2011.07.13 Today's Current News **NO DISCUSSION HERE PLEASE**

How can they have a lawsuit? Casey didn’t hire them. She had no contact with them. She didn’t ask them to come in. Her parents did.”
Charles Greene, Anthony’s civil attorney, told News 13’s Adam Longo: “This isn’t the first time that a group has come forward with its hand out.” Greene said he will file a motion to have the case dismissed quickly, Longo added

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WESH-Channel 2’s Bob Kealing will offer an exclusive interview with defense attorney Lisabeth Fryer at 5:45 today.

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J3--"i really wish he hadn't brought that (molestation) up."

“it’s a disturbing image to have in your mouth".

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Leonard Padilla said he was deceived by Anthony and Baez back in 2008 when he led his team of bounty hunters and security personnel from California to Florida to help find Anthony's daughter, Caylee, alive.


Padilla said Baez's opening statements in Anthony's murder trial, where he declared Caylee was never missing and had drowned in the family pool, proves both Anthony and Baez lied to Padilla in order to get his needed financial and logistical assistance to get Anthony out on bond.

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A consultant for [URL="http://www.sun-sentinel.com/topic/crime-law-justice/crimes/criminals/casey-anthony-PECLB004341.topic"]Casey Anthony[/URL]'s attorneys analyzed more than 40,000 highly-charged opinions — negative and positive — on social media sites and blogs, and used them to help the defense craft their trial strategy.

Every day of the trial, Singer and her revolving team of at least five people scanned thousands of tweets, Facebook posts and messages from bloggers.

They read through tweets on WFTV.com, Orlando Sentinel's @OSCaseyAnthony Twitter feed and other local media sites, gauging opinions about defense and state attorneys, witness testimonies, evidence and especially the focal point of the trial — Casey Anthony.

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"This is the first time I have heard of this kind of consulting for a trial and it's incredible," said Florida A&M University professor Shiv Persaud. "It definitely might become a part of my curriculum in trial practice. We could benefit from a new type of tool we didn't have before."

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You’ve heard the saying, “if it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, it’s a duck.” Well, this was a duck. Circumstantial evidence is still evidence. And reasonable doubt refers to common sense consideration. Yet none of that came into play here.
Our legal system may work most of the time. But this was an instance where the wheels fell off . . . and in my opinion, was most certainly a failure.

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