Casey/Caylee Anthony Murder Trial: Closing Arguments Bring New Confessions By Jose Baez And New Smirks By Jeff Ashton
Assistant State’s Attorney Jeff Ashton began the closing arguments with such scalpular precision my mind wandered briefly where I actually pictured him scrubbing in, just before entering court. In approximately 77 minutes, with 2 overruled objection by Jose Baez, Ashton tied up the one thing he is NOT required to present to the jury, Casey’s motive for murdering her toddler, setting the tone for his closing that presented more like an excerpt from a Grisham flick. I say let him play himself.
“..It’s easy to be a parent, sometimes.. It’s easy to be a parent, when your playing with your child, or when your enjoying your child, children are fun… But we all know that being a parent is much more than just playing with your children.. Being a parent is about sacrifice.. Your child becomes your life. This case is about the clash between that responsibility and the expectations that go with it, and the life that Casey Anthony wanted to have… “
Ashton went through the time line of 31 days including details from the elaborate lies Casey Anthony told to avoid detection from her Mother Cindy, her imaginary friend finder chip located in the unallocated sectors of her mind where her conscious should have been, and the fact there is only one reason to duct tape a small child: MURDER. Ashton reminded jurors that the defense theory is asking them to head down rabbitholes that defy reasonable thought. It makes one wonder if that was not exactly the source of inspiration behind Jose Baez Dr. Huntington pigs sans blankets experiment.
Cheshire Cat: By-the-bye, what became of the baby? I’d nearly forgotten to ask.
Alice: It turned into a pig.
The Cat: I thought it would.
Jose was spotted given jurors a parting gift over lunch, which was intercepted by deputies.
Doom and Gloom Loom for Camp Casey
On what is likely to be her day of reckoning, Ms. Anthony was less than thrilled to learn that 2 of the bullseye on her defense’s dart board were permanently removed, I reckon. George and Lee Anthony, the crux of the defense’s failed attempts to blame Casey Anthony’s selective post traumatic stress disorder, will not be allowed to be maligned further based on her allegations of sexual abuse.
As expected, Jose Baez began his closing arguments reminding jurors the defense is not required to “defend” at all. In short, his comments were structured around the trash being altered because it was allowed to dry, and that the state allowed jurors to pass around the velveeta pouch so they could help figure out “Who cut the cheese.” You read that correctly, he actually said that.
He also went on to express his concerns that the State painted his client as a slut, and by doing so, invoking their emotions which will be used to find her guilty, as opposed to actual evidence.
In what I will call flub #3 in less than 40 minutes, Jose Baez inadvertently tells jurors that Casey Anthony’s trunk for the usage ot transportation is not murder. HEH? I thought the defense was quite adamant the junk in the trunk is what stunk. I guess that’s now bunk, whoda’ thunk?
Jose Baez is currently continuing his contribution to the defense’s, and Cheney Mason is on as anchor to complete the allotted 4 hours.
Linda Drane Burdick has had 3 sustained objections and granted one move to strike already. I lost that bet dangit.
Flub #4 flies in, while I am editing. This lawyer just actually admitted Casey searched for chloroform based on Ricardo Morales’s image on his computer. OMG.
..” It should be natural for her to want to know what chloroform was if her boyfriend had the image on his myspace…” Jose Baez
Assistant State Attorney Linda Drane Burdick will complete the State’s rebuttal closing argument.
On an unrelated note, the jury has selected their preference for the order of question during the press conference scheduled following a verdict. It is as follows:
1. CNN 2. WFTV 3. St. Pete Times 4. Reuters 5. People 6. HLN 7. WDBO 8. NBC 9. MSNBC 10.WTSP 11.FOX 12.Orlando Magazine 13.Florida Sun 14.WKMG 15.Dateline 16.WTMY 17.Chathouse 18.CFN 13 19.WOFL 20.Tampa Tribune 21.In Session 22.Orlando Sentinel 23.Univision 24.AP 25.Discovery 26.ABC 27.EFE 28.CBS 29.WESH
If that is not a window to this jury, I don’t know what is.
To Be Continued, Active Blogroll on this thread through today’s session. On the day that Governor Scott signed his first death warrant for Manuel Valle, convicted of killing a Coral Gables police officer a few counties away, I would not hold out any hope that Ann Finnell’s motion for mistrial based on Federal Court’s ruling striking the death penalty in Florida, will be granted. Report Filed 3PM EST
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Annie,
Me too friendy! Verdict in….SillySallytini’s are on me! XO
I feel for JA — he is left to look @ his desk … I bet his jaw will be sore w/all the clenching he’s had to do to keep for smiling ….
