Do you think you can write the closing statement for the defense?

[GiantPickle]

I don't think I could do it - I couldn't have written that opening statement either (not that JB spent all that much time preparing that - that thing had off-the-cuff written all over it!)

If he is smart :floorlaugh: it'll be a few sentences that go something like this:

After listening to all the testimony the state has presented, did they tell you HOW Caylee actually died? Were they able to tell you WHERE Caylee died? Do you know WHEN Caylee died? Do you know WHAT actually happened to Caylee? If you can't answer Who What Where and When then I have to ask, why would you even for a second consider anything but innocence?

(on his scribble pad he'll have the words WHO, WHAT, WHERE and WHY written down in his best kindergarden teacher penmanship and he'll write a big fat NO next to each thing or cross them off as he goes)

Remember: We don't have to prove anything - the state holds the burden. They haven't given you any information - just a bunch of circumstantial nonsense about what Casey did after the event....She is not on trial for being a bad griever.....

 

[GiantPickle]

And to that I would add, "If the duct tape don't fit, you must acquit."

I prefer Kronk (or George) is the link to the stink.

 

[wallflower67]

I totally want to go to law school now. LDB is my hero.

Me too, but I think that in my mid 40s I should probably stick with the career I've had for the past 20 years.

 

[truthsleuth]

I hope WS's don't give him any ideas either, because I can't wait to hear what he comes up with on his own. If its good, then I guess he got it from here.LOL

Not to worry, gmt. I'm thinking Mr. Baez's closing statement will be a lot of boo-hoo-ing; heavy-duty whining; blah-blah-blahs; everyone's-picking-on-me-and-my-client; the state has been so very mean to the DT, especially Mr. Ashton (Ms. Burdick isn't all that bad and she's not hard on the eyes); waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa's; neck tics; head *advertiser censored*; smirks; and peacock strutting. Definitely a lot of peacock strutting.

Other than that, he's got nothin'.

 

[Beyond Belief]

i think Casey should give her own closing statement.

 

[JustMeDeb]

ICA killed her daughter.
Please be gentle in sentencing.

 

[JBounds]

Ladies and Gentlemen of the jury. I will tell you a story. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah...

(3 hours later)

As you can see she is innocent.

 

[ynotdivein]

Premeditated computer searches in March.
CA lying to protect her daughter.
Three strips of duct tape over Caylee's mouth at least.
Decomp in trunk of ICA's car.
31 days.

Were I JB, in closing, I would be tap dancing and doing jazz hands all over the place to distract the jury from all of the above.

 

[Bittiness39]

My closer (as a DT wannabee whackadoodle):
Ladies and gentlemen of the jury. My client is a liar. A liar does not a murderer make. The State has offered no proof that Caylee was murdered. Or even abused by my client. My client is an idiot. She didn't even graduate from highschool. She couldn't even come up with a murder plot much less carry out one. Whatever happened to Caylee we will sadly never know. But the State did not tell us what happened. And for that, I ask that you find, ICA not guilty of the charges against her.

I don't believe any of this...but this was the topic. I could tear apart what I just wrote and write a better one for the state. I think ICA is guilty...but this is a creative writing topic.

 

[GetSmart]

Your Honor, Ladies and Gentlemen of the Jury ..We would like to say as hard as we tried to prove she was not guilty and we didn't have to but wanted to ..We would like u to understand one thing we are here to say she is not guilty..
Please remember to look for our new book " The Tale Of Casey Anthony's Kerfunkle" after this case is closed and you will see why..

 

[Darkprincess65]

I will be anxious to take the couple of good closings on this thread and hold them next to what JB really does say. I'm positive we will see similarities, if not all-out plagiarism.

Well he best come up with something good to save face or even his closing will go down in pathetic flames! :great:

I would like to think *I know...a huge waste* that for all the money he initially received to represent his client, for all the fancy dinners at the Ritz he enjoyed, for all the schmoozing he's done with media members for the last three years, all the money he spent enjoying his barely paid for home *ie; his forclosure proceedings*, for his fancy computer, his fancy phone, his fancy office with his fancy memento's he's kept from clients that he actually won their cases along the way? His fancy car. Paid parking. His time in the spotlight where his wife is interviewing him for Telemundo *I have paid close attention to what he's been doing over the last several years too~!:loser:*

For all of that? His JOB since he took oath to be an officer of the court? His JOB is to DEFEND his clients. To allow them due process.

I WOULD pray that as he is at the end of the hallway in this whole matter now? He BETTER pay attention and he can steal any of what I wrote for his own and I won't care. Because his performance leaves little to be desired. Even IF he doesn't believe his client is the slightest bit of innocent. He still failed her rights to due process. And?

Made himself look like a fool in the process?:twocents:

 

[Chris_Texas]

"Ladies and gentlemen of this supposed jury, I have one final thing I want you to consider. Ladies and gentlemen, this is Chewbacca. Chewbacca is a Wookiee from the planet Kashyyyk. But Chewbacca lives on the planet Endor. Now think about it; that does not make sense!

"Why would a Wookiee, an 8-foot-tall Wookiee, want to live on Endor, with a bunch of 2-foot-tall Ewoks? That does not make sense! But more important, you have to ask yourself: What does this have to do with this case? Nothing. Ladies and gentlemen, it has nothing to do with this case! It does not make sense! Look at me. I'm a lawyer defending a major record company, and I'm talkin' about Chewbacca! Does that make sense? Ladies and gentlemen, I am not making any sense! None of this makes sense! And so you have to remember, when you're in that jury room deliberatin' and conjugatin' the Emancipation Proclamation, does it make sense? No! Ladies and gentlemen of this supposed jury, it does not make sense! If Chewbacca lives on Endor, you must acquit! The defense rests."

