forensic evidence you still have a lot of people who say caylee s body was in the trunk of that car. it is normal during closing arguments for the sentiment to sway. strong for the prosecution in the beginning and coming back when the defense starts making their point. the prosecution gets a chance to slam that shut on the rebut tal. shannon: what do you make of the emotion that we have seen from casey this morning in court? i mean you can t trust anything you see from casey. there are times when she should be crying that she is not crying. times whistling she is crying, is is generally about her. but about halfway through the case we saw a shift in her behavior. obviously her lawyers have said listen your reaction doesn t make any sense here and people are watching you because all of a sudden she became emotional during the case. they were showing the video of her daughter abouts face morphing into a skull. when they were arguing its
man with the beard, salt and pepper will present his part of closing argument after that, the state will get the rebuttal. this morning, the assistant prosecutor jeff ashton painted casey anthony 25 years old as a premeditated killer. she shook her said no, she cried. you could hear her somebodying in the emotional allegations made against her. one of the pieces of video emotion almostly was the videotape taken with casey anthony on the floor holing up caylee. take an year before caylee died. some of the most tender evidence in the trial when a young mother and her young little girl. of course, caylee anthony ended up dying and being found in the woods in dition of 2008. according to prosecutors it was premeditate murder.
evidences meets that they will go ford with the respective evidence and make a decision. also, shannon if i may agree with much, of course, of what the judge says. let s remember what rebuttal evidence argument is by the d.a. the d.a. cannot rehash the argument again that they made at the beginning. it is exactly what it says. it is rebuttal. only to those things that the criminal defense lawyer presents in their closing so they although they will try, let me tell you, th to sort of bootstrap their closing argument from the beginning they are limited to what is said. baez argument at this point is a mitt gaik mitigation argumen. if he gets her off of the premeditated murder some will say it is a victory. but the d.a. will be limited in
on the claims that her attorney laid out in the opening. is it better to underpromise and overdeliver or in this case raise questions at least among the jury you have to imagine as to why they didn t hear more about the claims that he made in the opening? absolely. and mr. mass aismed i i i m sl agree would never have made that opening statement. the exception to the rule is that the prosecution can comment in closing argument on the defense s failure or at least the complete absence of any evidence of what was promised in opening when the defense gets up there and opens the door by saying this is what you are going to hear which is exactly what they did. typically you keep it vague unless you know you have that evidence to present and then you have options available. you can argue reasonable doubt, the lack of evidence, conflicts in the evidence, things like that. he didn t do that. and as a result we got to hear ashton raise that fact and probably we ller that again in rebut tal.
qualified. you join us from outside the trial in orlando. hopefully the police aren t after you sometime. they are playing my song in the background. shannon: hopefully you can hear us. i want to ask about both sides, how they have done in the closing arguments this morning? they have done very well. ashton did a fantastic job. he pieced together a chronological and a very understandable case in his closing argument. he saved a lot for rebut tal. i m sure we will hear a powerful rebuttal. baez is trying to do what he can to pick apart the evidence that is the strongest. trunkcomposition in the and smell that everybody recognized. he has to go after that. i m not sure what he meant when pull the everybody s pictures f except georges is. he has to pick it apart because if you throw away all of the