Trial Begins for Orlando Mom Casey Anthony Accused in Toddler's Murder

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Casey Anthony defense wants convicted kidnapper on witness list

By Ashley Hayes

(CNN) -- Casey Anthony's defense attorneys are seeking to question a convicted felon who served prison time for kidnapping, claiming in court documents he is linked to Anthony's father through cell phone records.

Vasco Thompson, 52, is on an amended witness list filed Tuesday in Anthony's capital murder trial. Orange County Chief Judge Belvin Perry Jr. has not yet ruled on whether Thompson can be deposed or testify in the trial.

Casey Anthony's father, George Anthony, denied knowing Thompson or ever speaking to him in a statement released by his attorney.

Prosecutors allege that Casey Anthony, 25, killed her 2-year-old daughter Caylee in 2008 by using chloroform on her and putting duct tape over her nose and mouth. They allege she then put the little girl's body in black garbage bags and stored it in her trunk before dumping it in woods near her home.

Caylee's skeletal remains were found December 11, 2008. She was last seen June 16, 2008, but her disappearance was not reported until July 15, 2008, after Anthony's mother, Cindy Anthony, demanded answers from her daughter about Caylee's whereabouts.

Anthony faces seven counts in Caylee's death, including first-degree murder, aggravated child abuse and misleading investigators. If convicted, she could face the death penalty. She has pleaded not guilty.

"Mr. Thompson is a recently discovered witness through the ongoing efforts of defense investigators," according to the court documents filed Tuesday. "This witness was connected to George Anthony through his cell phone records."

A background check revealed that Thompson "has a violent criminal history and has served a 10-year prison sentence for kidnapping," according to the court documents.

"Because of the recently discovered and unexplained relationship between George Anthony and Vasco Thompson, their finite contact which, based on cell records, existed only during the relevant time period, and Mr. Thompson's violent criminal history, good cause is shown for the late disclosure of this witness," the defense says in the filing.

Those contacts, they allege, included four contacts on July 14, 2008 -- the day before Caylee was reported missing by Cindy Anthony.

The defense said it needs to question Thompson "to determine the existence of relevant admissible evidence in this trial."

Thompson refused to speak with defense investigators and called police when he was questioned, the documents said.

"Mr. Anthony does not know Vasco Dagama Thompson," the Anthonys' attorney, Mark Lippman, said in a statement. "Mr. Anthony does not recall ever speaking with Mr. Vasco Dagama Thompson at any time including July 14, 2008, by any form of communication."

Lippman pointed out the defense has failed to identify who initiated the calls or the length of time of each telephone call.

"This simply appears to be another attempt by the defense to attack my client," Lippman said. "Mr. Anthony has and will continue to maintain the position that he had nothing to do with the death of Caylee Marie Anthony or any of the events that occurred afterward regarding the actions of the defendant Casey Anthony established by the state of Florida in the presentation of their case."

According to records attached to the amended witness list, Thompson was sentenced in 1998 to 40 years in prison for kidnapping. He was required to serve eight years in prison and 30 years on probation. The Florida Department of Corrections website shows he was in and out of custody but was released in 2004.

It was unclear how Thompson might fit into the defense's strategy in the Anthony case.

Prosecutors rested their case earlier Wednesday, and Perry rejected a defense request for a judgment of acquittal, saying the jury must decide what to make of the evidence.

Casey Anthony's defense attorneys will begin presenting their case Thursday. The trial, held in Orlando, is in its fourth week.

The defense has said Caylee was not killed, but rather drowned in the family pool on June 16.

Defense attorney Jose Baez told jurors that Casey Anthony and George Anthony, panicked when they discovered the body and covered up her death. George Anthony rejected that scenario in his testimony the first week of the trial.

In arguing for acquittal, defense attorney J. Cheney Mason told Perry the state had failed to prove its case beyond a reasonable doubt and noted that evidence against Anthony is purely circumstantial.

In the past 3 1/2 weeks, jurors have heard testimony that was sometimes dramatic and other times complicated and scientific. They have seen grisly crime-scene photos of skeletal remains and received crash courses in computer forensics, forensic entomology and DNA testing.

Some of the most powerful testimony came from Anthony's former boyfriends, friends and acquaintances, all of whom saw her between June 16 and July 15, 2008.

During that time, according to testimony, Anthony was living at her boyfriend Tony Lazzaro's apartment, attending parties, hitting nightclubs, getting a tattoo that says "Bella Vita" -- Italian for "beautiful life" -- and shopping.