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[Danemead]

Well, looks like the real closing statement's going to be left up to me. It will be necessaily long for the sake of justice.

Ladies and Gentlemen of the jury. We came here telling you that by the time we'd finished speaking you would know what really happened. The State has presented their so called evidence, and you all, I know, have seen it for what it is - smoke and mirrors, with gaps you could run a Mack Truck through. So, now I'm going to clear the smoke, clean the mirror and close those gaps so you can all return your verdict of NOT guilty for my young client here.

Dramatic Pause.

Firstly, we have proved that ZG does indeed exist, she had the audacity to bring litigation against my young client. Yes, she isn't THE ZG but, and I say BUT, ladies and gentlemen of the jury she does exist. ALL of ICA's men exist too and any one of them could have done the thing that my client is accused of. Her family? Anyone of them could have done the same. In fact Anyone in the USA and surrounding geographical areas could have done this - except of course Papa, and my young client.

Lets talk about the smell in the trunk.
Have you stopped to consider ladies and gentlemen, how many packet of Velveeta there are out there in the US? How many trunks of cars must smell like dead bodies have been in them because of this Velveeta? No! and why not becasue the State would try to have you believe that Velveeta isn't really cheese! That's why.

Then, we have the evidence of YM. I ask you L & G of the jury, how can we trust an officer who never even bothered to ask my young client if she had ever committed suicide. Other LE officers remembered to ask her father if he had, and we saw him crying on the stand because he had indeed taken that step, that's why he isn't here today to testify for his daughter!

Now to the pool.
It is our contention that YM, RK, GA, LA, AH, TL and JG, along with ZG and Gerus and Bones were all in the pool together at sometime on that day, we'll never know which day because all of them are untrustworthy, but we do know that CA was at work doing searches on all kinds of terrible death scenarios, and Dr Spitz was breaking skulls, so we know that they weren't there. Further to this my young client couldn't possibly have had anything to do with whatever this trial is about because she was clearly working at Universal, with Sally the musical comedy expert planning a magical event.

Lastly, I say to you think well on my remarks, on all the testimony from the defense, on the gravity and professionalism of the defense team as opposed to the flippant time wasting acts of the prosecution. Look into that mirror we talked about earlier, and realise that anyone single one of you in this courtroom could have done something bad, except my client. I'm asking you now to go away and find her ummm NOT guilty for ummm, er, whatever it is she's charged with. On that note the defense rests. Thank you.

 

[Bittiness39]

Okay...I SWORE I wouldn't do this...but think what we "mostly" would think no matter what the DT says in closing...considering what they said in their opening...this is all I can think of...(I am sorry)...This clip is all I can think of...when reminded of the DT's opening statement. I don't consider what happened to Caylee at ALL funny...I do think, however, that the DT is.

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[marycarney]

"Could we get a continuance? 'Cause ICA tells me that there's some important evidence - something that will blow this case wide open - in her office at Universal! Oh, wait......"

 

[GetSmart]

I hope WS's don't give him any ideas either, because I can't wait to hear what he comes up with on his own. If its good, then I guess he got it from here.LOL

You don't know how many times I thought to myself he got his defense ideas from Blogs and WS and World Wide Web ....

 

[rhornsby]

This is too easy, let me sum up what their closing argument consist of as follows: "Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire!"

 

[aafromaa]

Ladies & Gentleman, our goal throughout this trial has not been to prove what DID happen to Caylee nor to explain KC's words and actions. We have no burden to prove anything. Rather our goal has been to demonstrate reasonable doubt exists in this case. However, even we have come to realize that the only REASONABLE conclusion is that Caylee died at the hands of her mother. Therefore, we would like to change her plea to guilty and beg for mercy from this jury and from this court. Please do not hold it against KC that she did not plead guilty sooner, as she has been receiving bad advise from counsel she engaged when she was first arrested - this was probably evident to you the moment you heard the our opening statement as it was totally absurd - which is why we did not even TRY to prove it during the course of the trial. Thank you for putting up with our nonsense and endless sidebars for the past several weeks. We're very sorry that we taken all this time from your lives when we should have had our client plead guilty in the first place.

 

[Bittiness39]

"Could we get a continuance? 'Cause ICA tells me that there's some important evidence - something that will blow this case wide open - in her office at Universal! Oh, wait......"

I know right? Casey says...(please don't look at those hundreds of checks she wrote on someone else's bank account)...that...(please disregard the way that Caylee was discarded like garbage)..please don't look at the 31 one days that Casey was boozing and scr*wing and tattoing...don't look at that..don't look at how pizzed off she was at the cops for not believing her...(incidentally would a molestation victim be more ticked at the cops for not believing her story or would she mostly be like, "no one believes me anyway")...don't look at the shot girl stuff...just remember the friends who barely know her who thought it was cool that she was such a good mom whenever Casey brought her to parties and other inappropriate situations...remember how Casey thought of herself solely in those times...and how she was totally not jealous of the attention that Caylee received deseredly over Casey.

 

[Bittiness39]

This is too easy, let me sum up what their closing argument consist of as follows: "Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire!"

That would be hilarious. If that were the Defense closing statement. :floorlaugh:

Having said that...how would you close this one? I ask not to judge...just because the defense in this case has limited themselves to basically challenging the State. They can't go into what their opening statement was. They will be limited...how would you close?