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Caylee Anthony case: Trial day 32 – 06/30/11

Oy Vey!  Or as Roger Miller sang in Disney’s animated Robin Hood, Oo-de-lally, oo-de-lally, GOLLY WHAT A DAY!  Yesterday began with Ann Finnell on the phone arguing a couple of motions.  One to reconsider a prior motion and the new … Continue reading

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Caylee Anthony case: Trial day 12 – 06/07/11

Yesterday’s proceedings began before the jury entered the court room.  Jose Baez argued, based on the defense’s anticipation that Dr. Arpad Vass would be taking the stand, that testimony of Dr. Vass should not be allowed to be admitted yet.  … Continue reading

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Caylee Anthony case: Trial day 7 – 06/01/11

Yesterday began with Mr. Mark Lippman arguing a motion for Lee Anthony in which Lee is requesting an exemption for the sequestration rule for witnesses based on him being “next of kin” to Caylee Anthony.  Mr. Lippman successfully argued this … Continue reading

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Caylee Anthony case: Dr. Vass’s work…in, maybe

The long awaited court ruling concerning the admissibility of Dr. Vass’s work on human decompositional gas signatures and the use of air monitoring samples to determine the possibility of a human decomposition event was issued today by Judge Perry.  While … Continue reading

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Caylee Anthony case: Chloroform in

Like finding manna on the ground, we receive a daily serving of justice from the Ninth Judicial Court of Florida in the form of a righteous ruling.  Yesterday’s serving came in the form of a denial to the defense’s motion … Continue reading

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Caylee Anthony case: Stain in

It appears the defense team were unable to “Shout it out” on that big ugly, stinky stain in Casey Anthony’s trunk.  Judge Perry issued an order yesterday denying the defense’s request to exclude all testimony concerning the stain as irrelevant.  … Continue reading

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Caylee Anthony case: Baez, get on that pig and hold on tight!

Cognitive dissonance. It’s typically defined as the uncomfortable feeling we get when the information we are processing is in conflict with an idea we have, or a paradigm we hold as “true”.  In essence, it is what our internal “Hinky … Continue reading

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Caylee Anthony case: The decomposition of Dr. Furton’s testimony – Part 2

In this second article reviewing Dr. Kenneth Furton’s testimony in the Frye hearing that took place last week concerning the work of Dr. Arpad Vass, we will look at Dr. Furton’s statements concerning works by Dr. Statheropoulos and Dr. Vass. … Continue reading

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Casey Anthony case: A review of the defense’s motion concerning State expert witness Lowe

The defense team has filed an Amended Motion in Limine for Hearing on the Unreliability of the Scientific Testimony by Karen Lowe on Post-Mortem Hair Banding.  This motion is two part and kind of works both ends against the middle.  … Continue reading

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Caylee Anthony case: Frye hearing beginning 03/23/11

Wednesday, March 23rd, 2011, at 9:00 a.m. ET begins three days of a Frye hearing that, as best I can tell, will center on Dr. Vass’s work at Oak Ridge National Laboratories concerning detection of gases he states are part … Continue reading

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