Remember this little exchange, with Baez under oath?
ADA George: "We had a meeting in chambers and an amount of money the defense had was dicussed. How much money was that?
JB: That information is under seal.
ADA George: You are under oath now.
Judge Stickland: Yes, you can answer. It believe it needs to be on the record, the amount and frankly the source too.
ADA George: What was that amount of money discussed?
Baez: Two hundred thousand dollars.
ADA George, loud and clear for the reporters in the back row to hear, asked Two hundred thousand dollars?
JB: Yes.
What was the source of that money?
JB: Can you repeat the question?
ADA George, loud enough to be mistaken for a politician giving a speech at a podium asking for votes: Where did the money come from?
JB: "American Broadcast Company" he said under his breath.
ADA George: "Who?"
JB: "ABC".
Although he already knew the answer, ADA George adding emphasis: "ABC News?"
JB, after swallowing hard: "Yes"
It was Linda Kenney Baden's demeanor in this hearing that made me say to myself that was her goodbye scene. That is the biggest and possibly the only time I have even seen her so warm and smiling. She is doing something I had never seen her do, playing to the camera. Andrea seemed to be saying goodbye to Casey as well, even then.
Losing these two on the defense team was HUGE, imo!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnkhUbRbwBU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FaZnZ50R5m0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brCKA_FTB6g
Thttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVxt_F_-V78
This was the first hearing of Mason on the case. He started showing off before the hearing even began by being quite rude to the folks who were court personnell , basically ordering them around about what HE wants done regarding the microphone needing to be removed, iho, right damn now, from the defense table. Good for the gentleman, he showed him no mind at all about it. Funny.
He called the Judge's staff member, Kathy, "Doll".
Mason literally called Jeff Ashton "Ignorant" on the record, in open court.
He was very patronizing to Judge Strickland with his "I bet you'll trust ME" mantra, and saying he had experts lining up to work for free, that indeed Henry Lee had worked for a crate of oranges once".
After the hearing he emerged with his it's going to be fun nonsense.
Here is the hearing. A must see
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54JbOxl30U0
The person video taping chimes in briefly as she looks up who is this man, full of hubris, on the internet. Funny.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzy83OX_t3A
Here we go they are back from their little pow wow (the defense). This is where Baez testifies ( best ever)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-HhNWPqINI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kYb9DfPq6E
Here Baez admits to receiving 70K from Todd, and the Judge literally asked him, if Todd paid contingent upon him joining the defense team.
ADA George: "Besides Mrs. Lyon and Mrs. Badem, are there other lawyers involved in this case?"
"Other attorneys have consulted, none have been paid."
ADA George:" How about experts?"
JB: "Some have been paid"
ADA George: "Any promise of future payment?"
JB: "None."
ADA George, " Who has been paid?"
wait for it....
Cheney:" I am going to object to disclosing names, it invades the privileldge in preparation of our trial strategy."
Judge Strickland "I will sustain the objection as to their names, the amounts we need".
ADA George: "Can you give us the amounts?"
JB: "I would be guessing".
Judge Strickland "I will sustain the objection as to their names, the amounts we need".
ADA George: "How many experts are there that have been paid so far?"
Stutering JB: " Umm, umm, I didn't bring that with me. I would be guessing."
Baez offered to bring that to the court, he did not bring those things with him but he could supply them to the court. THe judge agreed to that.
Me: What the hell? How do you come to a hearing about how you spent the money, and not bring your file?
ADA George: "What about investigators?"
ADA:" How much have they been paid this far?"
JB: "They have been paid through the clinic. ( Andrea's clinic ) I have paid them , the amount would be um,very little".
Me: Richard Hornsby sure called that one. Baez had been pinching pennies rather than , getting the work done. For example we recently learned that Jeremy Lyons has billed the taxpayers eight thousand dollars for talking to TES searchers. Those TES documents had been sitting, available, for so long and Baez chose not to begin work on them. Now with the state paying, suddenly it is getting done.
go to the four minute mark
ADA George: What about Mrs. Baden. Is she being paid?"
JB: "She is not being paid. Correcting himself it seemed, he added, "She has been paid nothing."
Mrs. Baden does she have a promise of future payment?
After a long pause, JB: "You know.... I haven't read that document in awhile. I wouldn't be able to testify to any degree of certainty".
ADA George: "In March, in our in camera meeting with the judge, Mrs. Baden was to bring that document to the court. Do you have any idea why it hasn't been filed?"
JB: "It has been dropped off to the court."
ADA George asks the judge if that is true, and he answers he isn't sure, "It may be here, it may not be here,I have no idea".
Immediately after this, Mrs. Baden stands up to interrupt. Baden claims she tore up her retainer contract. In the words of The Church Lady on Saturday Night Live,
"Well isn't that special?"
She did manage to get in a little bit about her self tauting her work , pro bono with The Innocence Project, how she donated her services then too. She explained that she rescinded her agreement with Casey Anthony since she had never been paid and there clearly was no expectation of future payment.
Me: Loose translation....NO THE COURT WAS NEVER GIVEN TO THE COURT. THAT'S MY GUESS!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KC0Xtr917ZY
Cheney tried to chime in that the JAC would need to pay for travel expenses. No one responded.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_12H80h6wL4
Mason was very rude saying Linda and Jeffrey approach the bench with me.
Mrs. Drane-Burdick said "We have last names".
2:09 mark is where it seemed to me Andrea was telling Casey goodbye. I thought this because all of the lawyers would have went to the bench normally, and Andrea and Linda did not.
The lady recording the video briefly opines.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpjZ1bL1eIg
They had a ora tenis motion heard at the bench, Baez wanted more time to read all the jailhouse letters. The judge agreed, but told the defense whatever objections they file they must notice the media.
I believe, iirc, that this indeed is the time they went in camera after the hearing and let Judge Strickland know they were filing notice asking him to step aside.
If they haven't been kicking themselves already, bet when they see the difference between Judge Strickland letting them promise to drop stuff off to him later, and how Judge Perry is going to demand to see the documents for payment, now, not on their honor......they are going to see asking to swich judges was very, very misguided.
In the words of Mark Nejame, "I am being overly generous in my characterization!"
