Jeff Ashton spoke about the murder trial and his book at the Univ of TN on Tuesday,Sept 24, 2013.
WS member, coco puff, attended and posted some notes from the event, in the SIDEBAR thread.
http://activities.utk.edu/events/jeff-ashton/
Jeff Ashton
Sept 24, 2013
The University of Tennessee Knoxville
Division of Student Life
http://www.tba.org/news/casey-anthony-prosecutor-jeff-ashton-to-speak-at-ut
Tennessee Bar Association
Casey Anthony Prosecutor Jeff Ashton to speak at UT
By Stacey Shrader … on Wed, 09/18/2013 – 4:47pm
In June 2011, Casey Anthony was accused of murdering her two-year-old daughter, Caylee Anthony, whose remains were found close to the Anthony home. The case was highly sensationalized and covered in the news media for months. Jeff Ashton, the prosecutor in this trial, sought the death penalty. Anthony was found not guilty. Ashton will be speaking about his experiences in this case as well as his book “Imperfect Justice: Prosecuting Casey Anthony” on Tuesday [Sept 24, 2013] at 7 p.m. in the UTK University Center Auditorium. This event is free and open to the public.
Coco puff
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excerpts from coco puff:
He would give glimpse into his colleague’s reactions
FCA’s blatant lies
He said he still amazed by her brazenness
He mentioned that the photo taken at the police station (presumably to publish to the community to help find her daughter) had
red eye.
They chose not to remove it because it was symbolic of her evilness
LE was very careful with FCA while interviewing her about the abduction because they were all keenly aware the Melinda Duckett case and did not want Kasey to her to kill herself once she knew they were on to her.
Then Jeff said. “like she would ever harm herself! She is was to selfish for that”.
Jeff said “
you must not have a test for what she is because she is NOT normal”.
Also I forgot this but she told the docs that
George had killed caylee while molesting her.
He said the jury never heard it because Jose didn’t think he could sell that story, so he changed it to
“George disposed of the body”
Questions from the audience:
One question was: What are your thoughts on the
“foolproof suffocation”.
His response was dramatic. He said he was still upset that the search string was missed by his forensic technicians.
He is still asking for answers and putting procedures in place to make sure it does not happen again.
My [coco puff] question was:
How did the defense team get away with the 180 degree shift in the “story”. They went from “she’s alive but kidnapped” to
“Let me and FCA to find her by ourselves” and
after Caylee was found to “Someone else dumped her body because TES didn’t find it” to
“investigating TES volunteers” to
“declaring in court that Kronk was as much a suspect as FCA [felon Casey Anthony]” to
“Linda Kenney Baden proclaiming on Good Morning America that someone ELSE killed that child” to
2 months before trail saying that it was an accident”.
I ended the question with something “The whole defense really pissed me off”. I got an applause from audience and a big laugh and a “me too” from Jeff Aston.
coco puff smiled all night.
His answer was… Because they can. That’s why they went for the uninformed Juror. The Jury was completely unaware of the progression of the “story”.
