Prosecuting Casey Anthony Page #8

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Sustained.

Six weeks after

caylee's remains were found,

you traveled to Daytona beach

to a hotel

where you intended

to take your own life.

Yes.

Why did you decide

to end your life?

It just felt like the right time

to be with caylee...

to spend time

with c-caylee.

[ Crying ] I didn't want to be

in this world anymore...

because I believed

I failed her.

[ Cries ]

It's not a hotel.

It's a motel.

Don't be a snob.

Didn't people magazine call it

"one of the Daytona beach

seedy motels"?

Instant hit

after George made it famous.

People are still showing up

asking to stay in the same room.

You got to book in advance.

That's so depressing.

You're a little sensitive.

I just hate

the pointless cruelty of it.

I mean, having to watch Jose

use the man's grief against him?

It just... it blows my mind

how effective you can be

when you're not limited

by the truth.

George came through.

Okay, he cried like a baby.

It doesn't make him

a child molester.

George was his last move.

He has to call Casey

to back up what he said

in his opening.

Jury needs to hear it

from her own mouth.

I will bet you both lunch

you're wrong.

Oh! High roller!

Casey is not gonna testify.

Why don't you

save it for your poker game?

Are you afraid

to even risk lunch?

Fine. You're on.

Where should we make him

take us?

Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait,

wait, wait, why don't you win

before you start

making reservations?

Oh. [ Laughs ]

Bailiff:

Raise your right hand.

Do you solemnly swear or affirm

to tell the truth,

the whole truth,

and nothing but the truth,

so help you God?

So help me God.

Please state your full name

for the record.

Cynthia Anthony.

[ Clears throat ]

Now, do you recall

in march 2008

your doing any searches

for any items

that might contain chloroform?

Yes. I started

looking at chlorophyll.

My smallest yorkie was

extremely tired all the time.

She would eat the bamboo leaves

out in the backyard,

so I started looking up

how that could make her sleepy.

And that prompted me

to look up chloroform.

I don't understand how

you can get those two mixed up.

I'm not getting them mixed up.

If you look into chlorophyll,

there's some bacteria associated

with chloroform production.

Some species of algae naturally

produce it, for instance.

Linda:
So it's your testimony

that you were home

that day in march,

even though your work records

reflect something differently.

It's possible.

Well, Cindy,

were you or weren't you?

Were you home march 28, 2008,

between 2:
16 and 2:29 P.M.?

If those computer entries

were made, then I made them.

You did 84 searches

for the effect of chlorophyll

on your animals?

I didn't do 84 searches

of anything, lin.

Grace:
Tonight,

is grandmother Cindy Anthony

looking at 15 years behind bars

on a perjury charge?

Now, listen, all of you mothers

and grandmothers out there.

I don't know

if you feel like me,

but if my little girl

were facing

the Florida death penalty,

i would roll this sleeve up

right here and say,

"here,

put the needle right here."

I understand

what Cindy's doing.

What I don't understand

is why tot mom

would allow her defense team

to set her own mother

up for perjury.

Do we charge her with perjury?

What's the point?

The aggrieved grandmother?

I mean,

after Casey's convicted?

I get that she doesn't want to

lose both of her girls,

but I don't have to like her.

It's like "a few good men"...

she can't handle the truth.

How about when Casey

was seven months pregnant,

and Cindy was telling everybody

that the belly on that

skinny little girl was bloat.

Bloat!

And she's a registered nurse.

I mean, daughter, mother.

It's like one's an expert

at lying to everyone,

the other's an expert

at lying to herself.

I just would have thought

for once

Cindy could put caylee first.

Sergeant Kevin stenger.

I'm the head

of computer forensics

for the orange county

sheriff's department.

After the keyword "chloroform"

was found on the Anthony

home computer,

you utilized

two software programs

to recover the search history,

did you not?

I did.

[ Pen clicking ] Stop it.

The first, netanalysis,

the second, cacheback.

That's correct.

Do you recognize the computer

printout on your screen?

Yes, that's my

netanalysis report.

How many times does it show

the chloroform site was visited?

One, sir.

And now I'd like to show you

the only report

that the prosecution

entered into evidence,

your second report.

Looking at the same website

at the same time and date,

that report says the site

was visited how many times?

[ Pen clicking ]

And that was the same website

at the same time and date.

That's correct.

Jeff:
One "chloroform" search

is still one search too many.

It makes us look bad,

like we suppressed evidence.

Then don't mention the number.

It's a detail.

No.

It is our only evidence

of premeditation

that supports first degree.

Without the chloroform

search history, what do we have?

The duct tape.

The smells in the car.

The band of death

on caylee's hair.

The cadaver-dog hit.

We have solid forensics.

It's circumstantial, Jeff.

We all know it.

We've all won

circumstantial cases before.

If 94% of Florida thinks

she's guilty, she's guilty.

We just need 12 votes.

Judge Perry:
Mr. baez,

do you intend to present

any more live witnesses?

No, sir, we do not.

Will the defendant

be testifying?

No, sir.

Miss Anthony.

Is it your decision

not to testify,

made freely and voluntarily?

Yes, sir.

Steak and lobster.

[ Crowd chanting

"justice for caylee!" ]

[ Indistinct shouting ]

It's easy to be a parent

when you're playing

with your children.

But we all know that being

a parent is about so much more.

It's about sacrifice.

Sacrificing your time,

sacrificing your love,

sacrificing your hopes,

sacrificing your life.

You're being asked to make the

biggest decision of your life...

the decision

to take someone else's life...

If you feel

the evidence deserves it.

On June 16, 2008, Casey Anthony

chose to sacrifice her child

to live the life

that she wanted.

She took her child,

she put her in the trunk,

and she disposed of her body

in a swamp.

That's complete

and total nonsense.

She had no motive.

Casey loved that child.

That's all the evidence

that you've heard...

that Casey was nothing

but a good mother.

We can only hope

that the chloroform was used

before the tape was applied

so that caylee went peacefully

without feeling,

but go she did, and she died

because she could not breathe.

Hope?

They're hoping

to get a conviction now?

They're hoping you'll buy

the chloroform?

They're hoping.

[ Chuckles ]

You're not supposed to hope.

You're supposed to prove a case

beyond and to the exclusion

of every reasonable doubt.

Ask yourself whose life

was better without caylee's?

There's your answer.

Baez:

No real hard evidence.

No DNA,

no fingerprints, nothing.

But she is a liar and a slut...

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