Request for an Acquittal

After the state rested its case, the defense made their plea for the judge to acquit Casey Anthony.

This is normal procedure and it was interesting to listen to defense attorney Cheney Mason argue his reasons why the prosecutions case against his client is based upon speculation.

Cheney Mason does make some good points. Here they are as I see them.

1- No one knows when Caylee died.

2-Although at least 18 witnesses testified to Casey's character, no one said that Casey was a bad mother.

3- Pre-meditation needs to be shown for a death penalty case. The prosecution was lacking in this area.

Are these three reasons enough? I don't know. This case is based upon a lot of speculation, coincidence and because of the lies of Casey Anthony we cannot believe a word that she says.

Today marks 3 years since Caylee Marie Anthony was last seen alive. As cable shows broadcast the last video taken of Caylee on Father's Day when she visited her great-grandfather, I watch this video and I feel sadness. What kind of a sick person would take the life of this sweet little girl?

I have watched Casey Anthony during these court proceedings. I like her even less than I did the first time I ever saw her when the first interrogations with police were broadcast almost 3 years ago.

Her coldness, her lies, her almost arrogant attitude just made me want to shake her. Even a mother who has not bonded properly with her child would have some level of emotion regarding a missing child. She had none then and she has none now.

Her phony tears are all about Casey. If Judge Perry indeed grants the judge's motion for acquittal, I guarantee Casey Anthony will not live happily ever after. There is far too much anger over this case for anyone to allow Casey to just go back to life as normal.

If the Judge does anything, I am sure that all he would do is perhaps reduce the murder charges but it really is unlikely.

Casey Anthony is a monster. I feel sorry for Cindy Anthony and for George Anthony. Their granddaughter is dead and they are going to have to live with knowing that their own daughter is responsible.Cindy Anthony's denial has been so strong (perhaps it is what gets her through the day) that even if a jury convicts her daughter will she be able to accept it as the truth?

The Prosecution Presents Its Last Witness

The prosecution finished up with its last witnesses today. Cindy Anthony testified to the items that were removed from the house during the police search. She was asked again about duct tape but could only recall seeing black duct tape and not the grey tape that the case seems to be hanging on. During cross examination, Jose Baez desperately tried to link the duct tape to George Anthony. I do say desperately. Cindy Anthony was the prosecution’s last witness and honestly, she seemed hesitant in her answers both to the prosecutor and to Jose Baez.

This is a woman caught in the middle. 

Her daughter is on trial for her life. The defense attorney has already accused her husband of molesting her daughter and called her family dysfunctional. The defense is desperately trying to make the jury think that her husband was involved somehow in covering up the death of her beloved granddaughter.

The prosecution is trying to prove that her daughter killed her granddaughter.

It’s got to be stressful to be Cindy Anthony.

Unlike Cindy’s earlier testimony which was highly emotional, during today’s testimony Cindy seemed to be more in control and careful about her responses. Is she trying to help her daughter? 

No one knows how it would be to be so torn like Cindy Anthony is. She had said that she and her husband wanted to be in the courtroom because they need to find out the truth. If Cindy Anthony is still trying to protect Casey, does this mean she still believes in Zanny the nanny???

Really? 

The final witness was the tattoo artist who famously tattooed “Bella Vita” on Casey’s left shoulder on July 2^nd, 2008. This was during the 31 days that Caylee hadn’t been seen. The tattoo artist said he had known Casey for about 7 years and like others, testified that Casey seemed “normal”.  Whatever normal is for Casey Anthony; everyone seemed to testify that during those 31 days Casey told no one that Caylee was missing or dead.

The prosecution is expected to finish up in the morning and then rest their case. The defense will begin on Thursday and it is anyone’s guess what they will do.

Will Casey Anthony testify? In his opening statement, Jose Baez said that the jury would hear about the sexual abuse Casey endured. Could you imagine what the prosecution would do with Casey Anthony on the stand?

In my opinion, it (Casey testifying) will never happen. According to the buzz, defense attorneys often make claims in their opening statements that they never make good on. Casey’s defense made a huge mistake when they attempted to turn this case into “an accident that snowballed into a big cover-up”. 

If it truly was an accident, why did Jose Baez allow his client to sit in jail for almost 3 years? Wouldn’t he have tried to get her out once he found out the “circumstances”? 

Time will tell if the jury buys what the prosecution presented. I certainly don’t think any of the jurors will buy Jose Baez’/Casey Anthony’s twisted tale.

Jury is Set!

Twelve jurors- 7 women and 5 men and 5 alternates have been sworn in to serve on the Casey Anthony jury. The trial is (finally) set and sworn in.

Monday morning the trial begins. Jose Baez promises that within the first 5 minutes of his opening remarks, we will understand why Casey Anthony did not report her daughter Caylee missing.


I have a great imagination and being a soap opera fan, I cannot fathom a reasonable excuse why Casey Anthony did not report her daughter missing for more than a month.

If Zanny the nanny actually exists (which I am sure she doesn't) video and photos prove that while Casey allegedly was preparing to move herself and Caylee out of her parents home she was shopping for lingerie at Target and partying at nightclubs. There is no proof of any phone calls made to Zanny. There is no Zanny the nanny. 

Okay. Casey Anthony is a liar. Casey Anthony is a thief. Does this make Casey Anthony are child killer?

She left her parents home with Caylee. No one say them together or Caylee alive again. 

I am anxiously awaiting opening of this trial on Monday morning. See you then!