Numerous witnesses testified that they noticed nothing different in her demeanor, that she did not appear anxious or sad and that she did not mention Caylee except to provide different accounts of where she was -- most commonly, with her nanny, identified by Anthony as Zenaida Fernandez-Gonzalez.

Once an increasingly frantic Cindy Anthony tracked her daughter down and demanded answers as to Caylee's whereabouts, Casey Anthony told her family, as well as police, that Gonzalez had kidnapped Caylee and that she had spent the previous month frantically searching for her daughter.

The apartment Anthony led police to, claiming it was where Gonzalez lived, was vacant at the time. Police were never able to find the nanny. They did find a woman named Zenaida Gonzalez, who denied ever meeting Caylee or Casey Anthony and later sued for defamation.

"No one else benefited from the death of Caylee Marie Anthony," Burdick told jurors in her opening statements. "Caylee's death allowed Casey to live the good life, at least for those 31 days."

When Casey Anthony was asked by authorities, during the 911 call her mother made to report her granddaughter missing, why she waited 31 days to report the disappearance, Casey Anthony replied, "I have been looking for her and have gone through other resources to find her, which was stupid."

Gonzalez was one of a host of people Anthony apparently invented, complete with realistic-sounding details, according to testimony.

There was Jeffrey Hopkins, a wealthy suitor she told her mother she and Caylee were spending time with in Jacksonville, Florida, when in reality Caylee was missing and Casey Anthony had not left Orlando. One of Casey Anthony's acquaintances named Jeffrey Hopkins testified, saying he had never dated Anthony, that he was not wealthy and he had never lived in Jacksonville.

In addition, Anthony had claimed to be working at Universal Studios as an event planner through Caylee's disappearance. Testimony showed she had not worked there in years. A co-worker there, Juliette Lewis, whom Anthony said had a daughter Caylee's age, was also not found to exist.

Jurors heard from Anthony's former friend, Amy Huizenga, that her frustration level with her parents, particularly her mother, was rising around the time that Caylee disappeared. "I remember she told me her mom had told her she was an unfit mother," Huizenga said. "She was extremely upset about that."

She said Anthony also had to cancel plans "fairly frequently" when no one was available to watch her daughter.

However, the same friends, acquaintances and former boyfriend of Anthony's also said, when pressed by defense attorneys, that Anthony when seen with Caylee appeared to be a good and loving mother.

Anthony herself has appeared mostly stone-faced during testimony, but has broken down at times, wiping tears away or sobbing outright.

Jurors also heard evidence about Anthony's car, which she abandoned in late June, saying she had run out of gas. It eventually was towed from an Orlando business to a tow yard. Her parents picked it up July 15 after receiving a letter from the wrecker yard.

Numerous witnesses testified about a foul odor coming from the car -- a scent prosecutors allege stemmed from human decomposition. A dog trained to detect human remains alerted to the trunk, according to testimony, and compounds associated with human decomposition were found in the trunk.

One scientist, Arpad Vass of Tennessee's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, also testified that the level of chloroform found in testing of Anthony's trunk was "shockingly high."

Key forensic witnesses described in graphic detail the state of Caylee's remains when they were discovered in a wooded area less than a mile from the Anthony home, and jurors saw pictures of the child's skull; tiny, decaying shorts; and a "Winnie the Pooh" blanket found with the remains.

Animals had chewed on the little girl's bones by the time they were discovered, according to testimony. At times, Anthony ducked her head and tried to avoid looking at the graphic images.

Despite objections from defense attorneys, jurors saw a video in which images of Caylee's skull and the duct tape found across its mouth portion at the scene were superimposed over a photo of Caylee alive, smiling, with her mother.

Some of the most compelling testimony came from Dr. Jan Garavaglia, star of the Discovery Channel's "Dr. G. Medical Examiner" and chief medical examiner in the case. Garavaglia, who examined the child's remains, told jurors she could not say for sure how the child died, but homicide is "the only logical conclusion."

"The fact that it's tossed in a field to rot in bags is a clear indication that the body was trying to be hidden," Garavaglia said.

"It being put in a bag is a very big red flag for homicide, never seen in an accidental death for a child, and the fact that there's duct tape attached anywhere to that child's face is to me indication of a homicide."

An FBI latent print examiner testified that adhesive in the outline of a heart was found on the duct tape that covered the mouth portion of Caylee's remains. Sheets of heart-shaped stickers, with some stickers missing, were found at the Anthony home and introduced into evidence.

