IMHO
SA's best bet if ICA testifies is LDB. ICA is intimidated by strong, intelligent, professional women. LDB will be able to maintain control and a cool, calm demeanor. I would be concerned JA's temper may get the better of him on cross. (I must admit I love his passion though!)
I think CA and GA are going to start receiving lots of support now from all over the country......people are going to be so happy that they have finally seen ICA for who she truly is...... And I think that will help them to continue on their path to see that Caylee gets the justice that she deserves from her grandparents and hopefully Uncle Lee, also.
I have not been a CA or GA fan for a very long time now but today I saw a woman who is totally grief stricken at the loss of her beautiful Caylee....can't even begin to imagine the pain that she and George are going thru, waking up every day has to be a total nightmare for them...almost unbearable!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3xJi0Lu_fc
Yes, Casey certainly has to be in control. There are some parallels between her meltdown today and how she was acting in her much-publicized phone conversation with her parents while she was in jail - a conversation that has a lot more meaning when heard in its entirety rather than as a tabloid TV soundbite.
Speculation: As a precaution, she may be back on suicide watch.
ICA playing victim, knowing the cameras were on her. Repressed? Intimidated? Really?No way that's going to fly, JB. Better cancel plans for that movie/book deal. ICA must spend hours every day wandering through the paths of her flawed brain cells rehearsing speeches for different scenarios. The one fact you overlooked is that Caylee Marie has a strong pure spirit of goodness that is going to outshine any dirty plot you propose.
BBM:
You are exactly right. This was when they were called to JB's office and told of the defense strategy according to the the A's lawyer. I'm glad they are stepping up for what's right but am disappointed that it had to get to this point for them to do it.
IMO, we learened a great deal about te power dynamics in that family through the email exchanges between Cindy and her brother:
Refernced here :
http://www.wftv.com/news/18181289/detail.html
and in detail here:
http://www.acandyrose.com/caylee_anthony_transcript_R_PleseaEmails.htm
Casey has always been the manipulator, the power player. I just do not see her as some zombie from parental abuse of any kind. She has found a way to get everything she wants without working, without responsibility, without one thought for anyone else. Cindy's family has seen her spoil this girl for years.
If she had even hinted at abuse to Cindy...George would not only have been out of the house but in jail. But it suited Casey to have them both there to play off each other...to con and collect from. Daddy to clean her car every weekend. To run her errands. Grandma to rip off with bad checks. And Mom who would ALWAYS take her side.
If Caylee had drowned, Casey could have just told them anything and in days Cindy would be blaming the pool manufacturer. But Cindy would not forgive that precious little face wrapped in duct tape, reeking of chloroform. So Casey needed Caylee to be in that swamp...until enough time had passed for a story she COULD pass off.
Reading these emails again...THAT is a real picture of the real family dynamic. Rick Pleesa doesn't have to guess. He and his parents have seen Caylee bloom into a monster before their very eyes.
This is no powerless abused child. This is THE power player of that family...who became the chief abuser.
ICA - (she covers her mouth)...she's protecting the man that hurt me. she's gonna sit here and protect him. she's never protected me, she's not even trying now."
DS - well she has to be given a chance, Casey...
ICA - she's been given the chance for three years, and she's done nothing!
DS - i know.
ICA - i mean, how can you say she hasn't been given the chance, she has a chance every single night.
DS - you're right, i was wrong...you're right, i was wrong.
(camera pans - cant read. DS covers her mouth)
ICA - enough to be aquitted, so i can get away from them
Also, I thought she was shaking her head because Cindy was saying how ALL of the work and effort was done by she and george and lee. They did the planting, bought the lil mailbox, put in the tile floor, [ made me feel guilty cuz my kids was on the wet grass] ...etc etc. And poor casey felt so put out not to get any credit for being such a good mom. imoo
Respectfully...
I do not necessarily agree with this.
My sister was very much like ICA--she lied, told lies upon lies upon lies upon lies incessantly. The only person that mattered in her life was HER--not her two lovely daughters, not her husband, not our mother, not our brother, not me, not ANYone--ONLY HER.
She would stand and argue about the color of the sky, the clouds, the grass, even when it was so very obvious that it was a different color. She would tell so many complex lies, in fascinating detail, and if you happened to catch her in a discrepancy her response was "What the f--- are you talking about? You're sick!! I know what I said, and I never said that!"
She destroyed family relationships, telling lies about one person to another and then turned around and told different lies to the second person. If you wanted to be a part of her life, you had to denounce any relationship with other members of our family, by pledging your allegiance to HER and to believing in her lies.
I stopped talking to her the year that she psychologically destroyed my mother because I could no longer handle the tremendous pain that she inflicted on everyone around her. I have enough of my own personal health problems that I just did not want any of that stress any more.
She committed suicide 3 years ago--when all of her lies caught up to her and she was backed into the last corner. There was no way out for her so she took the last SELFISH act of her life and swallowed 80 OxyContin pills, locked herself in the front seat of her car and went to sleep.
It would not surprise me in the least for ICA to find herself at the end of her hallway, dead-ended with nowhere else to go, and taking that last SELFISH way out.
She would, effectively, be telling the world "F--- you, I WILL get the last word," leaving the rest of her now-destroyed family to live with unwarranted guilt for the remainder of their lives.
ICA, just like my sister, is one evil, conniving, piece of human matter. She scares the hell out of me, and I worry about ANYONE else that ever comes into contact with her. She will destroy you, turn and walk away laughing and not give you another thought.
SHE DOES NOT CARE.
She is evil incarnate and diabolically clever.
IMO she will get on the stand because she thinks her lies will be believed IMO. She thinks she can outsmart them all,boy is she in for a rude awakening.The SA's will pulverize her!
OMG. She actually does think she is going to be acquitted. The denial is beyond belief.