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Baez's book comes out on July 3.
ORLANDO, Fla. - The Florida mother who was acquitted last year of murdering her 2-year-old daughter had mental health issues that contributed to her habitual lying, the lead attorney in her criminal case says in a new book.
In "Presumed Guilty, Casey Anthony: The Inside Story," Jose Baez said detectives should have realized Casey Anthony had built a "fantasy world," and her lies weren't evidence of guilt but signs of someone with "serious mental health issues."
The 421-page book is scheduled for release July 3. The Associated Press purchased a copy Tuesday.
Anthony is serving probation for an unrelated charge at an undisclosed location in Florida. She couldn't be reached for comment.
Describing how Anthony led detectives on a wild goose chase, even taking them to Universal Studios where she falsely claimed she had a job, Baez writes, detectives "should have stopped and realized, 'Wait a minute, we're not dealing with someone who is playing with a full deck.'"
Anthony originally told detectives that her daughter, Caylee, was taken by a babysitter in June 2008, and that she didn't report her missing for more than a month because she was searching for the toddler on her own. During Anthony's trial last year, Baez argued that the little girl accidentally drowned in the family swimming pool while Anthony and her father, George, were at home. Anthony panicked from the traumatic effects of being sexually abused by her father and George Anthony hid the body, according to the defense argument.
George Anthony denied the defense's allegations that he abused Casey and helped her cover up Caylee's death.
BenBella Books, who published Baez's book, calls the book an "all-access pass" to the trial, from the day Baez met Anthony for the first time to the weeks the defense spent in the judge's chambers.
"This is NOT a 'Casey Anthony is innocent' book," BenBella said in a press release. "It is a book about the facts, beyond the headlines and off the record."
The book is also partly autobiographical, tracking Baez's journey as a former high school dropout to a lawyer.
During the trial, prosecutors had contended that Anthony suffocated Caylee with duct tape because she wanted to be free to hit the nightclubs and spend time with her boyfriend. Jurors acquitted Anthony of first-degree murder but convicted her of four misdemeanor counts of lying to investigators.
Baez repeats the allegations of sexual abuse in greater detail in the book, saying it contributed to Anthony's mental health issues. Mark Lippman, an attorney for George Anthony, refused to comment on the book Tuesday because he hadn't read it.
Why Casey Anthony didn't testify
Anthony's defense contemplated having her testify until the very end of the trial but then decided it wasn't necessary. "We had everything to lose and very little to gain," Baez writes.
Baez takes aim at the reporters who covered the case, detectives who investigated it, "groupies" who attached themselves to it and the case's original judge who Baez says filed a complaint against him with the Florida Bar. The complaint was later dropped. Prosecutor Jeff Ashton undergoes the harshest criticism by Baez, who calls him "a coward" for not showing up at Anthony's sentencing for the misdemeanors since he was making the talk shows round after the trial.
Baez is critical of many of Circuit Judge Belvin Perry's rulings during the trial but praises the judge for allowing him to pick a fair jury.
Baez doesn't say where Anthony currently is hiding but he provides a glimpse of the first few hours after she was released from jail last July, time mostly devoted to eluding the media. After escorting Anthony out of the Orange County Jail and into a waiting SUV, Baez rode with Anthony to a parking garage where five cars driven by members of the legal team were waiting. Baez and Anthony got into one car which departed the garage at the same time as the other four. Each car drove in a different direction so reporters following Baez and Anthony wouldn't know which one they were in or where they were heading.
Baez said Anthony's first meal out of jail was a cheeseburger, fries and milkshake from Steak 'n Shake. Baez and Anthony then drove to a municipal airport where a private plane took them to the Florida Panhandle resort community of St. George Island. There, members of their legal team and their families met up with them. Anthony then went to New York until she had to return to Florida to serve her probation sentence.
Related: Casey Anthony's attorney pens book about the case
The three-year case took an emotional toll on Baez, according to his book. He suffered depression after the complaint was filed against him and he found it difficult to find joy in his wife's pregnancy.
Baez also criticizes the way he was portrayed in the media as an inexperienced attorney taking on one of the highest-profile criminal cases in recent memory.
"The public may have been convinced that I was an idiot but I let it all roll off my back," he writes.
In an interview last month about the book, Baez explained why he thought the case attracted so much attention.
"It's probably because Casey is the girl next door," Baez told The Palm Beach Post on May 25.
Baez co-wrote the book with Peter Golenbock, an author who holds a law degree. Golenbock has written seven New York Times bestsellers, according to the publisher, BenBella.
Requests for comment from BenBella were not immediately returned to msnbc.com.
A source told RadarOnline last week that Anthony also hopes to write a book by publishing excerpts from the journal she's kept since Caylee disappeared. Shortly after her trial ended last July, book publishers started expressing interest in her story.
"This is a story with biblical overtones — a mother and a daughter and a murder. What untold thing happened here?" Robert Gottlieb, president of the Trident Group of book agents, told USATODAY.com last July, adding Trident would be interested in publishing a manuscript from her.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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Please, please, please, no one buy this book.
You can already see who they're trying to stir up interest in with the whole biblical overtones bullcrap.
Yes Jose, I believe the lawyers knew that Casey was crazy. It still doesn't change the fact that she killed her daughter. You just got lucky that the jurors did not have common sense. Next.
No Jo Ann you should be ashamed of yourself for withholding the evidence that you have that could have convicted her....Next
The jurors had common sense and they applied the law correctly. Even if she killed her daughter, the prosecution did not prove it beyond a reasonable doubt. Kudos, jurors.
Baez has a few cards missing from his deck if you ask me!!
Great, a book about a sick woman with Borderline Personality disorder with Narssistic features written by a Shylock of an Attorney. Look for it soon on discounted book store and dollar stores liquidation racks everywhere. What was this guy thinking? He was going to make a buck or two ? He should have written a book about my ex who was diagnosed with the same disorder!
I will not buy this book, nor any other connected to people involved in criminal activities (including the lawyers that defend or prosecute them). The lawyer did the job he was hired to do. End of story. I began to think all of Florida is/was crazy, from Anthony to the nuts who had never even heard of the family before trying to attack her family over the little girl. The whole thing was unbelievable, including the verdict.
I read Imperfect Justice, the prosecutor's version, the bottom line is there a dead little girl who had received no justice, also Baez is a total douche who is difficult and a huge hypocrite. He defended a liar who covered up whatever she could to keep the body from being found and as far as I am concerned hindered the investigation, she should have been charged with that, if nothing else. She accused her own father of sexual abuse to cover her own guilt and make excuses for her behavior when they were helping her and her kid...she is a piece of crap and he is a jerk, I would burn his book. I understand there was no full proof she did anthing but the forensics alone prooved something happened, common sense shows she lied, she didn't seem that concerned about her own missing child?????? What person is out partying when your child is missing? That alone speaks VOLUMES...that is not NORMAL. I mean, okay you didn't get her in the library with a knife attacking the butler..but everything leads to her being involved with her child's death...PERIOD.
