Casey Anthony’s Lawyer Thanks ABC News, Says Network Paid For Winning Defense
Casey Anthony’s lawyer Jose Baez on Thursday publicly acknowledged that his team was only able to mount a successful defense because ABC news had paid Casey Anthony $200,000.
That large sum of money was paid to the Anthony family so ABC news could gain exclusive rights to photos of Casey and Caylee. According to Jose that money was then used “so we could mount a proper defense.
Speaking on PBS’ Frontline Baez says the case cost $275,000 to put together and without money from ABC News he doesn’t think his team would have been able to beat the murder rap.
Before, during and after the Casey Anthony trial came to an end critics voiced their concern over various networks offering obscene amounts of money to Casey. Critics argued that Casey should not be allowed to profit from the death of her daughter, even if she wasn’t in fact responsible for that death.
In the meantime ABC news has since changed its policy and is no longer licensing material in exchange for interviews.
Whether or not the extra money truly helped mount a legal victory for Casey Anthony we may never know, in the meantime there was absolutely no reason for Jose Baez to make the comment he made, on a scale of 1 to 10 on the sleazy lawyer scale I would score Baez an 11.
Do you think the money Casey Anthony received from ABC News made that much of a difference in her eventual “not-guilty” verdict or was the case dead in the water from the start?
Tags : abc news, casey anthony, Casey Anthony Lawyer, Jose baez
Posted: April 19, 2012
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Apr 19, 2012
The jurors were all Satans children no decent christian person could have found that piece of rot innocent I don't think the money was an issue Baez, like the jurors, were looking for the shock factor and a lot of notoriety How sad that little Caley is saddened that those idiots did not get justice for her.
Apr 19, 2012
And he had the nerve to get the taxpayers to pay for her defense….. that man has big ones, I mean real big ones. I feel that ABC bought and paid for that verdict…….. jose bozo just go away, please just go away… he forgot aobut the most importat person in all this CAYLEE.
Apr 19, 2012
Apparently, Jose Baez is JUST like his "infamous" client! If he can't have respect and admiration, he'll settle for being hated, LOUDLY! I appreciate that ABC changed their licensing fee policy due to this matter. yet, we have Bozo crediting ABC, for financing THIS "rootin'-tootin'-happy-dance" on Caylee's grave! Since he decided to drag ABC into this opportunity to thumb his nose…again, at the public, ABC needs to weigh in.
Apr 19, 2012
Thank you so much ABC for the money from lawyer Baez, He will support with BABY KILLER TO WALK…. CASEY IS BEAUTIFUL LIFE AND KILLER FREE…. I'll never wacth anything on that network again,
Apr 19, 2012
Casey Anthony and her lawyer are doomed to have sad, pathetic lives. You reap what you sow…. I would hate to be them at 3:00 am in the morning when all the regrets of their lives come to roost… Precious Cayley is with her maker… but those two… I would not want to be them in this lifetime, to be so hated and reviled…. It will start to eat away at them both.
Apr 20, 2012
he is definately sleezy.
Apr 20, 2012
ABC may have changed their policy, but they are going to pay her to appear on Modern Family as of all things a nanny. When I read this I decided ABC is forever out of my life.
Apr 20, 2012
Must have been an April Fool's.
Apr 20, 2012
hi
Apr 20, 2012
The jurors were embeciles, low IQ so, they were too lazy and stupid to review thwe evidence.I think with a jury like that evidence did not even matter.
Apr 21, 2012
Is she really going to be on that show? Where did you see this at?
Apr 23, 2012
Mount a proper defense? That money went for HIS fees and that of his staff, and maybe a doc or two.
Apr 23, 2012
Mount a proper defense? That money went for HIS fees and that of his staff, and maybe a doc or two.
Apr 23, 2012
Why is this a surprise? We all know that a verdict can be bought, it just doesn't always go to the same place. Look at OJ, Klaus Von Bulow, Ted Kennedy. Yes, Jose Baez is greedy. What about Kim Kardashian's dad, OJ's lawyer who made his nauseating family all celebrities?
Apr 23, 2012
Do you really think that they have regrets? All of them just want money and lot's of them.
Apr 24, 2012
Took the words right out of my mouth! They were complete idiots! The only thing they paid attention to during the whole trial were baez's words. They must have missed the very 1st words the judge said "what the lawyers say is NOT evidence". But they allowed baez to spout his ridiculous stories without backing it up, change his story from opening statements to closing arguments, and that didn't bother them one bit. Yet, they chose to ignore all the forensics that were presented by expert witnesses, and they ignored all her lies which pointed to concsiousness of guilt. A bunch of morons for sure!
Apr 24, 2012
The only thing that would have made a difference in this trial was a freakin video tape of the crime because those jurors were too lazy, naive, gullible, and stupid to put the pieces together.. they wanted it handed to them on a silver platter so they didn't have to work their little pea-brains. It still amazes me that we could all see through baez's sleazy tactics, but yet the village idiots loved him and seemed to think his words were reliable evidence. It's ironic that he accused every single prosecution witness of being motivated by greed, and yet as he accused them of greed, he knew that he accepted $200,000 from ABC. And by the way, wasn't that money given by ABC to help find a missing Caylee? Remember, back then, baez was insisting that Caylee was kidnapped. Wonder what the 12 village idiots think of their hero now.
Apr 24, 2012
Exactly, but he accused every prosecution witness of being motivated by greed … even Dr. Vass who has been studying decomposition for decades! Baez is a sleaze ball for sure because him and his client were the only ones interested in blood money. But the 12 village idiots loved him … imagine that.
Apr 24, 2012
Don't understand why you Ned a proper defense for an accidental drowning… so tired of the whole mess of them. Casey Cindy Baez, Mason: Just Go Away…
May 22, 2012
I though the state paid for her defense? That's why the state was running out of money for other court cases! Let her leave the country! We don't need trash like her here.