Casey Anthony: WESH crows about its look at prosecution’s approach - Hal

Casey Anthony: WESH crows about its look at prosecution’s approach
posted by halboedeker on January, 19 2011 5:23 PM

“The case against Casey Anthony cracked wide open today with some new prosecution claims that could be the crux of their case,” WESH-Channel 2 anchor Aixa Diaz said this afternoon.

Could be?

Anchor Jim Payne crowed, “WESH 2 news is the first to uncover the first look at how the state plans to pin the murder of Caylee on her mother Casey.”

I would hate for them to be second to uncover the first look.

I’m surprised they got the news out with all the back-patting that opened the 4 p.m. news today. Payne credited reporter Bob Kealing with breaking the story at noon by highlighting crucial documents filed by the state attorney’s office. In them, prosecutors respond to defense motions. Kealing said the papers reveal how the state will attack Casey Anthony’s claims, such as conducting her own search for her daughter.

In court papers, prosecutors:

***Note that Anthony never talked about the missing Caylee to boyfriend Anthony Lazzaro while the two adults were “playing house” and that point disproves that Casey was conducting her own investigation.

***Write that Anthony’s online musing that “everyone lies, everyone dies” is “inconsistent in content with that of a mother desperately seeking her kidnapped child.”

***Cite Cindy Anthony’s online post accusing daughter Casey of lying; prosecutors say Cindy’s comment “is an unvarnished view of the relationship” between the two women.

Anthony’s defense attorneys are trying to have some of these very points thrown out, Kealing noted.

The papers do provide an overview of the prosecution. Despite WESH’s crowing, though, the content of these documents is not new to anyone who’s been following the case. I’d suggest WESH go easy on the self-congratulation. There’s a long way to go in this case.

At 5 p.m., WFTV-Channel 9 also looked at the state’s emphasis on Casey’s ”playing house” with Lazzaro. WFTV legal analyst Bill Sheaffer observed, “Here’s the proof since Casey didn’t tell Lazzaro that her daughter was kidnapped that, in fact, her daughter was not kidnapped.”

WFTV’s Kenneth Moton highlighted the prosecution’s view that Anthony was avoiding questions about her daughter. Prosecutors wrote: “Anthony was doing everything in her power to flee from her family, including lying to them as to her whereabouts and stealing from her friend to avoid having to rely on her family for financial support.”

And Moton explored the importance of Anthony’s “Bella Vita” tattoo. Sheaffer said that the tattoo is another example of how Anthony’s actions don’t reflect the attitudes of a mother looking for her child.

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