Fashioning A Defense: Casey Anthony's Evolving Style - Criminal Report Daily

Fashioning A Defense: Casey Anthony's Evolving Style
April 29, 2011

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[This article is by contributing writer Ivy Bigbee. She is a Washington, D.C.-based photographer-writer-poet. For more information, visit Bigbee’s website at: www.ivybigbee.com]

A leopard can't change its spots, or can it - if that "leopard" is Casey Anthony?

Mere days before Casey Anthony's capital murder trial begins, both the prosecution and defense teams continue to hack their divisive ways through a dense and treacherous jungle of pre-trial motions. Through it all, Anthony has appeared in a variety of clothing and hair styles. What's up with Casey's newest look, and is her appearance a dead give-away to what lies beneath?

While the defense scrambles to find someone else to tell her "story" at trial, Anthony's courtroom appearances at hearings ironically have spoken volumes, without her uttering a single word. Her message to the world has come across in clingy sweaters, suggestively-unbuttoned shirts, hair done up or down in a succession of styles. Put with her would-be paralegal posturing, notebook-wrangling and off-kilter, upbeat manner, what is Casey trying to say?

It's simple. Casey Anthony wants you to know—and has taken pains to project—that she has a shapely figure, and that she relishes the tete a tetes or shared confidences that occur as she merrily chats up anyone who sits at the defense table during court recesses. There is no getting around that the ex-party girl herself is defense's Exhibit A, evidencing she’s sociable and stylish in a sexually-suggestive way.

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