however, that jose baez in essence in the opening statement made some promises. you have this incredible gap between june 16th, when the child disappeared and this first 911 call in august. it has created this burden. what is the defense s explanation as to what happened? i think jose said that at beginning. i m con founded at the amount of people who thought she would testify. as you know it is rare in a criminal case to begin with client. casey is, you know, is a liar. i think jose bought a lot of credibility by coming out and saying that in his opening. basically, that no upside. you can imagine the jury is not going to believe a word she says. greta: right. so what is the whole business about accident. i realize the conversation with this woman holloway. as a tactical matter what she said was not evidence it was to impeach george.
essence in the opening statement made some promises. you have this incredible gap between june 16th, when the child disappeared and this first 911 call in august. it has created this burden. what is the defense s explanation as to what happened? i think jose said that at beginning. i m con founded at the amount of people who thought she would testify. as you know it is rare in a criminal case to begin with client. casey is, you know, is a liar. i think jose bought a lot of credibility by coming out and saying that in his opening. basically, that no upside. you can imagine the jury is not going to believe a word she says. greta: right. so what is the whole business about accident. i realize the conversation with this woman holloway. as a tactical matter what she said was not evidence it was to impeach george. i assume there would be an
her statement, page 16, line 25 through page 17 line 9. he said i really believe that it was an accident. and it just went wrong. and then she tried to cover it up. did he tell you what he thought happened to the child? he said it was an accident that went wrong. and it snowballed i m sorry it just snowballed. and he said, you know, how you tell a small lie and you just try to cover it up and it just got really big and it just out of control. he just said that i really believe that it was an accident and it just went wrong and she tried to cover it up. casey, no verbal response. did he said to you that casey
line 25 through page 17 line 9. he said i really believe that it was an accident. and it just went wrong. and then she tried to cover it up. did he tell you what he thought happened to the child? he said it was an accident that went wrong. and it snowballed i m sorry it just snowballed. and he said, you know, how you tell a small lie and you just try to cover it up and it just got really big and it just out of control. he just said that i really believe that it was an accident and it just went wrong and she tried to cover it up. casey, no verbal response. did he said to you that casey
the topic just came up and not exactly. we were talking about his daughter. i didn t think that he could raise somebody that was capable of harming her child. and that s when he said it was an accident that snowballed out of control. but i was caught off guard with it. by the time i looked up he had tears in his eyes. and i didn t say anything after that. you were talking to him about his daughter and how you couldn t believe that he could raise a daughter that would deliberately kill her child? that s correct. what he said to you is, i really believe it was an accident that just went wrong, isn t that true? that misstates her statement. it does not. it does, judge gentlemen approach the sidebar and bring me the statement. her statement, page 16,