Casey anthony trial notes

CA received several calls that night and was upset when she got off the phone. She was crying, seemed very distraught. She was arguing with her brother. Her mood changed Ultimately, Casey wanted to leave, so they did, going their separate ways. She never saw her again after that night. Baez on cross. With nothing else to throw at her, he asks whether the state paid for her airfare and hotel room.

Yes, she replied. He was implying that her testimony was bought and paid for. Yeah, because she just got soooooo much out of that ticket and hotel room and was pleased as punch to uproot her life and come there, no doubt. Of course, she can't. Then Baez tried to slip in something he wanted the jury to know but would have to have Casey testify to get into evidence.

Well, he tried to, anyway: "She didn't tell you that when she was 10 yrs old The witness is excused. Brown reiterates much of what his ex-girlfriend said just prior to his testimony. He met Casey in at a birthday party for a friend. He didn't see her often, but more so when she was dating Ricardo who was his friend.

Hell, for the past 9 days, I haven't even lived there. Will fill you in. After that night, he didn't see her again until she picked them all up from the airport after their trip to Puerto Rico.

There was nothing odd about her demeanor at that time and she didn't mention Caylee. Cross by Baez. That was it for cross. She seemed social, happy, talkative. She had dated his friend, Brandon Snow. He asked her what she did with Caylee while she worked. She told him she had a nanny she'd known for 6 years.

He identifies a transcript of some AOL IMs between him and Casey, dated July 13 , wherein Casey says that she was moving out and was looking for an apartment; that she wanted to move within a week. In the same IM, she told him she had a nanny and that, "I love her. She invited him to Fusion many times in June , but he never went.

Baez re-emphasizes the state's point that there was no change in Casey's demeanor whatsoever and asks Donov if he found it shocking. Donov says yes, at the time. Does he know how Caylee died? No, he doesn't, he says. Baez asks if he told LE that Casey wasn't a heavy drinker, that she'd leave early and drink light. Dante has known Casey about 11 years. He went to high school with her. He lived at Sawgrass Apartments from early til late Casey had visited him there.

He saw Casey at Miller's Alehouse July 1, when several friends met up there. She seemed completely normal. Asked to define normal, he said "completely free of worry. That was the only time he saw her during that month and has had no contact with her after that date.

He asks if Salati knew Casey to be nice, caring, giving; whether he saw lots of affection between Caylee and Casey; whether Casey was attentive mother. He answered yes to all. He never saw Caylee appear to be abused or neglected. Answered yes when asked if he found it shocking that he never saw a change in Casey's demeanor. Witness: Christopher Stutz Direct by George. Stutz has known Casey since Brought Caylee with her when she came to his parents' home they weren't there and spent the night in May In mid-June, probably the 17th or so, he says, he saw Casey again at his parents' home.

Caylee was not with her. Saw her again in early July at Buffalo Wild Wings; there was nothing different in her demeanor any of the times he saw her. He received a text in mid-July that Caylee was missing. The state is finished with this witness. Baez asked if Stutz told LE Casey didn't like to go out because she didn't like to leave her child with her mother and father. Stutz got to see Casey interact with Caylee a lot.

Agreed with Baez that Caylee loved her mom and she was never neglected or abused. Witness: Matthew Crisp He knew Casey during the relevant time period. The trial begins with the prosecution's opening salvo of Casey being a party girl with no use for a young daughter, as evidenced by the month spent shopping and drinking during Caylee's absence. Those remarks are soon eclipsed by Baez's stunning opening statement which asserts that Caylee drowned in the family swimming pool and that George sought to cover up the accidental death.

The lead defense lawyer also alleges that George had molested Casey, thereby igniting her habit of lying to cover up the pain and that Kronk, the utility worker, had found Caylee's body and planted it in the woods. Taking the stand as the first witness, George denies that he ever molested his daughter or knew anything about Caylee's drowning. Simon Birch, the manager of the towing company that impounded Casey's car in June , testifies that he had encountered multiple vehicles with dead bodies during his three decades in the business and that the smell from Casey's car was consistent with those past experiences.

Arpad Vass of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory explains how the "shockingly high" amount of chloroform — a chemical released by decomposition, as well as one that can be used to knock someone unconscious — detected in the car trunk led to his conclusion that a dead body was indeed present. However, his testimony is contradicted the following day by an FBI scientist, who compares the chloroform level in the trunk to the amount found in household cleaners.

A software designer testifies that someone had searched for "chloroform" a whopping 84 times and also looked up such terms as "head injuries," "ruptured spleen," "chest trauma" and "internal bleeding" on the Anthonys' home computer in March , during the regular work hours of George and Cindy. The designer later reports an error in his detecting software and determines that the user visited a site related to chloroform only once.

