Summary of Jeff Ashton's Imperfect Justice

Everest Media

Description

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Sample Book Insights:
#1 I was brought in to help with the case of Caylee Anthony, a two-year-old girl who had gone missing in 2008. I had experience with forensic evidence, and Linda thought my perspective and experience might be helpful.
#2 I had been working with Linda since she joined the office in 1989. We had worked on many cases together, and in 1987, I had prosecuted the first case in the world in which DNA evidence was used to convict a suspect.
#3 I had the makings of a lawyer since I was eight years old. When I was in fourth grade, my grandmother and great-aunt Thelma were visiting us in Saint Petersburg. Thelma said I should be a lawyer. I was an underachiever in school, but got through the public school system reasonably well.
#4 I was the only one in my family who did not go into accounting. I graduated from law school in 1983, and was hired by the State Attorney’s Office in Orlando. I prosecuted my first murder case in 1983, and my first death penalty case two years later.

Sujets

• True Crime
• General officer
• Murder
• General

Informations

• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 14 mai 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9798822510401
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

Extrait

Insights on Jeff Ashton's Imperfect Justice
Contents Insights from Chapter 1 Insights from Chapter 2 Insights from Chapter 3
Insights from Chapter 1

#1

I was brought in to help with the case of Caylee Anthony, a two-year-old girl who had gone missing in 2008. I had experience with forensic evidence, and Linda thought my perspective and experience might be helpful.

#2

I had been working with Linda since she joined the office in 1989. We had worked on many cases together, and in 1987, I had prosecuted the first case in the world in which DNA evidence was used to convict a suspect.

#3

I had the makings of a lawyer since I was eight years old. When I was in fourth grade, my grandmother and great-aunt Thelma were visiting us in Saint Petersburg. Thelma said I should be a lawyer. I was an underachiever in school, but got through the public school system reasonably well.

#4

I was the only one in my family who did not go into accounting. I graduated from law school in 1983, and was hired by the State Attorney’s Office in Orlando. I prosecuted my first murder case in 1983, and my first death penalty case two years later.

#5

In 1987, I had become the first prosecutor to introduce DNA evidence in a court case. In 1990, I created the homicide division of the State Attorney’s Office. I was married to my second wife, Joy, and we had two children.

#6

I learned that the Anthonys had made a 911 call on July 15, 2008, from their car, saying that they wanted Casey arrested for stealing their 1998 Pontiac Sunfire and withdrawing money from their bank account without authorization. The car had been found abandoned in the parking lot of a business located at the intersection of East Colonial Drive and Goldenrod Road.

#7

After George had the car back at the house, Cindy went through it and found a piece of paper with the cell phone number of Casey’s friend Amy Huizenga. She called Amy and took her to the police station, where she accused Casey of grand theft auto.

#8

The operator at the Orange County Sheriff’s Office instructed Cindy to call back from her home. Two hours passed before a third call was made from the Anthony home. This time, Cindy was hysterical.

#9

The 911 calls that were made were very calm from Casey Anthony, and it was hard to believe that she had lost her baby a month ago.

#10

I went to visit the house where the initial action in the case had taken place. The Anthonys were well liked by their neighbors. There had never been any trouble at the house, even when Casey and her brother were teenagers.

#11

When Corporal Fletcher arrived at the house, he interviewed Cindy and George Anthony. George explained that his wife had tried to reach him at work, but he had missed her call. When he had called her back, there was no answer.

#12

Lee was the mediator between his mother and sister. He tried to talk to Casey and convince her to tell him where Caylee was, but she refused. Instead, she told him that their mother had called the police, concerned about the welfare of Caylee.

#13

Casey claimed that she had lied and stolen from her family and friends during the time Caylee was missing. She said that she had been desperate to find her daughter, and that she had gone to malls, parks, and banks every day since the toddler’s disappearance to look for her.

#14

The story sounded extremely strange, and the mother’s composure did not match the situation. The officers knew that they had to be patient and let her tell her story, even if it didn’t add up.

#15

When the police arrived at the house, they found that tensions were high between Casey and her mother, Cindy. Sergeant Hosey spoke with Casey privately and tried to reassure her that no one was going to take Caylee away from her.

#16

When Melich arrived at the house, he was greeted by Sergeant Hosey, who quickly brought him up to speed. Hosey told him the story of the thirty-one days, the attempts to locate Caylee and Zenaida, and their inability to verify anything that Casey had told them.

#17

Casey gave a detailed account of how she had lost her phone nine days earlier, and how she had reported it missing to security at Universal Studios. She explained that she had only lived in the Sawgrass complex for four months, but that she had taken Caylee there on the day she went missing.

#18

Melich and Casey went to visit the last known residences of Zenaida Fernandez Gonzalez. They visited the apartment where Zenaida had lived in the early part of 2006, and the condo where Zanny had lived with her mother.

#19

The detectives went to see the manager of the apartment complex, Amanda Macklin, and the maintenance man, Dave Turner. They did not recognize the photograph of Caylee given to them by Cindy Anthony, and the apartment on North Hillside Drive had been vacant for 142 days when Zenaida had visited it in early 2006. Two lies.

#20

Melich went to Universal Studios to try and find the friends, Jeff and Juliette, that Caylee’s father had mentioned. He also wanted to see if the suspect, Zenaida Gonzalez, worked there.

#21

The scene at the security gate was comical. Sergeant Allen and Detective Wells followed Casey’s directions to the Universal employee parking lot, and when she arrived at the employee gate, they were met by Melich, Turtora, and the security guard.

#22

The girl led the group all the way down the building's main hall, and then stopped suddenly. She told them she didn't really work there. Four lies. It was the same thing that happened with Lee the night before, when she shifted her story from Caylee being with the babysitter to Caylee being kidnapped.

#23

The conversation continued, and Melich showed her that more of her stories were lies. He asked her where Caylee was, and she said she had no clue. He asked her if she would tell the truth if she knew, and she said yes.

#24

When she was confronted with the facts, they did little to sway her. She seemed to be unfazed by them, and she continued to lie and say that she had never met the detective before.

#25

Sergeant Allen continued to press on Casey’s guilt over the lies, but she remained unmoved.

#26

The detectives were trying to get Casey to confess to what had happened to Caylee, but she remained resolute in her original story. Her words were just as determined as they had been when she was trying to convince the security guard that she worked there.

#27

The interview with the detectives was drawing to a close, and Casey was relieved. She was convinced that the officers were on board with her story, and that her biggest failure was not reporting Caylee missing earlier. She was arrested then and there.

#28

The first appearance of Caylee’s mother, Casey Anthony, was before a judge on July 17. She was held without bond, and the search for her daughter continued without her.

#29

The phone call with Lee was another attempt to get Tony’s phone number. Again, Casey was trying to get his number so she could call him and talk about Caylee, but her family seemed more concerned with Caylee than with the fact that she was in jail.

#30

The investigation focused on trying to figure out how much of Casey’s story was a lie.