2011.06.18 TRIAL Day Twenty-two (Morning Session Only)

[strawberry]

OMG CA is listening to this?

 

[summerthyme]

I think ICA knows jurors were shocked at her laughter yesterday, so she's trying to make up for it today.

 

[Softail]

:doh: Dr. Spitz saying there was no tissue, no nerves, no blood, nothing!

 

[Whisperer]

So all this is for show. This is the defense last and only chance to impress a juror who has absolutely no kge of autopsies.

There wasn't an autopsy to do. All they had were bones. They did an examination of bones...period.

This is word shennigans being played here.

 

[ohiogirl]

Quoted from http://blogs.orlandosentinel.com/entertainment_tv_tvblog/2011/06/casey-anthony-unfounded-conclusion-mystery-man-what-next.html from June 15:

WKMG-Channel 6 this afternoon talked to Dr. Werner Spitz, a forensic pathologist who disagrees with Dr. Jan Garavaglia’s conclusion that Caylee Anthony’s manner of death was homicide.

Spitz’s take on that finding? “Absolutely not,” Spitz told WKMG’s Tony Pipitone. “The determination of homicide is jumping to conclusions, because it is unfounded, I think.”

Pipitone conducted the first-rate interview, which showed his deep knowledge of the case.

But the analysts on WOFL-Channel 35 were stunned that a defense witness had gone on television. “If I were the defense attorneys, I’d be doing back flips,” attorney Hal Uhrig said. “You just don’t go on TV and go through a preview of what your expected testimony is going to be.” Attorney Diana Tennis said the defense attorneys had to be “horrified” that a witness was talking on television, which she called “unseemly and unprofessional.”

Spitz also told Pipitone: “I don’t know who put the duct tape on her. I don’t know the identity of that person. That would have been fine if somebody specifically had fingerprints on the duct tape. Well, that’s missing. I don’t know who did that. … The duct tape would have come off when the body decomposed, because there was no bond of the duct tape with the bone.”

Spitz said he will travel to Orlando on Thursday and could testify on Friday or Saturday. He said he had been working on the case for a year, had never submitted a bill and had never been paid by anyone.

In watching that interview, I disagree it was first rate. What is up with these news people?

First rate news reporters should not try to get witnesses disqualified by interviewing them when they are not allowed to talk. jmo of course

 

[DesSands]

ICA must be thinking - Jose! HHJP is going to punish ME because of YOU? WTH?

I think she's still so mesmerized by him, she doesn't get it. :floorlaugh:

 

[beach]

His credentials are impecable.

I find the posts disparAging this man & mocking him DUE TO HIS AGE are deplorable, discusting & ignorant.
If the mocking & disparaging references to his age were replaced by his color, religion, gender or sexual orientation ALL THOSE ignorant & deplorable posts would be removed.

Since when did age discrimination become aceptable ?
Judge him on the merits of his testimony. Not his age.
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I disagree that his credentials are impeccable....

BUT I completely agree about the disparaging references about Dr. Spitz's age.


Check yourselves and do it quickly. Addressing Dr. Spitz's credibility and testimony is fine. Leave the disaparging, cheap shots out of this thread.

 

[Tuffy]

I wonder what the jury thinks about ICA looking like ice while they talk about decay, rot, pigs, maggots, bloat, putrification....but mention SKULL or BONES CHEWED and she gets out the kleenex.

It is interesting that BONES are the only thing to set her off? :waitasec:

 

[Wholehearted]

I think Dr. Spitz's lengthy digression on the lack of soft tissue is actually helping the SA.

 

[Just K]

So he put his fingerprints on her bones! He can contaminate the evidence and still not be contaminated!

 

[strawberry]

I actually saw a tear! o_o

Me too. I'm sure she's thinking she should have hid the evidence better.

 

[Reality Orlando]

No gloves to do the autopsy? I would think that would be protocol? Seems weird.

 

[Mountain_Kat]

No soft tissue...so the duct tape COULD have been attached to the mouth area, or the nose area. Or it could NOT have been positioned over those areas. I already know that. But why was it there at all? C'mon now, Dr.S. It was attached to the face of this child SOMEWHERE, wasn't it? It held this child's mandible in place during decomp, didn't it?

 

[Broderick]

I am sorry but his testimony is helping the SA case I think. He just said several things to bolster the SA case. One, that the body was there months and months and months and he admitted that the duct tape was on the face. He can go on and on about no this or that on the tape. JA will not have much to do with the witness to get him to agree with the SA conclusions...

 

[Searchfortruth]

I guess Casey is trying to show some emotion, but it's not at all convincing. A normal mother wouldn't be able to contain herself.

 

[coloradoteacher]

I wonder if the fact that she is crying now goes against the DT case that she is psychologically disturbed from abuse. It would be easy for the jury to think this was an act from the evidence that she was at blockbuster, hot body contest, etc. right after it happened as well as when 911 was called. Why the emotion now?

 

[Chiquita71]

Witness: there was no damage. There was some damage to the bone but that was from the people who did the autopsy. He thought they opened it to take specimens from the bone marrow.

JA: objection
overruled

he thought they opened the bone to get the, to get the, to get the certain material that would be helpful but he learned that would not be the case. UM. SO. based on this examination the death remained unknown for those who did the examination.

Not a shred of soft tissue. no skin no...

he brought a bunch of gloves an apron he was worried he would get contaminated. He is happy about the skull he is holding. It will not get him sick. Three year old child. He did not need the supplies he brought.

He claims there was NO TAPE. AT ALL with the body when he saw it.

 

[grandmaj]

Dr. spitz is just now telling the jury that Caylee was just bones....no tissue no vessels etc.

Trying to talk about the tape now.

This is not good testimony for the defense in that he emphasized to a great degree just how many months Caylee had been out there.

 

[strawberry]

JA objecting to WS describing the pics...protecting Caylee's privacy IMO

 

[Tuffy]

I think she's still so mesmerized by him, she doesn't get it. :floorlaugh:

I agree. She seemed almost emotionless during the smackdown. I don't think she gets what is happening.