A sticker was also found at the site where Caylee's remains were discovered on a small piece of cardboard. An FBI analysis showed that sticker did not match those found at the Anthony home.

Jurors also heard about searches conducted on a computer at the Anthony home on March 17 and 21, 2008 -- several months before Caylee disappeared. They included "chloroform," "how to make chloroform," "household weapons" and "neck-breaking," according to testimony.

Other terms searched included "hand-to-hand combat" and "self-defense" and appeared uninvolved. "Chloroform" was searched for 84 times, according to the testimony of John Bradley, who developed a computer program used to locate the information.

Jurors heard from experts that a hair found in Anthony's trunk appeared similar to that of her daughter's, although the experts could not conclusively state that the hair was Caylee's. In addition, a forensic entomologist testified that tiny flies found in the trunk fit the theory that Caylee's body was stored there -- perhaps for three to five days.

Perry told jurors Monday that testimony in the case could conclude by the end of next week, although he cannot say for sure. Deliberations could begin by June 25, he said.

http://www.cnn.com/2011/CRIME/06/15/florida.casey.anthony.trial/index.html

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Anthony defense expert: Duct tape not a murder weapon

Orlando (CNN) -- Duct tape found on Caylee Anthony's skull was placed there after the toddler's body had decomposed, not before she died, a forensic pathologist testified Saturday as the murder trial of the girl's mother ended its fourth week on a contentious note.

Prosecutors claim Caylee's mother, Casey Anthony, used chloroform to make her daughter unconscious then used duct tape to cover her nose and mouth, suffocating her. The girl's skeletal remains were found in a wooded field six months after her family last reported seeing her.

Dr. Werner Spitz said he believes the tape was placed on the body long after the flesh had disappeared to hold the jaw bone on, perhaps because someone wanted to move it.

Spitz also criticized the Orange County medical examiner, Dr. Jan Garavaglia, for conducting what he termed a "shoddy autopsy" by failing to cut Caylee's skull open to look inside.

Spitz' testimony came after Chief Judge Belvin Perry ordered the first defense witness off the stand and threatened attorney Jose Baez with contempt proceedings for failing to tell prosecutors about the man's planned testimony.

Forensic anthropologist William Rodriguez told Judge Belvin Perry after the jury had been excused that he was preparing to testify that no conclusions can be drawn from duct tape found near the girl's body because of decomposition and movement of the bones by animals.

Rodriguez also said he planned to testify that a video prepared by a prosecution expert superimposing Caylee's living face with a picture of her skull and the outline of a piece of duct tape was an "unheard of" application of technology meant only to provide initial identifications of remains.

But Rodriguez' opinions were not contained in his report filed with the court, and weren't shared with prosecutors. That violated Perry's rule that all expert testimony be shared with opposing attorneys, Perry said.

"It appears to me that this was quite intentional," Perry said to Baez. "This was not some inadvertent slip."

He ordered Rodriguez off the stand, but said he will be allowed to testify on Monday, after prosecutors have a chance to interview him. Perry said the law would appear to authorize him the right to exclude the testimony, but said that would be too drastic a step.

"It would be totally unfair to Ms. Anthony to have his testimony excluded on this critical issue," he said.

But he said he would be watching Baez' conduct closely and will consider contempt proceedings at the end of the trial.

"I am not making any promises or warranties about what I will do if it happens a second time with this witness," Perry scolded Baez.

Rodriguez and Spitz are part of the defense effort to discredit, among other things, a prosecution theory that duct tape found clinging to the girl's remains may have been the murder weapon. Duct tape similar to that found with Caylee's body was located on a gas can from the Anthony home that Casey Anthony took from a storage shed during her daughter's disappearance, according to earlier testimony in the case.

Spitz began his testimony challenging the thoroughness of the autopsy performed on Anthony, saying examining the inside of the skull is standard practice.

He testified that dried sediment he found indicated the body had decomposed on its left side, with the face pointing slightly up. That differs from evidence at the scene indicating the skull was upright when it was discovered.

Spitz said the lack of DNA found on the tape would suggest it was placed on the girl's skull by someone who wanted to move it for some reason. The tape, he said, was intended to keep the jawbone from falling off.

On cross-examination, prosecutor Jeff Ashton asked Spitz if the sediment was not "brain dust" but perhaps something that carried into the skull by water while the body lay under water in the flood-prone spot where it was found.

