Bashing & Trashing

Letters written with conviction

Casey Anthony’s secret jail house letters to fellow dorm mate, convicted felon Robyn Adams, should be released today. While the contents are not earth shattering, they should shed light on what makes Casey tick. Adams is the wife of a former Altamonte Springs police officer. She had been held at the Orange County Jail for helping him grow and sell pot but has since been transferred to the big house, her home for the next 10 years, give or take, depending on her behavior.

In court yesterday for an unrelated hearing, Casey’s defense attorney, Jose Baez, said, “You are going to find, if you look at them in context, a person who’s locked up 23 hours a day.” He added that they have nothing to hide.

Word on the street is that she wrote about the cuisine at the Thirty-Third Street Eatery. The nachos aren’t as good as Taco Bell or something like that. Here is where I’ll go out on a limb and say why I think the letters may help the prosecution. It’s not about what she wrote, it’s about what she didn’t write. If there are no mentions made of Caylee in those 50 letters, or if she’s merely noted in passing, it could shed light on a mother who couldn’t care less about the death of her daughter, she doesn’t mourn her, and she is, quite seemingly, very self-absorbed. On the other hand, please keep in mind that Casey has been told by Baez not to talk about Caylee or the case and that could be a very viable explanation.

Oddly, many people should be in total agreement with her on one front. She spends a lot of time bashing and trashing her parents. There you go, just what the bashers and trashers wanted to hear… You go girl!

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In other news, prosecutors want transcripts of the hearing held on August 21, 2009. It was there that Casey’s former defense team member Todd Macaluso announced in court that, “The body or remains of Caylee Anthony were placed there after Anthony was locked up in the Orange County facility.”

At the time, the defense would not go into details about the evidence they had to prove it. Macaluso’s bold statement set up the defense’s request for records from Texas EquuSearch, the volunteer group that helped search for Caylee. TES maintains that the wooded area was too flooded at the time to search.

Speaking of Texas EquuSearch, Orange County Circuit Court Judge Stan Strickland denied Casey’s request for all of the records from the search group after yesterday morning’s hearing. Baez had argued that the records are important to the case, but TES attorney Mark NeJame said Baez had plenty of time and access to view them. He called Baez’s lack of doing so “either laziness or sloppiness.”

In his order, the judge wrote that the files are still available for review at NeJame’s office in downtown Orlando and, therefore, there’s no reason to modify an earlier order. If the defense needs to access more records, they are free to request those.

Defense TES Document Denial by Judge Strickland