07-01-2011, 03:22 PM
this is a partial article written by bozo's butt-buddy geraldo rivera:
the vicious personal attacks on Casey's Latino lawyer Jose Baez are annoying and offensive. Any lawyer is only as good as the facts in his case. Working for chump change, he has been out spent by at least 20-1 by the state. He is not accused of child murder. He is a damn lawyer not a defendant and those who recklessly attack him do so from a visceral, shallow, narrow-minded place.
Not that I don't understand the instinct to kill/blame the messenger. I did the same thing to O.J. Simpson's lead lawyer Johnny Cochran, although all he was guilty of was being a brilliant lawyer for one of history's true jerk-offs.
Baez hasn't been brilliant, but he has been game and solid; effectively highlighting the funky meter man, the weird brother Lee, the not-so-together parents, the inexplicable early searches, the mystery swimming pool ladder left attached and more.
None of this means his client Casey didn't do the gut-wrenching crime, more or less as the prosecution said she did it; killing her adorable toddler so she could boogie like it was 1999.
But it does mean there can be no conviction for capital murder.
She never should have been charged with that death penalty crime in the first place. Even in Florida, once home to "Old Sparky" the (pre-lethal injection) over-used electric chair, only two women have been put to death in 150 years, both serial killers.
the vicious personal attacks on Casey's Latino lawyer Jose Baez are annoying and offensive. Any lawyer is only as good as the facts in his case. Working for chump change, he has been out spent by at least 20-1 by the state. He is not accused of child murder. He is a damn lawyer not a defendant and those who recklessly attack him do so from a visceral, shallow, narrow-minded place.
Not that I don't understand the instinct to kill/blame the messenger. I did the same thing to O.J. Simpson's lead lawyer Johnny Cochran, although all he was guilty of was being a brilliant lawyer for one of history's true jerk-offs.
Baez hasn't been brilliant, but he has been game and solid; effectively highlighting the funky meter man, the weird brother Lee, the not-so-together parents, the inexplicable early searches, the mystery swimming pool ladder left attached and more.
None of this means his client Casey didn't do the gut-wrenching crime, more or less as the prosecution said she did it; killing her adorable toddler so she could boogie like it was 1999.
But it does mean there can be no conviction for capital murder.
She never should have been charged with that death penalty crime in the first place. Even in Florida, once home to "Old Sparky" the (pre-lethal injection) over-used electric chair, only two women have been put to death in 150 years, both serial killers.