Spitz responded that the fact that the material was residue from the girl's body was as plain as the jawbone on the replica skull he was using as an illustration during his testimony. But he acknowledged that the material had not been chemically proven to be from the girl's body.

Ashton also questioned Spitz' characterization of Garavaglia's autopsy. He challenged the physician -- who co-wrote a book on forensic investigations -- to cite any specific protocol requiring that a pathologist saw open the skull of a thoroughly decomposed body -- including in his own book.

Spitz said that he could not, but that his long experience and training tells him that failing to look at the inside of body's skull is poor practice.

"The skull, the head, is part of the body, and when you do an autopsy you examine the whole body," he said.

Defense attorneys claim Caylee was not murdered, but that she accidentally drowned in the family pool on June 16, the day she was last seen. They argue that Anthony and her father, George Anthony, panicked and covered up the death.

George Anthony has rejected that scenario in his testimony.

Casey Anthony is charged with seven counts, including first degree murder, in the death of her daughter, whose remains were discovered in a wooded field in December 2008, six months after her last family saw her.

Saturday was the third day of the defense case. The case will enter its fifth week Monday.

http://www.cnn.com/2011/CRIME/06/18/florida.casey.anthony.trial/index.html

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Should Casey Anthony testify?

By Ann O'Neill

(CNN) -- Should Casey Anthony testify?

That is the burning question making the rounds at the courthouse in Orlando, Florida, where Anthony is on trial for murder.

Seasoned criminal defense lawyers are split down the middle: Some see huge risks and questionable benefits; others say Anthony's lawyers have little choice but to put her on the stand.

It is always a defendant's decision whether to testify or remain silent. A lawyer can only offer advice. And that advice is one of the toughest calls a defense attorney has to make.

In Anthony's case, defense attorney Jose Baez has not said whether she will take the stand. But he laid his cards on the table in a strong opening statement: He said 2-year-old Caylee drowned in the family's backyard pool, and that her grandfather, Casey's father, helped cover it up. He said his client had been sexually abused by her father since she was 8 and trained to "lie, lie, lie."

George Parnham, best known for defending Andrea Yates, the mentally ill woman who drowned her five children in the bathtub in 2001, says that opening statement "boxed the defense in." He says Anthony has to tell her story.

"She needs to get up there and defend herself," he said. "The jury is going to want to hear from her."

Anthony, 25, is accused of murder, aggravated child abuse, misleading authorities and other offenses. If convicted of murder, she faces the death penalty. In Florida, only seven jurors have to agree on a death sentence.

Parnham, who successfully used an insanity defense for Yates but did not put her on the stand, said he usually decides in favor of letting a jury get to know his client in death penalty cases. "If you humanize her, that may save her life. You've got a woman who, if she is convicted, her life is going to be in jeopardy. She's going to be on death row."

During the prosecution's case, jurors heard plenty from Anthony through videotaped jailhouse visits with her parents, recorded phone conversations and interviews with police.

Recorded during the search for Caylee, the videos portray Anthony as angry, profane and self-absorbed, not as the distraught mother of a missing child. She cursed out her mother, fussed about her appearance to her father, and told her brother, "I'm a spiteful bitch."

And then there was the web of lies witnesses said she wove during the 31 days she concealed the fact Caylee was missing.

Now, Anthony sits silently as her lawyers' crime scene experts pick at the prosecution's evidence. The judge has indicated the case could go to the jury by the weekend.

Atlanta attorney B.J. Bernstein, who won on appeal the underage sex case of Genarlow Wilson, says the jury needs to hear from Anthony as she is now, not as she was in 2008. She needs to come clean for the jury.

"Although she did lie before the trial, part of the draw in this case has been the weirdness factor of her family," she said. "Maybe if she can provide light on the strange behavior of her family, it could cause doubt, especially when we don't really have a cause of death."

Bernstein said testifying could be dangerous for Anthony because it shifts the attention back to her and away from the prosecution's lack of direct evidence.

"If she goes up, the goal can't be 'Like me and therefore believe me,'" she said. "It's going to have to come across as honest, right then and there. Not another drama, but [her testimony] must be a real explanation for the stack of lies and bizarre behavior."

Parnham agrees that Anthony can perform damage control on the witness stand. "When she has lied, she has got to admit, 'Yes, I did this. Yes, I said that. It was not true.' They're aware of the lies, and that will decrease the harm of admitting them. But she can't lie to that jury."

Other veteran criminal defense attorneys fear putting Anthony on the stand would do more harm than good.

