Tony Lazzaro, Witness for the Prosecution of Casey Anthony.
The State is certainly not going to want Tony to testify as to details of the sex. Hardly. The State wants Tony Lazarro to tell the jury what Casey was up to, and moreover, what she was not doing....namely looking for her daughter and the kidnapper!!! If Casey had went up to each and every patron of Fusion and all the local clubs and hangs outs of young people with a photo of Zanny and or photo of her baby and asked all the staff, owners, managers , photographers to go through their thousands of receipts and photos of clients to see if they can help her find Zanny, her name or signature or even have Zanny possibly on any security video.....if she had made the pretense of doing this....maybe her going to the clubs would seem understandable. [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZGs3XrGBNQ[/ame]
Casey, at least never in front of Tony, never asked a person, not the bouncer who checks IDs , not the photographers who have like a pic of every pretty girl that has been in that club, not the shot girls, not the security in the parking lot and certainly never him and his crew who worked there. NOT ONCE!
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Mr. George has the correct word for how easily disprovable Casey's I was in the bars looking for Zanny lies are....."Preposterous!"
Not a bit worried, indeed happy go lucky, effervescent basically, she only was upset a rare few times. Tony tells what things she did cry and get concerned over, it was when he told her he is here for school, and in his words...then he is "out", loosely translated, it is fun while it lasts, but you are hardly the girl I am going to marry.
You aren't Mrs. right, I am a college kid for God's sake, I am just looking for Mrs. right now! He told her repeatedly not to take it for anything more. I think the jury will love her crying uncontrollably over him saying he may not return from his New York holiday, opposed to just the soft tear falling while sitting up in bed Indian style watching Caylee sing to Grandpa. He said the difference in her stress level was remarkable.
Tony is pivotal. What Tony has to tell burries her. Tony is to Casey Anthony what Amber was to Scott Peterson...the messenger who tells the jury the truth of the matter.
News flash for ya Casey...the jury will not be a bunch of twenty year old young boy toys, and unlike Cookie pretended to, they are not going to buy your bs......no matter what county Judge Perry chose! Buckle up Casey. It is going to be a bumby trial. Tell your lawyers, to get HELMETS!
Not everyone can take two to three months off from work to sit on this jury. Surely parents of small children will not be want to leave them for months. College students are not about to volunteer to delay their graduations, while they sit on a jury for two or three months. I certainly don't want our military members (God bless them, they already do enough) , adults who are the primary caretaker of their elderly parent, anyone with health complications of their own. The folks are going to like, trust and respect Judge Perry and those that can , will serve. Let's do be honest about who it will and wont be. I think Casey is going to be in for a rude awakening.
If she was angry that the media described her blue mini dress as scantily clad.....just wait till she gets one look at the church bingo crew!!! Kidding. I am kidding.
You gather some retired veterans who have served all around the world;
some grandmothers who have seen and heard it all from not one, but two generations of their family's teenagers;
some stay at home hardworking mothers who would have thought they died and went to heaven to have had a place to live and free childcare, free car to drive, not have to pay for insurance or food or clothes or even socializing for years, wow;
or some laid off parents, sad to have lost their jobs to the economy, who are willing to work two jobs to provide for their families, who have worked every day of their lives since they were 16;
you take them away from their homes and family.....you damn straight better come at them with something better than the nonsensical Zanny the Nanny story, and you better have a explanation at the ready for why and how she spent those Splendor in the Grass 31 days with one Anthony Lazzaro!
Studys have been done on how quickly a juror picks sides. Some believe that a jury member decides on day one, indeed hour one, which side he is on. He or she subconsciously spends the entire remainder of the trial suring that up. Gut instincts. I liken it to love at first sight, the romantic dreamy knowing your Grandmother tells you will come over you when he is THE ONE.... that we need to look no further...THIS is the house I want, or THIS is the college, THIS is the car, right here, THIS is where I want to marry, this is THE dress.....the knowing, it is a feeling, a very powerful feeling.....you just know. It's visceral. If there is any truth to that initial impression theory you can bet the State is well aware of it, and knows just what to do about it. Start with your strongest point, that makes sense, right?
