Casey Anthony: Jose Baez blasts Roy Kronk report as ‘100 percent false’

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So what about reports that Casey Anthony’s attorneys have dropped plans to suggest that Roy Kronk is a suspect in Caylee Anthony’s murder?
Not so, WKMG-Channel 6 reports. “Anthony’s attorney Jose Baez tells Local 6 that reports he is backing off the meter reader are ‘100 percent false,’ ” anchor Jessica Sanchez said this morning.

Kronk was the meter reader who found the toddler’s remains two years ago. Casey Anthony is charged with first-degree murder in the death of her daughter. Her trial begins in May.

WKMG noted that the defense was required to call for a court hearing on the Kronk matter by Thursday. “The hearing never occurred,” Sanchez said.

WFTV-Channel 9 speculated that the defense was dropping the Kronk-as-suspect strategy because of that deadline. “The defense had until today to ask Chief Judge Belvin Perry to bring those accusations against Kronk into the trial so a jury could hear them. It did not happen,” WFTV’s Kathi Belich reported last night.

WFTV evidently hadn’t talked to Baez, but based its story on the deadline. Or maybe Baez wouldn’t talk to WFTV; he has shown disdain for the station’s reporting.

The friction between Baez and WFTV adds a fascinating wrinkle to the coverage.

Casey Anthony: Roy Kronk no longer a suspect in case. Or is he?
posted by halboedeker on December, 23 2010 5:38 PM

Roy Kronk talked to the press last year. Photo credit: Red Huber/Orlando Sentinel
The meter reader didn’t do it, Casey Anthony’s defense team now agrees.

Or so surmised WFTV-Channel 9 in speculating tonight that Anthony’s attorneys have dropped plans to suggest that Roy Kronk is a suspect in Caylee Anthony’s murder.

Kronk was the meter reader who found the toddler’s remains two years ago. Casey Anthony is charged with first-degree murder in the death of her daughter. Her trial begins in May.

“The defense had until today to ask Chief Judge Belvin Perry to bring those accusations against Kronk into the trial so a jury could hear them. It did not happen,” WFTV’s Kathi Belich reported.

WKMG-Channel 6 noted that the defense was required to call for a court hearing on the Kronk matter by Thursday. “The hearing never occurred, but Anthony’s attorney Jose Baez tells Local 6 that reports he is backing off the meter reader are ‘100 percent false,’ ” anchor Jessica Sanchez said later.

WFTV evidently hadn’t talked to Baez, but used the deadline to speculate that the defense had abandoned its claim that Kronk is a suspect. WFTV legal analyst Bill Sheaffer observed: “The defense was floating balloons to see how this shift of focus from Casey to Kronk might play out. It didn’t play out well at all. It backfired.”

Kronk’s attorney David Evans said, “The Anthony defense’s attacks on Roy were not only false, unfair and designed to deflect attention from Casey Anthony, but also a losing strategy.”

I initially wrote: Roy Kronk, hero — no one can disagree now. Rarely has one person received such grief for doing such good.

My revision: Roy Kronk still performed a public service in finding the child.

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