Baez did his job. He defended his client and won.
No one should profit from the death of a child and a justice system gone so wrong.Everyone knows she is guilty of a horrendous crime.....
If he had tried to do to me what he did to George Anthony, that fat a.. would need a new set of teeth. He is an arrogant lying con man. I was laughing at him when I saw parts of that trial, he was so totally pathetic. The defense he put up was completely pathetic, even a child could see he was lying. The only thing more pathetic than Baez is those 12 buffoons on that jury. Not even a conviction on "child endangerment", beyond pathetic.
Actually it's quite tho opposite, if you listen to their interviews, specially the one with Jennifer juror #3, you'll hear her say that they based ther desicion on facts, but if you pay close atention she'll say 3 key things that prove they didn't. What it does prove however is that the only thing they heard out of the 6 weeks of trial was Jose Baez's oppening statement. All 3 things were only addressed once throughout the entire trial, they were never backed up and no evidece was ever provided about them, yet it is what she talks about in her interview.
#1 She claims she can see how the accidental death happened.
# She believed that George was involved.
# She believes that although Casey was a slut that does not make her a killer.
Those 3 things were only said ONCE, and it was at Baez opening. He never provided any evidence that Caylee died by drowning, he never provided any evidence that George had helped hied the body.
If you recall the trial, if you followed it at all, you can remember Cindy's testimony where she says that Caylee coulnd't have drowned, because to do that, she would have go through a door she couldn't open, then set up a ladder that she couldn't have lifted and set on the pool, and 3rd she needed to climb the ladder although she couldn't do it by herself. So that theory is gone. Also, in the State of Florida 100% of death by drowning are reported. Let me repeat that 100%. This means that every single death by drowning is reported, and George, who is a former Law enforcement agent knew that, So why would he help discard the body of a little girl he loved so much and through her in a trash bag in the woods. Why? and finally ask yourself the most elementary question. Casey hates her father right?, The man who abused her, the man who according to her caused her daughter's death, correct? So why? why? would she spend 3 years in jail and not say a word about this? why wait 3 years to only bring it during the trial? if he was the evil one, the why did she not say anything about it? and why lie about where her body was? if it had been an accidental drowning. Why risk a competent jury? why risk a first degree conviction? why take that chance?
So no, I believe that you are mistaken. Casey Anthony was lucky that she found 12 incompetent jurors who did not pay attention at all during the trial except Jose Baez's oppening statement. A jury that did not request to review any evidence during deliberation, like the hair found in the trunk, a jury who only deliberated for 10 hours, a jury who right off the bat voted 10-2 for not guilty without having even discussed the case. A jury who not one of it's members took a single note during the 6 week trial.
Although I fully believe she murdered her daughter, the defense attorney did his job - in a sleazy fashion - but he did his job.
I wouldn't touch that book with a 10 foot pole!
New Jersey has more toxic waste sites than any state in the union and Florida has more attorneys than any state in the union. I guess New Jersey had first choice.
JCB-she was not found guilty of child endangerement due to her not being charged with it. They cannot find her guilty of a crime that is not on trial. The child neglect charges were dropped when the child was found deceased. All they had were homicide charges and interfering with a police investigation.
Does anyone know if any of the proceeds of the book sales go to Casey?
I'm with Jeff!!!! DO NOT BUY THIS BOOK! If you really feel the need to read it, download it through utorrent so she doesn't get a dime of your money!!!!!!!!
You bring up interesting points. But really the failure was on the part of the Prosecutor he overcharged a case he knew he had no evidence to support. If he had dropped it to manslaughter the Jury could have been more easily swayed to convict. 1rst Degree has a very high level of proof required. It needs intent and malice to be shown.
Also to call the defense liars and not bring up the fact that the State Prosecutors hide evidence and mislead the Jury with incorrect facts (Facts they knew where incorrect btw) and are not being called liars is laughable.
Do I think she did it.. tough to say I was not there. There is for sure something wrong with her and yes sometimes when bad things happen people lose touch with reality as a coping device so it is always a slim possibility. Do I think George Anthony molested his daughter? Yes his demeanor and attitude has always been rather off-putting and why try to kill himself if he did nothing wrong? Because after that one attempt he never tried it again and no one looked at him as a suspect just with sympathy.
Also the fact that the STATE thought that Casey's brother could have been Caylee's father leads me to believe that it was at least something even the State thought was possible.
As far as not reporting a drowning, well that is true and suspect but fear makes people do stupid @!$%#. As far as the couldn't have drowned due to the pool being inaccessible to Caylee this is not true. Cindy Anthony stated to a co-worker the day after Caylee went missing that she found the pool ladder up and she thought someone had been swimming in her pool. As far as Caylee not being able to climb the ladder that is downright false as Cindy also stated she could climb the ladder but she was helped to be sure she didn't get hurt.
Overall the women was found Not Guilty and we have no solid evidence she did kill her daughter. Those who claim she did are letting their assumptions run their judgement or their following Nany Grace and that makes their judgement suspect anyway.
Also Blake. This is the Attorneys book not Casey's book. So no she would not get the money he would.
Bencas, your wrong on the charges, as was I, what I meant was "aggravated child abuse", which she was absolutely guilty of. When you do not report a "missing child" for a month that is the DEFINITION of "aggravated child abuse", period, end of story.
From wiki, "On October 14, 2008, Casey Anthony was indicted by a grand jury on charges of first degree murder, aggravated child abuse, aggravated manslaughter of a child, and four counts of providing false information to police." All those charges were what the jurors had to choose from, a pack of 12 idiots.
Kids, unfortunately, fall into swimming pools and drown quite a lot. Why not call the police and report it instead of hiding the body and lying about it? Saying someone is mentally ill is the easiest, most convenient way to explain why someone would not do the normal thing. Sorry, I don't buy it.
So if she writes a book it will be fiction, right? Her attorney stated she is a chronic liar so what would you possibly believe in a book she plans to write?
Nice to see that all the parties involved are taking advantage and making as much money as possible off the death of an infant. I wonder if they sleep at all.
@Michael Wells-4828365- I am aware of that, but wouldn't she have to get some sort of compensation considering it is pretty much ALL about her? I would think so. I don't want her to earn a freaking DIME from the public.
I truly hope nobody goes out and buys this piece of trash. I'm sorry but there is no way I want Anthony, who DID kill her daughter, or scum who represented her to receive any compensation for being such low lifes. I can't believe MSNBC would even put this story anywhere. They need to just forget about all of it and not give them the satisfaction or media attention they want. Spend your money elsewhere people.
