CASEY ANTHONY 'NEEDS PROFESSIONAL HELP'

"ISSUES"

CASEY Anthony is seeking professional help for mental health issues, instead of the limelight of TV interviews, sources close to the party mom have revealed.
The 25-year-old who was sensationally acquitted of murdering her two-year-old daughter Caylee has admitted 'obvious issues' according to TMZ. 
According to the gossip website, she has now realized that her behavior was questionable, after Caylee's disappearance and she still needs help coping with the "obvious trauma of losing her child.
After nearly three years in solitary confinement in a Florida jail, spending 23 hours a day in a 4x9 foot cell, she also feels the need to cope with something that "messed with her head."
But some media commentator's are speculating that it might be a cunning ploy by her attorney, Jose Baez, to drive up the price for her story.
It is known that in recent weeks he has been negotiating with all the major networks for the first interview. 
However media commentator John McDade has warned that they're brinkmanship could backfire.
He said: "At the moment, everyone wants to hear Casey's story, but as time goes by people may well lose interest or a new story comes along which will capture the public's imagination more.
"So the price she can command, may actually go down. If she is going for treatment, I wish her luck, but if they're just using this as some sort of bargaining chip, I would urge caution."

PARTY MOM CASEY ANTHONY COST STATE $147,000

BROKE

PARTY mom Casey Anthony's defense team have sent a massive $147,018 bill to the state of Florida, for their work clearing her for the murder of her two-year-old daughter.
A jury astonished most onlookers this earlier this month, when they found her not guilty in the case which some have called the most controversial acquittal since OJ Simpson.
But now in a move that is bound to infuriate taxpayers statewide they've submitted their bill which claims expenses for a range of categories including expert witnesses, mental health evaluations and court reporting services.

According to the Orlando Sentinel  the state has paid $118,847 of those expenses and but refused to fork out nearly $12,000.
The largest portion that has been paid to date is for the category that includes investigative services, mitigation specialist work and subpoena service - totaling up to $67,100, reports the paper. 
Anthony initially paid for her defense with $200,000 she received from ABC News for her family photos and videos, and money from private donors.
But she ran out of money and in March 2010 asked the court to declare her indigent so the state could pay the rest of her defense tab, something Circuit Judge Stan Strickland, the judge initially assigned to the case, agreed to.
Casey has been in hiding since the astonishing ruling, although it's believed she may be in California at the moment.
Her lawyer, Jose Baez who controversially accused both her father an brother of sexually abusing her, without producing a shred of evidence to back up his claims is in New York at the moment, negotiating a lucrative TV deal for his client as we reported here.
It is unclear as to whether they have struck a deal yet.

BIDS FLOOD IN FOR FIRST CASEY ANTHONY INTERVIEW

IN THE MONEY

CASEY Anthony's lawyers have been inundated with interview requests from hundreds of media agencies around the World scramble for the first exclusive interview.
According to experts she could make hundreds of thousands, if not millions from lucrative, TV, book and magazine deals, as people scramble to hear her story, after she was cleared of murdering her toddler Caylee.
Media expert John McDade said: "It's going to be bigger than Jaycee Duggard's recent interview with Diane Sawyer. Those viewing figures were huge, but Casey's will undoubtedly be even bigger.

"The network's know that love her or loathe her, everyone will want to know what she has to say for herself, especially as she chose not to testify."  
He added: "It means the checkbooks are out and Casey could make a fortune, possibly over a million if she decides to speak up."
Anthony has laid low after her release from jail but her lawyer Jose Baez insisted that his client had the right to cash in on her infamy, if she chose too.
Jose Baez said: "Right now we are just moving forward and trying to start putting the pieces back together for Casey's life." 
He added: "She has certain rights as an individual in his country, and we will labour hard to make sure she has the ability to exercise those rights. If she decides she wants to speak publicly about it, she'll make that decision."