"Here's the basic problem," said Los Angeles criminal lawyer Harland Braun, whose famous clients included actor Robert Blake: "If you don't put her on and she's convicted, she'll say, 'If only I testified.' If you put her on and she's doesn't do well, then every lawyer in town and all of the talking heads will be asking, 'Why did he do it?'"

But who else can tell the story of sexual abuse and dysfunctional family secrets promised by defense attorney Baez as the trial opened?

Karin Moore, who teaches evidence and capital defense at Florida A&M University's law school, says Baez made a "tactical error," perhaps promising more than he could deliver. She says putting Anthony on the stand is risky.

"So much damage has already been done," said Moore, who is attending the trial. "I am wondering if being on the stand two days under aggressive cross examination would be worse than having to eat crow during closing arguments."

She believes Baez could argue that prosecutors did not prove the crime of murder, so he decided not to pursue the abuse defense.

"We don't have fingerprints, we don't have a confession, we don't have any direct evidence," Moore said. The circumstantial evidence includes computer searches of terms such as "chloroform" and "neck-breaking," a car reeking of death, and duct tape wrapped around a tiny skull found months later near the Anthony home.

"It's such a great leap from 'She's a bad person and reacted in a way we don't understand' to 'She murdered this child,'" Moore added. "I don't know how they're going to make that leap with this evidence."

Mark Geragos, a Los Angeles criminal defense attorney who has handled several high-profile cases, including Scott Peterson, Winona Ryder and for a while, Michael Jackson, believes Casey Anthony's defense faces an uphill battle.

"It's a rare case that gets better after the prosecution rests," he said. "When you have somebody who's infamous -- and she is infamous, not famous -- there's a presumption of guilt."

Geragos added that while the prosecutors' circumstantial evidence is thin, they have benefited from what he calls the "character assassination" of Anthony, "much of it self inflicted."

Like the other defense lawyers who spoke with CNN, Geragos thinks proving murder is a stretch for prosecutors.

"They've done a wonderful job of proving a coverup," he said. "But the problem is the underlying crime hasn't been proved."

As for Casey Anthony, Geragos said: "She hasn't helped herself. But then again, defendants rarely do."

http://www.cnn.com/2011/CRIME/06/22/should.casey.anthony.testify/index.html

Carnut - - Wow, I'm surprised that a unanimous decision is not required for a death penalty.

[SunFreak2]

In some states, only six jurors are required.

I found this info

"The size of the jury is to provide a "cross-section" of the public. In Williams v. Florida, 399 U.S. 78 (1970), the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that a Florida state jury of six was sufficient, and that "the 12-man panel is not a necessary ingredient of "trial by jury," and that respondent's refusal to impanel more than the six members provided for by Florida law did not violate petitioner's Sixth Amendment rights as applied to the States through the Fourteenth."[8] .......

"After the Supreme Court of the United States struck down all states' death penalty procedures in the Furman v. Georgia ruling, essentially ruling the imposition of the death penalty at the same time as a guilty verdict unconstitutional, Florida was the first state to draft a newly-written statute on 12 August 1972.[10] This statute mandates a separate penalty phase in cases where prosecutors seek the death penalty.........

""Unanimous jury verdicts have been standard in Western law. This standard was upheld by the Supreme Court in 1897, but it was rejected in 1972 in two criminal cases. As of 1999 over thirty states had laws allowing less than unanimity in civil cases, but Oregon and Louisiana are the only states which have laws allowing less than unanimous jury verdicts for criminal cases.[39].........

However, in some states (such as Alabama or Florida), the ultimate decision on the punishment is made by the judge, and the jury gives only a non binding recommendation. The judge can impose the death penalty even if the jury recommends life without parole.[42]........"

So it seems that Florida can have a jury of 6 unless it it is trying a death penalty case, in which it is mandated to have 12 jurors. The above states that there must be a unanimous decision as well.  In Florida there are 2 separate phases of the trial, and the judge imposes the sentence regardless of the recommendation of the jury of the second part. Maybe the second jury doesn't require unanimity, thus only only a majority of 7.

[Carnut]

Photos Presented at Murder Trial Show Caylee Anthony Climbing Into Family Pool

ORLANDO, Fla. –  Defense attorneys for a Florida mother charged with killing her 2-year-old daughter showed jurors several photos on Friday that they hope bolster their argument that the toddler drowned and wasn't murdered.

Casey Anthony's attorneys showed photos of her daughter Caylee climbing a ladder into an above-ground pool at the family's home as her grandmother, Cindy Anthony, supported her from behind.

