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Bogus Charities In Caylee’s Case / Sorting Fact From Fiction

April 29, 2009 by niecey456

There has been a lot of interest lately in the money trail, bogus charities in Caylee’s case / sorting fact from fiction is what we are going to do here. Let’s start with Dennis Milstead and Kid Finders. Check this out:

http://scaredmonkeys.com/2008/11/18/according-to-wftv-man-who-runs-kid-finders-dennis-milstead-has-serious-problems-with-his-criminal-past-and-his-non-profit-group/

I think you could clearly see if you followed all of the links and watched the videos that Dennis and KF’s are completely bogus. Next up Gil Cabot. Check it out:

http://scaredmonkeys.com/2009/02/07/casey-anthony-bizarre-circus-contineuscasey-anthony-bizarre-circus-continues-wtf-todd-black-exposed-gil-cabot-really-is-todd-black-or-at-least-one-of-them/

My, my, my, it seems that Todd Black/Gil Cabot is quite the creep too. Let’s see about the notorious Never Lose Hope Foundation. That’s the group that funded the boat and ATV recently. Check it out:

http://www.wftv.com/news/16980411/detail.html

It appears that Mr. Rivera’s Never Lose Hope Foundation was listed as a charitable organization and rescue squads, services. (as of 9/2008) Check it out:

http://www.taxexemptworld.com/organizations/kissimmee_fl_34741.asp

That’s really all I can find on them. It is odd that they were supposed to be founded a year prior to Caylee’s disappearance and were not yet a charity when they put up the reward and did George’s calls. No record of them being a charity until September. Also it is odd that the reverse 911 technology they used with George’s message was something they figured out from their telemarketing firm. I could find nothing else except from blogs, no news sources, or public records.

Next up Michelle Bart:

http://www.linkedin.com/in/helpingheroes

http://www.helpingheroes.com/ourservices.html

http://www.helpingheroes.com/clientsfriends.html

Notice on her client’s and friend’s list is Kid Finders, no mention of Never Lose Hope. Next up the land:

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,509790,00.html

The listing for the land that was refreshed 10 minutes prior to me copying the link:

http://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-detail/Orlando_FL_32793_1107588066

The listing is still active. The land is still for sale. It is after all wet land and it is not worth what they are asking for it. If there were a sale or sale pending it would not still have a status of active.

The purpose in this post you ask??? For one there have been some less than honorable players in this case, however I received some info from someone about the issue of this land being bought by the Never Lose Hope Foundation and it was not. The information came from a myspace blog and is inaccurate. As far as NLHF they are questionable, and Kid Finders, well we know the truth about them. Michelle Bart is involved with KF and has been closely involved with the Anthonys. She was also instrumental in setting up the dinner at “the Ritz” and the fancy hotel stay for the Anthonys as well as the meeting with the producer from ABC/Disney that paid. She is a publicist. Gil Cabot, aka Todd Black is a criminal and was associated with The Baez Law Firm and the Anthonys. I didn’t do this to offend anyone, just to clarify that that information came from a myspace blog and is innacurate. (at least when it comes to the land) The rest you can decide. I gave you the facts. I used the Scared Monkey’s links because I know they are accurate and they give you the many links to back it up, rather than me giving you a mountain of links. Make sure on those that you watch the videos and follow the news stories. It’s a lot to digest I know, but at least it’s the facts. Let me know what you think.

http://niecey456.wordpress.com/2009/04/29/bogus-charities-in-caylees-case-sorting-fact-from-fiction/

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Casey Anthony case: More documents expected to be released Friday

Sarah Lundy | Sentinel Staff Writer
1:09 PM EDT, April 30, 2009

The State Attorney's Office is expected to release hundreds of pages of documents Friday in the case against Casey Anthony.

The investigative documents will include law enforcement interviews with witnesses and lab reports.

Public records laws require the state to release information prosecutors provide to the defense. The State Attorney's Office has already turned over this information to Anthony's attorney, Jose Baez.

Thousands of pages of documents, hundreds of photos and other images and several sets of videos already have been made public by the State Attorney's office.

Anthony, 23, is charged with first-degree murder in the death of her daughter, Caylee Marie Anthony. The remains of the toddler were found Dec. 11 less than a mile from the Anthony family home after a nearly six-month search for her.