"Also the fact that the STATE thought that Casey's brother could have been Caylee's father leads me to believe that it was at least something even the State thought was possible."
Where did you get that from? I watched the entire trail I don't recall the STATE EVER saying that.
"As far as not reporting a drowning, well that is true and suspect but fear makes people do stupid @!$%#. As far as the couldn't have drowned due to the pool being inaccessible to Caylee this is not true. Cindy Anthony stated to a co-worker the day after Caylee went missing that she found the pool ladder up and she thought someone had been swimming in her pool. As far as Caylee not being able to climb the ladder that is downright false as Cindy also stated she could climb the ladder but she was helped to be sure she didn't get hurt."
Ok first off you are using something Casey said as some sort of proof, seriously? Second George was a ex police officer he would have known better and certainly would have known not to hide a boby only blocks from his home, he would have known to hide it where it would never be found. Last Cindy was out to save her daughter from the electric chair.
Were you on the jury because it sounds like you're as gullible as they were.
I just read a response that stated the jury was incompetent because they didn't take notes and didn't ask to review evidence. I can tell you that I was on a DOUBLE MURDER jury in Detroit several years ago, and the judge WOULD NOT allow us to take notes, and when we asked to review evidence, we were told NO by the judge. By the way, we let the defendant off based on what was presented to us as evidence (even though my heart said he was guilty). The defense lawyer gave "snake oil salesmen" a bad name, and made your skin crawl, but when it was all over and we voted for an acquittal, the judge told us he was guilty, yet he let the guy walk out.
Please allow the jury a little le-way, as they have very strict rules they have to follow from the judge. I'm sure no one "knowingly" wanted to let a child murder go free. And it's very easy to see things differently when you are hearing "facts" on T.V. that are not allowed in the actual court room.
And just to be clear, I think she is guilty as hell!
Prosecution failure,
Murderer on the loose.
But at least it proves all these idiots that trial is by media have their heads up their *ss, or Anthony would be in jail right now.
I remember watching Baez early on in the trial and I actually felt sorry for him. I KNEW CAsey was guilty of at least manslaughter, but I was convinced because of Baez's incompetence, Casey was
doomed. Boy was I wrong. I still hurts to know Caylee did not see justice AND
there is no way I believe George her father molested her and helped her get rid
of body. NO WAY! But Baez has to look himself in the mirror knowing he knows it is not true too.
The only ones playing without a full deck were the jurors.
The prosecution also wasn't playing with a full deck when they decided to go after the highest charge possible. They easily could have won a conviction on a lesser charge but they went for the glory. How are you going to convict somebody of murder in the highest degree and seek the death penalty when you can't even conclusively prove how the victim died?!?!?! She was clearly grossly negligent and I believe she was responsible for the death but the evidence is just not there for the charge they went for.
This book will probably sell very well, too. This is America after all and we can't get enough of certain things. Nobody seems to begrudge Nancy Grace making a boatload of money off of exploiting this case, now it's other people's turn.
Your completely wrong, they could have found her guilty of either aggravated manslaughter and / or aggravated child abuse. They were 12 buffoons, easily led by Baez. "quote from wiki"Casey Anthony was indicted by a grand jury on charges of first degree murder, aggravated child abuse, aggravated manslaughter of a child, and four counts of providing false information to police." All those charges were what the jurors had to choose from.
It was not first degree murder or nothing, that is complete hogwash.
Ugh!! Ick!! Disgusting!!!!! What a fat, fu@king pig of a man!! I would never give this man a penny of my hard earned money!
EVERYONE in their right mind knows this woman killed her baby. Get over the whole drowning idea. If a child dies in a pool, you call 911. You don't tote her lifeless little body around in your car, party all night, get a tattoo of how beautiful your life is, and you DON'T BURY HER IN THE WOODS!!!
Baez is evil, Casey is evil and the idea of this as$hole making money off of such a horrific event is evil.
Joey,
WRONG. The Prosecution put aggravated manslaughter and / or aggravated child abuse on the table just as JCB said. There was zero reason not to come back with a guilty on either one of those counts. Jurors were incompetent!
The first statement I have a problem with is she had mental problems? What? She's been miraculously cured via acquittal.
Baez, Congrats on the birth of your child - Casey's going to need a job - will you hire her as your babysitter?
Everyone assumes they didn't find her guilty of capital murder because that would mean the death penalty... WRONG. You can find someone guilty of capital murder and NOT sentence them to death. These people didn't want to have to hang around another week to deliberate sentence. One juror had a cruise scheduled for the Thursday after she was acquitted.
Well, hell yes! Why even Bother with a trial by jury...? I mean if "Everyone knows it", Especially the 12 jurors who reviewed all the evidence and still came to the conclusion that they did - I don't see why we'd even bother taking the long way around...
Silly rule of law!
People with "serious mental health issues" who commit violent crimes should be locked up permanently.
Baez states in his book, according to this article, that the police should have realized that Casey "wasn't playing with a full deck". Does that mean that he doesn't really buy the story about Caylee drowning or the abuse from her father? According to reports on the internet at the time, Casey did not say anything about abuse or drowning until she heard one of the other women in jail use that as her defense. Does he really believe that, while due to her alleged mental illness Casey lied to the police, but told him the absolute truth, even though she didn't ever tell her parents the truth? I don't buy it, nor will I buy his book.
Won't this entire group of media parasite attorneys just shut up and go away? He pulled a con on the jury that worked, nothing can be done about that now but he keeps bringing it up over and over. Now he's trying to con the public into paying his bills since the star of his show can't. I hope the book bombs and he goes back under his rock--SOON!
Doesn't anybody recall that some of the jurors spoke up after the trial and stated the prosecutor just plain FAILED to bring the evidence it would take to get a conviction?? People should be sad, outraged etc.. that Casey got away with this. But, on the other hand, should be DAMNED GLAD that there is a set of jurors that judged this case one the evidence presented not public opinion. Not their own opinion but the facts that were presented. Isn't that what ANY OF US would want if we were the ones on trial???????? any of you that say no are staight up liars!!!
Totally correct.
Normal citizens certainly got emotional over this particular crime. I find it interesting how many people "know" she was guilty. Somehow, they convince themselves they know it all because they read stories online and watched the news at eleven. Therefore, they "know" way more than the jury that looked every witness in the eye and heard every word of testimony.
Absolutely amazing what ignorant people can convience themselves of.
Well Mr. Baez, I realize you are a lawyer and smarter than the commonners, but I'd be willing to bet those detectives figured out pretty quick that she wasn't "playing with a full deck."
