Dr. G Questioned By Casey's Defense Team

Posted: 12:00 pm EDT September 28, 2010
Updated: 5:42 pm EDT September 28, 2010

ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. -- Casey Anthony's lawyers questioned Dr. G Tuesday, Orange County's famous medical examiner.

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The defense questions how the medical examiner can conclude Caylee Anthony was murdered without saying how. But the defense won't say how Caylee could have been killed accidentally, when three pieces of duct tape were found layered over her face.

The defense questioned medical examiner Dr. Jan Garavaglia and two of her employees Tuesday at the medical examiner's office. Dr. G, and her team, examined Caylee's remains for a week and concluded they might not be able to determine how Caylee was murdered.

Almost two years later that hasn't changed and the defense has questions.

"Her reasons for calling it a homicide without knowing how the death occurred," attorney Cheney Mason said after the questioning.

Casey's lead attorney, Jose Baez, was quiet Tuesday, avoiding all reporter questions.

"Why aren't you stopping to talk to us lately? What's going on?" WFTV reporter Kathi Belich asked Baez.

"I got work to do," he said.

The medical examiner also concluded that Caylee's body had been in the woods for months, partly because plants had grown through and over the remains. Investigators believe Casey dumped Caylee's body there shortly after the little girl disappeared in June 2008, before we ever knew she was missing.

WFTV obtained state financial records, which show how the defense has spent $14,000 of taxpayer money defending Casey. Its private investigator, Jeremiah Lyons, has spent hundreds of taxpayer dollars attempting to interview dozens of witnesses without success. The private eye's explanations included wrong addresses and unanswered doors. B.S. to that!!!!

The defense has also spent tax money for the training records of Orlando police officer Ed Michael, who, with his police dog, investigated a call in October 2008, five days before Casey was locked up on no bond, that a woman heard screams for help coming from woods, blocks away from the Anthonys' house on the opposite side from where Caylee was found.


JUDGE RULES ON SEVERAL MOTIONS

The judge ruled late Tuesday on the defense request to do its own DNA testing on Caylee's shorts and the laundry bag also found with her remains. Chief Judge Belvin Perry is making the defense send the evidence to an accredited lab in Pennsylvania rather than the Dutch lab the defense wanted to use.

The judge made 33 other rulings in the case; most of them concerned issues that had already been resolved.

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Hmmm...they ask..."how can you say it's homicide, when you don't know how"?
Well, for starters...a child is not going to commit suicide by placing 3 pieces of tape over both her mouth and nose. Secondly, if we believe in the previous statement...3 layers of tape covering both breathing orifices...if one can't breathe...one dies. Not rocket science.