Did George Anthony Plant Evidence To Implicate His Daughter?

This is the first information that I have found – but it’s reliable, as a near contemporaneous record – that indicates that George had actually “borrowed” Casey’s car the very week that people – including Casey – began noticing a foul odor coming from the car:

In a phone call to Amy Huizenga, Casey Anthony told her friend, “It smells like something died in my car.”

Casey Anthony claimed her father, George, had possibly run over a squirrel when he borrowed her car that week. However, the date would have been during a period when the Anthonys said they could not find Casey Anthony.  [Except that George now admits that he saw Casey at his home on June 24, three days before the car was abandoned. – ed.]

Also, on June 27, documents show that Casey Anthony sent a cell phone text message to her friend (Amy Huizenga) that reads, “There was definitely part of a dead animal plastered to the frame of my car.”

According to Huizenga, June 27 is the date when Casey Anthony admitted leaving her car at an Amscot, claiming it had run out of gas.

The car was later towed to an impound lot, where George and Cindy picked it up two weeks later.

Dust Up In The Blogroll

Two giants of the so-called “blawgosphere” are having a tiff:  Norm Pattis and Scott Greenfield.

I’m not sure what it’s really about.  Something to do with the Joseph Rakofsky matter, I think.  And then some other stuff, prally deeper than that.

The important thing is that they are both on my blogroll and I must keep the peace.  Just kidding.  I will wade into those waters not at all.  But I will note that Pattis used “Et tu” in the title of his post, and that is mine.  I stole it from Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, where he – you know, Julius Caesar – goes “Et tu, Brute?” as Brute, his erstwhile friend, plunges a knife in his back.

Now seriously, in the Pattis-Greenfield context that’s a little overdone and melodramatic.  In the Bennett-Atticus exchanges it’s cool, though.

And that’s all I’m gonna say about it.

Look What Happens..

When we wrongly convict people.

Fourteen years this woman spent in prison for killing her son, and it wasn’t true.  The prosecutors won’t concede the point.  The woman’s life has been ruined, absolutely ruined.  And there is no fixing it.

She’ll get a little press coverage today and then everyone will forget about her.  Nobody likes the story about how we screwed up and basically killed someone, or at least took her life away from her for no good reason, and indeed greatly compounding the harm of the child’s death.

We really need to be more careful and pay more attention and not just behave like a lynch mob, like the Casey Anthony fiasco has been so far.  And that goes especially for prosecuting attorneys and judges.

Casey Anthony, Chloroform, Computer Searches And Judicial Bias (Update)(x2)

Here‘s a good article detailing the evidence, presumably to be offered by the prosecution, about computer searches from the Anthony’s home computer involving chloroform – not Casey Anthony’s personal laptop, which apparently also exists, but on the family home computer that everyone in the house used and had access to.  Good police work here:

But Cawn and her supervisor, Sgt. Kevin Stenger, could not see anything besides that word, chloroform, and they needed help to find out more.

At a computer conference in Orlando in 2009, Stenger met John Dennis Bradley, a Canadian computer expert.

Bradley worked for three days, for free, to try and extract the information from the Anthonys’ computer.

He finally cracked it at 3 a.m. on the Friday he was set to fly home.

“I found two results,” Bradley told lawyers in his deposition. “One was for ‘chloroform,’ spelled ‘c-h-l-o-r-o-f-o-r-m,’ and that was dated March 17, 2008, at 14:43 p.m., 41 seconds. And there was one visit. And the second entry is for ‘how to make chloroform,’ and the same spelling on the 21st of March, 2008, at 3:16 p.m. and 30 seconds. One visit.”

There is also, I read somewhere, a statement or testimony from a witness that was in jail with Casey Anthony to the effect that Casey Anthony told her she used chloroform to put Caylee to sleep sometimes.

As to the latter – the “jailhouse snitch” saying that the defendant told me this or the defendant told me that – this is the lowest form of “evidence” that exists.  It should not be admitted unless it is corroborated electronically or by some other reliable method.  Lamentably, it is always admitted, and juries often believe it, due primarily to their tendency to believe anything that implicates the accused.

In any case, the actual, true value of the jail house snitch testimony is zero.  In a fair world, it would be less than zero because the jury would lower their estimation of the prosecution’s credibility for even using such garbage at all.