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    Judge tells 'Today' show there was enough evidence to convict Casey Anthony on murder charge

    The judge who presided over the trial of Casey Anthony said Monday he believed there was enough evidence to convict the Florida mother who was acquitted of murdering her 2-year-old daughter.

    Judge Belvin Perry told NBC's "Today" show that he thought there was sufficient evidence for a conviction on a first-degree murder charge, even though much of the evidence was circumstantial.

    Anthony was acquitted almost two years ago of killing her daughter, Caylee, following a trial that attracted worldwide attention. She was convicted of making false statements to police and got credit for time served.

    When he read the jury's verdict, Belvin said he felt "surprise, shock, disbelief" and read it twice.

    "I just wanted to be sure I was reading what I was reading," Perry said.

    Anthony's attorney, Jose Baez, refused to say anything to The Associated Press about the interview when reached by phone. He said he would comment after a request had gone through his Los Angeles-based spokesman.

    A spokeswoman for the Judicial Qualifications Commission, which oversees Florida judges, didn't immediately return a phone call.

    The judge said he saw two sides to Anthony. The one she showed to jurors was a wrongfully accused mother grieving for her child. The other was a woman wasn't afraid to shout and swear at her attorneys, as she did when they talked to her about a possible plea deal for aggravated murder.

    "There were always two sides to Casey," Perry said. "The public persona that she wanted the jury to see and there was a side that she showed when the jury wasn't there."

    Perry also said he thought prosecutors were better attorneys than Baez, who the judge described as "personable." All the defense had to do was create reasonable doubt, which they did, he said.

    "He came across as someone you would like," Perry said of Baez. "Like someone trying to sell a used car. Who are you going to buy from? The most likable salesman."

    The judge also said he thought justice had been served with a jury verdict.

    "Justice will finally be served one day by the Judge of Judges," Perry said. "She is going to have to live with this and deal with this for the rest of her life."

    http://www.newser.com/article/da640u...er-charge.html
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    It seems someone wanted to be in the news again.... It´s not the job of a judge to criticize a jury decision after a trial.
    No murder can be so cruel that there are not still useful imbeciles who do gloss over the murderer and apologize.

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    Attorneys want to depose Casey Anthony, her parents, in July

    Attorneys for Texas EquuSearch want Casey Anthony, Cindy Anthony and George Anthony to answer questions under oath.

    Attorneys for Texas EquuSearch, the organization that spearheaded several massive searches for Caylee Marie Anthony in 2008, filed notice that they want to depose her mother Casey Anthony next month.

    The non-profit's lawyer, Peter D. Russin, filed notice in Tampa bankruptcy court that he also wants to question her parents George and Cindy Anthony under oath.

    Anthony told Orange County detectives in the summer of 2008 that her 2-year-old daughter was kidnapped by a baby sitter and was missing.

    TES organized several multiday searches in the fall of that year that attracted volunteers from across Florida, who came to Central Florida to help look for the missing toddler.

    But during Anthony's 2011 murder trial, defense attorney Jose Baez said Caylee drowned in her family's swimming pool and there was no kidnapping.

    TES sued Anthony, claiming it wants to be reimbursed for $110,000 spent on the searches.

    "Our client, we truly believe, was damaged purposely by fraud," Russin said.

    Anthony, who has been in hiding since being acquitted of murder in Caylee's death, filed for bankruptcy in Tampa early this year. She claimed she owes roughly $800,000, and the bulk of that debt is to Baez.

    She listed TES as one of her creditors, with an unknown amount of claim.

    In May, TES filed a complaint in bankruptcy court objecting to Anthony's attempt to discharge her debts through bankruptcy. Russin filed three deposition notices this week.

    He wants to depose Anthony on July 22 in St. Petersburg — the region where she is supposedly living now. Russin's filing requests Anthony produce a list of documents ranging from her communications made to law-enforcement and comments made to the media.

    Russin wants to depose both George and Cindy Anthony on July 23 in Orlando, and has asked for similar documents.

