Okay, I try not to get into the Cell Block Tango cases, but this development in the Casey Anthony case is just so LAW & ORDER you know they’ve already cast the father for the ‘ripped from the headlines but any resemblance to actual persons coincidental’ episode. (“Need a guy with a big name but small enough he’ll do a potential Emmy winning special guest star… Burt Reynolds! Henry Winkler maybe… keep going!”).
Turns out, according to the defense, who never thought to mention it before, Caylee wasn’t killed by her mother’s neglect and then abandoned. She drowned in her grandparents’ pooland Grandpa covered it up so as not to upset Grandma. After the cunning little scheme was found out, he decided it would upset Grandma far less to have her daughter become a media superstar childkiller than to fess up and say “Oh that Caylee… yeah, she drowned in the pool.”
This is the weirdest defense strategy ever. Makes me wonder if Ben Stein is attached.
During the first season of SOAP when Jessica Tate was on trial for murder and her attorney (Howard Hesseman) said something to the effect of “Clarence Darrow arguing the defense against a deaf mute prosecutor to a jury of Mrs. Tate’s relatives with her husband as the judge couldn’t get an acquittal!” and Casey’s in a similar boat. I think the defense is just having fun at this point- Ashton Kutcher’s going to come in and yell “You are Punk’d!” in a few minutes.
Otherwise it’s like something from LAW & ORDER: WRITER’S STRIKE improv night excercise.
I was waiting to see what accidental death scenario they were going to come up with once the coroner was unable to establish the exact cause of death.
I feel that she probably killed her daughter, but unless being a loathsome human being and a pathological liar is enough to get someone convicted of murder, she’s going to walk.
Ah, now they’re saying she was sexually abused as a child as well, so apparently it’s only natural she’d cover up a child’s death for three years and neglect to mention the kid drowned even after being in a capital murder trial with the death penalty being sought. That certainly got the Menendez Brothers acquitted.
And I hope it doesn’t come across as too sociopathic when I say "You live in a state famous for the number of alligators and pythons and other wildlife that can eat a St. Bernard and ‘toss it in the woods beside the house’ is the best way you can think of to get rid of a small body? Really? Really?!
And upon finding the body of the child dead and floating in a pool you did what anybody who’s taken First Aid would do and put duct tape over her mouth. I guess sometimes the magic doesn’t work.
Well, you see, your honor, I read somewhere that water getting into the lungs causes lung damage, even death! So I sealed her mouth with tape so that the water couldn’t get in.
Haven’t her parents totally stood by her this whole time, insisting that she’s innocent? Wonder how they feel about these accusations - think they new this was the tack she was going to take?
So… Granny knew that Caylee was dead, but called the cops anyway to complain about the dead smell in the car. She’s not really a good one for the conspiracy; I think if she’s ever in on a dead body I have to dispose of she just earned herself a heart sticker.
Casey Anthony must be the most hated person in the entire state of Florida, and if she is convicted, I would bet (in fact I will bet if I can find any takers) that she gets a life sentence.
Exactly. Are they going to put gramps on the stand, or mom herself? They can’t just say that kind of thing in opening statements and then not back it up, or the judge will ream them a new one.
Maybe they’ll get an expert witness to say the girl had chlorinated water in her lungs!
Death penalty wouldn’t surprise me. In fact this is a case that if I were a juror and if preponderance of evidence proved to me she is as guilty and remorseless as I think she is now I wouldn’t have a problem voting death; if guilty, she needs killin’. Hell, even if the kid really did drown it doesn’t explain why she lied about her workplace, the babysitter, where she was staying, or why she was out partying when her kid was dead, or why they didn’t report the child as missing, or any of that stuff.
I think the jury has the right to sentence her to death, could be wrong. If she’s released I anticipate gunshots being fired off camera in the hallway before Goren & Benson can get to her.