Surprise! Surprise! Late Thursday evening, lawyers for Casey Anthony filed a motion pointing the finger at the man who found Caylee Anthony’s remains, as a possible suspect in her murder.
The motion filed by Anthony’s defense team, came at the end of the day when Roy Kronk, the former meter reader who found the two-year-old’s remains, had been questioned under oath.
Anthony’s defense team in the motion filed, says that Kronk who found the remains of Caylee, is also the man who put the girl’s body where it was found.
“It is the nature of criminal defense to attempt to find someone to blame for a crime other than the person charged. Mr. Kronk has understood from the beginning that the defense might attempt to cast suspicions in his direction–because that’s what defense attorneys do. In their zeal to defend Casey Anthony, defense counsel has filed papers with the Court that are filled with allegations that have no basis in fact and falsely accuse Mr. Kronk of various types of bad behavior,” Kronk’s attorney, David Evans, said in a press release Thursday evening. “As for Mr. Kronk, he vehemently denies the allegations against him and is confident that he will be vindicated. In the meantime, as he stated early on in this case, no good deed goes unpunished.”
Meanwhile, legal analysts say that it is not unusual for defense lawyers, particularly in a death penalty case, to throw everything into the mix with the aim of creating reasonable doubt in the minds of the potential jury pool. But they also say, this is a desperate attempt on the part of the Anthony defense team to save their client, when they dig up dirt on Kronk, suggesting he is bad man.
Kronk’s deposition will continue next Monday.
Casey Anthony, the 23-year-old mother of Caylee, sits in the Orange County Jail charged with first degree murder of her daughter.  Anthony had earlier said that her little daughter was kidnapped by a baby sitter, although to date, no evidence was found to indicate this was the case.
Anthony’s trial is expected to get underway in the summer of 2010. If convicted, she could face the death penalty.