Sounds like there are at least 2 crazies in this story.
@Nevada
Yet YOU "KNOW" she wasn't so much that you call everyone else ignorant???
It's called common sense. I'm not going to go over all the facts because everyone who has followed this case knows them. There have been convictions left and right with LESS evidence!
You, Sir are not only ignorant, as you accuse everyone else of being, but you are naive as well!
Is this guy Scum or what, anything to make money these people have no morals at all, anyone that buys his book just keeps this POS out there, We all know Antony was a POS but this guy takes the cake, don't he.
I normally like a good true crime drama; however I will not spend a dime on anything pertaining to that poor child's death. Shame on ANYONE who tries to make money from it!!
JK - stfu
Just say NO. Serious? We need a book to tell us Casey Anthony is crazy as a Sh- - House rat?
Please don't buy the book. He can't tell us that she's guilty as hell due to attorney client privilege. No other reason to read it.
nevada there is one thing she is guilty of, and that's not taking care of her child. I thought that this was an important part of our culture, no?
Hey Jose, i'm still sure you are an idiot.
Baez did an exceptional job of advocating for his client. The state never proved its case. It doesn't matter what you do or don't believe Casey Anthony did, the jury got it right. I watched 95% of this trial and I would have voted not to convict. We'll probably never know the truth of what happened to poor Caylee, but the outcome was correct for the case presented. Flame away.
I don't agree. Baez was successful in redefining "beyond a reasonable doubt" to "beyond any doubt" which means there would have had to have been a completely reliable eye witness. I do, however, believe the prosecution over charged the case.
I'm with ya Buffaloe. When it comes to crimes against children, people are always presumed guilty by the average person. It's really just a form of showboating, of saying "look at me, I'm an intense protector of children!" There is no evidence against Casey, none, zip, nada. They couldn't even place the body in Casey's car at any point. I do believe that she had SOMETHING to do with what happened to her daughter, that she knows something she isn't telling, but it is not clear at all that she is the killer. It is not even conclusive that Caylee was murdered at all. Casey obviously lives in a fantasy world and lies constantly about pretty much everything. You cannot really determne anything by listening to her.
I respectfully disagree. I, too, watched all of the trial available. The defense threw dad under the bus with the molestation BS (if true, and she so loved her daughter, why would she bring her child to live under his roof?) and mom clearly (to me) lying about the computer search. What loving mother, no matter the circumstances, puts stickers on her child's mouth, adds duct tape, puts them in a trash bag and throws them out like garbage - and then parties? Common sense should be a part of deliberations.
And in what part of the actual trial was evidence presented that Casey had applied stickers and duct tape to Caylees mouth? Answer, it wasn't. That's one of the reasons the prosecution didn't prevail and the outcome was correct. If you had watched the full trial as you state, you would know that the "evidence" you quote was never presented, or the verdict would have gone against Anthony.
Could the stickers or duct tape or ANYTHING at the crime scene be traced back to the house or Casey?
I want to know how after all the time the childs body laid and decomposed they can say the tape was over her mouth... Maybe it was over her eyes or ears.
So....in 99% of all murder cases there is no EYE WITNESS. Does that mean that all murderers should go free? There was a ton of circumstancial evidence. Once piece , I would say that's not enough. There were thousands of pages. How can you say this girl is innocent? Someone did something to this child whatever it was. She was the last one with Caylee so you tell me!
@ Leroy Brown
Yes, the same tape and the same stickers were in fact found in the Anthony home.
OK, I will. How in any sense of the law was she not guilty of child endangerment Buffalo? First degree murder OK, not proved, but child endangerment? guilty as sin. Only a uneducated lazy worthless buffoon could not deduse that.
deduce...sorry!
Had Baez ever heard of something called "attorney-client privilege"?
I haven't seen anybody say she was innocent, there's a difference between that and a not guilty verdict. I think reasonable doubt trumps common sense in this case. If I was a juror I wouldn't be able to live with myself convicting her simply because common sense said she was guilty, while at the same time knowing there wasn't any real proof to back it up. There would always be that lingering doubt.
The Jury got it right.
Buffalo, I meant aggravated child abuse, not child endangerment.
JCB, there was no charge of child endangerment brought. The jury doesn't get to change the charge in deliberations, only vote to convict/not convict on the charges they're handed. And thanks for the uneducated, lazy, worthless buffoon comment. I am not uneducated.
Cassandra I think that only lasts till the case is over as she cannot ever be charged with the murder of her daughter again.
I agree the case was overcharged as all hell. But yes she was not found guilty of Endangerment because it was not on the list of charged against her and they could not apply it once the trail started without needing to do a restart and Double Jeopardy applies.
As for the Stickers and Ducktape. Yes they where linked back to George and Cindy's home but the State could not prove who used them out of the 3 and they could not charge all three with the murder so they didn't use the evidence in the way your suggesting.
As for the circumstantial evidence. It was weak and flimsy to start. The computer search was proven to be FALSE the Lab tech that the State quoted as saying 88 or so times corrected himself because the end of the trail when he found out another lab had come to 1 search not 88. He redid his test and found his first result of 88 was false. And that there was 1 search for Chloroform which Cindy Anthony attested was HER searching it. So yes the Prosecutor lied to the Jury by not Correcting that misinformation when he was told and the tech offered to fly himself out to Florida to explain to the court but they said no.
So most of the evidence was worthless. They brought up she borrowed a shovel from a neighbor but attested she couldn't have used it in the crime or to hide the body they just wanted to say she borrowed a shovel to make people think she had done something with it.
Okay, the same stickers and tape were found in the Anthony home, interesting but still doesn't really implicate Casey herself. It was not just that there was no "eye-witness" as Nigel claims; there was no physical evidence at all tying Casey to the body or even to her car after all that "smell of dead body" talk. She did not report her child missing for a month and this is basically the reason everyone is so "sure" that Casey herself murdered her own child with her bare hands. Stop with the hysterics already. Casey is a disturbed young woman. Could she have killed her child? Sure, but this is far from proven beyond a reasonable doubt.
Well, Buffaloe51...WE DO KNOW there was proof of a DECOMPOSING Body that was placed in CASEY'S car trunk, at some point and she was the only one driving that damn car, we know there is no PROOF anyone stole it from her or that anyone else drove it...RIGHT SMART ASS? There was hair found in the trunk that was Caylee's DNA and it was banded, which means consistent with a dead or decomposing body. Hair bands once someone dies. We know the duct tape came from THEIR GARAGE, same brand, which is hard to find, WE KNOW that the evidence PROOVES that only CASEY ANTHONY was home when the searches on the computer were made for Chloraform, that doesn't seem odd to you? when that smell was in the trunk, also, we KNOW from her own mouth that her child was missing and she didn't give a @!$%# for 31 days, until her mother forced her to admit Caylee was missing and was out partying and enjoying her life, you think that is normal? Who is this guy, Buffaloe, Baez talking? What are you Casey's boyfriend? lol Do your F'n homework if your going to say there is NO PROOF. There is proof, just obviously not enough to convince the jury. Too bad the jury on the Scott Peterson trial didn't hear this case. They had INTENT, that seemed to be enough for them. There was less evidence in that case than THIS case.