I would have announced my as yet undiagnosed situationally activated tourrettes.
B
I know I am posting alot guys -Hope you all dont mind…
The magnets…I guess we know where the money was spent…Who gets to take these home? I hope that Casey gets to take them all to decorate the cell she will live in for the rest of her life… I hope the jury is seeing this for what it is…Not True- No accident No conspiracy
Thanks Palerider I appreciate your kind acknowledgment.
BTW how much time is left for the defense?…Im getting a headache.
AJMO
Just so I’m clear: if one juror has reasonable doubt, the results will be a hung jury?
I feel for JA — he is left to look @ his desk … I bet his jaw will be sore w/all the clenching he’s had to do to keep FROM smiling ….
thanks
10.GraceintheHills says:
July 3, 2011 at 2:06 pm
It bothers me when either side uses the term “imaginary friends.” Very young children have imaginary friends; adults don’t. Adults lie and create fictions in order to mislead and/or hide the truth.
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I posted the above on the previous thread and accidentally hit ‘enter’ before I was able to finish my thought.
I think JB, in particular, is deliberately trying to ‘paint’ CA as chidlike and not responsible for her lies, hence his use of the term “imaginary friends.” I think most jurors will realize what he is trying to do; however, if I were LDB I would definitely bring this to their attention when she closes.
This is my new classic. “Kronk had $255K as an incentive”.
As did his client, who received more than that, from abc at a minimum.
Can anyone imagine if this jury knew that?
B
Mom3.0 says:
July 3, 2011 at 4:16 pm
(snipped)
“BTW how much time is left for the defense?…Im getting a headache.
AJMO”
Same here . . . I keep switching my volume control off and on.
Geez, hope CM is not coming up.
He is, bottoms up. Maybe Perry will let the state finish in the am prior to charge?
Baez obviously went to the Fidel Castro class … “How to Give a 23 Hour Speech and Beat your Audience into Submission”.
Torture.
I have been glued to this trial since day 1.. haven’t missed A WORD & right now I have my computer on mute.. I seriously can’t take another word from Jose. Can’t someone make it stop?
Sammy -great post!
anyone else notice jb uses NO photos of Caylee…. as if she really has anything to do w/why there is a trial … but hey, ICA is [on cue] w/ the ‘weepy’ ploy …
Well Jose is back talking to the jury. He’s back on George doing Casey. It’s all George’s fault and the cops didn’t get George’s phone records. Casey is 100 per cent innocent. The police should have looked into other possible perps. Everyone is involved – except Casey. Caylee died at home. No socks no shoes. Reasonable doubt lives here. You can’t trust the evidence. No drugs in hair (OK…suffication does not require drugs – but three strips of duct tape works fine and dandy). But no fingerprints on duct tape (you can buy surgical gloves in Walmart) Only one fly leg was in the trunk. No cause of death….Caylee died of an accident. Now he’s bringing up Kronk again. Oh yeah – he “had control of her body for four months.” Even Casey is looking bored. Finally he’s getting ready to finish – no he’s pounding his chest. He’s finishing now we get Mr. Mason – Baez asking for Not Guilty. Talking Heads on now.
BillS just said that JP “‘scolding the Attnys was like don’t make me turn this car around” …. lol
O I know, I never get credit for anything, woe is me.
B
Oops, I meant to say that JB is trying to paint CA as “child-like” in the above post. This trial and my day job have utterly exhausted me this week!
Doesn’t CM have less than an hour left for his closing remarks (or maybe it just seemed like JB spoke for over three hours!!). If so, they may just keep going and let LDB finish the State’s closing tonight.
I am SO ready for this to be over.
Great piece as usual Blink. You are amazing if all the sleep is 4 hours at a time. The graphics in action reminded me of one of the old road runner cartoons. Especially with the boulder landing on Baez.
I cannot believe how convoluted the defense closing is and how inconsistant with the truth. How could any reasonable juror believe ten per cent of what they are hearing?
My wife was flipping channels on her TV and found HLN with the Baez close. She has not followed this case. After watching for a few minutes she turned and asked me if Baez is out to lunch. To her he made no sense.
I didn’t think JA was laughing, although he did smile and turn to say something to LDB. How Mr. Baez was able to see JA is questionable.
