Another Bizarre Factoid (Update)

About George Anthony:

Reports show the defense team filed a motion to add convicted felon Vasco Dagama Thompson to their witness list. Thompson was convicted on kidnapping charges in March 1988.

WFTV-Channel 9 reported that George Anthony had contacted Thompson a day before Cindy Anthony called the Orange County Sheriff’s Office to report Caylee’s disappearance.

I suppose, being an ex-homicide detective, that he may have been undertaking his own investigation.  Still.

Update:  George Anthony’s attorney certainly overreacts:

Casey Anthony: Prosecution Rests; TOD Denied (Update)

“TOD” = Trial Order of Dismissal

When the prosecution rests, the defense can argue, basically, that no reasonable jury could find guilt beyond a reasonable doubt on one or more of the charges based upon the proof offered, and that such charge or charges should be dismissed.  The defense asks, in other words, for a trial order of dismissal.

As a practical matter, such motions are always made, and they are always denied.

In the one in one million times that such a motion might be granted, in most places the prosecutor can appeal.  More than half the time the prosecutor will win such an appeal.  That doesn’t sound like favoritism until you consider that defendants’ appeals are effectively never granted.