Casey Anthony case: ‘the biggest trial of 2011′

Casey Anthony case: ‘the biggest trial of 2011′

posted by halboedeker on December, 10 2010 8:10 PM

On HLN this evening, host Vinnie Politan predicted that the Casey Anthony case will be “the biggest trial of 2011.”

He also noted that the case has taken longer to go to trial than Caylee Anthony lived. Casey Anthony is charged with first-degree murder in the death of her daughter, 2-year-old Caylee.

In the latest development today, Judge Belvin Perry ruled that the prosecution and defense must both give information on their experts to the other side.

I didn’t watch the hearing, but I was struck by WFTV-Channel 9’s take that Perry “wasted no time in handing down his order,” that he applied the same rules to the prosecution and defense, and that he “wasn’t going to waste much time on the back-and-forth bickering” between the two sides.

WESH-Channel 2 highlighted “a quick ruling from Perry.”

The case has been long and confounding, yet Perry’s all-business, no-nonsense approach has been refreshing and promising. He is going to make a deadline, and you had better be ready.

On HLN, Politan conducted a panel discussion with three attorneys about the issue of whether this should be a death-penalty case. They agreed it shouldn’t. One stressed that the public doesn’t know how the child died.

Yes, but learning that information keeps many of us coming back. Caylee has become a symbol, a representative for many for other children. She will not be forgotten.

Or as an HLN graphic read: “How little Caylee’s murder gripped the nation.”

http://blogs.orlandosentinel.com/entertainment_tv_tvblog/2010/12/casey-anthony-case-the-biggest-trial-of-2011.html