"1. I did not like Jose's name calling and putting people down.. It seems that anyone that he felt slighted him in the least was described in derogatory ways. There is to me a big differance between calling someone smarmy (as ashton called jose) and the names jose called Ashton. Calling Ashton 'tourette's boy' is soo wrong.. Tourettes is a disease that affects people and for Jose to use that term in a derogatory way is offensive to common decency.
He also likes to put down how people look.. describing their height or weight in very rude ways.
Sheriff Bearys interview the day that caylees remains were found was hard for the sheriff im sure.. He had been working on the case for months and He cared about her.. He was emotional in finding the remains and cried during the press release.. for beaz to find that as something to insults him with was Horid. It to me showed just how unfeeling Baez is. If I had a missing loved on and they were found in that way.. i would have felt blessed that such a caring man as the sheriff cared enought to be brought to tears."
Review made by Susan Brown "SueB" on 7/16/2012, Amazon.Com Customer Reviews of
Presumed Guilty by Jose Baez
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What Jose Baez actually wrote:
" I turned on my TV set to WKMG Channel 6, the local CBS affiliate in Orlando, in an attempt to closely watch what was on the news. And I watched as Sheriff Kevin Beary, a huge man, somewhere around six foot two aand tipping the scales at around 350 pounds, was talking about the case while wearing full riot gear.
I said to myself, Just in case they need him to swing into action.
It was bizarre. Here was this huge guy with a bulletproof vest, a flashlight, and black hat. I kept thinking, This guy has probably never been in tactical action in his life, but here he is, dressed up like it's Halloween.
I could also see that Beary was crying. He was the police equivalent of Rams' football coach Dick Vermeil. Either he was hamming it up for the cameras, or I thought, Maybe he's auditioning to be the weeping bailiff for the 'Judge Larry Seidlin Show.' (Seidlin was the crying judge in the Anna Nicole Smith case.)"
Page 320, Presumed Guilty
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Why does Mr. Baez have to be respectful of grandstanding?
" From the start of the trial, during my opening and afterward, I noted the behavior of prosecutor Ashton, who everone could clearly see was mocking me by laughing and making strange faces whenever I made my presentation. My feeling was that was just Ashton being Ashton, that he wasn't able to control himself. Among the members of the defense team, we had a nickname for him.
We called Ashton Tourette's Boy."
Page 319,
Presumed Guilty
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Why is Mr. Ashton's behavior appropriate to a courtroom? If his actions seem compulsive, he may very well have Tourettes.
I think other quotes from Mr. Baez are informative:
" And then Ashton asked, "So what is the doctor going to testify to?"
Ann didn't say anything for a few seconds.
Ashton said, "Just tell us. We're goint to find out tomorrow anyway when we take his deposition."
"She's going to testify that the child died by accident, and her father covered it up," Ann said.
That was the first time the state had learned what our defense was going to be. And I'll never forget Ashton's bizarre reaction: he started to jump up and down in his seat like a little child. He burst out laughing, sounding like a hyena, and kept on jumping up and down in his chair as he laughed. We were talking about the death of a child here."
Pages 262-263,
Presumed Guilty
Casey Anthony: The Inside Story by Jose Baez and Peter Golenbock
" I was shocked by how emotional he could be. It's one thing to be passionate, but it's another thing to be so emotionally that it hurts you and your case. And from what I saw, he was emotionally unstable. When Ann remarked that Ashton was emotionally disturbed, I didn't know what to say. I'm not a mental health professional, but I noticed that during the hundreds of hours we spent together, there were times when he would become just plain silly and act like a petulant child."
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" The defense team joked that we should officially name Ashton as our fourth chair because his childlike behavior was doing us a world of good.
We knew that come trial time, the longer the trial went on, the more I was going to be able to get under his skin and make him look like a complete jerk in front of the jurors. And true to form, that's exactly what happened."
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" For example, he filed a motion to find out how Casey was able to afford our famous experts, even though she didn't have a job. He was accusing me of having a conflict of interest and of selling her story. He was accusing me of something unethical without any evidence whatsoever. But that was par for the course for him. Like a lot of his theories, it came from thin air inside his head.
We had a closed-door meeting with Judge Stan Strickland on the motion, who found there was no conflict of interest. When we were back in open court, I requested that Strickland keep what was said in chambers private because of all the leaks that were comin from the prosecution.
I could see Ashton getting red-faced and angry. I looked at him in pure amazement and then leaned over and said, "Are you all right?"
"No, I'm not all right," he started to scream. He just lost it completely all on national television."
Page 276,
Presumed Guilty
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" I was sure the jury would notice his behavior and realize how insensitive he was for smiling and laughing during the death penalty case of the death of a child. There was nothing funny about it, and it wasn't the time or place to be laughing or making jokes when you're talking about the death of a baby."
Page 320, Presumed Guilty
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I can't say that I don't know the cruelty of common gossips. People have gossipped about me, and I didn't discover the damage they've done until later. I think I chose to ignore their malice, and therefore couldn't understand gossip used as criminal evidence.
The blogs about Casey Anthony have upset me with their cruel gossip. I don't argue with gossips' belief that Casey is guilty, but I disagree that their suspicions prove her guilt beyond my doubt. They ask "What else could it be?" And they attack my honesty, morality, and mental stability and capacity when I tell them what else it could be. I don't expect them to like me for my contrary opinion, but I find it strange that they deny their own antagonism. Why should I want their friendship?
I've always considered myself a common man, and it bothers me how easily common people can become a mob. I worry that I may join the thrill of ganging up on someone because that person is socially vulnerable. I fear having to express myself on some crucial matter when everyone is intent on hearing something contrary. I want not to do onto others as the mob would do unto me.