DEATH THREATS FOR CASEY ANTHONY'S FAMILY

DEATH THREATS

CASEY Anthony's parents have been receiving death threats since their daughter was cleared of murder yesterday.
Their attorney Mark Lippman said they were currently being guarded by Orange County Sheriff's, from members of the public, furious that their daughter had appeared to escape justice for the killing of her daughter Caylee. He added that they were surprised at the verdict and they had not spoken to their daughter since their daughter had been cleared, but imagined they would do at some point.
He told GMA: "You can never tell what a jury is going to do. They were shocked that the jury didn't find any sort of evidence against her
even though the state did a fantastic job."

He added: "My client George Anthony and Lee Anthony never molested her. Certainly George had nothing to do with moving the body and the rest of the things the defense said about my clients in particular never happened."
Lippman added that the family would have to work on rebuilding their relationship one day at the time.
He said: "Hopefully they can start to rebuild their lives. Their lives will never be the same. This case has destroyed everybody's reputation for the rest of their lives. Where we go from here I can't discuss that."
 

KIM KARDASHIAN 'SPEECHLESS' ON CASEY ANTHONY

PARTY GIRL

PARTY GIRL

KIM Kardashian joined a chorus of stunned celebrities in shock at the news that Casey Anthony had been cleared of murdering her daughter. 
The celebutard, who's father rose to prominence working on the OJ Simpson trial, which some have compared this case too, said she was "speechless" at the verdict.
She tweeted: "WHAT!!!!???!!! CASEY ANTHONY FOUND NOT GUILTY!!! I am speechless!!!"
Other celebrity's were also stunned at news, which could see the one-time party mom freed in just days.
American Pie star Jason Biggs also compared the verdict with the infamous OJ trial, which saw the one time football star, cleared of killing his wife Nicole Brown and her lover Ron Goldman, when he said: "I guess the glove didn’t fit."
The Voice host Carson Daily expressed his fears for the 12 men and women who made the decision saying: "That Jury better get into hiding."

CASEY ANTHONY'S LAWYER JOSE BAEZ: 'I SAVED A LIFE'

LIFE SAVER

CASEY Anthony's defense lawyer made the astonishing claim that he "saved a life today" after his client was found not guilty of murder. 
Jose Baez said "there are no winners" in the case of two-year-old Caylee Anthony, whose dumped, decomposing body was found near the Anthony home, but insisted his client was innocent. Astonishingly he added: "The best feeling that I have today [is] I know when I go home my daughter will ask me what did you do
today? And I can say I saved a life.
"Caylee has passed on far, far too soon and what my driving force has been for the last three years has been always to make sure there is justice for Caylee and Casey because Casey did not murder Caylee.
"It is that simple. And today, our system of justice has not dishonored her memory by a false conviction."
The acquittal, marked the end of an amazing rise for the formerly unknown legal eagle which court tapes revealed, Anthony had chose at random. 
Despite graduating from law school in 1997, the 42-year-old Navy veteran was only admitted to the Florida Bar in 2005 because he refused to pay child support to his former wife or secure life and health insurance for his teenage daughter.
Having previously declared himself bankrupt and defaulted on loans, according to an order by the Supreme Court of Florida, he was refused admission  to the bar for eight years. 
In their ruling they wrote the financial marks on his name showed: "A lack of respect for the rights of others and a total lack of respect for the legal system, which is absolutely inconsistent with the character and fitness qualities required of those seeking to be afforded the highest position of trust and confidence recognised by our system of law."
During this time he worked for two bikini businesses.
According to reports his home was still in foreclosure last year and given that Casey has less than $100 in her account, she will be unable to pay him until she receives money from media appearances or a book deal.
Still, given this amazing verdict Baez will likely be in great demand in future, meaning his money woes will be well behind him. 

CASEY ANTHONY COULD NOW MAKE MILLION$

MILLIONAIRE?

