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Smith's Lawyer: 'DNA Check not necessarily conclusive...'
Fox News | 2/9/07

Posted on 02/09/2007 9:51:04 AM PST by pabianice

The bizzare saga of Anna Nicole Smith just got stranger. Two of Smith's lawyers are on TV now answering press questions. Birkhead's request for an emergency DNA test of the baby has been denied. When one of Smith's lawyers was asked about the ruling, he said that 'DNA is not necessarily conclusive,' which is news to me. Both Birkhead and Smith contend that they are the baby's father, and the two most likely executors of a fortune worth $1.6 billion.

The judge ruled he cannot rule on any emergency petition because he believes the case is under Bahamian jurisdiction.

One of Smith's attorneys then got even wierder by saying that 'there as some allegations that the baby's hair has been dyed,' suggesting an attempt to alter its appearance re. paternity.

This case looks like the Tabloid Full Employment Act of 2007. I feel bad for the baby.


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To: GeorgefromGeorgia; pabianice

What if NEITHER man is father?................


41 posted on 02/09/2007 10:31:41 AM PST by Red Badger (Rachel Carson is responsible for more deaths than Adolf Hitler...............)
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To: pabianice

Jeez, you think the OJ trial was bad, this will be worse.


42 posted on 02/09/2007 10:32:06 AM PST by BuffaloJack
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To: TruthConquers

The baby IS a US citizen, unless there have been some very recent changes to Bahamian citizenship laws. By virtue of being born there, she has the right to register as a Bahamian citizen once she's turned 18, but has no Bahamian citizenship now (except that I heard there's now a third guy claiming to be the father, and if he's a Bahamian citizen, then the baby's Bahamian citizenship status is undetermined, but her US citizenship status is still secure).


43 posted on 02/09/2007 10:32:50 AM PST by GovernmentShrinker
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To: Sherman Logan

A very real possibility IMO. I know of no reason to believe that Anna Nicole even knew for sure who the father was.


44 posted on 02/09/2007 10:35:44 AM PST by GovernmentShrinker
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To: KsSunflower

even better


45 posted on 02/09/2007 10:36:35 AM PST by Domicile of Doom (Center amber dot on head and squeeze for best results)
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To: Sherman Logan

Well, not to defame the dead but, given the circumstanes of this whole thing, going back to what happened just after the baby's birth, I've heard some people speculate that the true identity of the father might be truly distrubuing.


46 posted on 02/09/2007 10:39:49 AM PST by furquhart (Gingrich for President)
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To: pabianice
DNA will settle this.

Count on it.

47 posted on 02/09/2007 10:40:16 AM PST by marshmallow
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To: pabianice
If this is handled by our screwball family court system, the biological father will make child support payments to the legal father.
48 posted on 02/09/2007 10:40:34 AM PST by Niteranger68 (Point your toilets towards Mecca!)
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To: utahagen

> My point is that it'll probably be evident soon, just by eyeballing the baby, which guy is the more likely father.

You are assuming it is one or the other.


49 posted on 02/09/2007 10:40:38 AM PST by jim_trent
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To: furquhart

If you're hinting what I presume, I do indeed not want to go there.


50 posted on 02/09/2007 10:41:17 AM PST by Sherman Logan (Recognition of one's ignorance is the beginning of wisdom.)
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To: GovernmentShrinker

I'm sure that they will have to use extradition to get the baby back, but so far the Bahamian gov't seems to be supporting Stern as the father. I am sure that they were doing whatever was deemed necessary to avoid extradition of the baby , since birth, maybe even before. She wasn't married to Stern, was she?


51 posted on 02/09/2007 10:42:28 AM PST by Eva
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To: sageb1

Sure the baby could use a lawyer, but what she could REALLY use is a family. A normal family, with a dog and a yard and a sandbox and a ditzy aunt or two. She doesn't need $1.6 billion and a life under the microscope.


52 posted on 02/09/2007 10:42:55 AM PST by trimom
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To: jim_trent

I think it's Birkhead (the Hollywood guy) and I think that's why Anna Nicole Smith moved to the Bahamas: because she knew Birkhead would know he was the father.


53 posted on 02/09/2007 10:43:55 AM PST by utahagen
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To: pabianice

It wasn't emergency DNA of the baby...it was DNA of baby's mother...Anne N. Smith...[baby looks like the father out of California which isn't stern]


54 posted on 02/09/2007 10:44:15 AM PST by shield (A wise man's heart is at his RIGHT hand; but a fool's heart at his LEFT. Ecc 10:2)
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To: shield
It wasn't emergency DNA of the baby...it was DNA of baby's mother...Anne N. Smith...[baby looks like the father out of California which isn't stern]

Won't the medical examiner retain ANS's blood samples?

55 posted on 02/09/2007 10:46:19 AM PST by Fitzcarraldo (If the Moon wasn't there, people would have traveled to Mars by now.)
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To: isthisnickcool

LOL...hubby and I discussed the Marshall Plan last night :)

We decided the only person that can be ruled out in this paternity case is Michael Jackson.


56 posted on 02/09/2007 10:46:26 AM PST by WestTexasWend (NO OIL FOR APPEASERS)
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To: Red Badger
What if NEITHER man is father?

That wouldn't surprise me at all. I think this story is going to get weirder and weirder as more details emerge.

57 posted on 02/09/2007 10:46:56 AM PST by inflorida
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To: inflorida

Anna Nicole Smith will be, or is now, the "new" Marilyn Monroe for the 21st Century......


58 posted on 02/09/2007 10:49:20 AM PST by Red Badger (Rachel Carson is responsible for more deaths than Adolf Hitler...............)
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To: utahagen

>>>My point is that it'll probably be evident soon, just by eyeballing the baby, which guy is the more likely father.>>>

That baby looks JUST LIKE Larry Birkhead. HKS's features are too extraordinary to not be noticable, but that baby looks like Birkhead for sure!


59 posted on 02/09/2007 10:50:28 AM PST by Southerngl
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To: Eva

That's true in virtually every U.S. jurisdiction, there are many reported state cases on the subject.


60 posted on 02/09/2007 10:50:48 AM PST by middie
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