Caylee/Casey Anthony Case: Cheney Mason Predicted Casey’s Conviction AFTER Caylee Was Recovered
– J.Cheney Mason, counsel for Casey Anthony
Well now, there you have it. Words from J. Cheney Mason, co-counsel of the defense team via THE BAEZ LAW FIRM. Was he co-counsel when he said it? No. All the more reason to wonder why he would sign on to this case. Yet bet Ms. Simms is happy she did not have a TV when these aired.
Cheney’s prediction of Casey’s trial outcome comments were made the day after Caylee’s remains were located, and OCSO was still onscene, December 12, 2008.
Casey Anthony’s parents were still guests of the THE RITZ CARLTON thanks to ABC, and their Hopespring Drive home was being turned upside down by OCSO ater finding Caylee’s Winnie the Pooh blanket her grandmother conveniently forgot to mention was missing from her room.
“Hopespring” - now there is the boss of all oxymorons in this case.
Tuesday, in the news-less press conference, Mr. Mason forgot his former comments as an “analyst” for local 6 as invited by reporterTony Pipitone.
WFTV Reporter Kathi Belich asked Mason if he recalled being a commentator on the case and concluding that Casey would be convicted.
His Response In pertinent part:
“… I Don’t recall making any such statement..”
O No? We DO.
AFTER Caylee Anthony’s remains were recovered
…” All that talking and the press interviews.. the parents going on this show and that show, the lawyer (Baez) going on different shows established they have no credibility whatsoever..”
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I was taken back about how clear Mason sounded haha. Today he sounds as if he’s on drugs or something. What a flip-flop he is
Thank you Blink
Those videos need to be sent to him to refresh his memory.
He makes me sick.
You know what it is for me Curly-
Since You asked.. lol
It is the fact that they love to sling it at others, but caught flat out contradicting his own previous remarks, and B A D L Y at that, you would think after 35 years as an attorney he would have been prepared to answer in the context that it protects his client.
There is a professional standard that appears to be hiding under a barcalounger or something.
B
Say what you want about Belich- Mason is going to be sorry he was so awfully rude to her-
You don’t think she had that question in the chamber?
Maybe Mumbles was struck with rapidly advancing senility. It seems that the lawyer that Bill Sheaffer called a “game-changer” is playing without his dice these days. He seems more like a game-loser.
Mason & Baez are shameless!
Have you been told lately, ‘I love you’? Cuz I do…Thank you for keeping the story alive.
Well he was right about one thing. Its been a circus thus far.
Thanks for bringing the truth front and center, as always Blink.
Well, from Cheney’s own words, we can surmise that he and the rest of the defense team have no credibility, as they continue to skirt the truth, and they continue to have press conferences and TALK and TALK.
We can also surmise from Cheney’s words that he knows that Casey will/should be found accountable- the question becomes is he willing to be part of the circus or is he willing to plea to a lesser sentence? By his own words …. she most definitely would be found guilty of at least wrongful death- improper burial ect(surprise surprise Blink) and this was before Caylee was found.
Next we can surmise from Cheney’s prior appearances that his NEW behaviors as a jolly OLLLD, maybe not so chipper/sharp- or articulate defense attorney- may be a put-on ‘show’ to lull the public/ potential jurors and the prosecution into a false sense of his capabilities -strengths /weaknesses.
We can also gain a sense of where Casey’s defense may be wanting to focus, if Cheney is the Capt. He will attack the science, he will paint Caylee’s death as accidentally, he will focus on picking the jury that suits his client,and he will paint Casey as a young mother who made a mistake and doesn’t deserve the death penalty.
If JB is at the helm then he will continue on the previous path and take his chances- attacking the prosecution, the science and the other people in Casey’s life. He will go for broke -all or nothing-.
Makes me wonder if we will see Casey on the stand…
Caylee’s death was ruled a homicide by undetermined means- which may leave it open to interpretation.
This trial has been said to be, a battle of the experts- and although I agree it will be- I believe it is going to be more a battle of who the jury panel will ultimately be.
Is the juror more apt to weigh all the evidence then make a logical determination on guilt.
Or they more apt to weigh “death by undetermined means” and find that sufficient to rule not guilty, despite the WEALTH OF OTHER EVIDENCE.
