WFTV asks if defense is trying to discredit George Anthony

Casey Anthony: WFTV asks if defense is trying to discredit George Anthony

— posted by halboedeker on July, 19 2010 5:25 PM

Casey Anthony’s defense team is investigating George Anthony’s suicide attempt, possibly to discredit him or blame him, WFTV-Ch. 9 reported tonight.

“Records show her defense team’s private eye has investigated George’s suicide attempt the month after Caylee was found,” WFTV’s Kathi Belich said in a report that opened the station’s 5 p.m. newscast.

Belich reported that the defense has spent about $4,000 so far in taxpayer funding, most of it on the private investigator. There was no response from the defense team in WFTV’s report.

George Anthony testified to the grand jury on Oct. 14, 2008, hours before his daughter, Caylee, was indicted by the grand jury in the death of her daughter, Caylee.

“The defense will have to discredit George because George has some information that is damning to the defense,” WFTV legal analyst Bill Sheaffer said.

How might the defense try to do that? Sheaffer speculated that the defense might want to show George was mentally unstable, because of the suicide attempt, or even present him as a possible murder suspect.

“He was the last person to see Caylee along with Casey,” Sheaffer said. “The duct tape came from his house. The heart-shaped stickers came from his house.”

Or, Belich speculated, the defense might use George’s suicide attempt to show the family is dysfuntional and, for that reason, Casey deserves mercy.

What do you make of this story?


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