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If Casey testifies, can she explain it all away? No way, says lawyer Ray Giudice

Editor’s note:

High profile and highly respected, Dr. Joshua Perper, Broward County Medical Examiner, has faced intense scrutiny in court and under a media microscope for the autopsy he did on Anna Nicole Smith. In dissecting the late Playboy centerfold’s cause of death, he had more to work with than Caylee Anthony experts; the body was fresh and witnesses provided information that helped rule his observations in or out.

In this exclusive article he wrote for The Bald Truth, aka artharris.com, Dr. Perper takes forensic experts to task in the Casey Anthony murder trial, and offers caveats that might have provided better, more easily understood facts and boost the odds that the jury could use to reach a just verdict. His trial autopsy: a stampede of “zebras” in the courtroom.
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Zebras and the tragic death of Caylee Anthony

By Joshua A. Perper M.D., LL.B., M.Sc.

When young medical students and inexperienced interns or residents make a diagnosis that sounds rare or outlandish, you often hear their seniors admonish with the caveat: ” If you hear hoofbeats, think horses, not Zebras.”

What we’re trying to say is that horses are common, but Zebras–like that rare, exotic disease tucked deep in medical books and usually eradicated or non existent in the Western world — are not. The warning: don’t immediately jump to an unlikely medical diagnosis that what you see is a “Zebra.”

Unfortunately, the trial of Casey Anthony has conjured a stampede of “Zebras,” with both prosecution and defense forensic experts invoking the striped animals to buttress their positions. Those “Zebras” not only weakened their conclusions, but had to confuse the jury. To help them reach a decision and see justice done in the murder of two year old Caylee Anthony, Zebras have to be rounded up and separated from the horses. Read the rest of this entry »

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

Nancy Grace gigs Atlanta criminal defense lawyer Ray Giudice, as usual, asking of Casey Anthony might blame “Dingo dogs or Martians next.”

But Giudice bobs and weaves, tries a winning smile, then lays blame at the feet of Jose Baez.

“What we’re seeing,” says Giudice, one our top sponsors at The Bald Truth,’ “is an incompetent defense team. Their experts aren’t prepared, Their direct exams are sloppy, and as we all know, a sloppy direct can lead to a devastating cross.” Read the rest of this entry »

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

How did jury the jury take in the bizarre scene of a star prosecution witness, Cindy Anthony, mouthing, “I love love you” to a daughter accused of murdering her own child?

How will the defense explain away the strange interplay of Casey Anthony who accuses her father of molesting her, and a mother who weeps with her father in the elevator and cheers her daughter on after delivering devastating testimony against her? Read the rest of this entry »

Journalist Art Harris: holes in Haleigh Cummings family stories: updated May 25, 2011

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

After more than two years after what police are calling the unsolved murder of five year old Haleigh Cummings, The Bald Truth reported new exclusive details like a second Misty Croslin brother who allegedly flunked a polygraph following four flubs by the former 17 year old babysitter and brother Tommy, who also flunked a lie detector test that sparked his wife, Lindsy to file for divorce. That from our sources close to the investigation.

Not much has changed since we first reported it on HLN’s Nancy Grace show in March, but law enforcement sources tell The Bald Truth there are new questions surrounding what, if any role, Misty brother, Timmy, and his wife, Chelsea, may have played the night Haleigh vanished. Read the rest of this entry »