Casey Anthony told investigators she left her daughter with a babysitter in June and they disappeared. Casey Anthony was already under indictment -- and in jail -- when her daughter's body was recovered.

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/breakingnews/orl-bk-casey-anthony-documents-043009,0,2014496.story

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Could Accident Explain Casey's 'Ugly Coping'?
Attorney Looks At Possible Anthony Defense

POSTED: 10:19 pm EDT April 28, 2009
UPDATED: 3:52 pm EDT April 30, 2009

ORLANDO, Fla. -- Prosecutors in the case against Casey Anthony better be prepared for her to take the stand and claim her daughter's death was an accident.

That's the reaction of an Orlando defense attorney to a WESH 2 special report on a possible explanation for Anthony's odd behavior after her daughter Caylee disappeared. (Details on that report are below).

To best use this so-called "ugly coping" defense, that attorney says Anthony will have to tell the jury the traumatic event that sparked her odd behavior and lies was Caylee's accidental death.

Caylee Anthony's exact cause of death has not been determined. And defense attorney Richard Hornsby said that fact leaves the door open for Casey Anthony to claim she knew about Caylee's death but did not kill her.

" First, you put her on the stand and say it was an accident," Hornsby said. "After traumatic events, people act strangely and not everybody acts the same. I don't think Jose Baez will have trouble getting someone to testify to that general principle.

To make this strategy work, Hornsby says Baez will have to show Anthony was reacting to a traumatic event. A tragic accident would be that event. And Anthony could use the ugly coping concept to admit she partied, and told a string of lies. And at the same time explain he way OUT of a capitol murder charge.

Hornsby said he does not think Casey can successfully use ugly coping as a reason for her actions if she continues to claim a babysitter no one has ever seen kidnapped Caylee.

http://www.wesh.com/news/19317898/detail.html

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Wooded lot that held Caylee Anthony's remains still for sale

Amy L. Edwards | Sentinel Staff Writer
4:51 PM EDT, April 30, 2009

The wooded lot where Caylee Marie Anthony's remains were uncovered is still for sale, a real estate agent told the Orlando Sentinel on Thursday.

The property, on Suburban Drive in east Orange County, is not under contract, Realtor Tina Martin stated in an e-mail.

Martin said the property may possibly be marketed on eBay in the near future.

She requests only interested potential buyers contact their office. Martin also said the memorial that has been created on the land may be addressed as the potential buyer desires.

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/breakingnews/orl-bk-casey-anthony-land-sale-043001,0,2907768.story

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Documents being released
in Anthony case

Last Edited: Thursday, 30 Apr 2009, 3:20 PM EDT
Created On: Thursday, 30 Apr 2009, 3:20 PM EDT

- More evidence in the case against Casey Anthony is being released. The state attorneys office said Thursday they will be releasing hundreds of pages of never before seen court documents on Friday

A push for a hearing in late may in the civil suit. Lawyers want Casey’s brother, mother and father to spill what they know about Casey’s so-called nanny.


The State Attorney's office has already released thousands of pages of documents, several hundred photos and several hours of video in the death penalty case against Casey Anthony.

Anthony is charged with first degree murder in the death of her daughter Caylee.

Anthony claims that Caylee, who was 2 when she disappeared in June, was kidnapped. Anthony has insisted that she left the girl with a baby sitter in June, but she didn't report Caylee missing for another month. The child's grandmother first called authorities in July to say that she hadn't seen Caylee for a month, and that her daughter's car smelled like death. A utility worker found the girl's body last December in woods near where she lived with her mother and grandparents.

Anthony has pleaded not guilty. Her trial has been tentatively set for October.

http://www.myfoxorlando.com/dpp/news/043009more_anthony_documents_being_released

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Lab Tests Do Not Link Anthony Evidence
New Documents Released In Anthony Case

POSTED: Thursday, April 30, 2009
UPDATED: 12:37 pm EDT May 1, 2009

ORLANDO, Fla. -- Hundreds of pages of documents were released Friday morning in the Casey Anthony case including interviews with key witnesses and lab results.

The state attorney's office released the documents. Local 6 News reporters are poring over the documents.

Anthony, 23, is charged with first-degree murder in the death of her daughter, Caylee Anthony, whose remains were found in December near the Anthony family's east Orange County home. Caylee was 2 years old when she was reported missing in July, a month after she was last seen alive.

Included in the document release, lab results from evidence found in the Anthony home, Casey Anthony's car, and in the woods where Caylee's remains were found.

