Casey Anthony told Judge Belvin Perry Thursday afternoon that she will not take the stand to testify in her own defense. Following that announcement, the defense rested.

Attorneys for both sides then spent more than an hour arguing about issues related to the prosecution’s rebuttal case.

The first complaint made by the defense involved hundreds of pages of records from Cindy Anthony’s former employer, Gentiva, that prosecutors had given them Thursday morning. Defense attorney Cheney Mason argued that this constituted a discovery violation because the records were intended to impeach Cindy’s testimony that she conducted searches for information about chloroform on the family computer in March 2008 while she was supposed to be at work.

Those searches, along with others about internal injuries and neck-breaking, discovered in computer records from two days in March had been presented by prosecutors as evidence of premeditation for murder under the assumption that Casey Anthony was the one who conducted them, but Cindy testified that they were all hers.

Mason said Cindy stated in a July 2009 deposition that she may have done those searches, so prosecutors had two years to seek those work records, but they only subpoenaed them last week after Cindy testified for the defense. Prosecutor Linda Drane-Burdick responded that Cindy went into much more detail in her testimony during the trial than she did during her deposition and she was the one who brought up computer records and emails that could prove whether she was at work.

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A woman with whom George Anthony has repeatedly denied having an affair took the stand Thursday morning on what could be the final day of the defense case at Casey Anthony’s murder trial.

Krystal Holloway—also known as River Cruz—claimed that she met George Anthony at the volunteer command center during the search for his granddaughter in August 2008 and they began intimate relationship.

She testified that he told her sometime around Thanksgiving 2008 that Caylee Anthony’s death was “an accident that snowballed out of control.” This was a comment defense attorney Jose Baez referred to several times in his opening statement earlier in the trial, and it is one George Anthony has denied making.

Holloway said George’s eyes filled up with tears after he said it and she never asked him to elaborate. She said she thought he had made the statement in response to her telling him that “I didn’t think he could raise somebody that was capable of harming her child.”

According to Holloway, police came to her in February 2010 to question her about her relationship with George and she initially denied the affair. She said she had to admit the truth when they confronted her with text messages George had sent her, including one on December 16, 2011 that said “Just thinking about you. I need you in my life.”

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The mother of a man who is the potential father of Caylee Anthony speaks to HLN's Nancy Grace.

Casey Anthony’s defense team continued to try to plant seeds of doubt in jurors’ minds Wednesday afternoon about George Anthony and Roy Kronk, and they called on an expert on grieving and trauma in an effort to explain Casey’s behavior in the month after they claim her 2-year-old daughter drowned in the family pool.

In his opening statement, defense attorney Jose Baez alleged that George Anthony sexually abused his daughter when she was a child and that he disposed of Caylee Anthony’s body after she died. He also suggested that Kronk, the man who found Caylee’s remains, had done something with the body between August and December 2008. They had presented very little evidence to support either of those claims.

Both men returned to the witness stand Wednesday, however. When testimony resumed with redirect of George Anthony after the lunch break, Baez suggested that George had stopped cooperating with investigators after Caylee’s remains were found. He asked whether George felt like investigators were “closing in on you.”

George admitted that he was upset when detectives came to his house to serve a search warrant on December 20, 2008, but he said he never stopped cooperating.
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Casey Anthony’s defense team recalled her parents on Wednesday morning, leading to some very emotional testimony by her father George Anthony, who broke down in tears on the witness stand at one point.

“I need to get through this,” he said, refusing Judge Belvin Perry’s offer to take a break so he could compose himself.

Defense attorney Jose Baez finally raised the issued of alleged sexual abuse of Casey that he referred to in his opening statement, but George repeatedly denied it.

“I never would do anything like that to my daughter,” he said. Baez suggested he would not admit to it if it was true because he could go to prison for it.

While the interaction between Baez and George Anthony has been tense throughout the trial, but that conflict rose to a new level Wednesday. “Mr. Baez, I have been nice to you. I have tried to answer every question,” George said when asked about money he and Cindy Anthony received for a CBS interview.

“You’re trying to take this joy of my life away from me, sir,” he said earlier in the morning. “You can’t do it anymore.”

Baez asked about a statement George made to detectives in July 2008 about smelling decomposition in the woods. Baez suggested that it was because he knew Caylee’s body was out there, but George said he was taking the comment out of context and he had just been referring to having smelled decomposition during his law enforcement career.

George said that he told Det. Yuri Melich on July 16, 2008 that he believed something had happened to Caylee and that his daughter was lying because she was the last to see Caylee and “one and one adds up to two, sir, in my mind.”

Baez pointed out several negative statements George made about Casey in an interview with investigators on July 24, 2008. He implied that George was “undercover” when he went to the jail to visit Casey the following day, but George said he was just concerned about his daughter and granddaughter and trying to be supportive.

