Casey Anthony Trial: Lee Anthony, Cindy Anthony Baffle Prosecutors …
For the second day, a member of Casey Anthony’s family confused prosecutors in the first degree murder trial with testimony that they didn’t expect. Lee Anthony’s emotional testimony about his sister’s pregnancy with Caylee baffled prosecutors who questioned the sincerity of his emotion and a memory that seemed to differ from his deposition.
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Lee Anthony testified emotionally today about his sister’s pregnancy with Caylee, breaking down in tears as he claimed his family ignored her pregnancy, not talking about it until just days before she gave birth in 2005.
The brother’s dramatic appearance on the witness stand clearly baffled prosecutors who questioned the sincerity of his emotion as well as his memory that seemed to differ from his 2009 deposition.
On Thursday, Cindy Anthony, Casey Anthony’s mother, took credit for some of the chloroform searches on the family computer, a blow to the prosecution’s theory that it was Casey Anthony who searched chloroform 84 times in her computer.
The prosecution argues that Casey Anthony murdered her daughter with chloroform and duct tape. Caylee was reported missing on July 15, 2008, 31 days after she was last seen alive. She could face the death penalty if convicted of first degree murder.
The defense claims she accidentally drowned in the family pool. At one point today Cindy Anthony returned to the stand where defense attorney Jose Baez asked her, "How many times had you advised law enforcement you thought Caylee drowned in the pool?"
Lee Anthony told the court today that the family ignored Casey’s pregnancy even after she was visibly showing in the seventh month and he said no one acknowledged the pregnancy until days before Caylee was born. The testimony by Lee Anthony was the latest effort by Casey Anthony’s lawyers to depict a dysfunctional family that ignored the obvious at times.