THE STUNNING decision to acquit Casey Anthony means she could make millions from lucrative TV and book deals and there is also talk that the compelling case could be turned into a movie. 
Despite being branded a compulsive liar by all, including her own lawyer Jose Baez, the 25-year-old is now likely to be inundated with interview requests according to media expert Steve Hay. 
He said: "This case has captured the public's imagination and the verdict has both appalled and excited in equal measure. 
"Given that she didn't testify, no one aside from a few people no one knows what she thought about her daughter's death, during the court case and now she has been acquitted those opinions could be worth millions.
"The first TV interview will be worth a fortune and if she writes her autobiography, it could quite easily be a bestseller.     
"Just because most of the public are reviled by her and think she did it, it doesn't mean they won't pay for her side of the story."
But although she could be in line for a small fortune, rebuilding the relationship with her family could be considerably harder.  
Speaking after the verdict her lawyer Jose Baez said: "The family hopes that they will be given the time by the media to reflect on this verdict and decide the best way to move forward privately."
But after her defense team accused her father George of the murder and implied that both he and her brother Lee sexually abused Casey, it's thought her reception could be frosty

JUROR: DA DIDN'T PROVE CASEY ANTHONY'S GUILT

HUEKLER

CASEY Anthony's prosecutor's 'didn't meet the burden of proof' according to one of the alternate jurors who was on stand by during the trial. For six weeks Russ Huekler watched the trial unfold, ready to step in, in the event of one of the other jurors had to withdraw from the bench and he said if he had to deliberate the not guilty verdict would have been the same.
Huekler of St. Petersburg told Fox 13: “I agree whole heartedly. It was the right decision that they made. The prosecutors didn’t meet the burden of proof. We had a lot of reasonable doubt there. They didn’t show us the evidence good enough for a conviction."
The decision, which has been called the most controversial since the acquittal of OJ Simpson, stunned most onlookers, but Huekler, a
teacher said defense lawyer Jose Baez's argument that Caylee drowned made sense to him.
He added that he did think the one time party mom was a liar, but he did not believe the prosecution's assertion that she killed her two-year-old tot Caylee.
“There was some type of horrific accident by the family," he explained.
"Whatever happened I think more than one person knows and I think that was possibly George Anthony. For some reason they made an accident look like a murder scene.”

CASEY ANTHONY: THE MOMENT SHE WAS CLEARED

THIS is the amazing moment when Casey Anthony was found not guilty of the murder of her daughter, Caylee:

Clearly shaken, the one time party mom shed a few tears as the clerk of the court read the astonishing verdict that she was cleared of the murder.

Crowds gasped outside the courtroom as the 25-year-old mother was found not guilty of drugging her young daughter, suffocating her and dumping her body in overgrown woodland after a compelling six-week trial, which has seen a family torn apart by accusations of rape and incest.
Some are already calling it the most controversial court verdict since OJ Simpson was cleared of murdering his wife Nicole and her lover Ron Goldman. 
Quite what now lies in store for the Anthony family remains to be seen, after her lawyers accused her father George of abusing her and dumping Caylee's body after she drowned in the family pool.
Her lawyer Jose Baez also implied that her brother Lee fathered Caylee. 
In a statement they said: "While the family may never know what has happened to Caylee Marie Anthony, they now have closure for this chapter of their life. They will now begin the long process of rebuilding their lives.
"Despite the baseless defense chosen by Casey Anthony, the family believes that the jury made a fair decision based on the evidence presented, the testimony presented, the scientific information presented and the rules that were given to them by the Honourable Judge Perry to guide them.
"The family hopes that they will be given the time by the media to reflect on this verdict and decide the best way to move forward privately."

 
 

NO VERDICT YET IN CASEY ANTHONY TRIAL

GUILTY?

DAY one and the jury who are potentially going to decide whether Casey Anthony gets the death penalty, took their time and ended with no verdict.
From about midday they debated for almost six hours following the prosecution's closing speeches and instructions from judge Belvin Perry.
Before sending them out the justice reminded the jurors that it is not up to the defendant to prove their innocence, adding that a defendant choosing not to testify it is not an indication of guilt.

"Whatever verdict you render must be unanimous,"he told them.
They will start deliberating again today on the high profile case in which Anthony is charged with murder in the first-degree, second-degree murder, manslaughter, third-degree felony murder, aggravated manslaughter of a child, aggravated child abuse and four counts of providing false information to a law enforcement officer.