Judge Perry had a tough decision to make. In the interest of getting the case closed, IMO he didn’t remove either attorney.
Could there be some further action regarding this apparent breach of rule 12 and the many breaches of rule 5 by Mr. Baez?
Baez is already under a “reserved” contempt order as it relates to the expert witnesses. This behavior will not help.
B
Jose quote (in Arnold’s “Kindergarten Cop” voice),
“It’s not a tuma …” LOL
can blink or someone clue me in on what the order of news stations indicates about the juries temperament/frame of mind?
Blink -
Can we get your personal opinion on the jury’s list of news networks in order? CNN is 1st, WFTV 2nd and St. Pete’s Times 3rd … hmm, interesting. If I had to guess based on that, I would guess the jury isn’t as stupid as Baez (and Casey) possibly thinks they are, but I may be off-base here. Possibly jury sees and feels what we believe knowing all we know?
What says Blink?
After verdict I will.
B
Blink- I gotta ask, What ‘grade’ would give jb?
[Whispering because I cannot believe BillS said a B or maybe B+ -and- in 10 yrs jb will be a great Attny ??]
‘Cuz I just don’t see see/hear such a ‘winning’ closing coming from jb …
[but BillS says he still feels ICA will be CONVICTED -- go figure. He does give big kudos to LDB since he feels she WILL take apart anything jb said & bring it home to the jury ...]
IMO it seems he is trying to cover “all the viewers opinions” ….
This is going to shock some of you.
On content, c-.
On delivery I would give him a solid B. If he were not going to be leaving the profession of law either on his own or with help, in another 5 years, I truly believe he could have been a premier criminal defense attorney.
That said, his inattention to rules outside of a UCF ring would be too much for him.
B
OMG! Mason wants to light a friggin candle?
I reached for my powdered wig.
B
LOL! Perfect!
also — blink this site is amazing. i actually found it through george’s jailhouse letters. thank you.
Come on guys now we have work to do. According to JB our truth superman we need to arrest that ME, LE, FBI, Vass, Haskel,Geoorge (ex chester the molestor), Cindy, Lee is ok and so is Mallory they know how to fall on their swords.
Of Course Casey will help us get these guys so we got to free her. And I am telling you she won’t be using any of that fantasy forensic stuff.
So this what a trial looks like.
well, now the CM is ‘talking’ CA is looking up … but ICA is seeming bored & tired ….
Q – how come we are NOT seeing ANY Attny @ Defense table camera shots???
Q Is all those sign boards blocking jury from seeing DT & ICA ??
I have a feeling most (if not all) jurors have already long decided which way they are basically going to go in this case. Anyone else with that same impression?
Why is the defense instructing the jury? “Ah say, Ah say, lissin t’me son”…courtesy of Foghorn Leghorn sponsored by his little chikkin hawk, Juanie Cockrun. A couple of cocky roosters who would make a finer stew than they do a speech.
I guess Perry would find me in contempt at this snarky remark, but I’ve been thinking that jury must be plotting 1st degree murder themselves if these two don’t shut up. It insults their intelligence to hear the used car salesman type pitch they’ve had to endure all afternoon. This is getting very old.
Does Mason actually thinks he is helping? Lord give us strength. Is he on the defense side or court official? just kidding-
My final zing- When did Mason start preaching? Does he really think the jurors are that stupid?
OKAY 1 MORE- PLEASE USE THE DUCT TAPE ON THE DEFENSE.
Does anyone watch How I Met Your Mother? Once they gave Marshall an intervention for overuse of graphs and charts. All I could think about during Baez’s closing was that he needs a Kinko’s intervention.
Wow.. this Mason guy is DRY!!! I feel like I’m in Abraham Lincoln’s courtroom! UGH!
So outside of your husband’s assassination Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play?
B
Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz ….. yawn. OMG, Mason should be the poster child for an insomnia drug, good lord in heaven.
Tweets are flying saying jurors look bored out of their minds and not buying any of this. At least that would be on par with the rest of us. Did Mason actually practice this stuff? All I keep hearing is blah, blah, blah, blah …
Well CM is making a BIG deal of ICA NOT testifying … IF it wasn’t on their mind he sure put it there …
He’s ‘implying’ ICA was pressured to give her story to police’ ..WTH??
And “again w/being hand cuffed & back of patrol car” …. gee, he did NOT mention that it was because CA wanted ICA arrested for thief … nothing to do w/Caylee’s ‘disappearance’ ….
