Baez Goes with All the Above in the Casey Anthony Trial - Fanning

Wednesday, May 25, 2011
Baez Goes with All the Above in the Casey Anthony Trial

Excerpt:

We all wondered what tact defense attorney Jose Baez would take in his opening statements in the Casey Anthony murder trial. It was a multiple choice test. Would he:

A. Argue that Caylee lost her life in a tragic accident?
B. Blame someone else for Caylee's death?
C. Explain away all of Casey's behaviour as the result of incestuous child abuse and poor parenting?

Baez didn't chose one of those options, he picked D: All the Above. He claimed that in the first three to three and a half minutes, he would give the answers that would explain everything. After five minutes, he was still grinding out his preamble, listing points of fault with the state's case. Finally, seven minutes into his presentation, Baez dropped his bombshell: Casey never reported her child missing because she was never missing. Caylee died on June 16 in the family swimming pool.

Personally, I think that bomb was a dud. I might have believed it in the summer and fall of 2008. But Baez waits until trial day to reveal this bit of information. Does that mean he allowed his client to sit in jail for more than two years so that he could get more publicity and have his big moment on the national stage?

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