If it please the court, the State calls Anthony Lazzaro......
Have good faith friends.
These are prosecutors who have over twenty years of experience!!!
Do you remember the hush that came over that courtroom[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9UECWMtKeA[/ame]
when Mr. Ashton spoke of the duct tape, first one piece, then two.....?
Oh yes, he knows how to have you at hello.
In this case, hello is Tony Lazarro and the 31 days. The defense seems to need their jury consultant,desperately; because, they seem to have a very limited understanding of what folks will buy. I say this because even Judge Perry, careful in his words, said.....I have been doing this for over thirty years, and you cannot convince me that your experts are of no opinion, and that you honestly have no idea whatsoever, what their opinions are.
I just don't believe that, he basically told us. He shrugs his shoulders, like when he explains the obvious, "I am not going to write an open check. I'm just not".
We are reminded recently in Cindy's own words, even Casey's own family just did not believe her.
Casey may not realize that this jumping off point is going to happen very quickly. She is used to guys at least falling all over her, and her friends kind of suffering silently throuhg her silly stories. She has been able to have mom , pop and Jose Baez out there publicly perpetuating her
lies ( allegedly) for the past two years...so she may have no idea just how easily these folks on the jury are going to judge her veracity. It didn't take Yuri Melich or Judge Strickland long. They had a knowing alright.
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She thought if she kept talking , she could STILL convince Tony that she was who she said she was, even on the morning the police and her brother had all been to his home and the cat was out of the bag.
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No one is going to be smitten with Casey. I don't even fear they will empathize with her. On the contrary.......they will despise her, starting with her lies and the question that will remain unanswered, why? In their own lives they will have dealt with far worse than unemployment and a mom that gets on their nerves.
Someone IS going to steal their hearts early on, as she has ours.
Like the life sized poster photo of a badly beaten and severly bruised Nicole Brown that defied OJ's claims, "I never hit my wife"
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.......the jurors are going to see huge photos of Caylee, frequent photos of Caylee, and they will be facinated with her, how she reminds them
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...she is like their daughter, their grandchild, their niece, their best friend's little girl.....
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Tony is going to be up front and center in the State's case, is my guess. Assuming the baby was dead by the time Casey and Tony stroll into the Blockbuster....that testimony will be riveting, AND WE HAVE VIDEO!!!! We have the Blockbuster employees to bolster Tony's claims she was not frantic. A witness, corroberation and film...what more do we want? It is a good place to start. [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEbEbmG9DRs[/ame]
The surveillance video shows her entering the store arm in arm with her boyfriend and they picked out two movies. One named, “Untraceable” which is about a kidnapper and a killer, and the other movie was “Jumper” which is about a mother who abandons her 5 year old child. “They came in, went out,” Johnny French told Eyewitness News. “Brought the movies back on time just like everybody else.” French said there was nothing about the couple that stood out as unusual. “They seemed normal and she seemed fine. If there was something wrong it would have stood out. I just don’t remember them doing anything unusual,” said French.
Yes, whether it be Mr. George, Mr. Ashton or my favorite, Mrs. Drane Burdick, the state will have them at hello, and in my humble opinion...hello in this case is Tony Lazzaro's account of 31 days of not one mention of help me , wont you please help me find my baby..... Caylee Marie Anthony.
Just take comfort in God, your parents, take a deep breath Tony. I am sure you are nervous and it will be hard. Nothing you have ever been called on to do will ever matter more than taking the stand and telling the truth for that baby. I hope it doesn't sound condescending.....if it can be of any comfort to you at all son, if you are reading here today, thousands of Americans are with you! Indeed good, good people all over the world, you would be amazed how many.....stand with you, Jesse and Amy!!!