By Nathan Koppel
- Red Huber/AP
- Casey Anthony holds hands with her defense attorney Jose Baez as they listen to the verdict.
Casey Anthony?s lawyer Jose Baez has entered the sort of rarefied air occupied by relatively few attorneys.
Like the late Johnnie Cochran, after his defense of O.J., Baez now has the opportunity to parlay a high-profile criminal trial into lasting fame.
Casey Anthony was acquitted last week of charges that she murdered her two-year-old daughter, but convicted on four misdemeanor counts of lying to investigators. (Read full WSJ coverage here.)
Here?s an interesting profile of Baez by AP, which notes that the lawyer dropped out of high school before getting an equivalency degree.
Baez served in the Navy and later tried several failed businesses ? including two bikini companies ? before enrolling at Florida State University and St. Thomas University School of Law, AP reports, noting that it took another eight years for him to be admitted to the bar.
If you needed any proof that Baez, a Manhattan native, now ranks among the famous, check out his very own Wiki page.
During the trial, Baez faced a lot of second-guessing from the punditocracy that he was too inexperienced to handle such a big case.
In an interview with Geraldo Rivera of Fox News, Baez said that the verdict should set aside any questions about his competence. ?What [critics] want to say about me, well, you know, they can say what they want,? Baez said.
Baez appears almost certain, AP reports, to land book offers and possibly movie deals, if he so chooses.
The Law Blog has reached out to Baez for comment.
The moral of this story for lawyers struggling to make their bones in the legal biz is to hang in there. You, too, could land the case of a lifetime.
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