CASEY ANTHONY 'LIVED IN A FANTASY WORLD'

BORN LIAR

CASEY Anthony was 'raised to lie' and 'lived in a fantasy world' her own lawyer admitted, but that did not mean she killed her daughter Caylee he said.
The one time party mom's lead attorney Jose Baez  said the whole family was full of liars and that she had been taught to lie from an early age.
He said:  "Lies are what lives within this family. Casey Anthony was raised that way. Raised to lie. Is it a surprise she lived in a fantasy world?"
The he continued to point the finger at her father for the murder of the tragic tot.
Yet again he asked the court, why he never told anyone about how he had buried the family pets - wrapped in blankets, covered in a plastic bag and wrapped with tape before being buried in the backyard.

Both Casey's mother Cindy and brother  Lee testified to this, but George said he couldn't remember when asked about it, reports WKMG.
Baez also claimed that George Anthony was suicidal because police began to investigate him more than one month after Caylee's remains were found, reports the station.
Holding up his suicide note, he claimed that   the note was self-serving, for George Anthony to protect himself.
He also pointed out  that none of the ten law enforcement officers called he managed to link the DNA on Caylee's body to the duct tape found on Caylee's mouth, saying it does not sound right that Casey Anthony was smart enough to outwit forensics experts, but dumb enough to leave her daughter's body 19 feet off a road.
The case was expected to wrap up last week, but Baez's lengthy closing arguments meant it will go into this week.

CINDY ANTHONY 'LIED ON THE STAND' OLD BOSS REVEALS

LIAR

CASEY Anthony''s mom "lied on the stand" when she claimed it was here who had searched for 'chloroform' on the family's home computer, her former boss told the court yesterday. 
In potentially explosive testimony, Cindy Anthony had appeared to blow a huge hole into the prosecution's theory that Casey had planned to subdue her daughter, but had ended up killing her with the knockout drug. 
She told the court that she had snuck home from work and had been searching for Chlorophyll but had mistakenly ended up on websites for Chloroform.
She added t that 'neck breaking' had appeared on a pop up advert. 
But her argument, which prosecutor's claimed she had made up in a desperate bid to protect her daughter, was dramatically undermined when her former boss told the Florida court she was still at work when the searches were made.
A chief compliance officer for Mrs Anthony's old company today produced records which showed she was still logged into her work computer on the afternoons she claimed to be conducting the internet searches at home.

John Camperlengo, of Gentiva Health Services, produced computer records which revealed somebody had used Mrs Anthony's username and password to log in early every morning and log out at around 4 or 5pm every evening the week she claimed she searched for chloroform at home.
Prosecutors also called Mrs Anthony's supervisor, Deborah Polisano, to the stand, who testified that records show Mrs Anthony was at work for ten hours on March 17 and nine-and-a-half hours on March 21, at the same time the chloroform searches were carried out on her home computer.

It's thought the case may wrap up next week, after the prosecution has called their rebuttal witnesses. 

CASEY ANTHONY 'TOO UNRELIABLE' FOR THE STAND

TOO UNRELIABLE

CASEY Anthony's defense lawyers spent hours deliberating whether to put her on the stand but ultimately decided against allowing her to testify because she was "to unreliable."
A insider close to the legal team, led by Jose Baez said they thought long and hard and spent hours training their client for  possible last minute testimony, they felt that she may jeopardize their case too much if allowed to speak.
When the defense announced that they were going to be resting their case without putting Casey on the stand Judge Belvin Perry took a moment to ask the Florida mother if it was her decision not to testify.
"It was," she said, adding that she has had time to discuss the matter with her attorneys.
The source revealed: "Ultimately they decided that Casey was too much of a liability to be allowed into the witness box. She was just too unreliable."
"They knew that given half a chance the prosecution would tear into her and under pressure she may well have cracked, causing immeasurable damage to their case."
Instead Baez called Cindy and George Anthony to the stand for a fourth time, this time to ask them about the family's pet burial traditions reports WKMG.
Both admitted they had in the past, buried pets after their deaths in plastic bags wrapped with duct tape.
Two-year-old Caylee's body was found in a similar fashion.

