Caylee Marie Anthony - MURDER TRIAL - DAY 1 - 5/24/2011

[Brandi]

The Hinky Meter'e Magpie has her courtroom blog posted...

I enjoy her writing style and her filling readers in on the little things we can't see on tv and on our PC monitors.

Here's the link...
http://www.thehinkymeter.com/2011/05/24/caylee-anthony-case-magpie-reports-on-trial-052411/#more-6915

Oh, that was good!

Thanks, Samarie.

[wreck]

I realize that George can be recalled as a witness, but this was the seminal moment for Baez to hammer George on the "history of abuse" he so loudly proclaimed during opening statements. He FAILED miserably. George was not rattled at all. The very last thing the Defense wanted was for George to refute their whole case as the first witness. They wanted that last!! I think Blink pointed out this is why the Defense wanted to "change the witness order" in pre-trial hearings. Major screw up by the Defense! FAIL!!!

[klaasend]

red
is there a way to listen to the show after the fact. I missed it?
TIA

Loca - there will be a podcast up sometime tomorrow you can listen to the podcast or you can even download it to your PC if you want it.

[ZooMomology]

What I do not get is a few things. 

I thought there was not allowed to be trial by ambush.  I know the state has the burden, but is it allowed for the duffense to come out and say whatever they feel like?  Don't they have to present evicence of such things before trial?  I know it was hinted at for months now, but to scream how she had her father's penis in her mouth? 

Secondly, Okay I get he is saying this was an accident (I do not believe it).  What I do not get is why you would let your client rot in jail for 3 years if it was an accident while we waited for trial to get her side out?  Ineffective counsel if I ever saw it.

Also, did we ever learn how Caylee got from the pool accident to the swamp?  I know there was a suggestion that somehow Roy Kronk stole the body (rolling my eyes up), but where did he get Caylee from, who put the duct tape on her, was she in the car in the trunk (we know she was, but what is he saying)? 

Somehow too, George went on to work that afternoon after pulling his granddaughter out of the pool dead?  Somehow hawkeye Sindy was not let in on this little secret?  So, George knew all this while he was on all the news reports talking about the Nanny and his camp keeping an eye on the babysitter in the following weeks/months?  George went to Grand Jury knowing he pulled his grandaughter out of the pool dead and lied to them to get an indictment against his daughter? 

I could not make this stuff up.  My head is spinning.  Hubby came home and I just told him the basics, he said, I don't want to hear any more.  What a crock of cow dung.

So, when KC got her Bella Vita tatoo, she did that because whe was in denial?  All the lying to her friends about Caylee being with the babysitter was her in denial? 

I sure hope this jury has brains in their heads.  Could anybody really believe them?

Then, on Cross of George, he does not mention the abuse/sexual molestation at all? 

Are they allowed to lie like this?  Why does the judge allow it?  Why doesn't he say George is not on trial here?

[Wyks]

My mother was born was born in 1907 in Indiana. The farm is still an active farm in her family name. Her parents made sure her brother had his way helped through law school. Mom wanted to go and worked her way through law school. She told me many times she was embarrassed in school for not having "good" clothes. Well she graduated from law school and then went to Teacher's college and made her 40+ years as a teacher in the 4/5th grades. I asked her once why she didn't want to be an attorney after working so hard for it. Her answer was that she couldn't represent someone whom she knew was guilty.

Today missed her very much. She'd be on Caylee's side just like the Monkey Family here and be with me watching the trial. She would call the defense today a spaghetti defense; whatever SXXt hits and sticks to the wall.

My name here is after her nickname and dedicated to her for these 6 years.. God Bless you all.

 

mgo!!!  SOOOOOO good to see you!   

[klaasend]

I realize that George can be recalled as a witness, but this was the seminal moment for Baez to hammer George on the "history of abuse" he so loudly proclaimed during opening statements. He FAILED miserably. George was not rattled at all. The very last thing the Defense wanted was for George to refute their whole case as the first witness. They wanted that last!! I think Blink pointed out this is why the Defense wanted to "change the witness order" in pre-trial hearings. Major screw up by the Defense! FAIL!!!

Yep 

[BooMonkey]

OK, end of the day... MY favorite quote:

Baez: Can I approach the bench?
JBP: No!

    

[cubbeegirl]

OK, end of the day... MY favorite quote:

Baez: Can I approach the bench?
JBP: No!

    

OMG! that was my favorite quote of the day as well... I am guessing we will hear more of this before it is all over...