Day 8 of Jury Selection Continues

Jury selection enters day 8 and finding jurors who haven't formed an opinion on this high-profile case or will have a hard time being sequestered for up to 8 weeks is getting more difficult. Although as of late Monday 17 prospective jurors were found, none of them have been sworn in and technically, one or more of them can still be rejected by either the prosecution or the defense.

The cable news channels are having a field day with picking apart prospective jurors. There are already two jurors who have been in trouble with the law. One for possessing marijuana and the other a DUI. The debate continues on how favorable these prospective jurors will be for either side.

Of course Casey Anthony is under a microscope also. From her clothing to her demeanor, the focus is on how she behaves during this long and tedious process. Day one saw her unable to control her emotions. As time goes by, she has reacted with smirks, laughter, tears and the behavior of a spoiled child who doesn't feel like sitting still.  It will be interesting to see how she reacts once the real action begins.

Picking the Jury

Today the jury selection began in what is called a trial to rival the sensationalism of the OJ Simpson trial which was considered the most publicized criminal trial back in 1995. The trial of Casey Anthony is the biggest trial in Central Florida's history and it is only just beginning.

Casey Anthony, 25, is the mother of Caylee Anthony, who went missing back in the summer of 2008 and whose skeletal remains were found a few months later less than a mile from her home.

The story of the missing Florida toddler pointed to the mother from day one. In the court of public opinion, Casey Anthony has already been tried and convicted. Here is some back story and you see if you agree.

Casey Anthony lived with her parents, George and Cyndi and her 2 year old toddler. Many sources say that the loving grandmother was overly attached to her only grandchild and this caused a lot of tension between Casey and Cyndi.

Some neighbors reported that the night before Caylee was last seen, Casey and her mother had a huge argument. Casey left the home with her daughter and as her mother Cyndi later reported, was going to go away for a few days with her daughter. No one ever saw Caylee alive again.

Casey and Caylee were living with the Anthonys and when they did not hear from their daughter or see their granddaughter, they tried to get in touch with her by telephone. Casey refused to come home and did not tell her parents that her daughter was not with her.

When Cyndi Anthony finally did track her daughter down, she demanded to know where her granddaughter was. After Cyndi got tough with her daughter, Casey finally admitted that she hadn't seen her daughter in a month and that the babysitter had taken her. Outraged, Cyndi called the police. Casey alleged that she had been looking for her child on her own in the month that she was missing. Unfortunately, she failed to tell anyone that her daughter had been taken and while she was allegedly "looking" for her daughter she was actually out partying as photos which later surfaced showed.

Casey had abandoned her car and when her parents went to retrieve it, her mother made the infamous 911 call in which she stated that it smelled like a dead body had been in the car. Cyndi Anthony later said that the smell had been from a pizza left in the trunk.

When questioned by the police, Casey appeared to be anything but a mom who was worried about the welfare of her child. She continually lied to the police and they caught her in several lies.

A media frenzy began as soon as the story hit the airwaves. People camped outside of the Orlando area home of the Anthonys, holding signs saying "baby killer" and harassing the Anthony family whenever they stepped outside of their home. 

Casey Anthony was eventually arrested and charged with her daughter's disappearance. While in jail, taped conversations between Casey and her parents and brother were broadcast on television programs like Nancy Grace . Nancy dissected every word that Casey said and publicly criticized the mother for her lack of concern for her missing toddler.

In September of 2008, the skeletal remains of Caylee Anthony were found less than 1 mile from the home that she lived in with her mother and grandparents. Although the death was ruled a homicide, it will be hard to prove that the child was murdered. The case is a death penalty case which means that the prosecution has their hands full.

They need to prove that Casey Anthony in fact murdered her child.

Casey Anthony was an unwed mother and in fact, her parents do not even know who the father of their granddaughter is. Casey simply told them that he had been killed in a car accident. It was obvious that George and Cyndi were providing both their daughter and granddaughter with a home and supported them both financially. Although they "thought" their daughter had a job, they were unaware that she had been lying about not having a job at the time of Caylee's disappearance. As a matter of fact, it was found that Casey hadn't worked in quite some time.

Casey allegedly had a nanny although neither of her parents had ever met the woman. Both grandparents admitted that they often helped care for their granddaughter. If Casey indeed had a nanny, who was paying for it? Casey had no job.

Casey also had a problem with stealing money from her family, most disturbingly, she stole money that was in a fund to pay for her grandparents nursing care. She had used her mother's credit cards without permission and had even stolen a friend's checkbook and went on shopping sprees for herself. As a matter of fact, she originally called 911 to ask the police to arrest Casey for theft. It was shortly after that that Casey admitted that her daughter Caylee was missing.

She alleged to the police that her nanny Zenaida Gonzalez had taken Caylee. She even went so far as to take the police to the alleged apartment where she dropped Caylee off. The apartment was empty and no one named Zenaida had lived there. She was unable to produce anything but a vague description of a woman that no one had met. 

As soon as this story hit the media, people were immediately outraged. What kind of mother doesn't report their child missing for 1 month? Had Cyndi Anthony not tracked down her daughter and demanded to know where her granddaughter was, how long would it have taken for her disappearance to be known?

There has been so much drama while this case has been waiting to go to trial. Within the Anthony family, George Anthony tried to commit suicide, both he and Cyndi were forced by deposition to testify in the case that Zenaida Gonzalez filed against Casey Anthony and with their granddaughter dead, they are standing by their daughter.


Casey has been proven to be a liar but is she a murderer? The State of Florida will have their hands full trying to prove this case. We will be back daily to give our opinion about the case against Casey Anthony a.k.a. Tot Mom.