He actually is saying ‘still ironing out the reading of charges but you notice he isn’t claiming the problem is the defense…’
Again, ICA is ‘a model mother’ … oh, is that why Caylee is dead??
IF that is ‘model mother behavior’ society is in trouble …
ALL this ‘spin’ makes one rather dizzy …. it appears it’s starting to affect CM … a few more stumbles coming more often ….
I am so sick of this…the defense has went by caseys wishes She must be seen as a victim… with no guilt or responsibility- she merely had imaginary friends and she was raised to lie…this case is unique because of who it happened to implying poor little Casey not Caylee …
“IT” (MURDER) and Dipicably thrown in a swamp… happened to Caylee not Casey- and the more they hold on to the fact that there were no broken bones makes me wonder more and more if casey slapped her around and/or tortured her with words before she killed her…. they are surely trying to paint casey as anything but an abuser as a victim -over and over…
She wasnt allowed to answer? She was berated…by LE… WHATEVER
Mason, Would you kindly get off of your hearing problems – WTH is that bit a play on sympathy, and emotion?
and still he continues to drone on.
AJMO
Come on LDB hit em with the truth and nothing but the truth.
Charlie Sheen = “winning”
Jose Baez = “spinning”
Please make him stop….my ears are bleeding!!!
I am in the Princeton version of GITMO. It is pouring from every speaker in my office and my kids are slipping notes under the door, lol.
B
The Burden of Proof poster . . . one step past Strongly Believe is Guilty . . . looks doable to me.
justice23 can you post some of the tweets? I do not know how to read them? TIA
and still he drones on with his misinterpretations of the evidence…
AJMO
IF CM drones on to much more ICA may doze … think about, this is the longest span in 1-day that she’s had to ‘maintain’ … the trial up to now has [probably set records] sidebars & recesses, special recesses & long lunches …
Oh NO, a visual aid w/’bar code of guilt scale’ ??? HUH???
Well, the shot of the public gallery — they look way bored … can only imagine the jury ….
I hope the Prosecution goes tomorrow. I am sure the jury is burned out. Know I have a horrible headache from JB screaming. Not even Tylenol helps.
Why are we now repeating everything with aged Mr. Mason…..his sort term memory again? He needs to retire or go into preaching. He would do well there.
THey are on toot sweet.
B
I hope the jury is not swallowing all this crap. According to Bozo
the only people that told the truth are the smukes that work for the
DT. Someone please tell me that every person that Bozo ran down today
that they can sue him. I’m worried that the Jury is swallowing all
this crap. What do you think?
How dry I am . . .
How dry I’ll be . . .
If I don’t get . . .
A verdict of _ _ _ _ _ _ . . .
Lol, I am posting this, hilarious.
B
Is this Mason’s last stand?
You guys are hiliarious.
B
Comic relief He just said doodie….
sorry I couldnt resist
Thank God he is Done my God he brought up To Kill a Mocking Bird-
She is not wrongly accused!
Doodie! Doodie!
AJMO
Willing to bet a 3 hour at most deliberation, once the case is handed to the jury!
i’m sorry but assclown CM should NOT invoke atticus finch. i mean really.
Well.
I can go on with my life after the trial. When faced with adversity, all I have to do is ask myself….’what would Mr. Mason argue about that or say in response to that”.
I’m firing my therapist first thing in the morning.
ROTFL. Post of The Day.
I cannot believe he quoted my man Atticus.
In for the long haul folks, Judge Perry was not giving the State a break to finish in the am
B
To me the order of the news stations could indicate that the jury may have had previous knowledge of this case.
Blink really enjoy your writing style. It is very entertaining.
justice23 says:
July 3, 2011 at 5:03 pm
I have a feeling most (if not all) jurors have already long decided which way they are basically going to go in this case. Anyone else with that same impression?
Yes and I do believe it would be for guilty.
Former defense team member LKB says the defense DIDN’T go on too long…WTH???
She said the prosecution made a mistake not putting their long argument first…..
@ Mom3.0
Magpie from the hinky gives great play by plays (if she can attend).
https://twitter.com/#!/MagpieFromHinky
Mark NeJame also have insightful tweets. I trust these 2 very much. They both eminate truth and integrity in the tweets. Respect and gratitude to both for their contribution and opinions offered throughout this daunting process!
http://twitter.com/#!/MarkNeJame
https://twitter.com/#!/MagpieFromHinky <—- don't know much about him but great tweets, too!
XO