Casey's Defense Investigating George Anthony

Casey's Defense Investigating George Anthony

Posted: 4:37 pm EDT July 19, 2010
Updated: 6:01 pm EDT July 19, 2010

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ORLANDO, Fla. -- There is a shift of the blame in the case against Casey Anthony. Documents released only to WFTV Monday show, for the first time, Casey's lawyers are investigating her father. WFTV legal analyst Bill Sheaffer said the defense may be trying to discredit him, or possibly blame George Anthony.

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Records obtained by WFTV show the defense is investigating George Anthony's suicide attempt.

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“They would want to show he was mentally unstable,” Sheaffer said.

Sheaffer says the defense might go even farther to try to make some jurors wonder whether George is the murderer; Casey could have laid the groundwork by accusing her father of sexually abusing her.

“He was the last person to see Caylee, along with Casey. The duct tape came from his house. The heart stickers came from his house,” Sheaffer said.

If the defense can't convince a jury that George or someone else covered Caylee's face with duct tape and stuck a heart sticker over her mouth, they might try to use George's suicide attempt to portray Casey's family as dysfunctional to spare her from a possible death sentence.


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