Casey Anthony Trial - How the Cards Stack - Orlando Magazine

Jun 5, 2011 09:00 PM
Casey Anthony Trial - How the Cards Stack

Excerpt:

After two full weeks of trial, so far the state has presented a highly credible chronological account of the events in the life of Casey and what happened to Caylee, starting in June 2008. With all the defense bumbling and missteps throughout pretrial motions and hearings, just how is Jose & Co. handling affairs in the courtroom, now that the trial against Casey Anthony is underway? One of the things we must recognize is that Jose is not only lead attorney by name, he is walking the walk – guiding her defense through thick and thin. Despite error after error, he's not really doing all that poorly, based on how he handled cross examinations and readdresses on Friday and Saturday. Considering that he has a liar and thief for a client, and his tactics have not always been on the side of integrity, he seems to be handling his own in some areas, particularly forensics. One must give credit where credit is due.

While Casey's family and friends testified that she was a cold, callous and calculating mother who lied about Caylee's whereabouts for a month, Jose managed to get them to concede that she was a wonderful mother who never showed any signs of abusing her daughter. That means their testimony didn't just work to the state's advantage, and anything in favor of Casey is a plus.

As to the 5 hours of damaging video, clearly, they speak volumes, none of which will help her cause one bit, but let's move on to the testimony of law enforcement. When Yuri Melich took the stand, he became a formidable challenge because he refused to let Jose impeach him on cross examination. Jose sought to introduce blogs as a means to undermine Yuri's credibility. Yuri had commented on Websleuths very early into the investigation, but he said nothing about this case. While the defense was successful in using my blog, Marinade Dave, to remove the presiding judge, Stan Strickland, from the bench last April, it failed miserably this time. Why? Because the defense went from Strickland to stricter. Sure, he didn't have to step down, but this time, court and law enforcement personnel were wise to Jose's trickery and he failed miserably. Besides, technically, Websleuths is not a blog, it's a forum. After this recent attempt, a very wise man, studious in law, told me the hidden ball trick only works once in a game, and the defense already used theirs. This time, Yuri prevailed.

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