[MuffyBee]

OK, end of the day... MY favorite quote:

Baez: Can I approach the bench?
JBP: No!

    

Priceless!!   

[Scatty]

I agree with Red saying on the show that Baez is way over his head and that it is going to become obvious during the trial. What Baez doesn't realize is that he has been "babied" along and pandered to by the judge in all pretrial hearings because there was no jury present. JP always said he was giving leeway because there was no jury to taint or impress.
Well now class is over. This is the big leagues and he's not ready.

Also, what defense attorney understand, except Baez, is that there are levels of victories for your client. I never thought from day one that Casey would ever be found "not guilty". Baez's job is to keep a needle out of her arm and maybe get life with the opportunity of parole.

It is inconceivable to me how a plea deal was never taken. After 3 years all they got is Casey was molested and that George was in on the accidental death. Who honestly believes that an LE who has witnessed accidental deaths would ever escalate it to first degree murder?

I shake my head that after day one Casey did not just admit negligent homicide and get a 5-7 year suspended sentence. She never would have served time. The horror of losing your baby was more of a punishment than any amount of years in prison.

So the answer is why? Why no pleas deal ... why no discussion of Caylee was dead?

ENTER the aspect of this case that is similar to Natalee Holloway. Casey could never produce a dead Caylee because obviously there were markers that would have indicated ... IT WAS NO ACCIDENT.Today Baez made an accusation of George Anthony that he molested Casey. Now, Casey almost certainly must take the witness stand, otherwise it becomes a he said ... no body says story. That being said, I cannot imagine Casey taking the stand. That VIDEO will go viral in minutes.

What Casey did never passed the smell test and was not natural.

The above bolded part is of key importance! It is why this is a murder trial and not a case of negligence. Casey lucked out when Caylee's body was discovered only after it had already skeletonized and all evidence a body may have given up was lost.
I think the defense might try to rely on Casey's boyfriends' testimony to try to prove the molestation part of their argument, but I can't for the life of me think how they are going to float the accidental drowning theory without Casey's own testimony.

[klaasend]

OK, end of the day... MY favorite quote:

Baez: Can I approach the bench?
JBP: No!

    

Priceless!!   

YES, that was after numerous rejections 

[cubbeegirl]

I agree with Red saying on the show that Baez is way over his head and that it is going to become obvious during the trial. What Baez doesn't realize is that he has been "babied" along and pandered to by the judge in all pretrial hearings because there was no jury present. JP always said he was giving leeway because there was no jury to taint or impress.
Well now class is over. This is the big leagues and he's not ready.

Also, what defense attorney understand, except Baez, is that there are levels of victories for your client. I never thought from day one that Casey would ever be found "not guilty". Baez's job is to keep a needle out of her arm and maybe get life with the opportunity of parole.

It is inconceivable to me how a plea deal was never taken. After 3 years all they got is Casey was molested and that George was in on the accidental death. Who honestly believes that an LE who has witnessed accidental deaths would ever escalate it to first degree murder?

I shake my head that after day one Casey did not just admit negligent homicide and get a 5-7 year suspended sentence. She never would have served time. The horror of losing your baby was more of a punishment than any amount of years in prison.

So the answer is why? Why no pleas deal ... why no discussion of Caylee was dead?

ENTER the aspect of this case that is similar to Natalee Holloway. Casey could never produce a dead Caylee because obviously there were markers that would have indicated ... IT WAS NO ACCIDENT.Today Baez made an accusation of George Anthony that he molested Casey. Now, Casey almost certainly must take the witness stand, otherwise it becomes a he said ... no body says story. That being said, I cannot imagine Casey taking the stand. That VIDEO will go viral in minutes.

What Casey did never passed the smell test and was not natural.

The above bolded part is of key importance! It is why this is a murder trial and not a case of negligence. Casey lucked out when Caylee's body was discovered only after it had already skeletonized and all evidence a body may have given up was lost.
I think the defense might try to rely on Casey's boyfriends' testimony to try to prove the molestation part of their argument, but I can't for the life of me think how they are going to float the accidental drowning theory without Casey's own testimony.

Scatty... I was thinking the same thing about the bf's testimony....BUT ...that to me is just another one of Casey's lies...just as the whole accidental drowning and all the rest of her bullchit!

