{"id":332,"date":"2009-12-20T17:05:01","date_gmt":"2009-12-20T22:05:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richardhornsby.com\/?p=332"},"modified":"2009-12-20T17:05:01","modified_gmt":"2009-12-20T22:05:01","slug":"will-the-real-zenaida-gonzalez-please-stand-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hornsby.com\/blog\/will-the-real-zenaida-gonzalez-please-stand-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Will the Real Zenaida Gonzalez Please Stand Up!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Okay unfaithful ones, I need to get a life.<\/p>\n<p>So here I was watching Saturday Night Live (Google v. iPhone) when I noticed this post on the MarinadeDave blog: ALERT! Zenaida Myspace page logged into today!<\/p>\n<p>Now, my first reaction was:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>No shit, Zenaida&#8217;s got a MySpace page? She needs to get a life too. I mean who uses MySpace anymore?<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But then I remembered that Casey Anthony had already <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/story\/2008\/10\/01\/baby-sitter-in-caylee-anthony-case-says-tot-mom-ruined-her-life.html\">ruined her life<\/a> and that this Zenaida Gonzalez had hired <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forthepeople.com\/\">The M-Team<\/a> to clear her name. (Listen: The M-Team Intro)<\/p>\n<p>Now aside from my continuing suspicions about whether The M-Team took on Ms. Gonzalez&#8217;s case out of the goodness of their hearts <strong>solely<\/strong> to clear poor little old Zenaida Gonzalez\u2019s name (I am unaware of them donating any time to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.floridainnocence.org\/\">Florida Innocence Project<\/a> or helping people like James Bain, Leroy McGee, or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.orlandosentinel.com\/orl-maxwell-john-preston-061409-column.html\">Bill Dillon<\/a> clear their equally valuable names), I thought this post needed some looking into.<\/p>\n<p>And man was I reeled in, it was great &#8211; if Casey really set up this MySpace page, it provided proof of cold and calculating pre-meditation. But then I read the HinkyMeter and it appears this may be some elaborate hoax \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n<p>Undeterred, I <a href=\"https:\/\/www.merriam-webster.com\/dictionary\/moseyed\">moseyed<\/a> on over to WebSleuths and there it was like lights on a Christmas Tree: <a id=\"thread_title_80667\" href=\"https:\/\/www.websleuths.com\/forums\/showthread.php?80667-Is-Casey-the-real-Zenaida\">Is Casey the real Zenaida?<\/a> This thread had Five Star ratings and all. I was hooked for about five minutes &#8211; and then I got a headache.<\/p>\n<p>But around page 25 of the thread, I did come across some righteous conspiracy angles regarding the issuing of traffic tickets to both Annie Downing and Zenaida Gonzalez on May 24, 2008&#8230; (cue mystery music)<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"321\" height=\"265\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/a1Y73sPHKxw\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"321\" height=\"265\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/a1Y73sPHKxw\"\/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Now the first thing that came to my mind was:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Well, I understand why that reporter called me on April 10, 2009 and asked me to look into this TicketGate.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And so <strong>look<\/strong> is exactly what I did and (Spoiler Alert) while I did not find any real Casey Anthony link, I think I may have found a real juicy Cindy Anthony conspiracy theory &#8211; shall I explain?<\/p>\n<p>As most of you guessed, the first thing I did was visit the Orange County Clerk&#8217;s website to look up both Annie Downing and Zenaida Gonzalez. To my amazement, there were tickets issued to them both on the same day &#8211; the plot thickens.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">But wait, it appears that Ms. Gonzalez received not one BUT two tickets&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\nNow this second ticket was a criminal ticket (more on that later), so it must have been that dastardly Casey Anthony if it was a criminal ticket! She clearly was posing as Zenaida Gonzalez AND Annie Downing on the same day; or was she? Well, this is what inquiring minds want to know! (And National Enquiring minds too, I suppose.)<\/p>\n<p>But before I go any further, I need to explain a little court procedure.<\/p>\n<p>As I explained in a non-Casey Anthony post (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.richardhornsby.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/floridas-uniform-case-numbering-system\/\">Florida\u2019s Uniform Case Numbering System<\/a>) Florida utilizes a uniform case numbering system that utilizes a twenty character sequence that has five components (Boring I know, but necessary).<\/p>\n<p>And so the case numbers assigned to the three tickets were as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>48-2008-TR-104021-O; Annie L. Downing<\/li>\n<li>48-2008-TR-028407-W; Zenaida Gonzalez<\/li>\n<li>48-2008-CT-002378-W; Zenaida Gonzalez<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As you may have noticed, the third and fifth components of the case numbers have some differences.<\/p>\n<p>First, you probably notice that the third case number has &#8220;CT&#8221; in it. Well, this tells people this is a Criminal Traffic offense and is technically a misdemeanor, just like a battery or petit theft. The &#8220;TR&#8221; stands for a traffic infraction and is civil in nature. An important distinction is also the manner in which they can be resolved: a traffic infraction can be paid, a criminal traffic offense requires a mandatory court appearance.<\/p>\n<p>Second, you may have noticed that the first ticket ends in &#8220;O&#8221; (as in Orange) and the second two end in &#8220;W&#8221; (as in West). This last letter is used by the Orange County Clerk of Court to designate which courthouse the tickets are to be handled as if they are contested.