DEFENCE RESTS: CASEY ANTHONY DOESN'T TESTIFY

SUICIDAL

 UPDATE: The defense for Casey Anthony rested yesterday without calling Florida's best known Party Mom to testify. Asked by Orange County Chief Judge Belvin Perry Jr. if she was cool with it, she said: "Yes sir." Now, jurors will hear rebuttal witnesses.
Earlier, George Anthony's mistress Krystal Holloway told the court that Caylee Anthony's death was: "an accident that snowballed out of control. "an accident that snowballed out of control."
"I was in shock. By the time I looked up, his eyes were filled with tears. I didn't elaborate. I didn't ask anything further." MORE FROM CNN
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 EARLIER: Casey Anthony's distraught father George, tried to kill himself so he could "go and be with Caylee" the court heard
yesterday.

Bursting into tears he explained that he wrote a suicide note, called family members to "say goodbye for the last time" then took pills and alcohol.
But cops foiled his bid to end it all, rushing to his motel room after someone raised the alarm and took him to hospital where his stomach was pumped.
He told the rapt jury: "I just felt like it was the right time to go and be with Caylee. My emotional state even through today is it’s very hard to accept that I don’t have a grand-daughter.

"I just decided that was the time for me to get away from all this, to spend time with Caylee. I didn’t want to be in this world any more."
For the second time in the five week trial, he denied having sexually molested his daughter as a childand reacted furiously when defense attorney Jose Baez put it to him that he had attempted to kill himself, because of his guilt over his granddaughter Caylee's death.
They maintain that the toddler drowned in the swimming pool at the family home and was not suffocated by her mother, Casey.
Exploding, he said: "How dare you, sir, try to tell me I did something differently to what I did."
The move may have been the final straw for the defense team, who are expected to wrap up their case this week, although it is still not known whether they will call their client to the stand.
The trial continues.

CASEY ANTHONY'S BROTHER 'GROPED HER'

GROPED?

CASEY Anthony's brother Lee tried to 'feel her up' and groped her while she slept, her former fiance told the court yesterday.
Jesse Grund, who was formerly engaged to the one time party mom testified that she also wanted to keep her daughter Caylee away from her uncle. He added that during their time together Lee Anthony was "standoffish" and "sullen" around him.
Asked about the incestuous situation Grund said: "She told me that at one point in recent years that she woke up one night with Lee standing up over her."

But he added that he hadn't asked her to go into detail and had instead trusted the woman he had at one point thought would be his bride.
He explained: "Anything that Casey said I took as truth and fact...I didn't want to have anything to do with him."
Grund, who did not say why the couple split up also said that at one point Casey told him, he was the father of her tragic tot Caylee, who's decomposed body was found near her Florida home.
But a 2005 paternity test, showed he wasn't in fact her dad and since then Casey has refused to say who the daddy was.
Another former boyfriend of Casey Anthony, Tony Lazzaro, previously testified that the Florida woman said her father was physically abusive and that Lee Anthony had tried to "feel her up" but didn't succeed.
But both men, were only seen by Judge Belvin Perry and not the jury

CASEY ANTHONY IS 'MENTALLY COMPETENT'

'MENTALLY COMPETENT'

CASEY Anthony is mentally competent to stand trial tests have revealed.
The one time party mom's trial was put on hold over the weekend when secret conversations with her lawyers prompted them to ask the judge to examine her.
But according to The Orlando Sentinel, three court ordered psychologists determined that she is mentally competent, so Judge Belvin Perry ordered that the case continue yesterday.
Each was asked to look into Anthony's ability to consult with her counsel with a rational and factual understanding of the proceedings.
They also evaluated her ability to understand the legal process, disclose pertinent facts to her attorney regarding the proceedings, behave appropriately in court, and testify relevantly.
Anthony's attorneys expect to wrap up their case by mid-week, although it still remains to be seen whether they will call their client to stand to answer the charges that she murdered her two-year-old Caylee. 
The 25-year-old has pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder and could face the death penalty if convicted of that charge.