To all the idiots praising Baez the Buffoon...HE didn't win the case, the prosecution lost it by trying for a first degree murder conviction. Anything else would have ended in a conviction. Anthony is guilty, but the jury did the job it had no choice but do. Baez is just an incompetent, lying slime ball who is now free to cash in on his lucky win at a high profile case, which was actually handed to him by overzealous prosecutors. And now the REAL stupid people are going to be the ones who send him their money.
Actually Lisa, there was no proof of a decomposing body in the trunk of Casey's car, and there was no proof that the duct tape came from the Anthony garage, only that it was the same brand found on Caylee. Big difference. The search evidence has already been debunked, and by your own statement, there is "evidence" (not proof) but not enough to convince a jury. It's not easy being an educated, lazy, worthless buffoon such as myself, but I do work at it.
"Actually Lisa, there was no proof of a decomposing body in the trunk of Casey's car, and there was no proof that the duct tape came from the Anthony garage,"
Only if you're stupid. They found hair a stain, bugs and most importantly the smell. A smell that is easily identified as human decomp and several people that a very well trained in Human decomp said it was the smell of decomposing human remains.
Personally I'm convinced she was drugging her daughter to go out and party. Zanny is the street name for xznaic and Casey had been going places for years (Like a job she NEVER had) and all that time she was leaving her daughter with "Zanny". One day she gave her too much (probably because she was getting older and needed larger douses to keep her asleep) and after she died Casey just decided to party like it was 1999 until she was sentenced to jail for the rest of her life.
But hey that's just me!
Your completely wrong Buffalo, they could convict her on any one of the charges, it's not all or nothing, that's completely false. You obviously know nothing about the law. They could have found her guilty of either aggravated child abuse or aggravated manslaughter of a child. That is a FACT! They did find her guilty of the 4 charges of lying to the police.
From wiki, "On October 14, 2008, Casey Anthony was indicted by a grand jury on charges of first degree murder, aggravated child abuse, aggravated manslaughter of a child, and four counts of providing false information to police."
Leroy - put down the bath salts. No evidence of Caylee in the car? Really - the stain, the smell, the hair. The hair with the death band around it. I realize this all might be above your intelligence but even Casey told her friend theres a dead "squirrel" in the car it stinks so bad.
You are indeed excitable there JCB, aren't you? All of the charges available to them involved convicting her on evidence they didn't have. If you go back and read the jury instructions, you'll find very clear explanations of what a guilty verdict on any of the charges requires. Just because the charge of "aggravated child abuse" was available to the jury, doesn't mean that the prosecution presented a compelling case for conviction on that charge, or any of the other charges, other than the four counts of "False Information to Law Enforcement" (on which they convicted), there was not sufficient evidence presented by the prosecution to overcome reasonable doubt on any of the lesser charges. You can't sit on a jury and say "I hope," or "I wish," or "I think," you have to have proof beyond a reasonable doubt to convict. The prosecution didn't meet that burden.
I'm not saying Casey Anthony's hands are clean in all of this, I'm just arguing the jury did their job and the prosecution fell flat on its face.
Now go have a nice xanax and calm down.
Yeah, I would have to lean toward the "GUILTY AS HELL" crowd.
Frankly, if a child in your care has even an accidental death... you should be guilty of something."
If you then go ahead and hide the child's body and lie about it for months.... you are guilty of something at least as bad or even WORSE THAN MURDER.
Boy, I must of missed something. Gez how foolish of me. How could anyone ever think that not reporting a child missing for a month to the police, all the while partying like the end of days, getting tattoos, drinking like a fish is not guilty of "aggravated child abuse"? The "burden" was shattered like a rock through a plate glass window Buf.
If their theory was that Caylee drowned accidentally and dad and Casey panicked, then who disposed of the body with the stickers and the tape? (Doesn't matter where the tape was located; who duct-tapes a child they're supposed to love, alive or deceased? Or did a neighbor dispose of her remains? Or did the meter reader help them?) Why would an already deceased child "require" duct-tape anywhere on them? I'm surprised Baez and Casey didn't claim poor Caylee was abducted by Martians; that would have been more plausible than the accidental drowning and all the other crap the defense threw at the public and the jury. Did he get her off? Yep! Is that his job? Yep! Should he be so proud of how he did it? Definitely not!
Actually, buffalo, and anybody else that believes the jury did their job....if they had any second thoughts at all, the smartest thing would have been for one of the jurors to stand by their conviction of guilty and make it a hung jury. That way, if more evidence could be found later, the prosecution could retry. As it stands now, she can never be re-tried for this, which is an unbelievable flaw in the system. A criminal can have many appeals, but the prosecution gets one shot. Hardly fair.
Hey JCP, Florida law quoted:
The crime of Aggravated Child Abuse can be committed in one of three ways by either:
A child is defined as any person under the age of 18.
Importantly, there is no requirement that the Aggravated Child Abuse must be committed by a person in a parental or custodial relationship to the victim, thus what might be charged as a Felony Battery if the child was an adult, can instead be charged as Aggravated Child Abuse at the prosecutor's discretion. [1]
Doesn't say anything about a child not being reported missing. You need to think about law and not emotion, and yes, I do know something about law.
Where were all these out-house lawyers during the trial?
buffalo, I would think that neglect which results in "causing great bodily harm" is not a far stretch of the imagination. She MOST definitely neglected her parental duties, and if it leads to death, it should be a crime if it isn't already. If you think otherwise, let me hear your logic.
Baez is the epitome of the douchey scumbag lawyer. Hope he enjoyed his 15 minutes, in 10 years he'll be chasing ambulances, like he should be.
He's a douchebag for doing the job he was suppose to do?
No, I think he is a douchebag because of his slimy, knows-no-bottom, do-anything, say-anything practices. The only people who will go to him now are people who are probably guilty, and want someone to scrape the bottom looking for a way to confuse a jury enough or find a loophole in the law that will get them off. He is the Johnny Cochran of Florida.
Baez has no credibility, and the only reason Anthony is not sitting in jail is because she got lucky the Orange County DA over-charged her. The jurors said they thought she was involved in Caley's death in some way, they WANTED to find her guilty of something, but they could not find her guilty of murder.