    "We're just trying to get the truth," Russin said.

    http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/...rney-jose-baez

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    Casey Anthony’s Parents Sell Off Caylee’s Toys In Yard Sale

    Casey Anthony‘s parents, Cindy and George, recently held a yard sale at her grandparent’s home in Mount Dora, Fla., unloading tons of Caylee‘s toys and clothes — and only RadarOnline.com has exclusive details, photos and video.

    According to Florida resident Christina Werner, she stumbled upon the yard sale on June 28 where she purchased a bunch of Caylee’s items and then went back the next day to pick up more items, videotaping the entire encounter with Cindy and George.

    “I drove by and noticed the house looked familiar to me. I had seen this house before. I got close and noticed that the people outside really looked like George and Cindy Anthony. It was the home of Casey Anthony’s grandparents,” Christina told Radar in an exclusive interview.

    “When I pulled up, they were taking tarps off the yard sale items that were covered due to the rain. I immediately noticed the two white canopies over the yard sale tables because they looked like the tents used in the search for Caylee.”

    Christina tells Radar she immediately started looking for items related to Caylee and Casey because she seemed to be the only one at the sale that realized who they were.

    “They were very friendly and warmed up to me, but I think it’s because they felt I did not know who they were. I spent almost two hours with them that day,” she says.

    “I ended up finding items of Caylee’s that seemed to be mixed up with other things. I also found pants and purses of Casey’s.

    And even though Christina says George and Cindy were nice, she tells Radar they weren’t necessarily nice to each other, arguing at the yard sale.

    “It was very uncomfortable dealing with them,” she says.

    “They would get into little arguments throughout the time I was there. Cindy definitely controls everything in that family, for sure!”

    Christina bought a lot of Casey’s purses and says Cindy became upset with George when he gave her a discount on the items.

    “When it came time to buy the items, he did not tell Cindy he had discounted the purses and she was so upset about that,” she said.

    “She began yelling at him and said he should have told her. I think the difference may have been a whole ten dollars, but she was upset.”

    In the photos obtained exclusively by Radar, Christina bought plenty of children’s items that she claims once belonged to Caylee — among them, toy heart lockets, a children’s travel set with garment bag, a Winnie-the-Pooh backpack, a Tigger bag and a couple of teddy bears.

    Christina went back to the home the next day, June 29, to pick up a few more items and videotaped her interaction with the Anthony’s, which was exclusively obtained by Radar.

    “Cindy invited me in the home again, we talked and I negotiated on a couple of paintings,” Christina says.

    “Again, Cindy got upset with George when he tried to help locate the paintings I wanted and she told him not to. She said they were having another sale and that I could get the paintings then.”

    After the surreal experience with Tot-Mom’s parents, Christina says she just can’t believe they were selling off their beloved granddaughter’s belongings.

    “I simply will never understand how these grandparents can put a price tag on Caylee’s items. I can understand Casey’s things, but I will never understand how they could part with these things at a yard sale!” Christina says.

    You would think if they were trying to just move on and get over things they would donate the items, not throw them on a table with a neon two dollar yard sale sticker.

    As Radar exclusively reported last month, Casey, Cindy and George are all slated to be deposed on July 22 by Texas Equusearch Mounted Search and Recovery regarding her bankruptcy filing.

    Casey filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy with the Middle District of Florida Bankruptcy Court in January citing only $1,084 in personal property and $792,119.23 in liabilities.

    http://radaronline.com/exclusives/20...d-caylee-toys/

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    Quote Originally Posted by JimKay View Post
    According to Florida resident Christina Werner, she stumbled upon the yard sale on June 28 where she purchased a bunch of Caylee’s items and then went back the next day to pick up more items, videotaping the entire encounter with Cindy and George.
    Quote Originally Posted by JimKay View Post
    And even though Christina says George and Cindy were nice, she tells Radar they weren’t necessarily nice to each other, arguing at the yard sale.