<\/p>\n<p>So all cases that end in &#8220;O&#8221; are resolved at the downtown Orange County Courthouse and all tickets that end in &#8220;W&#8221; are resolved at the Ocoee Courthouse Annex, which also happens be the westernmost courthouse building in Orange County. If the tickets had ended in &#8220;E,&#8221; they would have been resolved at the Winter Park Courthouse Annex, which also happens to be the easternmost courthouse building in Orange County (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.urbandictionary.com\/define.php?term=co-inky-dink\">coinkydink<\/a>, I think not).<\/p>\n<p>So now we know that Ms. Gonzalez&#8217;s second ticket was both a criminal case and was to be resolved at the Ocoee Courthouse. And there is one other interesting thing that many people don&#8217;t know, the courthouse where the case is resolved is the courthouse that maintains the court file (for at least two years) &#8211; this will be important for later.<\/p>\n<p>So with this information in hand, I then went to the downtown courthouse to see what I could get on Ms. Downing&#8217;s case. I was informed by the Clerk that the original ticket no longer existed because it had been imaged. So, of course, I had the nice lady print me out a copy: (PDF: Annie L. Downing; 48-2008-TR-104021-W).<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, the Clerk was also able to print me out a copy of Ms. Gonzalez&#8217;s traffic infraction. (PDF: Zenaida Gonzalez; 48-2008-TR-28407-W).<\/p>\n<p>Now the ticket itself provides me with very little information, but it did tell me that Ms. Gonzalez did not have a Florida\u00a0 Driver License number (which explains her criminal ticket of No Valid Driver&#8217;s License) and I was intrigued by the way the ticket was signed &#8211; Zenaida Gonzalez C.<\/p>\n<p>Now at this point you have noticed that I was unable to unearth any information on the criminal case; but all was not lost unfaithful ones &#8211; for I was undeterred and drove my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.urbandictionary.com\/define.php?term=happy%20ass\">happy ass<\/a> down to the Ocoee Courthouse Annex.<\/p>\n<p>And sure enough I was able to finagle my way into the file room and what should I find&#8230; None other than a video of Casey Anthony pretending to be Zenaida Gonzales!!!<\/p>\n<p>No, really what I found was the court file for Ms. Zenaida Gonzalez (PDF: Zenaida Gonzalez; 48-2008-CT-2378-W). And after reviewing the file, I quickly realized this Zenaida Gonzalez had absolutely nothing to do with Casey Anthony or these cases.<\/p>\n<p>It reveals that when Ms. Gonzalez was stopped, Officer Allen was unable to communicate with her because she spoke Espanol (Go figure!). As a result, he called Officer Narvaez who does speak Spanish. Officer Narvaez then issued Ms. Gonzalez two tickets:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>A civil ticket for Failure to Yield and<\/li>\n<li>A criminal ticket for Driving without a valid Driver License.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Ms. Gonzalez then appeared for court on June 11, 2008 and lo and behold, she still had not mastered the English language. So she signed a Spanish Plea Form and plead Nolo Contendere. The Court then Withheld Adjudication of Guilt, fined her $100, and imposed court costs. Ironically, the court issued her a Notice of Fine and Fees as well as her sentencing disposition in English! No wonder she did not pay her court costs on time.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>So, it appears that this Zenaida Gonzalez had nothing to do with Casey, or did she?<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, ye unfaithful may remember Cindy Anthony&#8217;s civil deposition with The M-Team. And if you remember correctly, there was a lot of ruckus about &#8220;C. Zenaida Gonzalez.&#8221; (WESH: Casey Anthony&#8217;s Parents Questioned In Civil Suit.)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p>The main contention was about the significance of the name C. Zenaida Gonzales appearing on the Sawgrass Apartments log. I assume this is important because Casey clearly told Lee Anthony that the nanny&#8217;s name was Zenaida Fernandez Gonzalez.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p>And I think Cindy&#8217;s point was that if The M-Team&#8217;s &#8220;Zenaida Gonzalez&#8221; signed her name C. Zenaida Gonzalez, there would be no way for Casey to know that her full name was really Zenaida Fernandez-Gonzalez.<\/p>\n<p>So what is my point to all of this nonsense &#8211; that it is just that, nonsense.<\/p>\n<p>For once in my life, I find myself agreeing with Cindy Anthony; meaning that there was no way for Casey Anthony to extrapolate that the &#8220;C. Zenaida Gonzalez&#8221; who signed the Sawgrass Apartment log was actually The M-Team&#8217;s &#8220;Zenaida Fernandez-Gonzalez.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And the reason I believe her is because:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Casey Anthony is a liar, liar, pants on fire! and<\/li>\n<li>THERE IS NOT A &#8220;REAL&#8221; ZENAIDA GONZALEZ.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>No, Casey Anthony&#8217;s Zenaida Gonzalez is none other than a Zanny Bar otherwise known as Xanax!<\/p>\n<p>That is right:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>There is no real Zenaida on MySpace that is linked to this case,<\/li>\n<li>There was no super sleuthing by Casey to figure out that C. Zenaida Gonzalez was actually Zenaida Fernandez-Gonzalez,<\/li>\n<li>Nor is the Zenaida Gonzalez C. who was ticketed on the same day as Annie Downing linked to this case.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Nope these conspiracy theories are giving me a headache.<\/p>\n<p>Why doesn&#8217;t Casey Anthony&#8217;s real Zenaida Gonzalez please stand up?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Orlando criminal lawyer Richard Hornsby explores the multiple Zenaida Gonzalez conspiracy theories that abound in the Casey Anthony saga.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-criminal-law","category-popular-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hornsby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hornsby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hornsby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hornsby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hornsby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hornsby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hornsby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hornsby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hornsby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}