Half of the witnesses in the Casey Anthony trial should be jailed for perjury.
It's hard to tell who's telling the truth in this crazy cage match of a murder trial that's pitting family members, scientists and even lawyers against each other. I'm not saying the expert witnesses have a dog in this fight, but it's hard to tell whose testimony to believe. And the Anthony family eats from the prevarication buffet for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Seems they take their appetite for self-destruction to the witness stand, as today's testimony revealed.
The minute George Anthony took the stand for the defense, attorney Jose Baez went straight for the jugular by asking him about Krystal Holloway (a.k.a., River cruise), his supposed mistress he met while she was a volunteer at the command center. It seems she reached out to George by confiding in him about her brain tumor, so he felt compelled to console her at her gated condominium complex. Alone. George confirmed he sent her an e-mail saying he "needed her in his life." He left a letter for her, but couldn't remember what it read.
George flat denied having an affair with her, but looked awful uncomfortable with the barrage at him from the defense table.
Wife Cindy was up next. She denied ever instructing the two gumshoe detectives, Dominic Casey and Jim Hoover, to search the wooded area in question for Caylee's body. She also denied telling her son Lee the same. But when Lee took the stand shortly afterward, he testified Cindy told him she hired the pair on a tip from a psychic. Lee said that her belief that Caylee could even be dead fueled his decision to go back to work.
Yet after they took turns throwing each other under the bus, they sat together in the back row of the courtroom, as if nothing was wrong.
We know of Casey's penchant for not telling the truth. Is this learned behavior?
The defense isn't necessarily after George for his supposed affair. Jose Baez was trying to sqeeze in testimony that he told Krystal (sorry, River) that he threw Casey against the wall at the Anthony home and screamed, "I know you did something to Caylee! What did you do with Caylee?"
This would play right into the defense theory of a tragic accident. But this point never got across to the jury, in my opinion due to inept examination by the defense.
The hair-brained notion Baez discussed in his opening statement that Roy Kronk hid Caylee's body and then planted it in the woods ended up fizzling on the witness stand. To me, Kronk seemed more credible than the rest, despite a few hiccups in his testimony. This was the man Baez said was "moraly corrupt" in opening. Even if he did say he was going to hit the jackpot with the reward money, his testimony went nowhere in proving he planted the body. And I understand the lure of the cash. Money talks when you have a $1,000 clutch repair and sharing an apartment to help with the bills. But morally corrupt? Show me the evidence.
The State scored big with constant references by Kronk and his colleagues to the "swamp" in the woods back during those August 911 calls. This was right after Tropical Storm Fay flooded the area, accounting for the abysmal state of physical evidence found at the scene.
The end of the trial is within sight. Baez said he expects to call six more witnesses before the State begins its rebuttal case. There's only one person who can fill in all the gaps, and that is Casey Anthony herself.
But who will believe her?
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