If I was on trial for murder, I would hire him! He seems to know what he is doing... Guilty or not, he got his client off didn't he? It would be like calling Johny Cochran a slimy douchebag for getting OJ off. From the defense standpoint, he seems like a good lawyer to me.
"If I was on trial for murder, I would hire him! He seems to know what he is doing... Guilty or not, he got his client off didn't he? It would be like calling Johny Cochran a slimy douchebag for getting OJ off. From the defense standpoint, he seems like a good lawyer to me."
Maybe you missed that large team of seasoned trail lawyers setting behind him?
Hey, Cochran did what he was paid to do, he got OJ off. Not to speak poorly of the dead, but I still think Cochran was a slimy douchebag. A very successful, slimy douchebag.
And I put Jose Baez firmly in that group - slimy, successful douchebags. Only now everyone knows he is a slimy successful douchebag, so only clients needing a slimy successful douchebag to get them out of jail for things they actually did will engage his services. If you show up with Jose Baez in tow to court, everyone there will assume you are guilty.
Baez serves a certain need in the legal community, but he is still, and always will be in my mind, a slimy successful douchebag. He picked his career path when he took Anthony's case.
I hold him in about the same regard as buy-here-pay-here car salesmen and people who sell diet pills on late-night TV. He's just got more education, but he's no less .... slimy.
Honestly, I don't know what Cheney Mason was thinking when he tied his horse to Jose Baez' wagon. He had a good reputation in Orlando before that trial, now that is pretty much gone.
Don't despair Casey; people can become rich and successful while not playing with a full deck. You should talk to former governor and vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin sometime. She may have a few good tips for you.
Leroy Couldn't have said it better... Great idea.....
Or look at Obama and Romney...two sociopaths wearing a mere facade of sanity as they sadistically lie to the people they beg to lead, and kill (or wish to kill) people who are no threat to us whatsoever.
11 years of war...that isn't self defense. I'd give you 2 tops...then you're just nation-building and setting up puppet states (like how Karzai is universally seen as fixing his last election, yet we support him - supposedly our "ally"...how unlikely is it that we didn't know about, do, or help with that fixing of elections?).
You served politics, all I did was return a volley...
Yeah, but Palin wasn't "crazy", just shallow, stupid and poorly educated. Still, as leroy said, I'm sure she'd have some good tips for Anthony, you betcha.
Palin isn't shallow, stupid or uneducated. You may not agree with her views but many, many do in this country. Name-calling is shallow, stupid and signs of one being poorly educated.
"Palin isn't shallow, stupid or uneducated."
OK LOL
"You may not agree with her views but many, many do in this country."
Psssst Her views are the same views as the GOP nothing new or brilliant on her part.
Please Linda, I heard Palin's answer to the question about Paul Revere while she was in Massachusetts. What had she learned while there? Well golly, she learned that Paul Revere had ridden to warn the British that hey, you can't take our guns away. Seriously? She spent the next few days twisting her response like a pretzel in order not to appear so shallow, stupid and uneducated. There are a lot of politicians with whom I strongly disagree and yet they come off as intelligent and thoughtful. Palin ain't one of them. Jeez Linda, she couldn't memorize three simple talking points and had to write them on the palm of her hand. That's grade school stuff. She's an idiot, live with it.
Being possibly mentally ill doesn't make her either innocent or incompetent. Baez is hoping to convince people that she either didn't do it or didn't know right from wrong. Both suppositions are inaccurate characterizations of people with mental illness. I don't believe for one minute that he was ever going to have her testify and I'm sure he is grateful that the judge allowed him to pick his jury.
Like Rielle Hunter's, I will not buy or read this book. I prefer my fiction appropriately identified.
Oh the prosectution was there picking also.
Why would he even undertake to convince anyone of her incompetence based on a mental health diagnosis. That happens prior to trial. Trial is over. She was found not guilty. And your suppositions regarding people making suppositions about the mentally ill are just plain silly. No where was it ever claimed, prior to trial, during trial, or after a verdict had been reached, that Anthony was legally insane (meaning that she was so mentally ill that she was not able to distinquish right from wrong). Nor was it claimed that she was mentally incompetent as a result of mental illness (requiring that different criteria be met than those necessary for insanity). Does Casey Anthony have a diagnosed mental disorder? Since none of us have access to her medical/mental health records, none of us know for certain. Could she meet the criteria necessary to be diagnosed with some form of mental illness? Based on what has been revealed of her history and her behaviors (both reported and observed), probably. Would that make her behave in ways that to people without mental illness seem irrational? Absolutely. All you armchair attorney wannabes and armchair doctor wannabes need to go out and get the credentials that give your conclusions a little credibility. Otherwise, they can be considered to be nothing more than the uninformed, misdirected rantings they are.
Baez does not need to relitigate this case. He won. His client however needs to be rehabilitated in the public mind if she is to live anything like a normal life in the future. He is not trying to prove a legal point but is, I believe, trying to elicit the sympathy she was unable to get before and during the trial, and ever since as well. Plus, he is just needing to make some money blowing his own horn.
just like she lied about killing her child?,typical lawyer scum bag b.s.
Do you think everyone should have a trial, and a lawyer? If not, are you in favor of lynching?
Those are pretty much the alternatives.
People hate lawyers until they need one.
Seems to me that Baez "isn't playing with a full deck", either.
"The public may have been convinced that I was an idiot but I let it all roll off my back," he writes. He suffered depression after the complaint was filed against him and he found it difficult to find joy in his wife's pregnancy. Which is it, Jose?
I agree with the previous posts from Jeff and Riverman. Well said, guys!
Here we go again.
I think she has the sociopathic detachment disorder, which she was probably born with. They just lie and lie and lie. Her father must DETEST her. That first video of her in jail and the parents trying to tell her where the baby was, you can tell that he was out of patience with her. I do not believe as a cop, he would fail to report an accidental death and be part of putting his little granddaughter in a garbage bag with duct tape covering her mouth and know she was rotting away all that time pretty much in their own backyard. This is all part of Casey's sick show. She can live with herself because she feels nothing, no empathy, no bonding with anyone or anything. It is just because she is female that she gives the appearance of not being just as bad as any born killer, but that is what she is.
Sociopathy isn't purely genetic..it takes childhood abuse to trigger it. Either they witness abuse, are abused, or are the abuser. Sociopaths aren't born separate from environment. And all normal people can become sociopaths given the proper levels of strain (drug addiction and alcoholism can turn off sympathy centers of the brain, and make it difficult to empathize, and starvation can leave you operating purely on the "reptilian" primitive aspects of the brain).
