Jose Baez, Casey Anthony Defense Attorney, Writing Book On Infamous Trial

ORLANDO, Fla. -- Casey Anthony's lawyer is writing a book about her murder trial.

Attorney Jose Baez said Tuesday the book will be released in July. It is titled: "Presume Guilty, Casey Anthony: The Inside Story."

Baez is promising the book will be about what happened off the record, and it will describe who the real Anthony is.

Anthony was acquitted in the killing of her 2-year-old daughter, Caylee, in July in a trial that mesmerized the nation.

Anthony was released from jail in late July and has remained out of sight since. She is serving probation on an unrelated charge.

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• Casey Anthony Personal Photo

  The bombshell trial of Casey Anthony captivated the nation's attention. The Florida mother, pictured in this photo from her Photobucket.com account, was found not guilty of murdering her two-year-old daughter, Caylee.

• Casey Anthony Personal Photo

  Amidst all of the hoopla surrounding the trial, some of Casey Anthony's personal photographs were released. Several of Anthony's photographs were used as evidence.

• Casey Anthony Personal Photos

  Prosecutors alleged that Casey Anthony killed her daughter, then misled authorities who were searching for the toddler. But her attorneys insisted that Caylee drowned in the family's swimming pool. The defendant's lawyers claimed that after years of abuse, Casey Anthony felt unable to reveal the truth.

• Casey Anthony Personal Photos

  Prosecutors attempted to cast Casey Anthony as a party girl -- revealing that she took part in a "Hot Body" contest just four days after she claimed her daughter drowned in her family's pool.

• Casey Anthony Personal Photos

  Lawyers showed jurors photos of Casey Anthony partying, like this image, which was posted on the defendant's Photobucket.com account.

• Casey Anthony Personal Photos

  Casey Anthony reportedly told investigators that her daughter had been kidnapped by a nanny, but during the trial her attorneys claimed the child drowned.

• Casey Anthony Personal Photos

  One question that remains unanswered is the identity of Caylee Anthony's father. Casey Anthony reportedly told friends that the child's father was a "one night thing."

• Casey Anthony Personal Photos

  But her lawyers have floated a theory involving incest. Casey Anthony's attorneys pressed an FBI witness to tell jurors that the agency conducted a paternity test on the defendant's brother, Lee Anthony. The test came back negative.

• Casey Anthony Personal Photos

  Investigators also conducted a paternity test on Casey Anthony's father, George Anthony, which also came back negative.

• Casey Anthony Personal Photos

  Tests also revealed that Jesse Grund, a man Casey Anthony once dated, was not Caylee Anthony's father.

• Casey Anthony Personal Photos

  Casey Anthony's family said they knew something was amiss when they detected a foul odor coming from the back of the defendant's car in July, 2008.

• Casey Anthony Personal Photos

  The trunk of the car actually contained a bag of trash, but prosecutors claimed that Caylee Anthony's body decomposed in the rear of the vehicle before it was moved to another location.

• Casey Anthony Personal Photos

  An insect expert for the defense stated that the body didn't decompose in the car because there wasn't any evidence of bugs that are often attracted to remains.

• Casey Anthony Personal Photos

  Caylee Anthony's remains were discovered near the family's home in December, 2008.

• Casey Anthony Personal Photos

  Prosecutors alleged that Casey Anthony killed her daughter by placing duct tape over her mouth. Duct tape was discovered wrapped around the todder's skull when the child's remains were recovered.

• Casey Anthony Personal Photos

  Casey Anthony was indicted on October 14, 2008, on charges of first-degree murder.

• Casey Anthony Personal Photos

  The Casey Antony trial became the year's biggest legal event. Spectators lined up every morning to get tickets to the trial. In one case, attendees got into a fistfight over access to the courtroom.

• Casey Anthony Personal Photos

  The case became one of the most monumental trials in Florida's history.

• Casey Anthony Personal Photos

  Some photos of Casey Anthony and Caylee Anthony were classified as evidence.

• Casey Anthony Personal Photos

  Jury selection for the Casey Anthony trial began on May 9, 2011.

• Casey Anthony Personal Photos

  Alongside capital murder, Casey Anthony was also charged with aggravated child abuse, aggravated manslaughter of a child and misleading law enforcement in the case of the death of her daughter, Caylee Anthony.

