Well, I guess that one more commentator on the Casey Anthony drama will neither make nor break the public’s understanding of the case, but one thing about the trial did stick out for me and I think it is worth commenting on. That was the trial tactics of Jose Baez, the once laughed at and now suddenly credible defense attorney. While I confess that I was not one of the drama junkies pruriently glued to the TV for every live update, I did note that on at least two occasions Baez reportedly engaged in conduct bordering on the unethical.
It was reported that he "sandbagged" the prosecution at one point with a late disclosure of a key forensic witness. The judge, faced with the Hobson’s choice of excluding possibly exculpatory evidence or allowing it though Baez clearly had either badly bent or broken the rules related to trial disclosures, probably made the right choice and allowed it in.
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