Casey Anthony was convicted of lying to police but acquitted of murder. She filed for bankruptcy in 2013. Dominic Casey claimed, in addition, that the defendant and her attorney were having sex because she couldn't pay him.
Dominic Casey also said that before the remains were discovered, Casey Anthony allowed her legal team to try framing Kronk, "to portray him as a murderer and or kidnapper of Caylee Anthony." The investigator said he quit the legal team in October 2008. Casey Anthony was convicted of lying to police but acquitted of murder.
After Tony Padilla revoked her bond when Casey Anthony was arrested again on other charges, Peter Beneviedes, a convicted drug dealer and money launderer for El Chapo, put up money for her defense and $500,000 for her second bail bond.
Meter reader Roy Kronk found the girl's body in the woods near her grandparents' home that December. Dominic Casey also said that before the remains were discovered, Casey Anthony allowed her legal team to try framing Kronk, "to portray him as a murderer and or kidnapper of Caylee Anthony."
Baez is a highly sought-after speaker and lecturer. He is on the faculty at Harvard Law School where he teaches trial techniques to second- and third-year law students in what is considered one of Harvard Law School's most popular courses.
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$200,000 per monthBaez — the Florida attorney best known for winning the Casey Anthony case — was Weinstein's lawyer for about five months in 2019. Baez charged a non-refundable retainer of $200,000 per month.
Lorena BaezJose Baez / Spouse
AmericanJose Baez / NationalityEarly life and education. Baez was born to Puerto Rican parents in Manhattan, New York City, and raised in the Bronx and South Florida with his three sisters by his single mother. He attended Homestead High School in Florida, but dropped out in the ninth grade. He married and became a father at age 17.
Casey Anthony's new beau, Antony Karagiannis, 38, is pictured on his Facebook account posing next to his beloved daughter and dog. He captioned it: 'Just the three of us!'
Baez, a Florida-based lawyer best known for representing Casey Anthony, joined Weinstein's defense in January 2019 and left six months later, saying the former movie mogul had tarnished their relationship by communicating only through other lawyers and by failing to abide by a fee agreement.
51 years (September 17, 1970)Jose Baez / Age
Lorena BaezJose Baez / Spouse
Dominic Casey claimed, in addition, that the defendant and her attorney were having sex because she couldn't pay him. "I arrived at Baez’s office unexpectedly one day and once again, witnessed a naked Casey. This time she ran from his private office, through the conference room to the hallway.
He also suggested that the mom paid her lawyer with sex. The investigator claimed attorney Jose Baez hired him days after police arrested the mom in July 2008.
Meter reader Roy Kronk found the girl's body in the woods near her grandparents' home that December. Dominic Casey also said that before the remains were discovered, Casey Anthony allowed her legal team to try framing Kronk, "to portray him as a murderer and or kidnapper of Caylee Anthony.".
As Casey Anthony stood in a Florida court on July 5, 2011 awaiting her fate as the verdict in her case was read, standing beside her was her lawyer, defense attorney Jose Baez.
After the Casey Anthony case, Baez's name made rounds during the George Zimmerman trial. Zimmerman had been arrested for shooting 17-year-old Trayvon Martin. Despite not defending Zimmerman, Baez was connected to the trial, insofar as he represented a detective who investigated the case. A few years later Baez would be back in ...
He famously got his defendant off by proving that she was a liar, yes — but as a result of being raised in a family of liars. When the media died down after the Anthony trial, Baez did several interviews about the case. And he even wrote a book.
When Harvey Weinstein stood trial for his sexual assault case in 2019, Baez was part of the defense team, although he shortly dropped out, reported Vanity Fair.
Two of Casey Anthony's charges of lying to police were overturned on appeal, according to ABC News. These were not the only crimes of which Anthony was convicted, though. By the time Caylee's trial began, Anthony was already serving probation for check fraud, having forged her friend Amy Huizenga's checks, according to Dominic Casey's affidavit. She also used the routing number on a birthday check her grandmother had mailed her to steal from her, according to Criminal Brief, adding identity theft to her rap sheet.
ABC News reported that Dr. Arpad Vass, who worked at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory on their body farm, analyzed the trunk of Casey Anthony's car. "I essentially jumped back a foot or two ... I would recognize it as human decomposition," he said. Where chloroform is usually found in parts per trillion in the environment, the car sample had parts per million. (Michael Sigman, a chemist at the National Center for Forensic Science, said the sample was mainly gasoline.) Chloroform was also found on Caylee's favorite doll in the car, but at insufficient levels for further testing.
Casey Anthony's trial is widely considered to be the first social media case, started by Cindy Anthony posting on MySpace about her missing granddaughter, according to Criminal Brief. Time noted that, during the trial, reporters depended on a Twitter account, "NinthCircuitFL," for their information for the first time.
According to Biography, the last time anyone saw Caylee alive was in June 2008 when Casey Anthony stormed out of her parents' home after a fight, pulling her daughter along with her.
In August, meter reader Roy Kronk saw a suspicious black garbage bag while relieving himself in the woods. According to Criminal Brief, after calling the police for days, he received no response. Finally, Deputy Richard Cain came but did not wish to check because the ground was wet, and he had a fear of snakes. It was not until December that Kronk called again.
In December 2008, two-and-a-half-year-old Caylee Anthony's body was found in a plastic bag in a small wooded, low-lying area barely off the road just outside an Orlando subdivision, about a half a mile from her grandparents' home.
Casey brought the police to "Zanny's" door — an apartment that had been vacant for months, as Anthony later explained in an interview. There was a Zenaida Fernandez-Gonzalez, but she had never met Casey and did not work as a nanny. Anthony said in an interview with the Associated Press, "Cops lie to people every day.