   

CASEY ANTHONY'S LAWYER JOSE BAEZ: 'I SAVED A LIFE'

LIFE SAVER

CASEY Anthony's defense lawyer made the astonishing claim that he "saved a life today" after his client was found not guilty of murder. 
Jose Baez said "there are no winners" in the case of two-year-old Caylee Anthony, whose dumped, decomposing body was found near the Anthony home, but insisted his client was innocent. Astonishingly he added: "The best feeling that I have today [is] I know when I go home my daughter will ask me what did you do
today? And I can say I saved a life.
"Caylee has passed on far, far too soon and what my driving force has been for the last three years has been always to make sure there is justice for Caylee and Casey because Casey did not murder Caylee.
"It is that simple. And today, our system of justice has not dishonored her memory by a false conviction."
The acquittal, marked the end of an amazing rise for the formerly unknown legal eagle which court tapes revealed, Anthony had chose at random. 
Despite graduating from law school in 1997, the 42-year-old Navy veteran was only admitted to the Florida Bar in 2005 because he refused to pay child support to his former wife or secure life and health insurance for his teenage daughter.
Having previously declared himself bankrupt and defaulted on loans, according to an order by the Supreme Court of Florida, he was refused admission  to the bar for eight years. 
In their ruling they wrote the financial marks on his name showed: "A lack of respect for the rights of others and a total lack of respect for the legal system, which is absolutely inconsistent with the character and fitness qualities required of those seeking to be afforded the highest position of trust and confidence recognised by our system of law."
During this time he worked for two bikini businesses.
According to reports his home was still in foreclosure last year and given that Casey has less than $100 in her account, she will be unable to pay him until she receives money from media appearances or a book deal.
Still, given this amazing verdict Baez will likely be in great demand in future, meaning his money woes will be well behind him. 

CASEY ANTHONY 'LIVED IN A FANTASY WORLD'

BORN LIAR

CASEY Anthony was 'raised to lie' and 'lived in a fantasy world' her own lawyer admitted, but that did not mean she killed her daughter Caylee he said.
The one time party mom's lead attorney Jose Baez  said the whole family was full of liars and that she had been taught to lie from an early age.
He said:  "Lies are what lives within this family. Casey Anthony was raised that way. Raised to lie. Is it a surprise she lived in a fantasy world?"
The he continued to point the finger at her father for the murder of the tragic tot.
Yet again he asked the court, why he never told anyone about how he had buried the family pets - wrapped in blankets, covered in a plastic bag and wrapped with tape before being buried in the backyard.

Both Casey's mother Cindy and brother  Lee testified to this, but George said he couldn't remember when asked about it, reports WKMG.
Baez also claimed that George Anthony was suicidal because police began to investigate him more than one month after Caylee's remains were found, reports the station.
Holding up his suicide note, he claimed that   the note was self-serving, for George Anthony to protect himself.
He also pointed out  that none of the ten law enforcement officers called he managed to link the DNA on Caylee's body to the duct tape found on Caylee's mouth, saying it does not sound right that Casey Anthony was smart enough to outwit forensics experts, but dumb enough to leave her daughter's body 19 feet off a road.
The case was expected to wrap up last week, but Baez's lengthy closing arguments meant it will go into this week.

CASEY ANTHONY'S FATHER GEORGE TO TESTIFY AGAIN

SEXUALLY ABUSED?

CASEY Anthony's lawyers are expected to call her father George to the stand again to answer charges that he sexually abused his daughter, when the trial resumes today.
The one time party mom's lead attorney Jose Baez claims their relationship was fraught with abuse, both emotional and sexual, which is why she concealed details of her daughter, Caylee's accidental drowning death.
The two-year-old body was found dumped in woodland near her Florida home. 
The case will likely get underway again today after Judge Belvin Perry called time on the trial early yesterday, scolding both legal teams for "gamesmanship."

He added that both legal teams were selectively interpreting his court orders and warned the lawyers that he won't stand for any of that anymore.

In open court, that if there is a pattern of intentional violations of his orders by the lawyers, and threatened to strike off witnesses if their gamesmanship continued, which in effect, would take the case back to square one.

So at 11am, with more than half the day remaining he sent them packing and ordered them back to the trial which will continue today.