CASEY ANTHONY'S BROTHER BREAKS DOWN IN COURT

MORE ANTHONY TEARS

CLIMBING INTO THE POOL

CASEY Anthony's brother broke down in court yesterday as he recalled how his sister kept her pregnancy a secret from her. 
Lee Anthony joined his whole family in tears as he watched a video of his dead niece Caylee, climbing into a swimming pool on her own, shown by defense lawyer to bolster their claims that the tragic toddler drown in the family swimming pool.
But then he shed tears of his own as he explained that his sister and parents kept her pregnancy a secret from him, despite him asking them about it.
He said: "I was very angry at my mom and I was also angry at my sister. I was just angry at everyone in general that they didn’t want to include me and didn’t find it important enough to tell me, especially after I had asked."
He added that he did not learn of his sister's pregnancy, for sure, until just a few days before Caylee was born according to WKMG.
Prosecutor's however, disputed his claims, arguing that in a sworn 2009 deposition he stated that he had never directly asked Casey about her pregnancy.   
They also pointed out that far from trying to sweep the pending birth under the carpet, his mother and father had gone 'over the top' to prepare for their grand-daughter’s arrival. 
Buying a crib, taking their daughter shopping for baby items,  turning their spare room into a nursery with a Winnie the Pooh theme, and organizing a baby shower, they wondered how he had missed all this as he was living at home at the time.
Mr Anthony replied: "Two years ago, I did not 100 percent hold the belief that Caylee was dead…during that two-year span I have come to the place that I believe she is."
He later added: 'I don’t want to be here. I don’t want my sister to be here and my parents to be her. This is obviously just very very emotionally draining."
He alos testified that he initially drove the white Pontiac Sunfire that the prosecution has said Casey Anthony put Caylee's body in after she died, leaving a stain in the trunk.
On the stand, Lee Anthony said that the stain in the trunk could have been the result of something he put in the car when he drove it, the station reports.
The trial continues. 

CASEY ANTHONY'S MOM MAKES STUNNING CONFESSION

"I SEARCHED FOR CHLOROFORM"

CASEY Anthony's mom threw her daughter a massive lifeline yesterday when she admitted that she was the one who searched for chloroform online - not her daughter.
Blowing a potentially huge hole in the prosecution's theory that Casey Anthony had searched Google for information on the knockout drug, Cindy Anthony claimed she had meant to search for "chlorophyll" in relation to a concern for her two dogs.
Open mouthed prosecutors looked on aghast as she told the court: "I was concerned about my smallest Yorkie. We have two Yorkie puppies. The smallest one was having some issues where she was extremely tired all the time. Both of the dogs would eat the bamboo leaves out the back.
"So I started looking up sources from the back yard that could cause her to be more sleepy, and I started with ‘chlorophyll’ and that prompted me to look up ‘chloroform'" 
She added that after a colleague had mentioned a health scare over hand sanitizers and their dangers to children she had also typed in search terms such as ‘hydrogen peroxide’ and ‘alcohol’ reports WKMG.
Finally Cindy said she did not search "neck-breaking" but she remembers a pop-up ad containing the word.
Her testimony left prosecutor's aghast, as it put pay to their theory that Casey Anthony had been plotting her daughter's murder in the months leading up to her death.
And they quickly challenged her pointing out that she had been at work at the time of some of the searches.
But Cindy countered that she had left early.
Visibly angry State attorney Diane Drane-Burdick asked her why she had only just brought up her claims three years on.

Cindy replied: "I did tell law enforcement. In fact, I told you during my deposition in 2009 that I made those searches."

Worse still for the prosecution who claimed a stain in the trunk of Casey' Pontiac Sunfire was as a result of Caylee's body being placed there, Cindy said it was there when she bought the car.  

DID CASEY ANTHONY STEAL DEFENSE FROM CELLMATE?

WHELAN

CASEY Anthony may have made up her defense that her tragic daughter Caylee drowned in a swimming pool after hearing a fellow inmate talking about her own child's tragic death, the court heard. 
April Whelan may yet play an 11th role in the murder case, after it emerged that she was in the prison cell adjacent to the one time party mom and her case bears striking similarities to Anthony's claims. 
Whelan's 15-month-old son Isiah tragically drowned in their home swimming pool on Christmas Day 2007, where he had been left unattended by adults according to Orange County cops. 
His tiny body was found by his grandfather.   The scenario is almost exactly the same as her defense team's opening statements, that Casey Anthony's father George found two-year-old Caylee's body in the family pool and got Casey to participate in a cover-up of the accidental death.
Orange County Jail spokesman Allen Moore told The Orlando Sentinel that Whelan, 30, spent five days in a cell in the same dormitory as Anthony in June 2009.

He said there was no evidence of contact between the women but noted that cells are by no means soundproof and that "it's possible that things can be been heard."
Whelan's phone records have now been requested by the Orange County Sheriff's Office to form part of the investigation.

