Is Mr. Baez Flaunting the Expertise of the Defense Experts?

Defense attorney Jose Baez spoke to the press on December 15, 2008, concerning his experts and funding of the defense of Casey Anthony, who is awaiting trial for the murder of her two-year-old daughter, Caylee Anthony.  The comments of Mr. Baez may be found at the following link.

http://www.clickorlando.com/news/18284043/detail.html

Jose Baez: “We have qualified people, the best in the business, reviewing this evidence.”

It is unclear if Mr. Baez is referring to defense experts in this comment as he uses the words “qualified people” then qualifies their qualifications with the phrase “the best in the business”.  What is their “business”?  How did Mr. Baez determine they are the “best”?  If they are the “best”, Mr. Baez is stating his experts are superior to the experts employed by the State of Florida.  As some of these “qualified people” have left his team between the time he made this comment and early 2011, it would stand to reason those who continue to work with Mr. Baez, even if they do not return his phone calls, may not be “the best in the business”

Jose Baez: “I’m not about pumping my chest and flaunting about who we’re bringing in, you’ll see it when they come.”

Mr. Baez claims he is “not about pumping my chest and flaunting” even though he just trumpeted his “qualified people” are “the best in the business”.  It is likely Mr. Baez did not know who he was “bringing in”, which is supported by his most recent filing concerning experts in which he lists yet another expert recently retained, more than two years after this comment.

Jose Baez: “We have certain experts we were hoping to get closer to the scene.”

Of all the “qualified people” who are “the best in the business”, Mr. Baez only desires “certain experts” to “get closer to the scene”.  Does he want the “certain experts” to investigate or examine the scene?  We do not know as we are unable to determine from his words what will be accomplished by physical proximity to “the scene”.

Jose Baez: “I don’t think it’s any concern of anyone who’s paying for all of that. It’s confidential information, and I’m not about to disclose confidential information.”

“I don’t think it’s any concern of anyone who’s paying for all of that.” – This sentence is a lie.  “I don’t think” means this assertion is open to debate as other may “think” differently.  The premise of the comment is false.  Payment must be a “concern” for whoever is paying the bills, a person who would fit into the description “anyone”.  “Concern” is sensitive to Mr. Baez as seen by the use of the extra word “any”, which adds no meaning to the sentence other than to highlight “concern”.  “For all of that” distances Mr. Baez from what is being paid for with the distancing word “that”.

“I’m not about to disclose confidential information.” – “Not about to disclose” is a reference to time.  Mr. Baez is “not about to disclose” at the time he is making the comments.  This does not mean he did not disclose or will not disclose “confidential information”.

We have learned Mr. Baez believed the experts who were initially with the defense team were “the best in the business”, which brings into question how he feels about his current experts.

We have learned Mr. Baez believes when he flaunts he is not flaunting.

We have learned Mr. Baez does not want anyone to know who paid for the early days of Casey Anthony’s defense.