Casey's Parents Grilled By Defense
KAYE: The Anthony family drama was on full display today in the Casey Anthony murder trial. Casey Anthony's alleged sexual abuse by her dad and brother, George Anthony's suicide attempt, the rotting smell in Casey's car and the fights about Casey's lies. Both Casey's mom and dad are back on the stand to answer some very blunt questions from the defense. You can imagine there were some very emotionally charged moments in that courtroom today. So let's bring in Holly Hughes, a criminal defense attorney and former prosecutor. She's here with me today again in studio. Holly, the defense going after George Anthony pretty hard there, questioning him about molesting his daughter Casey. He said, quote, "I would never harm her in that way." But the defense brought this up in their opening. They're trying to prove it. Did they?</s>HOLLY HUGHES, CRIMINAL DEFENSE ATTORNEY, FORMER PROSECUTOR: No. And here's a tip for Jose Baez, Randi, never hand your enemy a club because he just might use it to beat you over the head with it. George Anthony is having Jose Baez for lunch because he's rehabilitating him. That's not what he's trying to do, but yesterday we saw a defiant George who said, I didn't have an affair. Today we see a broken, heart-wrenching, emotional plea by a father, and a grandfather, saying, I wouldn't do that.</s>KAYE: Yes. You mention that. And we were watching this earlier and you can see George Anthony on the verge of tears several times. But there were one moment where he just broke down when he learned that investigators had found his granddaughter's body. Let's listen to that and then I want to ask you about it.</s>JEFF ASHTON, ASSISTANT STATE ATTORNEY: Had you held out the hope that Caylee would be found alive?</s>GEORGE ANTHONY, CASEY ANTHONY'S FATHER: Absolutely. Every day from July 15th until the day we were told it was Caylee.</s>ASHTON: In January of 2009 you went -- I'll give you a moment.</s>KAYE: He is broken, as you described there. But what was so interesting, too, was his daughter's reaction. Casey's reaction sitting there. So I'm curious. I mean what, as a defense attorney, would you worry in that case what jurors might think of your client and how she's reacting?</s>HUGHES: I absolutely would because we already know that Casey does not react properly. You know, her mother was on the stand falling apart because this little girl is missing --</s>KAYE: And she shows nothing.</s>HUGHES: Nothing. She is completely unaffected by this. And that's just not normal. That's not the human emotion. When we see Cindy and George having these very real, human drama breakdowns, that's what we want from the mother of this precious little girl. We want the mother to be this upset that her baby went missing. Whether she drowned, whether she was murdered, we want her to care, Randi, and she doesn't.</s>KAYE: Very quickly. They also brought up George Anthony's suicide note. He had left a note saying that he wanted to be with Caylee. Why would the defense bring this up? This was in, what, 2009 I think.</s>HUGHES: Because they are trying to infer that he was getting about molesting his daughter, that he was guilty about hiding the body and now Casey's on the hook for it.</s>KAYE: Just so wracked with guilt that he would take his life?</s>HUGHES: Correct. But it's going to backfire because when the state gets to put up rebuttal, you better believe Jeff Ashton is entering that suicide note into evidence as a rebuttal. Right now it's hearsay and the defense certainly isn't going to enter it because it doesn't say what they want it to say.</s>KAYE: All right, Holly, we'll check back with you in about an hour from now. We'll let you get back to watching the trial and keep us up to date on that.</s>HUGHES: You got it.</s>KAYE: Thank you. Well, all this week, we're taking a look at an important issue -- online security. Up next, our Michael Holmes shows us how technology makes it difficult to avoid being tracked no matter what you do.