    “It was very uncomfortable dealing with them,” she says.
    Quote Originally Posted by JimKay View Post
    Christina went back to the home the next day, June 29, to pick up a few more items and videotaped her interaction with the Anthony’s, which was exclusively obtained by Radar.
    Quote Originally Posted by JimKay View Post
    In the photos obtained exclusively by Radar, Christina bought plenty of children’s items that she claims once belonged to Caylee — among them, toy heart lockets, a children’s travel set with garment bag, a Winnie-the-Pooh backpack, a Tigger bag and a couple of teddy bears.
    Quote Originally Posted by JimKay View Post
    Christina tells Radar she immediately started looking for items related to Caylee and Casey because she seemed to be the only one at the sale that realized who they were.
    Quote Originally Posted by JimKay View Post
    After the surreal experience with Tot-Mom’s parents, Christina says she just can’t believe they were selling off their beloved granddaughter’s belongings.

    “I simply will never understand how these grandparents can put a price tag on Caylee’s items. I can understand Casey’s things, but I will never understand how they could part with these things at a yard sale!” Christina says.

    You would think if they were trying to just move on and get over things they would donate the items, not throw them on a table with a neon two dollar yard sale sticker.
    Am I the only one who thinks Mrs Werner is happy about the attention that she got and about the "good deals" she made? I bet you find Caylees belongings in a few weeks on ebay or a similar place. I doubt she´ll donate the items. Oh and it´s a real miracle that the "old" Anthonys have a different relationship after all they had gone through. It´s just sick....
    No murder can be so cruel that there are not still useful imbeciles who do gloss over the murderer and apologize.

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    Casey Anthony paying $25,000 to avoid writing life story

    ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- Casey Anthony has agreed to pay $25,000 to her bankruptcy estate to avoid having to sell her life story.

    A judge in her bankruptcy case in Tampa approved the agreement between Anthony and her bankruptcy trustee in court papers made public Wednesday.

    The trustee had considered the possibility of selling Anthony's life story to help pay off her debts to creditors. Anthony had opposed the idea, and her lawyers had argued that it would give the purchaser of the rights control over Anthony for the rest of her life.

    Anthony was acquitted two years ago of murder, manslaughter and child abuse charges in the death of her 2-year-old daughter, Caylee, in Orlando. She has kept a low profile since.

    Papers filed in bankruptcy court said the compromise was reached to avoid protracted litigation over whether the trustee could legally force Anthony to sell her memoirs.

    The proposal to sell the rights to Anthony's life story was "novel," and lawyers for both sides were unable to find any precedents in case law, according to the court documents.

    "The parties also acknowledge that each side has made plausible arguments and that each bears some risk of losing the legal questions raised by the trustee's motion," the documents said.

    Anthony filed for bankruptcy in Florida in late January, claiming about $1,000 in assets and $792,000 in liabilities. Court papers list Anthony with no recent income.

    During a meeting with creditors in her bankruptcy case earlier this year, Anthony said she was unemployed and hasn't received any money to tell her story. She said she was living with friends and that they - and strangers who send her gift cards and cash - help her survive.

    http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_CASEY_ANTHONY

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    Casey Anthony Tries to Dismiss Gonzalez, Kronk Claims

    Casey Anthony asked a judge this week to dismiss two claims in her bankruptcy case that her attorneys say are baseless.

    Anthony's attorneys on Thursday filed motions to dismiss the claims brought by Zenaida Gonzalez and meter reader Roy Kronk. Both say they were defamed by Anthony and they should be considered creditors in her federal bankruptcy case in Tampa.

    Anthony told detectives that a baby sitter named Zenaida Gonzalez kidnapped her 2-year-old daughter Caylee. The detectives were investigating the girl's 2008 disappearance. Anthony was acquitted in 2011 of murdering her daughter.

    Kronk found Caylee's remains in woods near Anthony's home. He says he was defamed when Anthony's defense team made false statements, including that Kronk killed Caylee and that he moved the remains.

    Anthony's bankruptcy attorneys dismissed the claims as false.