Right Pro individual and you have the answers for everything. Some people are more prone to drug addiction than others, those are genetic to a degree and some are born with certain tendencies over others, it doesn't mean they will have those issues in their lifetime, they have triggers that may indulge certain disorders. Diet, sleep, trauma to the brain may affect disorders. I think she is just a narcissistic bitch that is a spoiled, self centered brat and that alone can seem sociopathic. She doesn't like responsibility and her parents, especially her mother enabled her...The end. Oh and she did smother that kid or tried to quiet her for a night of fun and she intentionally killed her or the little girl accidently died. But caring parents don't cover it up and go on with their life and go out and party, while their child is gone or missing. She is a heartless B, she should be locked up and neighbor to that nut job out of Texas that drowned her five kids.
Mary:
Mind providing us with the credentials you have earned that would allow you to even venture such a guess?
Seriously, though, there is no such diagnosis.
Anyone who buys this book is getting kicked off my Facebook friend list.
Well, there is a serious deterent! (good one, JW)
Miss Anthony was acquitted not because of her lawyer, but in spite of him. Just goes to show that occasionally a jury catches on to a prosecution that has nothing.
Take her to the little room... for questioning.
What makes Baez sleazy is that he knows that she lies about everything, but he took one of those lies (that her father abused her) and ran with it as part of the defense, regardless of how it slandered that man.
Except you know the fact that even the State thought her Brother had @!$%#ed her as they thought he was the father of Caylee. So I guess the state had some indication there might have been something going on.
And which case did Jose move on to? Well, the guy that took some model to Aruba, took out and insurance policy on her and low and behold they went snorkling and she disappeared. This guy is so deep in debt, it smells. He wears a very fancy hairpiece, which other opposing attorneys in his civil cases said "never went into the water, swimming pool or the beach". Now he is snorkling?
Plus everyone knows if you commit a crime in Aruba, you sit in jail for 30 days and then go home. Remember Natalie Holloway and that piece of crap sitting in jail in South America someplace...one Mr. Vandersloot?
Now Jose is suing American Express to recover the pay-out! Jose seems to find all the creams of the crop.
ANd he is depressed, I am depressed knowing the hands are always tied in this system. Nothing for the victioms until,,,,,along came Sandusky!
"Except you know the fact that even the State thought her Brother had @!$%#ed her as they thought he was the father of Caylee. So I guess the state had some indication there might have been something going on."
Again where are you getting this? They gave him DNA test to rebut the defense only.
Anthony will have the last laugh. Once all her legal battles are over she will file bankruptcy and owe nothing. Give it another 6 months and the book and interview deals will make her wealthy. She will probably move from the country and far away from the boondoct drama addicts who devour every bit of this story they can get their eyes on. All of you claiming not to buy or read the book are lieing to yourselves. You know you are such drama addicts that you can't resist reading the book.
In my opinion, Baez's book is the ony one worth reading. Who want to read a book by a Prosecutor who overcharges and fails to prove his case. He counted on Nancy Disgrace and her kind to win this for him, in the public so he could breeze through a trial. Baez was closely intimate with the real details and story. His book is the one to read.
Baez did an oustanding job, fighting fire with fire and he won. I think that is what pisses everyone off the most.
OMG Smiling - are you serious with your comment. Okay for starters I am not a drama *addict*. Living in Canada we just got snippits of what the case was all about before it went to trial so because I was recovering from surgery (and am fascinated with the law or lack thereof) I decided to watch it as a juror starting innocent until proven guilty. It wasnt long before I was settled on *accident* and that lasted for awhile. This was the first case where the prosecution presented a case that I could understand even the scientific parts but yes there were flaws. But things turned upside down for me when Jose Scumbag came out telling us that they knew all along Caylee was dead those 31 days and that she drowned. And then the Coroner came on and said *there isnt any reason for duct tape to be anywhere on a child's face - if people thought it wasnt on her mouth so it was okay.* Of course there were many many other *facts* that jumped out at me not just these but I do believe the Prosecutor did a great job. Oh by the way he didnt make the charge of first degree murder - the people he works for in the prosecution's office did. But there were two other charges (see even me a layman knew they didnt have to convict her of first degree murder) and by the end of the trial I was up to felony manslaughter. But you had to put all the pieces of the puzzle together not just one or two things and if you did it told the story. I dont normally knock any jury but one juror said and I quote *the prosecution had a strong circumstantial case but I wanted to know when, where, why and how*. Well jury would you like that wrapped with a silver bow too. They did not go back to any of the evidence and at first it was a 6 - 6 split so the time spent was talking the other jurors into acquitting her. And that can be a tough job. They didnt have a clue what they were doing. That jury let Caylee down and Baez won inspite of himself. Did anyone take note of the number of times Baez called for a mistrial - I couldnt believe it when I heard it time after time after time. That is because he had no case. Instead he had to fabricate a story and throw the parents and the brother under the bus to get it done. Half way through that trial I was embarrassed for Baez and many times told my kids if I was her (and I dont like her) I would be getting a new lawyer cause this guy sucked. And he knew he did - he was shocked when she was acquitted as was she. People have forgotten since the trial just what facts were presented in the case by the prosecution - Baez is opening up a second office in another state so I am thinking his depression has cleared up quite nicely and he was a no name lawyer who had never tried a capital murder case when she hired him so why does he feel it was unfair for people to say that. That trial was his ticket to fame and fortune and he knew it and he was prepared to lie, cheat, put people under buses - whatever it took to get her off and I guess that is exactly what he was hired to do. But an intelligent jury would never have fallen for him. One newsman right after the trial said something that really put me at peace after her acquittal and that was *I dont think Baez won the case because of great lawyering but more like he won the case inspite of himself* and that is how I see it. Oh and by the way I watched the OJ trial too and I didnt even know who he was when that started and yes he had the dream team but in that trial the Prosecution truly messed up - it was their incompetence that got him off and after having listening to it in full I would have had to acquit him too. The case was totally botched from the police on up - but I was sure he was guilty - but I had to look at the facts. Oh and last but not least during that trial Baez was called in front of the bar 29 times for his methods of trying this case. He said this himself on Dr. Drew. Now smiling you still call that an outstanding job!!!

@smiling, you go ahead and by that trash. Thats your right, but don't think you know what everyone else is thinking. I get better reads on the vine, AND I have better things to do with my hard earned cash.
Please do not let her profit from this book. don't buy it.
Its not her book..its the attorney Baez book.
I wouldn't buy a book from neither of them.
"either", not "neither"
You double negatived there
And a double negative means it is so... or in other words, you would. ;)
Gonna run out and buy this book! NOT!!
It was one thing to claim sexual abuse by her father in court, which the judge disallowed in Baez's closing because he did not prove that claim...it's quite another to continue that claim in writing for the public. I expect to hear that lawsuits will be filed!