In a crucial day for the defense, Cindy claims that she was the one who researched chloroform on her computer.

She also testifies that a stain found in the trunk, allegedly caused by Caylee's decomposing body, was there when the family purchased the car eight years earlier.

Continuing with the narrative that Casey was overly burdened by Caylee, lead prosecutor Jeff Ashton emphasizes to the jury how the young mother was motivated enough to go to extremes to achieve her freedom. While forbidden from revisiting the unsupported molestation claims, Baez nevertheless delivers an effective closing argument by pointing out the lack of evidence that could definitively place Caylee's body in the car trunk or tie Casey to her daughter's death.

Protesters outside the Orange County Courthouse on July 7, After almost six weeks of testimony and pieces of evidence presented in court, the jury of seven women and five men takes less than 11 hours to reach a verdict of not guilty. Casey exits the Orange County Jail shortly after midnight, passing the approximately protesters who showed up to demand justice for Caylee.

The world was riveted to the long-running saga of the American exchange student who was accused of killing her roommate. Though authorities never put the pieces together to find the missing Alabama teen, Joran van der Sloot remains a prime suspect.

The trial was expected to last up to eight weeks, with the jury sequestered throughout that time. While the prosecution stated, as expected, that only Casey Anthony could have killed her daughter Caylee, the defense had another theory. They alleged that this habit was formed in her childhood because her father sexually abused her. However, these witnesses also admitted under cross-examination that when she was seen with her daughter she did not appear to be a bad mother or to mistreat Caylee.

He described the disappearance of some gas cans from his shed, which he later confronted his daughter about. She retrieved them from the trunk of her car and returned them. This occurred about a week after Caylee was last seen, but allegedly before anyone in the family knew she was missing. Before the gas cans were taken, George Anthony had left duct tape on one of them, and according to him, the returned cans had no duct tape.

It had been found abandoned in a parking lot and towed two weeks earlier. The decomposition of a human body is a very unique and recognizable smell to anyone with experience with it, and the manager testified that he has had that experience.

George Anthony also claims familiarity with the stench through his time as a detective. Judge Belvin Perry questioned the probative nature of these messages, and suggested they would be excessively prejudicial, so the prosecution withdrew their attempted introduction of them.

For the full story of this testimony, go here. It was Cindy who finally reported Caylee missing a month after she last saw her, and her testimony focused on that month. The explanations involved a nanny named Zanny who was taking care of Caylee while Anthony attended work meetings, as well as a car accident during an outing in Tampa. Another explanation was that they were staying in a hotel with a wealthy suitor. Hopkins said he knew Anthony from school, but had no children and had not introduced Anthony to a nanny for Caylee, as she had claimed.

Several other aspects and details of her stories about him were also untrue, including their relationship, his job, and where he lived. Testimony included a description of a statement and interview given by Anthony after Caylee was reported missing, in which she claimed Caylee had been kidnapped by the nanny introduced to her by Hopkins. Investigators were unable to find the nanny described by Anthony.

Anthony claimed she did not come to the police after the kidnapping out of fear. She also said the hair from the trunk of the car contained a mark she had only seen in hairs from decomposing bodies—that is, hairs still in the scalp when the body started decomposing.

The DNA present in the hair shaft was also tested, but this was not DNA that can be linked to a single individual either. While hair ripped by the root can still contain nuclear DNA, the shaft of hair such as that found in the car contains only mitochondrial DNA.

Unlike nuclear DNA, mitochondrial DNA does not change between generations, but is passed directly and intact from the mother to the child.

The analyst described a particular band on the hair as consistent with decomposition, but this observation is based only on her experience, and is not a proven correlation. Other interesting forensic evidence brought up included air samples taken from the car, which showed signs of gases consistent with decomposition, as well as chloroform, which is what the prosecution says Anthony used to kill her daughter.

After hearing from multiple witnesses describing an odor of decomposition in the car, the jury heard evidence from experts regarding the same odor. A trash bag was found in the trunk and ruled out by technicians as being the source of the odor recognized by witnesses; a highly trained cadaver dog alerted on the trunk, indicating that a body had been stored within; and the jury heard from Arpad Vass, a forensic anthropologist conducting research at the body farm on decomposition.

Vass performed chemical tests on air samples from the trunk, carpet samples, the spare tire cover, and scrapings from the wheel well of the car.

He testified that these results indicate only decomposing remains could account for the odor in the trunk. He also testified that there were high levels of chloroform present in the samples—an important fact to the prosecution, which claims Anthony used chloroform on her daughter before smothering her.

Duct tape was found over the mouth, holding the jaw bone to the rest of the skull.