It's that simple," said Baez. Prosecutor Jeff Ashton, who had entered the courtroom to roaring applause, sat shaking his head after the verdict. Ashton declined to speak after the trial, but the state attorney's office announced that Ashton had promptly retired.
Outside the courtroom, spectators screamed "Lord! People comforted each other and cried, one man remarking that Casey Anthony should leave town because she's not welcome in Orlando.
One woman said, "[The verdict] is going to make millions of people think they can get away with killing their child That isn't a good depiction of what our justice system is like or should be. Another woman: "I just think it's going to make millions of people think they can get away with killing their child or committing major crimes and getting away with it.
This isn't a good depiction of what our justice system is like or should be. Law enforcement officials roped off a door where Cindy and George Anthony were expected to exit out of, and bystanders chanted "Appeal! At the heart of the case was Casey Anthony's fantastic lie that a babysitter named Zenaida, referred to in court as "Zanny the nanny," had stolen Caylee Anthony.
Prosecutors claimed that Casey Anthony killed her daughter by drugging Caylee with chloroform and suffocating her with duct tape over her mouth and nose. She killed Caylee, prosecutor Jeff Ashton claimed in his closing argument, because Casey Anthony had to choose between her child and "the life she wanted. Lawyers for Casey Anthony, who never took the stand, admitted on the first day of the trial that the year-old single mother had made up a complex web of lies.
Defense attorney Jose Baez said that the truth was that Caylee had accidentally drowned in the family pool and instead of reporting her death, Casey "went into a dark corner, to pretend as if nothing was wrong. Baez said Casey Anthony behaved that way because she had been "trained to lie" through years of sexual abuse by her father. Judge Belvin Perry ruled, however, that there was no evidence that Casey Anthony was abused by her father and ordered that it not be mentioned in closing arguments.
I was offended by the fact that he wasn't being treated fairly. I didn't know Baez. I had never met him," Mason said. Baez started asking Mason, a Florida death penalty qualified attorney, for advice. That propelled Mason to want to meet Anthony.
He remembers going to the Orange County jail to introduce himself. I stood looking at a child herself. I said this can't be," he said. I sat down with Mason exclusively to talk with him about his new book, "Justice in America.
After that meeting, with Anthony's approval, Mason decided to join the team pro bono. He said the unpaid time he spent on the case "was well over a million dollars" and cost him tens of thousands of dollars out-of-pocket. Mason said in the years before trial, he normally met with Anthony in a lunch room at the jail. The jail would clear everyone out before Anthony came in. A stationary video camera in the room was positioned on their conversations, so he and Anthony would cover their mouths and speak in low tones to each other, Mason said.
Shortly before jury selection was to begin, Mason got word that Anthony's handwritten letters describing sexual abuse at the hands of her father were going to be made public under Florida's open records law. A look back at the Casey Anthony story Caylee Anthony was last seen alive in June He believed it was only right that Anthony's parents, George and Cindy, were warned.
He called them to his office late on a Friday afternoon. I felt man to man I would tell you in advance. Mason said George Anthony's reaction was "basically none. I turned sideways a little bit, he clapped his hands down on his thighs -- let out a big sigh but didn't say anything," Mason said.
Next it was Cindy Anthony's turn. Once a jury was selected it was time for the evidentiary portion of the trial. Baez gave the opening statements. In the midst of telling the jury what the evidence would show, he delivered a bombshell that turned the case on its head by telling the jury that his client was a victim of sexual abuse by her father. The country was stunned and so was Mason, who was sitting next to Anthony in the courtroom. We had talked about all aspects of it, and I did not know.
I don't know if anybody knew that he was going to say that other than himself," Mason recalled. I asked Mason if he was concerned the defense would not be able to establish this with evidence as promised during the opening statement. Mason said he was. The prosecution responded by making George Anthony its first witness. The first question Assistant State Attorney Jeff Ashton asked him was whether he had sexually abused his daughter.
George Anthony responded with a definitive no. We were crying, and not just the women. It was emotional and we weren't ready. We wanted to do it with integrity and not contribute to the sensationalism of the trial. Ford told Moran she thought Casey Anthony's claim that her 2-year-old daughter accidentally drowned and she lied for three years was more believable than the evidence the prosecution presented. But it's easier for me logically to get from point A to point B" via the defense argument.
Ford said that she couldn't make out "logically" the prosecution's argument because there were too many unanswered questions about how Caylee died, including how Casey Anthony would have used chloroform to smother her 2-year-old daughter, then put her in the trunk of her car without anyone seeing her.
No idea, still no idea. Those are important questions. They were not answered. Instead of murder, Casey Anthony, 25, was found guilty of four counts of lying to law enforcement and could be released from jail as early as Thursday.
Ford agreed that Anthony was a "pathological liar" but said "bad behavior is not enough to prove a crime" and her actions could be blamed on her family dynamic. You're as sick as your secrets? I mean, the family seemed to have a little something going on.
The whole case was about justice for Caylee. No, but the system worked. Contact us at letters time. By Melissa Chan. Related Stories.
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