It just boggles my mind how she has not fired him over this.
He was a 35 year practicing defense attorney- his opinion holds water, and frankly wouldn’t the voi dire
have to include whether or not that prospective juror saw the defense attorney predict his clients conviction? Appellate Issue? Fist fight in the alley for calling Baez “has no credibility” whatsoever?
B
I marvel that Tony Pipitone was able to pull off the interview with Cheney Mason & Elizabeth Rahtner the day after Caylee was discovered in the woods. The way the series was produced is way cool for a local news station/investigative reporter.
I heart Tony Pipitone & Kathy Belich. Clicking on Tony’s underlined name in the article, links to a nice profile of him. Here’s a link to a similar page for Kathy:
http://www.wftv.com/contact/1981969/detail.html
oops- misspoke it was after Caylee was found but before the autopsy results.
If he walks like a duck, talks like a duck, smells like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then forgets he is a duck, he must belong to the defense team.
Oh Blink, you are the bestess!!! Of course the voi dire would have to include whether the prospective jurors had seen this tape.
Bearly, you are so funny!!! quack, quacking me up!
haha Bearly, thanks for the chuckle
Blink, so nice to see you rip into cheney for the idiot he is, funny how he thinks by acting dumb on this subject, that it will be dropped.
My next t-shirt will say:
FRONT
“You can pretty well predict there’s going to be a life sentence, either a plea and get it over with…”
BACK
“or have a circus trial and then be convicted and get life”
– J. Cheney Mason, counsel for Casey Anthony
ROTFL. Complete with assclown posse design. (did I just break my own rule? sorry)
We will need one in Spanglish.
B
“All that talking and the press interviews.. the parents going on this show and that show… established they have no credibility whatsoever..”
Gee, wonder who else this could apply to TODAY.
Blink!
I truly am beginning to think you and Kathy are related. I would be right there in there face if I lived there too… they need to be convicted! Keep on them…
LOL
We are definitely NOT related, but we have been known to quibble as if we were.
Props to KB.
B
Here is the link to one of my video creations of the Anthony Family Circus Trial. I will try and update it as soon as I have time, now that we’ve had a few attorney changes. But this one still makes me laugh.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STCrdvcBSVc
Enjoy!
hmmm.The defense wanted strickland removed because he made reference to a blog that they believed to be anti casey anthony. They welcome Mason who made his anti casey statements to media.Are we in the twilight zone? Blink , are you really Rod Sterling?
Some days, Yes.
I swear, this is like Vaudeville.
B
ROCK ON BLINK! I was SOooooo hoping you would post this up!
IN YOUR FACE – MASON!
Blink, yes, you Jack-wagoned your new rule in record time!!
Interesting that your second video was done as the report says, 7 months before the trial start. Almost as if the timing is the same now a year later! Talking jury selection, predicting a 1 month trial, where now Mason suggests two months as an estimate. Mason would probably want a ‘not young’ juror, that’s at least one non-contradiction to his present suggestion (well, ‘quip’) in his last presser about a Q re the demographic for jurors with the time and ability to take duty, Mason said “I trust old people”.
To Mason, contradition-predictions aside, I’m wondering if he received some pressure from his collegues, certain pressures to consider this case in trouble as his pro-bono contribution to his profession before retirement. I think pressures must have come from somewhere other than the Baez camp as Baez chose each and every non-B-Law firm lawyer for Casey’s criminal charges, from well outside Florida. The professional association powers that be, might have had some Baez concerns and acted to cover their own decisions to give Baez his membership, by ensuring that once he ran out of his Caylee photo payments, he would have to stop his nonsense and get local and proper help for his case.
(Baez a bit insecure in all this now with his ‘I allowed Cheney to do X, and I will allow my other new team member to do Y” Really– he’s got a huge ego and not really playing as a team member when he’s clear to the press about who is driving the submarine)
I say this respect, and not as “real barb” against Mr. Mason, HOWEVER, I feel this is kind of public cialis.
B
(and I think that one Chief judge may just have had discussions behind closed doors with his judges and members of the profession, about the logistics of allowing Baez to throttle on alone as the Phil Silvers of the Florida Keys)
ROTFL
You nailed that one Kleaty
B
(Blink and Lily, how about a T-shirt for Baez with his cue card quotes for his opening statements. Printing would be upside down, so he can just open one lapel then the other to read the messages. His chest should be naturally well enough puffed to make reading easy over his chin).
lol Kleat
B
being the kind soul that I am I sent those video reminders to kathi
ya know masons I never said that comment hmmm
What do you think… Will the majority of jurors be male or female?