They had more proof she was guilty in this case then the stupid Martin case now. No doubt Zimmerman will walk since no proof..IT's FLORIDA remember that.
Mike -
Would you prefer that he be convicted "since no proof?"
Casey Anthony should have been convicted and in jail for life. This sleeze-bag attorney did his job, but now is muddling the facts for money. This book should be banned.
It appears there will never be justice for Caylee and her psycho mother will attempt to cash in; I hope she is run out of every city and town she tries to live in. Casey Anthony deserved to rot in hell.
HaHaHaHa!!!
You do realize that if Casey wanted to 'cash in' she would have taken the numerous interviews and options that were thrown at her for millions of dollars? Instead she's been in hiding...she'll need to speak eventually because you see since the blood sucking media has marked her 'unemployable' she'll never be able to HAVE a normal life.
I am not trying to plead her innocence, but all your people with the 'die casey anthony die' coming out of your mouths are no better than whoever did take Caylee's life.
"but all your people with the 'die casey anthony die' coming out of your mouths are no better than whoever did take Caylee's life."
Seriously you see people that believe she killed her daughter the same or worse than the person (Casey IMO) that killed her? Are you NUTS?
And who offered her millions?
There was a million dollar offer for an interview on the table for her when she got out of prison, whether or not that was media talk guess we will never know.
No, it's hypocritical for the people to simply want to condemn a person to death because the media BLEW up her case. Fact of the matter, we will never know what happened to Caylee. Casey could have very well killed her daughter, she could be mentally ill. George could have abused her making her a nut case, WE WONT KNOW FOR SURE. I however do not think it is fair to ANY person to have millions beyond millions of people shouting death threats and going into detail of the psychopathic ways they want to murder her.
I am going to be camping out at the bookstore the morning of July 3rd I want a copy of this book. The only thing that could make it better is that Baez be there to sign it.
You may want to line up and camp out 4 days early, troll.
Jose Baez is just another in a very long list of scumbag, headlines seeking bloodsuckers. The prosecution should have realized he lived in a "fantasy world" and "wasn't playing with a full deck" to have taken a case like this and turned it into a circus, and the end result was a murderer got off with his help.
Now he is writing a book all about it (and himself) to further his financial gains off of the murder of an innocent child. What an egotistical piece of human feces!!!
Casey Anthony is a marked woman and will always be a marked woman. This book is just an attempt to make people feel sorry for Casey Anthony when they actually should be feeling sorry for that poor dead child. The jury may not legally be able to say she was guilty, but we all know better.
Yes just like people all KNEW the world was flat, or that Tomatoes were poison, or that white man knew better then the savages on how to live their lives.
Imagine what you'll KNOW tomorrow.
Casey Anthony will get what she deserves someday, even if it is not until she spends eternity with ?ShSatin for murdering her baby. She is by far, not the girl next door, she is a monster with deep mental issues. She will never be able to enjoy the life she desired after murdering her child, as she will never be safe from harm, no matter where she chooses to live and she will kill again because she got away with it the first time.
She did? Bring forth the proof!
I love satin, it's so soft and velvety!
Oh, fairytale punishments after we die...wonderful. That's just the first sign of reasonable, rational thinking, isn't it?
I'm not even an atheist and posts like this make me laugh.
This pro individual..if I had to live with you I would kill myself, I am sure your single!! Your too anal for anyone to contend with. Seriously! You would drive anyone to drink, nothing is good enough for you and you criticize everything, your a pretentious snob. Not even your mother loves you.
WHY IS THIS "NEWS"?
MSNBC... how about paying as much attention to Fast & Furious, Intelligence leaks, unemployment, a teetering economy as you do to these INANE articles.
The people are actually smarter than you give them credit for. Unless of course you find it necessary to pander to the mindless sheeple that believe the spoon fed hyperbole you continually feed them. Especially that partisan hack Bill Dedman.
Amen!!! I visit around to many websites and MSNBC does not address the real news headlines. Wish I had written your post myself..........thanks for telling it like it is.
If you don't like it, fuc k in don't read it??
WaylonA.
Did you learn that excellent English language ability around the dinner table as a child?
The grammar is questionable also. You appear to have made a statement followed by a question mark. Did I miss something?
waylon, we were not discussing the book.
Because some people have a moral obligation to judge everything in sight. Besides, FoxNews.com doesn't allow discussions.
Fox Nation does.
I know you are not reading the book, you are reading the column. If you don't like it don't read it. The only thing u missed XDm9mm is the f_ck you. I am just speaking in terms I know you will understand. You just come on this post to talk bulls*it, and thats all you have. If you don't like MSNBC news then don't read it.
@Waylon, I couldn't have said it better.
I wouldn't buy anything this POS writes, or for that matter, the scum who represented the murderess.
It amazes me that people are still screaming guilt when they are the same one posting the courts are often in err. She was found not guilty, prosecution did not prove guilt, everything not one or two things but everything was circumstantial evidence.
Circumstantial evidence is used all day, every day, in every court in America. The first post was mine and I have been a practicing criminal attorney for 30 years. I thought Baez did a mediocre, at best job and simply lucked out with a jury that seemed to me to not be bright and not paying attention as the case droned on. She seemed clearly guilty, beyond all reasonable doubt to me and I would urge people to not allow Baez to profit because his client murdered a child and got away with it. If Baez had a client he calls mentally ill and he's "competent" why didn't the defense of insanity get raised? Answer: no money in it for him. Putting witnesses on to lie is not good lawyering, but it is a violation of the Canons of ethics.
Baez is the epitome of 'bloodsucking lawyer', cashing in on this historic case. For one thing, it's not the officer's responsibility to know if a person has a mental deficiency or not...that's not the way 'normal' people work. We're not going to assume that just because someone is a habitual lier and overall horrible person, they have a mental problem. Why wasn't her mental state brought up in court? Why was there no testimony from Casey or substantial evidence to show that her father did sexually molest her? Why was their whole case so shady and without proper motives? And all this crap is being reiterated in this book? The unfortunate thing is that there will be people who buy this book and eat up all he has to say.
How should he get paid? By waiting for Anthony to hit the lottery? I suppose you think her right to trial also entitles her to a lawyer who just donates his time.
Personally I think this is the only way this guy gets paid for his hard work on a successful defense.
FYI Proindividual...Jose was a defense attorney provided by the state. He bills every dime in this case to the State of FL. They pay his bills and always have. Remember the "if you can not afford and attorney, the court will provide one for you". That is how Jose got his BMW.
I think I'll take the late Abbie Hoffman's advice and steal that book. I sure as hell am not going to waste a dime on Baez's gratuitous lies. Bleep him. I hope he ends up BACK in bed with Casey and that they both get a flesh-eating bacterial infection in their genitals.