According to the documents, detectives were trying to link evidence from all three locations, but based on the lab results so far, there is no conclusive scientific connection.

Scientists at the FBI lab examined Caylee's hair for foreign chemicals, specifically muscle relaxants and Xanex, but no chemicals were found. Scientists said it is still possible that Caylee was exposed to small amounts of the drugs.

A knife found in Casey's car had a clear, sticky residue on it, but tests did not prove that the knife was used to cut the duct tape found around Caylee's mouth. Results also showed the duct tape did not have any fingerprints on it.

Detectives also seized 22 pairs of Casey's shoes from the Anthony's home. Soil from the bottom of those shoes was compared to samples from the crime scene in the woods, but there were no matches.

An interview with Roy Kronk that was also included in the release has details of why the meter reader was in the woods the day he discovered Caylee's remains.

At the time of the discovery, Kronk told investigators he had walked off into the woods to relieve himself, but that was apparently not the case.

In the interview, Kronk told detectives he paid close attention when working in the area around the Anthony home because of a statement Casey Anthony made to her family

"I feel like she is close to home," Casey Anthony said in a videotaped visitation with her family.

Kronk seems to have kept that statement in mind when working in the area.

"My theory, well, real simple, was that she kept saying she was close," Kronk told detectives. "And it just made sense to me that if you were going to get rid of something like that, well, you would put it in a place where you knew there would be very little traffic whatsoever.

Kronk also called the sheriff's department in August when he said he spotted something suspicious in the same area where Caylee's remains were eventually found.

Similar document releases have occurred regularly over the past several months.

Anthony's attorney, Jose Baez, had already received the documents, which have been released as public record in the discovery process.

Watch Local 6 News for more on this story.

http://www.clickorlando.com/news/19336694/detail.html#-

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More documents released
in Anthony case

Last Edited: Friday, 01 May 2009, 12:16 PM EDT
Created On: Friday, 01 May 2009, 9:24 AM EDT

ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. (WOFL FOX 35) - The state attorney's office released hundreds of more pages of discovery in case against Casey Anthony Friday.

Among the documents released are FBI Crime Lab reports on evidence collected as well as a report from the US Fish & Wildlife report on snake found near the scene where Caylee's remains were found.

Also released is an interview with the sheriff's deputy who responded to a meter reader's repeated phone calls to check out the same woods where Caylee's body eventually was found. Deputy Richard Cain was fired earlier this year after an internal investigation found his response to be negligent.


FBI Crime Lab reports & US Fish & Wildlife report

Investigative reports

Transcript of interview with Deputy Keithlin Cutcher, December 18, 2008

Transcript of interview with Deputy Keithlin Cutcher, December 19, 2008

Transcript of interview with Deputy Richard Cain, February 3, 2009

The State Attorney's office has already released thousands of pages of documents, several hundred photos and several hours of video in the death penalty case against Casey Anthony.

Anthony is charged with first degree murder in the death of her daughter Caylee.

Anthony claims that Caylee, who was 2 when she disappeared in June, was kidnapped. Anthony has insisted that she left the girl with a baby sitter in June, but she didn't report Caylee missing for another month. The child's grandmother first called authorities in July to say that she hadn't seen Caylee for a month, and that her daughter's car smelled like death. A utility worker found the girl's body last December in woods near where she lived with her mother and grandparents.

Anthony has pleaded not guilty. Her trial has been tentatively set for October.

http://www.myfoxorlando.com/dpp/news/05019more_anthony_documents_released

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Crime-scene photos, documents released in Casey Anthony case (continued):

The two stopped being close friends around August 2007 because Downing found out that Anthony was a liar, the report said.

10:16 a.m.During an interview with Annie Downing, she told detectives Casey Anthony was jealous of her mother's relationship with Caylee. Casey once told her that Cindy Anthony wanted Caylee to call her 'mom' instead of 'grand mom' the report said.

During Caylee's 2nd birthday, Casey Anthony told Downing "Oh my God, this is supposed to be Caylee's Day. I'm her mom. She's not her mom," in reference to Cindy Anthony helping Caylee open presents.

Downing also told investigators that she received a phone call from Lee Anthony in October after information had been made public about Casey telling another friend she could get some Xanex from her friend named Annie.