50/50 or male.
B
WHAT BOTHERS ME? Is the fact that CM is doing what he can to see this case ends up with one juror with reasonable doubt. He may just do that, or he will see to it that Caseys win on an appeal due to incompetent council(s).
I posted this on another site a few days ago….but wanted to share it with the Blink team….
Question: What do you get when you line up all of Casey’s 5 defense lawyers ear to ear?
………………A Wind Tunnel…………
How do we get the Main Stream media to pick this up?!!!
Defense is hoping they can get a mostly male jury somewhere between 21 and 50..especialy ones who don’t have kids or grandkids or really never much into childcare..that would be a perfect storm for them..don’t see that happining at all. As mosty jurors these days seem to be women from all age groups and yes males ..but older..grandpap males. Seems the seniors are abundant on all jurys..that would be a good thing!
Mason should have himself tested for dementia…I see he is very forgetful! LOL
does the prosecution help select a jury?
Chica*
Im wondering the same thing…. HOW is a jury selected? Can anyone help us out in understanding this procedure?
Could CM, if pushed to the wall and made to comment by the “main stream media”, confess (or better yet, lie through his teeth) that he made the original comment before he knew “important” facts about the case? Hmmm He would have had to hear the “new revelations” from the duhfense. That doesn’t pass the smell test. How else would he recant his original statement? Senior moment maybe? (sorry) But that would account for the fact that he doesn’t remember making that statement. Oh how quickly we forget when the things we said we soon regret!
He said he did not recall it, technically, he did not lie.
B
Blink I know this is off topic, but I was wondering if you were planning to do a article about the Press conference the Police did on the Kyron Hormon case. I believe it was Wednesday. Where they said that they had discovered things they wished they had not. I would love your imput on this.
Not immediately. There are some things brewing, but I think the pressconf stands on it’s own.
B
Ok, so how do Mason Cheney’s pre-pro-bono-pre-retainer-pre-defense advisor affect Casey’s position for blaming her legal team after the trial if she is convicted of anything to do with her child’s death?
Has she chosen wisely to be able to 1. blame Baez as incompetent or ineffective because of lack of experience that she learned too late, and 2. Baez brought on Mason Cheney, who basically went public re: his to-be client’s guilt/culpabilit?
The defense didn’t want Strickland and called conflict of interest because he said hello to a blogger who had made some written statements about the case on the internet, but now she gets Mason. How does Casey reconcile these two things? Her own lawyer may be doing the best without reservation for her, but those statements he made prior, are now public record and she can go after him and his reputation (not that he cares now, his career is ending through retirement) to save her skin?
Strickland did not make statements about Casey’s guilt outside of court– he made statements about her lies on record. But what about Mason and reprocussions post-conviction for his own statements about Casey’s guilt?
Is he really on the case to get a plea, if so, he’s not doing very well so far, is he? Yeah, might come down to the wire, maybe Casey will take a plea if offered so that she can do her sentence with ‘I’m innocent’ but will play the martyr victim. And use Mason as her hold back card to do this– it’s my attorney’s fault, he made me do it because he believed from day one I did something that I would never do, but he’s a bad lawyer and it’s his fault for going public with his beliefs.
Selecting jurors:
http://www.flnd.uscourts.gov/jurors/jurySelection.cfm
Hi Blink, great job on this. Thanks.
Heidi,northrengirl,blink–you betcha the defense doesn’t want a middle-aged female jury impaneled! We’d Return in a Joisy nanosecond! Seniors are abundant on juries because they are tax-paying, bill-paying, voting, driving citizens. They don’t take kindly to having grandchildren murdered and discarded.
Chica and Bam, many states use a combination of tax rolls, voter registration, driver licenses, utility consumers to make a master list to draw from. These folks, exempting public servants and felons (tee)
are summoned and questioned by the judge, prosecution, and defense.
This questioning is called “voir dire”–literally ‘to see, to say’ but means “to see them (the prospective jurors, but could also mean witnesses later) say” or “to see and hear them speak the truth.”
