Duct Tape Debate Reignited in Casey Anthony Case
CASEY ANTHONY, MURDER SUSPECT: Come on!</s>CINDY ANTHONY, CASEY`S MOM: Casey, hold on, sweetheart.</s>CASEY ANTHONY: Nobody`s letting me speak. You want me to talk, and...</s>CINDY ANTHONY: All right. I`ll listen.</s>CASEY ANTHONY: Give me three seconds to say something. I`m not in control.</s>VELEZ-MITCHELL: But now the defense team for Casey Anthony is talking, and we`re back talking about the duct tape debate in the Casey Anthony case. Was it placed over Caylee`s mouth, and was it the weapon used to kill little Caylee? We just heard Levi Page says it`s common sense that obviously the duct tape that`s near the jaw was used to cover her mouth. Jayne Weintraub, you were shaking your head.</s>WEINTRAUB: And I was, because two things. One, the only person -- let`s remember what the evidence is and not what the flap is. The evidence is that the duct tape was not over her mouth. And, No. 2, there was no skin on it, which means there was -- it was not affixed to the skin before the skin decomposed. But more importantly, remember in the case who had anything to do with duct tape? Roy Kronk.</s>PAGE: No. The Anthonys.</s>HONOWITZ: But he didn`t have duct tape in his house. The duct tape came from their house.</s>VELEZ-MITCHELL: All right. Let`s hear...</s>PAGE: But let`s remember, the flyers -- the flyers that were used to hang missing Caylee flyers, the duct tape that was used was matched to the duct tape that was over her mouth.</s>VELEZ-MITCHELL: OK.</s>WEINTRAUB: No, that`s not true.</s>PAGE: It is.</s>VELEZ-MITCHELL: I`ve got to go to Stacey Honowitz. Stacey Honowitz, former prosecutor.</s>PAGE: It it`s true. It`s the same brand.</s>WEINTRAUB: Same brand doesn`t mean it`s the same tape.</s>VELEZ-MITCHELL: If she was in the ground for months, if cops are right and she was in the ground or underwater from summer to Christmas, then obviously, the duct tape is going to move.</s>HONOWITZ: Jane, I can guarantee...</s>VELEZ-MITCHELL: Go ahead.</s>HONOWITZ: I can guarantee you that in the deposition you got a little piece of the action today when Jose Baez said, she handed us a gem. I can guarantee you that when she takes that stand or even in deposition and a prosecutor says to her, "Isn`t it common sense or isn`t it true, not just common sense, but isn`t it scientifically true that, if this child was in the ground, that the duct tape could have moved? We don`t know how far off it was from the mouth. We don`t know what the movement was. We don`t know what kind of cells were there." So certainly, these are questions that a prosecutor is prepared to go forward with in court.</s>VELEZ-MITCHELL: Rose, South Carolina, your question or thought, ma`am.</s>CALLER: Yes. I`ve been watching since the beginning, and I think Cindy and Casey had a big fight, where Cindy thought that Casey wasn`t being a good mother. So she took Casey to spite her mother, and the baby, Caylee, kept getting in her way. And she kept giving her chloroform. And I think she overdosed on it and Casey opened the trunk one day and...</s>VELEZ-MITCHELL: OK. Let me get</s>MANION: Absolutely. Absolutely. Yes. Some -- it`s been known that some parents, some babysitters, will use chloroform to anesthetize a child and keep them sleeping for hours while they either go out or goof off or do something. I also want to emphasize, remember Dr. G hasn`t said that this child died from the tape across her mouth. Dr. G has said the death is from unknown origin. So to me, this is a big prosecution theory, but I don`t see Dr. G buying into it yet.</s>VELEZ-MITCHELL: All right.</s>MANION: And the chloroform defense is certainly viable.</s>VELEZ-MITCHELL: Fabulous panel, thank you so much. We`re going to stay on top of that one obviously. Coming up, a college freshman videotaped having sex with another man.