• Casey Anthony Personal Photos

  The prosecution sought the death penalty.

• Man Who Wants To Marry Casey Anthony

  Meet Don Gennaro Annunziata. He was at the sentencing protest in front of the Orange County Courthouse. Don said he is a 38-year-old window washer from Orlando.

• Casey Anthony Bachelor Number Two

  Bachelor number two is Tim Allen, a 24-year-old resident of Orlando, Fla.

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Comments

[whisperstopigs]

06:21 AM on 06/13/2012

I think he had a THING for her. Maybe he shoots blanks and cant be a beloved Baby Daddy for her, so he;s compensating by writing his fantasy on paper-a book that NO ONE cares to read TYVM. He wasnt a GREAT atty, he actually s2ked, it was the procecutors that failed to prove the case. He was another dime store atty who got lucky and now wants to PROFIT off it. Go beat your chest Jose....if it makes you feel like the man you obviously arent.

[scrbnurs2]

09:54 PM on 06/12/2012

If Anthony is doing so well finacially, why hasn't she paid back the court costs and legal fees in Florida?

[pipersfu]

10:47 PM on 05/24/2012

All I know is that all those Lynchmob mental midgets who belong to the hate Casey Club, will be the 1st to buy the book. They simply can't get enough of ANYTHING Casey Anthony.

[maxom]

11:10 PM on 05/24/2012

I wonder if they will try to rewrite the book in the margins as they read it....that is if they can read.

[pipersfu]

03:00 AM on 05/25/2012

LOL but they can't write either....

[mvelezlatina27]

08:14 AM on 05/22/2012

Casey and Jose what a great couple they make !

[IMHO-YouDoNotMatter]

04:15 AM on 05/22/2012

What other cases has he had since this one or is he counting on living off that dead baby the rest of his life?

[scrbnurs2]

09:49 PM on 06/12/2012

Nope, you got it right!!!

[whisperstopigs]

06:22 AM on 06/13/2012

Exactly!!! He is low life scum as well, maybe not a murderer, but sure making his bed with one.

[AuntieBigDigs59]

11:18 PM on 05/21/2012

I just hope that people won't fall for his crap...Please people don't buy this book. Hasn't little Caylee paid enough of a price? Don't give Baez your hard earned money. He made enough off of the trial...

[smitthy]

12:20 PM on 05/21/2012

Is Casey Anthony receiving royalties for display of her "Personal Photos" on Huffpo all these months?

[pipersfu]

10:44 PM on 05/24/2012

smitthy, YES and I think you knew that

[smitthy]

01:36 AM on 05/25/2012

Hey Piper... not so fast. I don't know that. Unlike you, I actually do look for verifiable sources and was hoping that Huffpo would answer. According to Google gods, and Photobucket terms of service, the pics very well may be public domain, once Casey uploaded them to the World Wide Web.

[Gizmo9]

09:21 AM on 05/15/2012

Jose you can not shock me anymore than you already did with your new book. I for one am not falling for another one of your ploys. Maybe the Florida jurors would want to buy your book as they seemed to be impressed with your shenanigans.

[whisperstopigs]

06:25 AM on 06/13/2012

I have to stand up for the jurors, they WANTED to find her guilty but they had to go on what was presented and reasonable doubt, and with what was presented to them, they couldnt find her guilty in the context of the law and justice system. NOT THEIR FAULT. The procecutors failed to make a good case, but the jurors still knew in their hearts she was a killer. But hearts dont count in a court of law. :( Dont blame FL either, we dont want this **** or her family in OUR STATE!

[Gizmo9]

07:34 AM on 06/13/2012

There is such a think as hung jury and they could have her retried if they really felt she was guilty. 

[Trixiebelle]

09:30 PM on 05/14/2012

I still cannot figure out how Casey Anthony got off. Jose Baez is not a brilliant attorney but he managed to put enough doubt in the minds of the jury that he was able to get an acquital for his client. He threw George Anthony under the bus, came up with all kinds of crazy scenarios that he never proved. The prosecutors on the other hand, presented everything they had which was substantial. The fact that the jury could not put two and two together from Casey's lies to the smell of decomposition from experts is astonishing. My theory is that Casey Anthony got in the habit of giving the baby Xanax or other meds to put her to sleep while she partied and she gave her too much that night and she killed her. She was an unfit mother. Period.