This jury will also have to be unopposed to sentencing someone to death.
I wonder how many jurors will be assembled? Hundreds? It could take days to select this jury.
Hello All,
No disrespect to our Senior Citizens (I love and cherish those around me) but I honestly wonder if Cheney has some progressive pre-dementia-type disorder. What say you, fellow posters?? Is this a clever “act” or do you think Cheney may never be able to physically/cognitively keep up with what will be a grueling schedule??? Personally, I think a drawn-out trial will NOT be the outcome to this case……but that’s for another day.
Selecting jurors? Others have answered this question very adequitly, but anyone interested in seeing it in a good movie, rent Runaway Jury. It’s a drama/thriller, so the thriller part is sensationalized, as thrillers must. But aside from the sensationalized aspect (jury manipulation), the movie does well depicting jury selection.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ppUk18i4UQ&feature=player_embedded
Calista
IMO he is faking senility! he didnt seem confoosed in the press conference!! I think he thinks we were born yesterday!!! maybe the day before yesterday!!! lol
so thats what voire dire means lol I heard blink use that word but didnt know what it meant. I thought she was speaking french lmao.
bam
I was told that the prosecution has a hand in selecting the jury members. I was worried that the defense would be the only ones. whew on that!!!
hello
Cindy Anthony’s Myspace Entry Reveals Risk Factor for Child Abuse
just a thought
http://seamusoriley.blogspot.com/2010/09/cindy-anthonys-myspace-entry.html
Cindy Anthony did to check up on a babysitter who had overnights with the child, by their own words, from the time she was about 6 months of age up until her murder. Not only was Caylee at risk from the mother that Cindy called a “sociopath”, but Caylee was at risk in the home of Cindy Anthony; in spite of describing her home as “safe”.
Dee/All: When including a link to other articles, you can only use a snippet ( no more than 2 paragraphs) of the piece in compliance with fair use.
Thanks
B
sorry didn’t know I had done anything wrong I have often noticed many post in full…will keep that in mind next time.
I know Dee, no problem, I am sure I miss them once in a while but will keep my eyes peeled.
Still an important article, imo.
B
I thought it was very telling that is why I shared it…thanks
Sometimes, in the quiet of the night, I get very frustrated to think how the players in this circus have turned such a tragic, simple murder case into what is touted as “the trial of the century”. Really, a young, socipathic mom murders her unwanted child and covers it up. There’s nothing sensational, spectacular or special about that. Here’s hoping the SA keeps focus on what a simple case it really is.
I do, as well.
B
tonight on cfnews13 @6:00
http://www.cfnews13.com/article/news/2010/september/152901/Body-farm-a-key-battle-in-Anthony-defense
The Bia Smerk is BS. Why Dear Whomever…is he so confident? His “Dream Team” is just that… dreaming. I’m not worried, just bothered by the increase of Media Blizz for what? All this BS.
Not sure if others have posted this and are awaiting moderation- if not:
Prosecution releases Casey Anthony discovery information Tuesday
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/breakingnews/os-casey-anthony-discovery-20100920,0,7426347.story
“Because of various types of digital media formats, the information is contained only on disc and copies can only be made on disc,”
I am not sure I understand this quote- will the public be able to have access to this info tomorrow or will only those with a disc be able to view?
If that is the case I hope you will keep us updated Blink
http://www.wftv.com/index.html
Docs released include:
Audio Interviews, Photos Among Casey Docs Released
Audio interviews of EquuSearch volunteers and investigative photos were released Tuesday in the case against Casey Anthony. Full Story ››
EVIDENCE RELEASED 09/21/10:
» Investigative Photos Of Casey’s Trunk
» Photos Taken By EquuSearch Volunteer Joy Wray
» Video Of Joy Wray At Caylee Memorial
I haven’t looked through them yet- But I guess one doesn’t have to be in possession of the disc to view….
Thanks Mom 3.o, gonna be tough for me to get to it until this evening, but I look forward to it.
B
What goes around… comes around. My guess is the Defense team is going all out to create reasonable doubt and banking on a hung jury. That’s all they have. Jose is back on the circuit in hopes of flooding the jury pool with compassion for Casey (the supposed victim) for living under the roof of George and Cindy all these years.