    "Over the years, many persons have pursued actions in which they sought to profit, one way or another, from Ms. Anthony's ordeal," her attorney, David Schrader, wrote in the motion. "All of the claimants have been rebuffed and turned away empty-handed, though most of them enjoyed their 'fifteen minutes' of fame while their claims were pending, which was the real objective."

    Anthony is scheduled to be deposed next week as part of Gonzalez's claim, although that could be delayed if her attorneys ask a judge to stop the proceeding.

    Schrader didn't return an email and phone call seeking comment on whether he would file a request to stop the deposition.

    http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/a...laims-20472022

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    Casey Anthony, Texas group reach settlement

    ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- Casey Anthony has reached a settlement in her bankruptcy case with a Texas search group that helped look for her missing 2-year-old daughter.

    Texas Equusearch Mounted Search and Recovery will be allowed to have an unsecured claim of $75,000 in Anthony's bankruptcy case under the terms of the settlement filed late last week in federal bankruptcy court in Tampa.

    The search group won't be entitled to any other claims and won't be allowed any further dealings in the case.

    The group had objected to the bankruptcy, claiming it spent more than $100,000 searching for the girl in 2008. Attorneys for the group said Anthony knew her daughter was already dead.

    Anthony was acquitted of murder in the death. She filed for bankruptcy in January.

    http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories...ONY_BANKRUPTCY

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    Casey Anthony Won't Have to Pay Most of Her Debts

    A bankruptcy judge has ruled that Casey Anthony won't have to pay most of her debts.

    Judge K. Rodney May signed an order Tuesday discharging Anthony of most of what she owes except for taxes and debts related to student loans or criminal fines, if she has them.

    Anthony filed for bankruptcy in Florida earlier this year, claiming about $1,000 in assets and $792,000 in liabilities. Court papers list Anthony as unemployed, with no recent income.

    Anthony was acquitted of murder in 2011 in the death of her 2-year-old daughter, Caylee.

    http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/c...debts-21264262

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    What life is like for Casey Anthony three years after her daughter’s murder trial

    It was three years ago that people across the nation and around the world held their breath.

    After a two-month trial, the jury in the Casey Anthony murder trial announced they had arrived at a verdict.

    Anthony was found not guilty of first-degree murder and the other most serious charges against her in the 2008 death of her 2-year-old daughter.

    The nation was first introduced to Casey Anthony in July 2008. The country fell in love with her precious daughter, Caylee, who had gone missing in Orlando, Florida.

    A massive missing persons search for the little girl ensued.

    Police were suspicious of what Anthony, then 22, was telling them. She lied about her nanny taking the child. She lied about working at Universal Studios.

    Anthony suddenly became the most hated woman in America.

    On July 16, 2008, Anthony was arrested on suspicion of child neglect. Her attorney was an unknown Florida lawyer named Jose Baez. A Florida grand jury indicted Anthony on capital murder charges October 14, 2008. A utility worker found Caylee’s skeletal remains in a wooded area near the Anthony home in December 2008, and several months later, prosecutors announced they would seek the death penalty.

    Support from lawyers

    Watching in the wings was another Florida lawyer, Cheney Mason. A former president of the Florida Association of Criminal Lawyers, Mason, who just that year had been selected by Florida Monthly magazine as one of Florida’s top lawyers, was disgusted with the local media coverage about the relatively inexperienced Baez.

    “I was offended by it. 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.

    “They brought her to the room, and I have to tell you I was really surprised to see how small she is … how tiny she is. I stood looking at a child herself. I said this can’t be,” he said.

    Mason has written the new book, “Justice in America.” In it, he insists that the jury got it right, and the rest of the country had it wrong.

    “Could she look you in the eye?” CNN’s Jean Casarez asked.

    “Oh yes,” Mason responded, describing her demeanor as quiet, afraid and unsure.

    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.

    Handwritten letters alleging sexual abuse


    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.

    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.

    “We had them one at a time come into my personal office and made the announcement: ‘Monday’s going to be a bad day for you George. I felt man to man I would tell you in advance.””

    Mason said George Anthony’s reaction was “basically none.” “He looked at me … 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.

