911, What’s Your Emergency? - Hornsby

911, What’s Your Emergency?

Jun 21st, 2010 by Richard Hornsby.



Foghorn Leghorn sure is getting his beard in a tizzy about the State’s Motion to Admit Cindy Anthony’s 911 Calls.

• Defense Reply to State Motion to Admit 911 Calls
  

And while I don’t fault the defense for trying to exclude the 911 tapes, their lack of foresight just highlights the Casey Anthony defense team’s continuing weakness – too much energy focused on losing battles (but then again, with five pro-bono attorneys, a legal clinic, and endless time on their hands, what’s a little wasted energy.)

But more importantly, they just don’t seem to understand the true evidentiary value the 911 calls provide to the State or the legal basis by which the State is seeking the 911 calls’ admission.

Instead the defense rests their entire evidentiary objection to the admission of the 911 calls on “hearsay.” An unimaginative and shallow objection under the procedural nature and facts of this case.


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