orlando, florida, isp wrapping up this afternoon, and today kicked off with at battle of emotions with the prosecutors asking the judge to limit defense attorney s jose baez s cross-examination, and motion granted. with the response of a motion of his own. watch this with me. so far the state has put on a case solely of dealing with the bad character of my client or the attempted character assassination of her past conducts, boyfriends, people she slept with, and things that have absolutely nothing to do with the crimes charged. and it has put us in a position where we are significantly prejudiced as to some of the impermissible character evidence they have been successful in introducing, and we would again renew our motion for mistrial at this time. mr. biabaez, how many times e you asked on cross-examination of witnesses whether or not mrs. anthony was a quote good mother, unquote? well, motion for mistrial denied. baez then proceeded to bring a witness to tears. here
what happened. the big secret was that she said that her father and brother molested her and she told her lover anthony lazzaro, and the judge sends the jury outs here is the setting, he sends the jury out and brings him to the stand, and says, look, lazzaro, what would you testify in front of the jury, did she tell you that her father and brother molested her, and under oath today, he said, no, that is not what she said. she said na her father hit her when he was disciplining her, and that her brother tried to quote feel her up, and he tried, but rebuffed. that is the big secret. yea, not the big secret they thought they would be hearing. and you spent a prosecutor 10 years in georgia, and do you believe that tot mom as you call her, casey anthony will take the stand? well, all along i have been saying no way. i have to tell you that this accident theory, i thought they were coming out with was pretty