Casey Anthony: Can you handle the truth? - Hal

by mom_in_il Tue Nov 12, 2013 6:10 pm

Casey Anthony: Can you handle the truth?

By Hal Boedeker Staff writer
12:39 p.m. EST, November 6, 2013

Could Casey Anthony ever flip out and have a “Perry Mason” moment on the stand?

That idea came up Tuesday when WFTV-Channel 9 legal analyst Bill Sheaffer offered his impressions of what will happen at an upcoming Anthony deposition. Sheaffer noted that professional investigators “were not able to break her” and said he expected no revelations from Anthony.

“She’s had years to perfect her story. I don’t think they’re going to break her,” Sheaffer told WFTV’s Kathi Belich.

And there’s the matter of whether such a dramatic moment would present itself.

Probably not.

U.S. Bankruptcy Judge K. Rodney May on Tuesday ruled that two defamation suits against Anthony can continue.

Anthony will be deposed by attorneys for Zenaida Gonzalez, who says her life was ruined when Anthony linked her to the disappearance of Caylee Anthony. Casey Anthony was later acquitted of murder in her daughter’s death.

Roy Kronk, the meter reader who found Caylee’s body, is also suing Anthony because her attorneys implicated him in the child’s death.

Anthony’s lawyers say she will assert the Fifth Amendment to avoid questions about her 2-year-old daughter’s death. The Gonzalez deposition will take place secretly and without fanfare.

Will those suits actually go to trial? That seems a long shot, according to legal analysts I consult.

If you’re hoping for that big Casey moment – something like Jack Nicholson on the stand in “A Few Good Men” – might as well forget that.

You can handle that truth, can’t you?

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