[wreck]

I kept proclaiming during jury selection that I thought a plea deal was coming. My theory being that the Defense was fishing for a "miracle jury" and wanted to see what they had before proceeding. I was dumbfounded as to why they would not take ANY deal to keep her from the needle. I found that in Florida that a defendant can plea out at ANY time (even DURING the trial). At this pace, they might want to re-evaluate where they are -- she very well could get death. They have done her NO favors today.

[klaasend]

I kept proclaiming during jury selection that I thought a plea deal was coming. My theory being that the Defense was fishing for a "miracle jury" and wanted to see what they had before proceeding. I was dumbfounded as to why they would not take ANY deal to keep her from the needle. I found that in Florida that a defendant can plea out at ANY time (even DURING the trial). At this pace, they might want to re-evaluate where they are -- she very well could get death. They have done her NO favors today.

Baez is amazingly stupid

[cubbeegirl]

I kept proclaiming during jury selection that I thought a plea deal was coming. My theory being that the Defense was fishing for a "miracle jury" and wanted to see what they had before proceeding. I was dumbfounded as to why they would not take ANY deal to keep her from the needle. I found that in Florida that a defendant can plea out at ANY time (even DURING the trial). At this pace, they might want to re-evaluate where they are -- she very well could get death. They have done her NO favors today.

Agreed...and she probably thinks she is sitting pretty....she is a bit delusional ya know...

[Praying4Angels]

What a day in court...def some yowser moments...

While I understand Bozo's need to TRY to cast aspersions on everyone but his client...to create that place where reasonable doubt lives according to him...a lot of it just was so choppy and ill stated it was pathetic..and downright obscene...

The part that bothered me most was Kronk I think...the way he tries to paint this body hoarding meter reader scenario....has he forgotten all the DAYS they spent picking up bones and sifting thru sludge...dirt...vegetation to attempt to get as much of poor Caylee's remains as possible...HOW if Kronk had the remains and just placed them there was all this scattering and growth WITHIN the remains and blanket/bags accomplished if they were not there for an extended period of time as LE has stated...Are they proposing he just hopped around scattering her remains all over and purposefully made it "look" like plants etc had grown into all that was found? Its disturbing...

I am in no way saying Kronk is angelic in all this...if he was having financial hardships he may have seen this as his lucky lotto ticket...but not the way Bozo portrays in and not in the manner he tries to spin it...

And I am still not buying it was an accident...so he better have some better tales to tell in the coming weeks...jmo...

[BooMonkey]

I kept proclaiming during jury selection that I thought a plea deal was coming. My theory being that the Defense was fishing for a "miracle jury" and wanted to see what they had before proceeding. I was dumbfounded as to why they would not take ANY deal to keep her from the needle. I found that in Florida that a defendant can plea out at ANY time (even DURING the trial). At this pace, they might want to re-evaluate where they are -- she very well could get death. They have done her NO favors today.

ITA   

[loca]

I was thinking why would Kronk keep Caylee's body and then place her around the corner from the A's and then finding her according to the defense to become rich and famous. He could have just called 911 when he found her little body the first time and still become rich and famous. There would have been no need to keep her and move her.

Monkey hugs

How would anyone, especially Kronk, know in June that there would be a reward.... in July? It's so stupid.

It was nuts when JB said about Lee "it got so bad they tested his DNA for paternity". What got so bad? KC told a couple of boy toys that Lee tried to molest her. That's why they tested his DNA. Not because "it got so bad". Geesh.

Good catch.  It seemed like Baez was making some of it up as he went along. I think this outrageous "story" is much more him than KC, meaning I think very little of it came from her or any suggestions from her, beyond the standard defense ploy..abuse. 

I agree... and when this trial is over she is going to curse baez for not getting her off!! BUT BAEZ AND MASON WILL MOVE ON AND LET HER DEAL WITH A PUBLIC DEFENDER... THE GOOD RIDDENCE EFFECT...

[loca]

sorry about the caps I am exhausted been up since 4 ughhh

[Grandma2Maddie]

I kept proclaiming during jury selection that I thought a plea deal was coming. My theory being that the Defense was fishing for a "miracle jury" and wanted to see what they had before proceeding. I was dumbfounded as to why they would not take ANY deal to keep her from the needle. I found that in Florida that a defendant can plea out at ANY time (even DURING the trial). At this pace, they might want to re-evaluate where they are -- she very well could get death. They have done her NO favors today.

ITA   

I bet no one on the Dufense is sleeping well tonight!   I hope ICA is having nightmares about her future due to what she did!!!!