From the witness stand, Cindy Anthony testified that Caylee was able to open a sliding glass door that led to the backyard pool.

"Even at that point, she could even climb into the pool," Cindy Anthony said when shown a photo.

Casey Anthony's attorneys contend that Caylee drowned in the pool and that her mother didn't kill her.

Casey Anthony, 25, wiped away tears while a video of her playing with the girl was viewed by the jury during her mother's testimony.

Prosecutors have argued Casey Anthony suffocated her daughter in June 2008. She didn't report the girl missing for 31 days.

Later Friday, Casey Anthony's brother, Lee, testified about stains found in the trunk of his sister's car. Cindy Anthony also has testified about the stains, saying they were present when the family bought the car in 2000.

Prosecutors claim the child's body was in the car trunk and then dumped near the Anthonys' home in Orlando in a wooded area, where Caylee's remains were found nearly six months after she disappeared. They have presented extensive evidence of human decomposition in the car trunk, including stains.

Lee Anthony started crying on the witness stand when he recalled how he didn't go to the hospital for his niece's birth. He said he was angry at his sister and mother for not directly confiding in him about Casey Anthony's pregnancy.

Carnut - - Humm wonder why Casey and Cindy had to keep it such a secret? I still think papa George was also the father of Caylee.

On Thursday, Cindy Anthony's testimony directly contradicted prosecutors' theory that Casey Anthony was the one who made Internet searches about chloroform, a chemical compound that can be used to knock someone unconscious and also is found in human decomposition.

Earlier in the trial, a medical examiner testified that even a small amount of chloroform would be sufficient to cause a child's death.

Casey Anthony has pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder and could face the death penalty if convicted of that charge.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/06/24/casey-anthonys-mother-resumes-tearful-testimony/

Carnut - - I would think the computer forensics person could come back to testify if any searches for Chlorophyll were done. Which would catch Cindy in a lie.

[Carnut]

Ok just found that FBI person testified that both George and Lee were Tested for paternity.

"Seubert, a DNA analyst at the FBI laboratory in Quantico, Va., told the court that both George Anthony, Casey Anthony's father, and Lee Anthony had been tested and excluded from being Caylee's father.

Perry also warned Baez, "You are not to ask questions that will lead to an inference... I'm not even going to venture a guess... as to your motivation."

When the jury returned from lunch, the questioning continued and the jury heard that Lee Anthony's test came back negative. The defense did not ask the witness about the testing of George Anthony. So jurors still don't know that George Anthony was also tested and excluded from being Caylee's father. "

http://68.71.208.15/US/casey-anthony-trial-paternity-test-father-brother/story?id=13855375

[Puma]

Ok just found that FBI person testified that both George and Lee were Tested for paternity.

"Seubert, a DNA analyst at the FBI laboratory in Quantico, Va., told the court that both George Anthony, Casey Anthony's father, and Lee Anthony had been tested and excluded from being Caylee's father.

Perry also warned Baez, "You are not to ask questions that will lead to an inference... I'm not even going to venture a guess... as to your motivation."

When the jury returned from lunch, the questioning continued and the jury heard that Lee Anthony's test came back negative. The defense did not ask the witness about the testing of George Anthony. So jurors still don't know that George Anthony was also tested and excluded from being Caylee's father. "

http://68.71.208.15/US/casey-anthony-trial-paternity-test-father-brother/story?id=13855375

Thank goodness.  I mean that neither is the father.  I'll leave the courtroom decisions to the lawyers and judge.

[Carnut]

Well, with so many posters on WESH forums and so many commentators taking the defense side, I'm afraid it's gonna be a hung jury. I'm sure there will be a couple of folks on there that just can't be convinced or anything being proved.

[Cat]

Not Guilty.I can not believe it.

[Puma]

Ditto.

[SS]

I am just shocked.

[SunFreak2]

I am flummoxed by this verdict.  I cannot believe that not even one juror found her guilty.  This is a travesty of justice.  Casey will probably go out celebrating tonight.

[Sam]

I would be so afraid to go out in public right now. I think she is probably the most hated woman in the US tonight. Our daughter is probably sitting at home crying.She has followed every little bit of this trial.

[casa]

I am flummoxed by this verdict.  I cannot believe that not even one juror found her guilty.  This is a travesty of justice.  Casey will probably go out celebrating tonight.

Casey is still in jail.   She won't be celebrating.

[Carnut]

Bill Oreilly has definitely got the case and the jurors sized up correctly.