Downing said Lee Anthony told her, "We all know Casey's done bad things but you need to protect yourself. You need to…if they call you, you need to tell them the truth. You need to tell them anything you know because if you know something you need to tell them….Don't protect Casey."

10 a.m. Investigators did not find fingerprints belonging to George Anthony, Cindy Anthony or Lee Anthony on the duct tape found on Caylee Marie's skull, the FBI forensic reports show.

The discovery documents also include lists of the dozens of people who had been at the crime scene, ranging from FBI agents, Orange County Sheriff's Office detectives, crime-scene technicians and prosecutors.

Also included is a letter asking the FBI to compare items taken from the Anthony house in December, when a search warrant was executed. Among the items taken from the house are multiple garbage bags, a Bissel steam cleaner, Dirt Devil vacuum cleaner, a Bissel spot cleaner and one red gas can with duct tape.

The sheriff's office asked the FBI to compare the black plastic bag found with Caylee's remains to the garbage bags collected from the Anthonys' house; to compare the duct tape found on the remains to the duct tape on the gas can from the Anthonys' residence; and to examine vacuums and cleaners for possible decomposition materials or other related items.

9:45 a.m. The duct tape discovered on Caylee Anthony's skull at the crime scene matches duct tape stuck on a gas can at the Anthonys' house, investigators said.

The duct tape "Originated from the same source roll," according to the report.

9:33 a.m. Photographs show strips of silver-colored duct tape and several plastic bags scattered at the site, off Suburban Drive. One bag appears to be partially buried.

The State Attorney's Office this morning released about 500 pages and photographs of legal and investigative documents in the case against Casey Anthony.

The Orlando Sentinel will be reviewing the information and posting updates. The discovery includes photographs of the crime scene, from the ground and from the air, as well as interviews with key players.

Two of Anthony's friends, Annie Downing and Michelle Murphy, told investigators they remember a time when Anthony had an emotional breakdown and "wanted to be committed," according to the report.

In the wooded area where Caylee's body was found, detectives noted the remains were found not far from the road.

The small skull was near a black plastic bag, the report said.

The skull didn't have any flesh left on it, but "quite a bit of hair" was still present, Detective Yuri Melich wrote in the report. "I immediately noticed that there appeared to be a piece of silver duct tape across the mouth area of the skull," Melich wrote. "The tape appeared to have been purposely placed there."

The remains were found inside of two black plastic bags and a canvas laundry bag. Detectives also found a stained Winnie the Pooh blanket, a pair of size 24 month pink and white stripe shorts, a pink size 3T shirt with the words "BIG TROUBLE comes small" written on the front and what detectives thought to be pieces of a child's pull up.

Casey Anthony, 22, has been charged with first-degree murder in the slaying of her 2-year-old daughter Caylee Marie Anthony. Anthony has remained at the Orange County Jail since October where she is being held without bond.

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/breakingnews/orl-bk-casey-anthony-discovery-021809,0,5750058.story?page=2&track=rss

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Lab Test Results Shed No Light On Caylee's Death
Land Where Caylee Anthony Found Heads To Auction

POSTED: 7:46 am EDT May 1, 2009
UPDATED: 3:54 pm EDT May 1, 2009

ORLANDO, Fla. -- Hundreds of pages of evidence was released on Friday in the case against Casey Anthony.

Video: About The Documents | FBI Lab Reports

The release of documents included results from some of the tests that legal experts said were the basis for the prosecution's decision to pursue the death penalty.

Since February, FBI lab results have been returned on a variety of critical pieces of evidence, including a hair mass from Caylee Anthony's skull, a bullet casing, more than one dozen pairs of shoes taken from the Anthony home, a kitchen knife found near the toddler's remains and a sample of soil from the trunk of Casey Anthony's car.

The results have been seen as a disappointment to prosecutors. The documents showed tests on the hair came back negative for a variety of chemicals which might point to how Caylee died. However, the report also stated that just because the tests came back negative does not mean there was no exposure to chemicals.

Tests on soil samples taken from shoes and boots were inconclusive in some cases, and the samples did not match soil from the crime scene in others. The same inconsistencies also existed between soil from the trunk of Casey Anthony's car and the crime scene.

Test results from the FBI's laboratory did find traces of adhesive on a kitchen knife, but the results were not consistent with adhesive on the duct tape found on Caylee's skull.

The bullet casing from a 30-caliber rifle appears to have been tested in case there is suspicion later that a gun may have been used in the case.