    “He never admitted doing anything,” Mason said. “All we had were the letters and (separately) the statements Casey had made to the psychiatrist.”

    Next it was Cindy Anthony’s turn. “We called Mom in, Cindy, and told her and she immediately welled up with emotion, cried, was very upset,” Mason said.

    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.

    “I didn’t know that he was going to say that. 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.

    “Yes, I was concerned about that because I knew we didn’t have the ability to prove that unless George got on the stand and confessed,” he said.

    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.

    Trial goes on … and on


    The trial went on for weeks. Witness after witness took the stand for the prosecution in the largely circumstantial case. They finally rested their case on June 15, 2011. Then it was the defense’s turn.

    Anthony’s defense attorneys maintained that Caylee was not murdered at all. They said the child drowned in the Anthony’s above-ground pool, and that Casey Anthony and her father panicked upon finding her there and covered up the death. George Anthony denied that in his testimony.

    In the midst of the defense case, Mason described how out-of-court conversations with the prosecution suddenly turned to possible plea discussions. Anthony was approached with the possibility.

    “Casey got very angry about that. She got very angry to hear talk about it. She didn’t want to hear it.” Mason said. “Casey would fight it ’til her last breath. She didn’t kill her daughter.”

    Mason said he believes it took a lot of courage and strength for Anthony to end any talk of a plea agreement. She knew what was at stake in this death penalty trial.

    So, plea discussions were stopped in their tracks, Mason said, and the trial went on.

    Then, on July 5, 2011, after deliberating for 10 hours, jurors announced they had reached a verdict.

    “She was holding her breath like a deep sea diver, waiting as we all were,” Mason said.

    Anthony was acquitted by the 12-person jury on the most serious charges, including first-degree murder, aggravated child abuse and aggravated manslaughter of a child. But the jury convicted her on four misdemeanors of providing false information to law enforcement officers.

    Casey Anthony today

    Anthony now lives in an undisclosed location in Florida and doesn’t go out of the home she is living in because of the public hate and continued threats to her life, Mason said.

    “She has to live constantly on guard. She can’t go out in public,” Mason said.

    By her own choice, she works inside the home, Mason said, and is living as “a housekeeper, clerk, secretary and stuff like that.”

    “I think Casey has a lot of world left to have to deal with. She hasn’t been freed from her incarceration yet ’cause she can’t go out. She can’t go to a beauty parlor, she can’t go shopping to a department store, she can’t go to a restaurant, she can’t even go to McDonald’s. She can’t do anything,” he said.

    Mason and his wife, Shirley, have continued a relationship with Anthony. Now three years after being acquitted, Mason said Anthony still distrusts the outside world.

    “Casey is aloof,” Mason said. “She is kind of, I think, afraid of people … she’s not real close to. We’ve had a couple of occasions to have social gatherings that can include her — close friends, the (legal) team. She still likes to back away from the middle.”

    Anthony “does not have any blood family anymore,” Mason said. The family she has is the residual of the defense team, Dorothy Clay Sims, Lisabeth Fryer and Mason’s wife.

    Mason said although there may have been a few conversations between Anthony and her mother in recent years, there is no relationship.

    And as for a relationship with her father? “None,” Mason said emphatically.

    Shirley Mason has also gotten to know Anthony over the past three years.

    “I’m a cross between a friend, a mother, but not a mother — only someone who is older who has had experience in the world she has not had,” she said.

    Mason gives Anthony advice, but also listens to her when they talk.

    “My hope for her is it gets better for her and the world or the people who have been so hateful can let that go and they can move on,” she said.

    Anthony “tries to make her life work,” Shirley Mason said. She takes care of herself and stays physically fit by working out in the house.

    “I do think she wants to speak out,” Mason said. Anthony declined CNN’s request for an interview.

    “I have never asked her that, but I know she has very strong feelings for what has happened to her. I also know she’s very saddened by her loss and she will never forget her daughter Caylee, ever.”

    http://fox4kc.com/2014/07/03/what-li...-murder-trial/
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