let s talk about this new movie. it s premiering on lifetime next saturday in which you play the prosecutor in the casey anthony trial, jeff ashton. the jury s not guilty verdict left a lot of people, most people actually, dismayed. how did it affect ashton? was it a shocking loss? well, you have to understand jeff, who i play in the movie, spent 30 years searching for justice for victims like little kailee anthony. he had an almost perfect record. i think he was 12 for 12 in death penalty cases. so it seemed like the perfect guy for the perfect job in a slam-dunk case. and it was his last case before retirement. and he lost it. and really what this movie is about is this man s journey and how do you reconcile that and can you move on. and of course, how did it happen
household with the words full proof suffocation. the search done the very same day that 2-year-old kailee anthony was last seen alive. could this information have changed the outcome of the trial? let s ask criminal defense attorney and legal analyst arthur eye daidala. could it have changed anything? yes. it could have. you never know what a juror is going to hold on to. however 12 people found they didn t meet their burden of proving their case beyond a reasonable doubt. the likelihood it would not have changed anything. ad it is hard for me to believe that the district attorney s office didn t know this. if that s the case why would they hide it? they had a very specific theory of their case when george, the dad the last time he had caylee. that google search didn t fit in with that time line.
penalty much stiffer if you lie to police in the case of a missing child, named for kailee anthony whose mother waited 32 days before reporting her missing. and contracts for at&t workers expire at midnight. the contract is due. the workers have authorized a strike if the deal is not reached. new labor laws, labor numbers, showing employers adding about 120,000 new jobs in march. that s about half the pace we saw over the last three months. it was enough to bring the national unemployment rate down to 8.2%, but that s partly due to the number of workers dropping out of the labor force. that has some critics comparing president obama to president jimmy carter in his re-election year. the president of new heights communications and spokesman for
happened to caylee we wouldn t be here today. is there any extent that you would not have gone to to save caylee s life? i would have done everything possible humanly possible to save my granddaughter. that s the grieving grandfather s line by the defense in the desperate attempt to save the life of his daughter accused. we have the panel to see where the defense succeed the. in florida you are not permitted to troin he dues evidence of lack of remorse. that s right. it seemed to me that there was an awful lot of lack of remorse evidence introduced here so much so i believe that s why jose bias moved for a mistrial. that s one of the reasons the chance of this verdict the guilty verdicts being held on appeal i think are slim because of the admission of casey anthony s statements to the cops without her receiving ever the
happened to caylee we wouldn t be here today. is there any extent that you would not have gone to to save caylee s life? i would have done everything possible humanly possible to save my granddaughter. that s the grieving grandfather s line by the defense in the desperate attempt to save the life of his daughter accused. we have the panel to see where the defense succeed the. in florida you are not permitted to troin he dues evidence of lack of remorse. that s right. it seemed to me that there was an awful lot of lack of remorse evidence introduced here so much so i believe that s why jose bias moved for a mistrial. that s one of the reasons the chance of this verdict the guilty verdicts being held on appeal i think are slim because of the admission of casey anthony s statements to the cops without her receiving ever the