The net results of the recent tests appear to shed no further light on how Caylee died -- and no further forensic ties between material taken from the Anthony home and items found at the crime scene.

Also, according to the newest documents it wasn't just a meter reader but also a volunteer searcher who tipped off deputies to the location where Caylee's remains eventually were found. This was in August 2008, and one volunteer searcher told authorities he even took some of the evidence straight to Cindy Anthony, who is Casey Anthony's mother.

Keith Williams, 30, of Orlando grew up in the Casey Anthony's neighborhood and last summer returned to help search for Caylee.

In the latest documents, Williams tells investigators that on Aug. 18 while searching in the woods on his own he found a bag filled with stuffed animals not far from the area where Caylee's body would eventually be found in December 2008.

Williams immediately took the bag to Cindy Anthony, who said she didn't recognize it or the toys inside.

But a tip Williams said he got from a psychic indicating Caylee may be buried in that area nagged at him, so he called the Orange County Sheriff's Office and met Deputy Richard Cain at the scene.

According to Williams, Cain grabbed the bag of toys, looked at it and said it was "too deteriorated" to be anything significant and then tossed it back in the woods.

This occurred just five days after Deputy Cain is accused of failing to respond properly to a call from meter reader Roy Kronk. Cain eventually lost his job over lying about the incidents. (PDF: Keith Williams Transcript Jan. 16, 2009 | PDF: Keith Williams Transcript April 14, 2009)

http://www.wesh.com/news/19340480/detail.html

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Casey Anthony case: Records show drug test results of Caylee Anthony's remains
Also released: records on job performance of deputy who failed to follow through on tip about location of Caylee's body

Sarah Lundy | Sentinel Staff Writer
5:59 PM EDT, May 1, 2009

An FBI lab report released among hundreds of pages of documents made public today in the case against Casey Anthony showed hair samples from her daughter's remains revealed negative results for a variety of drugs.

Examiners did not detect Alprazolam, known under the trade name Xanax, or diazepam, marketed as Valium, according to the report.

The hair samples were not tested for chloroform, "as this examination is not deemed probative by the FBI Laboratory's Chemistry Unit."

"Although the method used in this analysis allows for the detection of very small amounts of the drugs listed, negative results should not be interpreted as proof that the individual was not exposed to the drugs listed," the report stated.

Anthony, 23, is charged with first-degree murder in the death of 2-year-old Caylee. Six months after Caylee disappeared, the toddler's skeletal remains were found Dec. 11 in a wooded area less than a mile from her east Orange County home.

A bulk of the documents released today focused on the discovery of Caylee's remains and why she wasn't found four months earlier in August.

Orange County meter reader Roy Kronk found Caylee's skeletal remains while on his route. That discovery, however, came after he alerted detectives multiple times about a suspicious bag in the woods in August. One deputy -- later identified as Orange County Sheriff's Deputy Richard Cain -- failed to follow through on a tip.

The Orange County Sheriff's Office is in the process of firing Cain, whose actions and job performance were the subject of an internal investigation in the wake the discovery. He is appealing the decision.

"You failed to thoroughly investigate the call for service which ultimately delayed the discovery of the remains of Ms. Caylee Anthony," Capt. Larry D. Krantz wrote in the March 30 internal investigation report.

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/breakingnews/orl-bk-casey-anthony-case--records-05010,0,6910051.story

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Another ignored tip revealed in Caylee case

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP)—The sheriff’s deputy who was criticized for his poor response to a tip that eventually led to the discovery of Caylee Anthony’s remains had failed to follow up on a call from another tipster who thought the missing toddler’s remains would be found in woods near her home, according to documents released Friday.

Tipster Keith Williams told investigators that former Orange County Sheriff’s Deputy Richard Cain “kind of brushed me off” when he called authorities last August asking them to examine stuffed animals he discovered near the woods where Caylee’s remains eventually were found.

Williams made the call several days after meter reader Roy Kronk reported what looked like a skull in the same woods near where Caylee lived with her grandparents and mother.

An internal investigation found the deputy’s response to be negligent. Cain is appealing his firing. In both cases, he said he searched the area and saw nothing suspicious.

