
ANDREA LYON, DePaul University law professor, talks about Angel of Death Row:  My Life as a Death Penalty Defense Lawyer, an inside look at what drives her to defend those who seem indefensible—and to win.

http://bookstall.indiebound.com/event/2010/05/07

[no rose colored glasses]

Thanks NorthernRose.   

Yes thank-you   
She is suing the State of Florida for funds for the defense which it sounded like she expects to lose before she can even mount it, She compared the experience to the Salem Witch Trial, although it sounded even worse. It is like Alice in Wonderland, “first the verdict and then the trial.”  WTH, I just know I'm living in a parallel universe 

[Northern Rose]

Thanks NorthernRose.   

Yes thank-you   
She is suing the State of Florida for funds for the defense which it sounded like she expects to lose before she can even mount it, She compared the experience to the Salem Witch Trial, although it sounded even worse. It is like Alice in Wonderland, “first the verdict and then the trial.”  WTH, I just know I'm living in a parallel universe 

For an attorney to speak like this on a active case that has not gone into trial, would that not taint the jury pool?  Or is that their game plan and why they are not in agreement in wanting the jury sequestered?

[no rose colored glasses]

Thanks NorthernRose.   

Yes thank-you   
She is suing the State of Florida for funds for the defense which it sounded like she expects to lose before she can even mount it, She compared the experience to the Salem Witch Trial, although it sounded even worse. It is like Alice in Wonderland, “first the verdict and then the trial.”  WTH, I just know I'm living in a parallel universe 

For an attorney to speak like this on a active case that has not gone into trial, would that not taint the jury pool?  Or is that their game plan and why they are not in agreement in wanting the jury sequestered?

That could very well be, this is the most confusing and frustrating mess. Taint the jury and delay is their game plan.

[trimmonthelake]

Thanks NorthernRose.   

Yes thank-you   
She is suing the State of Florida for funds for the defense which it sounded like she expects to lose before she can even mount it, She compared the experience to the Salem Witch Trial, although it sounded even worse. It is like Alice in Wonderland, “first the verdict and then the trial.”  WTH, I just know I'm living in a parallel universe 

You are not alone.I went back and watched Bozo again after the hearing.He really is an azz.