Casey Anthony: Jose Baez dismisses $1 million offer - Hal

Casey Anthony: Jose Baez dismisses $1 million offer
posted by halboedeker on July, 17 2011 10:56 PM

Jose Baez doesn’t sound interested in a producer’s $1 million offer to interview Casey Anthony.

“I heard just heard on your network someone is claiming that there is a deal for a million dollars. That is not so,” Baez told Geraldo Rivera tonight on Fox News Channel. “I was going to meet with the individual and hear whatever offer he wanted to make.”

That person, producer Al Taylor, told Fox News’ Jeanine Pirro that he had an agreement with Baez. “We have a verbal agreement,” Taylor said. Taylor said the interview was going to be as soon as possible and that Anthony would be hooked up to a lie-detector. Taylor said he was looking at several TV personalities to interview Anthony.

“It’s a done deal,” Taylor said. “We’re bringing the money down this week. We have an agreement.”

But Baez announced he was changing his mind. “This is not the way we want to handle Casey’s affairs,” Baez said. Baez said they wanted to handle offers “in a dignified manner.” Baez said he didn’t know when Anthony would give an interview.

Baez said he would continue to be Anthony’s attorney. She was acquitted two weeks ago of first-degree murder in the death of her daughter, Caylee.

In an interivew with Rivera, Baez sidestepped questions about Anthony’s mental state. “I’m not a therapist. I’m a lawyer,” Baez said. Baez said the defense team was exploring “all possibilities” about getting Anthony help.

Rivera didn’t ask where Anthony was. She was released from the Orange County Jail earlier today, and Baez wasn’t taking questions about her whereabouts or her mental state, citing the attorney-client privilege.

Baez said the public needed to respect jury verdicts and saluted the jury’s hard work and sacrifice.

Rivera told Baez he had done “some brilliant lawyering” and said there was an expectation of more interviews.

On Pirro’s show, Taylor wouldn’t reveal the investors in the $1 million offer. “Unlike Leonard Padilla, I don’t speak out of my backside,” Taylor said, taking a swipe at the bounty hunter who has been connected to the Anthony saga.

“There’s nothing wrong with making money on this story, because it’s capitalism,” Taylor told Pirro. Taylor said he would sell the interview overseas because there won’t be a boycott there, and that he will give away the interview for free in the United States.

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