I keep re-watching George Anthony on the stand when Baez kept asking him about if he molested his daughter and about his suicide attempt.
George admitted the suicide attempt, but he was very stern with his answers, when he said NO, he did not abuse his daughter in such a way.
I believe him. I do not believe Casey Anthony was ever molested by anyone, it's another God damn lie she made up to try and save her own ass.
George's suicide attempt is something I can relate to...I believe him, 100%.
So I was sitting in a hospital waiting room two days ago, and they happened to have the trial on. We all (about 8-10 people) observed George's meltdown, but when he blurted out, weeping,
"I just wanted to be with my Caylee!!!" (testimony re his suicide note), the people in the waiting room all gave a collective breath intake, and the consensus was
that was sick. Nobody, NOBODY, would look that guilt-ridden and blurt that comment out unless
he had, in fact, abused Caylee--the baby. For him to
still be in that much grief
three years later is not normal unless there's a HUGE guilt factor involved. George did love Caylee. He was also
IN LOVE with her, just as he was his own daughter Casey, before she grew up. The man is a pedophile, in my humble opinion.
I also think THAT'S what came out last week when Cindy began tweeking her story about the chloroform and Lee also began appearing distraught on the stand, with Casey also in tears. (Remember Lee had said something to the effect "...things I recently found out..." which we as onlookers, and the jury, were not provided an explanation as to what those "things" were.)
What's truly, truly,
truly unfortunate about this wretched case is that those family secrets will not be exposed in this trial, because the whole family has rallied: Trying to keep Casey from the death penalty and the media exposure to George Anthony's less-than-stellar-anyway past, with child abuse added.
We'll also never know exactly how Caylee died, I'll bet, nor who was actually responsible. However she died, she was not "murdered," unless it was a frantic action to stop her from screaming or something equally as horrible.
My only other comment right now is that I believe a fair trial for Casey was not going to happen from the outset, given her Internet photos, her lies while trying to keep Caylee's disappearance a secret, and all of the history the prosecution attempted to use to paint Casey as a cold-blooded murderer, and even if everything else the prosecution provided as evidence was 100% intractable.
1. The police and sheriff departments were gung ho on proving Casey as the guilty party and did very little to pursue any other possible leads that she might not have been. They did that based on her prior lies, but that is still no excuse to make judgment before all leads are thoroughly investigated, and as the months went on, there were plenty of them that the dabbled with at best, and ignored at worst.
2. Judge Perry's pretrial "order" that no evidence or testimony can be introduced that wasn't previously disclosed in discovery never, ever should have been agreed to by the defense. I fault Baez and even his more experienced counterpart Cheney Mason for going along with that dumb rule, which literally tied their hands in the face of a seasoned and experienced and angry prosecutor like Ashton, whom I suspect wrote the order for the judge to sign in the first place. Again, the defense team underestimated their strategy in going up against Ashton, et al., who is also skillful in stalling the proceedings at every possible moment with his objections.
Pretrial discovery requirements are one thing; but the reason for a trial is to dissect that discovery on the stand, expand upon it in a witness's own words, not be tied to it over simple semantics.
3. Jose Baez was completely unprepared for a murder one criminal defense. He was negligent in court procedure; he did not do his homework in anticipation of prosecution's objections and rebuttals. Anticipating these tactics is paramount for any criminal defense attorney. The only thing he did well, in spite of his sloppiness, is proving there is a huge possibility that the duct tape was NOT the murder weapon; that there is way more than a 50-50 chance that Caylee's body was never in the trunk of Casey's car; and that other specific evidence held by law enforcement had been tampered with (unwittingly) many times making it impossible for anyone to draw scientific conclusions from much of it.
4. Judge Belvin Perry is an expert at precedent, but he lacks the balls to actually
set precedent which could argue
against those precedents he constantly cites, which often had somewhat if not vastly different details from this particular case. The judge is legal scholar, but not much of a legal analyst, again in my humble opinion.
Perry also, throughout, has allowed Ashton lenience to badger witnesses, he allows the prosecution to use heresay evidence, he allows them to cherry-pick and put words in a witness's mouth, but sustains prosecution objections if the defense dares do the same things. His bias has been clear on many occasions, and I think that may merely stem from a disrespect for Jose Baez, but it still is no excuse.
At this time, now that the meat of the testimony is over, it's clear that Casey will be found guilty of some kind of child endangerment charge with death resulting because thankfully there is enough reasonable doubt for murder to convince the jury, unless they're truly a bunch of bimbos who indeed had already formed their biases based on prior media extravaganzas regarding this case.
Psychiatry journals will be having a grand time with this case for years to come.