[maybesomeday]

08:11 AM on 05/11/2012

Blood money, blood money. Someone profiting off of Caylee's murder. What a shame!

[phylliscooper1]

07:58 PM on 06/13/2012

It is standard lawyer operating procedure. My brother was shot and killed at the age of 12 by a 14 year old neighbor boy playing with his dad's gun. The boy's parents were out of town at the horse races when he invited my brother over to play pool. It was years ago, when kids played in the neighborhood until dinner. My mother was so grief stricken and refused to bring legal action because she knew that nothing she could do would bring her son back. A family friend suggested she get a lawyer anyway and she finally conceded. The lawyer filed a claim for the people's home owner's insurance death benefit. It was $50,000, and the lawyer took 1/3 of the money, for having his secretary fill out the claim forms.

[IMHO-YouDoNotMatter]

06:58 AM on 05/11/2012

Only thing worth reading would be for him to explain his opening statement.

[My Red Pony]

07:17 PM on 05/09/2012

I'd like to do a book about Jose called "Baezism." I, like so many, followed the trial and wrote down all the stupid things he said, including objecting to his own statement. It kept me really busy. There's no way he is smart enough to write the book, he must have had a ghost writer.

[scrbnurs2]

09:55 PM on 06/12/2012

Very True!!!

[KBgemini]

12:15 PM on 05/09/2012

Honestly, Jose Baez gives himself WAY too much credit when it comes to this case. I honestly do not believe there was anything Baez said or did that helped him win the case. The sad fact is, the prosecution didn't do the best job when it came to prosecuting the case and there was so much forensic evidence introduced, that the jury was completely confused by the end of the trial. Karma will definitely come back around from Casey and her defense team and I hope we are hear to see it! But seriously, Jose Baez and the rest of the defense team need to step off of their high horse and realize that they just got EXTREMELY lucky when they won this case!

[maybesomeday]

08:13 AM on 05/11/2012

I completely disagree I believe it was the jury who didn't do their due diligence in that jury room.

[KBgemini]

11:10 AM on 05/11/2012

I can see how you would think that. It's very easy to blame the jury, since they were the ones that handed down the aquittal. We have absolutely no idea what went on in that jury room, so I won't sit here and put all of the blame on the jury. However, we do know what went on in the court room and after following the case every day and after watching a few specials on the case, I will put a lot of the blame on the prosecution. They were way too vague in their arguments, and when Jose Baez ridiculously turned the table and blamed the entire thing of Casey Anthony's father, they did not re-group, but continued with their orginial argument. They put WAY too many forensic experts on the stand that tried to explain WAY too much. You can not have THAT much "scientific" talk about circumstantial evidence in a trial, because it is going to do nothing but confuse the jury. If they had more solid forensic evidence, i.e., Casey's DNA on the tape that was found on the body or anything like that, then the jury would have understood that better. But when you start talking about air samples from the trunk of the car, it's more confusing then anything. The prosecution raised reasonable doubt and when you have even the slightest bit of reasonable doubt, the jury is going to come back with a not guilty verdict.

[pipersfu]

10:49 PM on 05/24/2012

Good old figment of your imagination.."Karma" She is Not Guilty, move on with your life.

[KBgemini]

04:57 PM on 05/25/2012

I'm sorry, but is what a figment of my imagination? Are you really saying that you believe that Casey is not guilty?

[reeree0505]

11:52 AM on 05/09/2012

Don`t they know, no one cares about her or the slimy lawyer! All lies anyway...the only way we would ever know how she KILLED her is maybe some anesthesia!!!!

[mad badger]

11:02 AM on 05/09/2012

if the book is to come out in July, didn't they/he already recieve a check? (advance) The whole lot will meet karma one day! RIP Caylee!!!

[Lorraine PA]

11:15 AM on 05/09/2012

they sure will and KARMA will come around!

[Gizmo9]

09:26 AM on 05/15/2012

They will meet their Karma as the lawyers of the OJ trial did.