DP:
Joining me is Casey Anthony's attorney, Jose Baez. I say attorney. He is not now. He was at the time of the trial. He says throughout the trial he never hid the fact that Casey Anthony lied to authorities and even her own mother about where Caylee was for 31 days. Jose admits Casey has a history of lying, so why would he believe the molestation claim when she lies about so many things in her life. Lets go over some of the lies that Jose does not dispute. Okay.
Caylee being okay when in fact she was missing. She was lying about that.
Having a nanny. She was lying about that.
Being pregnant. She lied about that.
Working at Universal Studios. She lied about that.
Zanny the nanny kidnapping Caylee. She lied about that.
Jesse Grund being Caylee's father. She lied about that.
Eric Baker being Caylee's father. She lied about that.
This is kind of like when her lips were moving she was lying, and you know that.
JB:
Absolutely
DP:
But we'll believe this one because it gives us ammo to go after George. It just seemed like... I understand that you not only have the right, you have the duty to zealously represent your client. I mean, I get that if nobody else does.
JB:
If there was some proof, if there was some issue to disprove something like that, our I knew it was false, I had the duty to step forward and not, and not present this type of evidence. I could not find something to disprove it, and unfortunately, unless she had told me "look, I lied. This is not the situation", I couldn't, I had to defend her, and it's to the contrary, like I said, we started to find things that supported it, and I understand people's hesitation. I had a lot of hesitation before doing this, a lot, but there were people lying in this case everywhere, do what was true and what wasn't true, it was for the jury to decide. So long as I had a good faith basis and ghats what I held to and threats what we came forward with.
DP:
She even had a lit of imaginary friends. Here's a look at her imaginary friends.
(snipped, he showed the chart from trial with all the 12 friends with fca in the middle)
DP:
I mean it just goes on and on.
JB:
It's fascinating, isn't it?
DP:
But out of this, we're gonna pluck out that her father was, I mean you did have doubts.
JB:
Heres the thing..
DP:
You had a right to believe it but you did have doubts.
JB:
Here's what you're not telling everyone is that these lies were for years before Caylee died, so this was the world she lived in, where she had an imaginary boyfriend, imaginary friends, an imaginary nanny. Someone by the name if Juliette Lewis. Cindy Anthony testified that one day her and Casey went to Universal Studios and sat in the parking lot waiting for Juliette to come off work for an hour and a half. That's the length of a movie waiting for someone that you know doesn't exist. This is a, this is a girl who got up every day for two years, put on clothes, got her daughter dressed and went to a job that didn't exist, so theres something more going on here than just making up lutes to get off a murder charge.
DP:
So you did have doubts. You mean
JB:
I had doubts everywhere in this case, everywhere in this case.
DP:
Did you ever feel bad about standing up in court and accusing this man of molesting his daughter?
JB:
No, I did not, and I say that because, you know, everyone, I, everyone has the right to a defense and if this is something she's saying, and there's no, there's a good faith basis for outing it forward, it's a requirement that the prosecution brought into this court. I presented this at trial because the prosecution decided to make post death behavior a relevant fact. The fact that she went to a bar is not relevant. The fact that she behaved a certain way is not relevant unless it's consciousness of guilt. That was all made relevant by the prosecution and the sexual abuse was brought in to explain that behavior, which means if you're the type of person that goes through this type of horror on a daily basis, well then, and you can act like nothing's wrong, it's very understandable to act like nothings wrong when a tragedy happens in your life and complimenting.
DP:
Well we're gonna talk about that. So what really hastened to Caylee? Does Jose know the truth, how this child came to her end? We'll talk about that when we come back.
