Lee Anthony

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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE
NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT, IN
AND "FOR ORANGE COUNTY, FLORIDA
CASE NUMBER: 48-2008-CF-15606-0
DIVISION 16
STATE OF FLORIDA,
Plaintiff,
VS.
CASEY MARIE ANTHONY,
Defendant.
Orlando, Florida
July 30, 2009
9:12 a.m.

DEPOSITION OF:
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Marge Raeder Court Reporter, Inc.
999 Douglas Avenue/Suite 3307
Altamonte Springs, FL 32714
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A P P E A R A N C E S :
LINDA DRANE BURDICK, ATTORNEY AT LAW
JEFFREY ASHTON, ESQUIRE
FRANK GEORGE, ESQUIRE
Assistant State Attorneys
415 North Orange Avenue
Orlando, Florida 32801
Appearing on behalf of the Plaintiff.
JOSE A. BAEZ, ESQUIRE
522 Simpson Road
Kissimmee, Florida 34744
and
ANDREA LYON, ATTORNEY AT LAW [Via Skype]
15 East Jackson Boulevard
Chicago, Illinois 60604
Appearing on behalf of the Defendant.
THOMAS B. LUKA, ESQUIRE
390 North Orange Avenue
Suite 1630
Orlando, Florida 32801
Appearing on behalf of the Deponent.
I N D E X
TESTIMONY OF LEE ALEXANDER ANTHONY:
Direct Examination by Mr. George 3
Direct Examination by Mr. __ Ashton __________________ 329
Direct Examination by Ms. Drane Burdick 339
Further Direct Examination by Mr. George 371
Further Direct Examination by Ms. Drane Burdick 374
Cross Examination by Mr. Baez 376
CERTIFICATE OF REPORTER 383
SUBSCRIPTION OF DEPONENT 384
E X H I B I T S
Exhibit Number 1 141
Exhibit Number 2 366
Exhibit Number 3 382
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The deposition of LEE ALEXANDER
ANTHONY was taken on behalf of the
Plaintiff on Thursday, July 30, 2009,
beginning at 9:12 a.m., at the Office
of the State Attorney, 415 North Orange
Avenue, Room 379, Orlando, Florida,
before Dawn R. Matter, Electronic Reporter
and Notary Public, State of Florida at Large.
Whereupon,
LEE ALEXANDER ANTHONY,
having been first duly sworn by the reporter, testified
as follows:
DIRECT EXAMINATION
BY MR. GEORGE:
Q Good morning, sir.
A Good morning.
Q How are you doing?

A I'm here.
Q All right. If you would, please state your
name for the record.
A Lee Alexander Anthony.
Q Date of birth, please?
A November 20th, 1982.
Q Mr. Anthony, my name is Frank George and I'm
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an Assistant State Attorney. Also present is Ms. Linda
Drane Burdick, also with the State Attorney's Office,
and Jeff Ashton. I don't know if the other parties
wish to introduce themselves for the record.
MR. BAEZ: Jose Baez for Casey Anthony.
MR. LUKA: Thomas Luka for Lee Anthony.
MR. GEORGE: And --
MR. BAEZ: Andrea?
MR. ASHTON: Well, you can just announce her
presence by --
MR. BAEZ: And by via Skype is defense
counsel, Andrea Lyon.
BY MR. GEORGE:
Q Mr. Anthony, you were served a subpoena to
appear today for the purpose of a deposition; correct?
A Yes.
Q All right. I'm probably going to ask you
some questions that you've been asked numerous times.

I'm sorry about that. Sometimes it'll be done just for
clarification and sometimes I'll do it to lead into
other types of questions. So I hope as we go along
things won't get too redundant, at least for you, that
you think you've already answered this five times and
why am I asking again.
A All right.
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Q All right? All right. Currently where are
you living?
A Home of my parents, 4937 Hope Spring Drive
here in Orlando.
Q How long have you been living there?
A Since January.
Q Of this year?
A Yes.
Q Prior to January of this year, where did you
live?
A I lived at 4148 Eagle Feather, which is also
in Orlando. It's about a half a mile or so from my
parents' house. I lived there for two years and I also
had a residence previous to that for about a year.
Q Okay. The prior address --
A Um-hum.
Q -- what was that, Feather --
A Eagle Feather.

Q Eagle Feather.
A Yes.
Q Was that a house or an apartment?
A House.
Q And did you live there by
yourself? AI had one roommate.
Q What was his name?
Q
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A Brian.
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Q B r i a n ?
2
A Lufkin.
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Q Is he still a friend of yours?
4
A Oh, yeah. Absolutely.
5
Q You stay in touch with him.
6
A Yes.
7
Q All right And it was
just the two of you the entire time you lived at

9 that address.
10 A Yes.
11 Q Prior to that, I think you
mentioned that you lived somewhere else.
12
A Yeah. I did. I had a -- I had a -- it was
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14 like a house/apartment. There wasn't anyone else in
the area. It was -- I had something through work. I
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worked for a self-storage company and they had a
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property on site. So it was over by the UCF area.
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Q And did you live there by
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yourself?
A Yes. Completely.
Q
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Q And how long did you live there?
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A About a year.
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Q And before that, I take it you were living
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with your parents.
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A Exactly. Exactly.
24
Q All right. You went to high
25 school.
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1
A Yes.
2
Q And graduated.
3
A Yes.
4
Q What high school did you go
to?
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A Colonial.
6
Q All right. Any college?
7
A No.
8
Q While you were in high school, did you work?
A I had a job at Publix Supermarkets.
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Q Just part time?
11
A Yeah.
12
Q How about after
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graduation? What was the first job you had?
14 A I worked at the Orlando Sentinel, did
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customer service for their home delivery for maybe
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about a year-and-a-half or so. I worked for AIG Car
17 Insurance. I did customer service for them. And then
18 I worked at the self-storage industry for a few years
as a --

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Q That customer
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service -- I'm sorry to break --
21
A Sure.
22
Q -- to break in. Is that
23 over the phone?
24 A Yes. Exactly. Exactly.
25 Q People call in with their problems and their
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gripes and --
2 A Right.
Q -- you try to solve it?
3
A Exactly.
4
5 Q All right. And that was both with the
Sentinel and AIG?
6
A Yes.
7
Q All right. How long did you -- how long did
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you last at AIG?
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A Not very long, six months maybe. It just
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wasn't for me.
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12 Q We can understand that. How about after
that?
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A I went into the self-storage industry. I was
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a property manager for -- it was Shurgard Self-Storage
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until they were bought out by Public Storage and that
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was a couple years. I was 20 when I started with them,
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so it had to be at least close to three years if it
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wasn't three years, so it was awhile.
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Q Okay. How old are you now?
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A 26.
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22 Q All right. After that job, where did you go?
A From there I started with Gameday Management
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and Click and Park. It's like the same company. It's
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just kind of -- they're sister companies but I worked
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