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CNN’s Art Harris on TALK BACK Live in ’95, before O. J. acquital

By Art Harris, The Bald Truth, (c) www.artharris.com, all rights reserved

Imagine Caylee Anthony squeeling with delight, as she blows out six candles on a birthday cake—her own. That’s what might have been today, had she not been found dumped in a swamp near her home in Orlando, Florida.

With her mother acquitted on murder charges and now entertaining million dollar deals from the likes of Hustler magazine, her birthday is a reminder of raw wounds left by a shocking not guilty verdict and exposed a justice system that some critics say favors criminals — and killers.

I can only compare it to the gasps heard after O. J. Simpson was acquitted for a double murder linked by slam dunk DNA evidence in 1995, when I was investigating the case for CNN and breaking most of the network exclusives with a team of crack producers. Read the rest of this entry »

Raw jail release video of Casey Anthony walking to freedom

From Bald Truth Staff, (c) www.artharris.com, all rights reserved

She walked fast, behind her lawyer, mouthed one “thank you” to a guard she knew, clmbed into an SUV and was gone into the night…With one reported stop at underground parking at her lawyer’s downtown office, that was the last siting, save for a pink shirt on a woman under an umbrella spotted heading to a private plane at a local airport.

Here’s our theory: she’s already made a major media deal and one stipulation is that she give no interviews, and no photo opps to anyone. If successful, the first photo of Casey Anthony could fetch upwards of a half million dollars, and if her story rights have been bought, that money could go to the media buyer, heavily defraying the costs of whatever deal might have been made. Read the rest of this entry »

Juror #2 tells newspaper “the evidence wasn’t there” to convict for murder.

By Art Harris, The Bald Truth, (c) www.artharris.com, all rights reserved

Juror Number 2 in the Casey Anthony murder case says “the evidence wasn’t there” to find her guilty of murder beyond a reasonable doubt.

Without revealing his name, he tells The St. Petersburg Times jurors believed Anthony killed her two year old daughter, Caylee, but prosecutors failed to make a case with enough concrete evidence to persuade them beyond a reasonable doubt.

Meanwhile, Judge Belvin Perry sent Casey Anthony back to jail–until next Wednesday, when she will be released despite his four year sentence for lying to police since she’s amassed enough jail time to receive credit for time served. She also faces possible fines. Read the rest of this entry »

By Art Harris, The Bald Truth, (c) www.artharris.com, all rights reserved

Was the Casey Anthony jury correct in convicting her of only lying to police? Did the prosecution fail to make a solid case that proved her guilt beyond reasonable doubt? Or was the defense simply brilliant in a bumbling way as it threw spaghetti against the wall that stuck? Was the media unfair in coverage that demonized Casey?

Indeed, says Anthony lawyer Cheney Mason. Before he was caught on video tape giving the media the finger at the Casey lawyers victory party following her acquital on all charges related to killing her daughter, Mason unloaded a double barrel blast at hostile hosts and celebrity TV legal experts.
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