Remember this little gem? Wow, Mrs. Finnell must be livid, she was misled, imo.
http://www.wftv.com/video/25567059/index.html
How much investigative work is left to do regarding the mitigation? Judge Perry says here he gave Mrs. Barrett 384 hours and he wanted to know what more hours would be needed for. What exactly is Mrs. Barretts role now? I believe the first thing Ms. Finell did was sit down and go over all of the same things Mrs. Barrett already did go over with mom and pop and ask them loads of probing questions, then asked them to contact their relatives to implore upon then that it is imperative to saving Casey's life that they talk to her and be very forthcoming. If it had not already been clear to them, it brings into focus, the inevitable. So now the list is public knowledge. Some of this nonesense could be answered via a skype phone call, or normal phone call, couldn't it? In the words of Mark Klass, "The truth does not change". So, since Mrs. Barrett already went over all of this, why is Mrs. Finnell reinventing the wheel? I mean no offense to her, I am honestly confused about the sequence of what they are requesting more money to investigate. I know they already have asked about....
Who Caylee's father was
The years of fighting between George and his father
The thousands and thousands of dollars George's sister's husband had loaned them that he never saw a penny of again
The gambling
The infidelities
The *advertiser censored* on the computer at what age George began to be into *advertiser censored* or any sexually deviant things that can be alluded to
Arrest records
Childhood problems of mom and pop
Any history or alcohol or drug abuse (even temporarily, after an injury)
detailed list of George's various jobs and opining of why he cannot keep one to illustrate the lying, unreliable, untrustworthy ethics that were what Casey grew up with
Medical and any counseling history, how many times over the years either mom, pop, Lee and or Casey got help for any mental issues
Lee's childhood persona and what made him that way
Very detailed, intrusive look into everything Lee Anthony
Why the family on both sides is so distant, Cindys brothers, for example why they haven't spoken to her for years at time
Casey's promiscuity, who modeled that behavior for her
Why George really left the Sheriff's department
Why he never applied to work at the Sheriff's department in Florida
How they lost their other home
Is it true George put his father through a glass wall at the dealership
Have they ever wondered if George is indeed the bio dad of Casey
What other incidents of rage went on in that family
Are they Easter and Christmas only churchgoers
I assume she began with ...it all started when George or Cindy was a baby and went from there.
[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_icWos23wM[/ame]
This to the family who brought a very obviously seven month pregnant Casey to a family wedding and denied she was pregnant, tried to explain she was having female bloating to the extent of a beach ball....is going to be very hard for mom and pop Anthony to be honest with their interviewer, whether it was Mrs. Barrett or Mrs. Finnell. Remember the neighbors detail the shouting and swearing and berating they heard coming out of that house, whereas Cindy described in her depo and LE interviews she never ever raised her voice to her children, never had to. So, yes it is going to make their skin crawl to imagine these folks who likely have no affinity for them will be in a position to empty the bucket, or that they will have no desire to want to help Casey, and will not cooperate. Either choice is not going to be happy times around the Anthony home. Remember Diane Downs accusing her father or raping her, he had that attached to his name for a long while until she eventually recanted it. Casey is not above doing the same. Mom and Pop know that. She is not above making up fanciful lies about Lee and Mom while she is at it. This is going to make George's alleged affair with the volunteer, look lie a tea party. It is going to get brutal.
One of the very first things Casey said to her folks in the first jailhouse visit was , "Don't worry. I haven't said anything!".
Casey had a psychological evaluation ordered by Judge Strickland at the bond hearing. So you do another now, compare the two and prepare a report. How many more hours are needed for that and what is the hold up? There must be many, many pshychiatrists on the JAC approved vendor list that have prepared reports for cases in that county. Is the hold up that the defense is trying to find some one not on their list that will volunteer to do it pro bono?
Is the penalty phase hours for investigator being discussed at this hearing or are they just asking for more money to continue to look into witnesses the state has listed? Are they done now with the TES searchers, the defense, as far as hours to investigate them?
The judge was telling Mrs. Finnell how very insistent the defense was about having Mrs. Barrett, and he tells her she cannot have two, she may either keep her, or have someone else, but not two. So, is there someone new now?I cannot make heads or tails of what they are spending more hours on. I do hope that if Mrs. Finnell does not have legitimate corroboration of claims of any molestation she will make no imlication of any such thing regarding Lee and George. There has got to be some line, some threshold before you do that. Does anyone have any of her prior work I can take a look at please? If anyone has any of Mrs. Barretts prior work on penalty phases I would love to review that too. Especially now that it I realize the defense literally may just put on no case in cheif , then toss the ball to her for the penalty phase. Again, she must be livid!
