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A year after Casey Anthony was acquitted for the murder of her 3-year-old daughter, Caylee, attorney Jose Baez says he was “shocked” by the anger people felt toward his client.

In a wide-ranging interview with CBS News' CRIMESIDER blog, Baez says there was “bombshell” evidence that was never introduced at trial, though detailed in his new book, Presumed Guilty – Casey Anthony: The Inside Story.

The case made Anthony the target of death threats and public outrage.

“I was kind of shocked by it, because as a defense lawyer, you see far worse,” Baez tells CRIMESIDER. “You know, there are crime scenes where you see two, three people deceased. I was kind of thrown back a little bit, like, why is this case getting people so much angrier than the others?”

Part of it, he writes in his book, is because the case became the “media’s Casey Anthony reality show” that depended on name-calling and controversy in the name of ratings.

“I think Casey Anthony’s story, the whole case, was a media phenomenon,” Baez tells CRIMESIDER. “And I say that because she was young, pretty and white. If it didn’t have those elements to it I don’t think it would have taken off.”

As for the “bombshell evidence,” Baez says that on June 16, 2008, the last day Caylee was seen alive, someone did a search on the Anthony family computer for “foolproof suffocation” and then a link for "venturing into the pro-suicide pit.”   The searches occurred after Casey left the home, Baez says, and while he can’t place a specific person at the computer, there were searches by someone on how to kill themselves on the day Caylee died.

The defense’s theory of how Caylee died was that she drowned in the family pool on June 16 while both Casey and her father, George Anthony, were at home. Baez wonders in the book if the searches were done by George, who in January 2009 did attempt suicide.

As for Baez, he says the pressure on him going into the case was protecting Anthony.

“My client hadn’t had her day in court, and what was happening right away was this vilification of her,” Baez tells CRIMESIDER. “The biggest pressure I had was trying to minimize or deflect that. As it turns out, there really was nothing I could do about it.”

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