Baez then questioned him about his statements regarding the smell in the trunk of Casey’s car. “There was the smell of human decomposition in that car, not the garbage that was in it,” George said. At the time that he picked the car up at the wrecking yard, however, he said he was just grateful that neither Casey nor Caylee was in the trunk when he opened it.

“How dare you, sir, try to tell me that I smelled something different from what I did?” George asked as Baez pressed the issue.

George said he did media interviews in August 2009 advocating Casey’s innocence because “I didn’t want to believe back then that my daughter could be capable of taking the life of her daughter.”

As he has several times during the course of the trial, Baez asked George a series of questions about the gas cans and duct tape from the house. “I’m not trying to be belligerent,” George said while recounting his argument with Casey over the cans and explaining why he may have placed duct tape on one of them.

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Nancy Grace speaks with the psychic who led a private investigator to the area where Caylee's body was found.

The most significant revelation of the day at Casey Anthony’s murder trial Tuesday may have come after the jury left the courthouse.

Outside the jury’s presence, the defense proffered testimony by three witnesses, including Casey Anthony’s ex-fiancé Jesse Grund. Grund said he once asked Casey why it seemed like she did not want her daughter Caylee around her brother Lee. According to him, Casey responded that Lee had once tried to grope her while she was sleeping.

Prosecutors argued that Grund’s whole testimony was hearsay. Judge Belvin Perry said he wanted to take the evening to review the matter before deciding whether the jury could hear Grund’s allegations and he would allow further arguments in the morning. Another ex-boyfriend, Tony Lazzaro, said earlier in the trial that Casey told him Lee had tried to molest her, but that was also outside the jury’s presence.

Perry determined that testimony by two other witnesses proffered Tuesday, both employees of the Orange County Department of Corrections, was not relevant or material to the case, so neither will testify in front of the jury.

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Two potentially key witnesses for the defense took the stand Tuesday morning at Casey Anthony’s murder trial: her father George Anthony and Roy Kronk, the man who found her daughter Caylee’s remains.

George Anthony was on the stand relatively briefly, and most of defense attorney Jose Baez’s questions for him focused on his alleged affair with Krystal Holloway, a volunteer he met at the search command center who he knew by the name River Cruz.

“She is not a very good person, sir,” George said, referring to her “questionable past” and her criminal record.

George denied that he had a romantic relationship with Holloway (“to me, that’s very funny,” he said in response to the allegation) and said he visited her home several times to comfort her because she told him she was dying from a brain tumor. He said his wife Cindy was aware of their relationship.

“I have nothing to hide, sir,” George said. “Never have.”

He also denied ever telling Holloway that Caylee Anthony’s death was an accident that snowballed out of control. He said he may have sent her a text message telling her he needed her in his life because he sent texts to many volunteers and he did need them in his life.

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Attorneys representing the last person believed to have seen Indiana University student Lauren Spierer before her June 3 disappearance released a statement Monday insisting that he has fully cooperated with investigators.

Jason Rosenbaum reportedly told police that he watched the 20-year-old walk away from his apartment building toward hers around 4:30 am on June 3. Spierer had gone to a bar in Bloomington with one of Rosenbaum’s neighbors, Corey Rossman, earlier that night, and police say she was last captured on surveillance cameras in an alley walking Rossman home around 2:50 am.

Lauren Spierer

Spierer’s keys and a small purse were later found in that alley. She had left her shoes and cell phone at Kilroy’s Sports Bar before walking to her building, Smallwood Plaza, at 2:30 am. Rossman had some sort of confrontation with other students at Smallwood and Spierer left with him 10 minutes later, heading toward his and Rosenbaum’s building a few blocks away.

Bloomington police have called Rosenbaum and Rossman “persons of interest,” along with several others who she interacted with that night and her boyfriend. More than three weeks later, they still have no suspects in her disappearance.

According to the statement issued by local attorneys James Voyles and Jennifer Lukemeyer, Rosenbaum “hopes for nothing less than Lauren to be found and to be safe.”

“He has provided full statements to the police and passed a polygraph that has also been provided to the authorities,” Voyles and Lukemeyer wrote. They said their client will continue to cooperate fully with police.

Neither Rosenbaum nor his attorneys plan to make any further statements to the press, “in the interest of protecting the investigation.”

The statement followed several comments by Lauren’s mother Charlene Spierer last week expressing frustration that her friends have not been forthcoming with police. A New York Post article Monday singled out Rosenbaum as someone who Spierer’s family hoped would provide more information.

More than 500 people participated in “Find Lauren Day” on Saturday, according to local news reports. 50 search parties spread out through Bloomington and surrounding counties, but there was no indication that anything significant had been found.

Last week, Spierer’s family announced they were opening a post office box for people to submit anonymous information. The address is: Find Lauren, P.O. Box 1226, Bloomington, IN 47402-1226.

Anyone with information about Spierer’s whereabouts can also contact the Bloomington Police Department at 812-339-4477.

Casey Anthony's defense team filed a motion for mistrial, claiming tot mom is mentally incompetent.