CASEY ANTHONY'S FATHER GEORGE TO TESTIFY AGAIN

SEXUALLY ABUSED?

CASEY Anthony's lawyers are expected to call her father George to the stand again to answer charges that he sexually abused his daughter, when the trial resumes today.
The one time party mom's lead attorney Jose Baez claims their relationship was fraught with abuse, both emotional and sexual, which is why she concealed details of her daughter, Caylee's accidental drowning death.
The two-year-old body was found dumped in woodland near her Florida home. 
The case will likely get underway again today after Judge Belvin Perry called time on the trial early yesterday, scolding both legal teams for "gamesmanship."

He added that both legal teams were selectively interpreting his court orders and warned the lawyers that he won't stand for any of that anymore.

In open court, that if there is a pattern of intentional violations of his orders by the lawyers, and threatened to strike off witnesses if their gamesmanship continued, which in effect, would take the case back to square one.

So at 11am, with more than half the day remaining he sent them packing and ordered them back to the trial which will continue today. 

 

CASEY ANTHONY: SHOULD SHE TESTIFY?

RESPONSIBLE WITNESS?

CASEY Anthony's legal team are locked in furious arguments over whether she should take the stand in her defense.
Lawyers for the one time party mom, who is literally in a fight for her life, can't decided whether her testimony would help or hinder her case.
A legal insider said: "Casey taking the stand could either make or break her case. Her performance would be crucial in swaying the jury.
"She would only have the one chance to convince them she didn't kill Caylee and if she get's it wrong the case would effectively be over. "
They added: "It would literally be a case of life or death."
Although they have not made a decision her legal team have spent hours prepping the 22-year-old in case they decide to call her to the stand.
The source added: "They know she will have to be pitch perfect, so they've been throwing all sorts of questions at her to get her ready.
"They know the prosecution will come at her hard, so they're hoping that she'll be ready, if the time comes."


 

CASEY ANTHONY'S CAN OF DEATH JUST GARBAGE: EXPERT

PARTY MOM

CASEY ANTHONY'S car did not smell of a decomposing body but was in fact a bag of trash an expert testified yesterday.
Prosecuting lawyers had made legal history by admitting a smell taken from her car into evidence which as we reported here Dr Arpad Vass, a researcher at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory described as "shocking and definitely that of human remains.
Along with Anthony's mother Cindy and father George also agreed that her car had the stench of death in it.
But in testimony yesterday, entomologist Dr. Timothy Huntington  poo pooed the idea, claiming the smell was nothing more than garbage.

Based on research he'd conducted about what happened to decomposing pigs inside car trunks, reports  he said: "If we assume that a body was in the [Anthony] trunk, you expect to find many flies.
"I would expect to find hundreds, thousands of those dead insects as I did in the experiment. I didn't."

Instead, he said, his analysis was consistent with the smell coming from a bag of trash with trash-feeding insects in it.

CAYLEE ANTHONY THE PRODUCT OF INCEST: LAWYER

PARTY MOM

WHO'S THE DADDY?

CASEY Anthony's lawyer sensationally claimed that both her dad or brother could have fathered of her daughter Caylee. 
In the explosive start to their defense case lead defense lawyer Jose Baez suggested either her grandfather George or uncle Lee could have been Caylee's dad. 
On the third anniversary of the tragic toddler's disappearance, he asked FBI analyst Heather Seubert if she had conducted a paternity test on Lee.   Furious prosecutor's immediately objected and Judge Belvin Perry quickly sent jurors to lunch. 
He told 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."
But according to ABC Seubert revealed today that both of the men had been tested by the FBI and that both men had in fact, been excluded, although when the jury returned they heard that Lee Anthony's test came back negative.
But he did not ask the witness about the testing of George Anthony, leaving jurors in the dark as to the fact that George Anthony was in fact tested and excluded from being Caylee's father.
Astonishingly Seubert contradicted prosecution witnesses, testifying that pieces of Anthony's car did not test positive for blood and neither did any of her clothes.
Seubert also said that the "possible presence of blood" was detected on the Winnie the Pooh blanket and tattered shirt found with Caylee's remains, but there was not enough to be able to be certain.
The trial continues.