Caylee’s mother, Casey Anthony, has pleaded not guilty in her daughter’s death and said Caylee was kidnapped by a baby sitter.


http://www.buffalonews.com/nationalworld/national/story/658668.html

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New Documents May Give Casey's Defense Ammunition

Posted: 5:31 pm EDT May 1, 2009Updated: 6:24 pm EDT May 1, 2009
ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. -- Newly released documents in the case against Casey could raise reasonable doubt in because they fail to link Casey Anthony directly to the crime scene, which may give her defense some ammunition in court.

It is a bit of a break for the defense, less incriminating evidence to fight against and to use to try to create reasonable doubt. But the defense team's obstacle will boil down to that one word, "reasonable."

New FBI reports released Friday show that investigators cannot definitively match debris on Casey Anthony's shoes and in her car trunk with soil and debris found in the woods where Caylee's remains were found.

The FBI can't rule it out either. FBI chemists say tests on the strands of Caylee's hair that were found at the scene for evidence of prescription drugs taken from the Anthonys' house, were negative.

"It helps the defense because the defense then does not have to counter that piece of evidence," said WFTV Legal Analyst Bill Sheaffer.

Sheaffer says the defense could try to create doubt in jurors' minds by focusing on those weak links, because of unanswered questions. Such as how Caylee was murdered, but says doubt and reasonable doubt are two different things.

The legal standard is this: "A reasonable doubt is not a mere possible doubt, a speculative, imaginary or forced doubt."

"In this particular case there's so much circumstantial evidence and you're going to see an ebb and flow," he said.

Investigators did find a link between the duct tape stretched across Caylee's skull and the tape on the Anthonys' gas can. Also, a link between the Anthonys' house and a heart sticker on that duct tape was found. The laundry bag and trash bags that Caylee's remains were stashed in were also linked.

The FBI did not test the hair found with Caylee's remains for chloroform, because its chemists said it wouldn't prove anything.

Chloroform is a by-product of decomposition. Even so, Eyewitness News has learned that prosecutors had someone else test Caylee's hair for chloroform and say the results will be in soon.

Casey Anthony and her legal team have a lot on their plate, this month. On Tuesday, Jose Baez is scheduled to question a jail guard who was with Casey on the day she learned her daughter's remains were found. Surveillance cameras recorded that moment.

However, on May 28, Casey and her attorney will go to court to try to make sure the public never sees the video tape.

http://www.wftv.com/news/19346147/detail.html

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Casey Anthony: What does the snake show?
posted by halboedeker on May 1, 2009 1:33:49 PM

New documents released today in the Casey Anthony case evidently could help the defense.

FBI test results show that dirt and debris in her car trunk could not be matched definitively to the spot where daughter Caylee's remains were found, WFTV-Channel 9 reported at noon. The same goes for "limited amounts of debris found on several pairs of shoes taken from the Anthony home," WFTV's Kathi Belich said.

"Even though investigators say it's possible one of those pairs of shoes had trampled through the forest, the lab found no soil matches," reported Mike DeForest of WKMG-Channel 6.

Casey is charged with her daughter's murder.

Belich also highlighted information about meter reader Roy Kronk: He talked about a reward after finding Caylee's remains in December. His attorney told WFTV today that Kronk deserves the reward "for bringing closure to the community and saving taxpayers money by putting an end to the exhaustive search for Caylee," Belich said.

What do you think about that?

WKMG's DeForest also focused on a dead, four-foot rattlesnake that Kronk and co-workers found in the woods in August.

"One of the co-workers took the rattlesnake home and put it in his freezer," DeForest said. "Scientists later conducted an autopsy on that frozen rattlesnake to see if by chance it had swallowed any evidence. Well they found nothing significant. But it's ironic that investigators know how that snake died -- it was run over by a car -- but they still do not know how Caylee died."

http://blogs.orlandosentinel.com/entertainment_tv_tvblog/2009/05/casey-anthony-.html

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Casey Anthony Case: Special report on Jose Baez: First of 2 parts
Casey Anthony's lawyer, Jose Baez, rejected by Florida Bar on first try
TOMORROW: Becoming Casey Anthony's lawyer has brought Jose Baez celebrity — and controversy.

Henry Pierson Curtis | Sentinel Staff Writer
May 3, 2009

His defense of a young mother charged with killing her toddler has transformed José Ángel Baez into one of the best-known lawyers in America.

For eight years after he graduated from law school, however, the board that screens prospective attorneys in Florida would not let him practice law. The Florida Supreme Court agreed with the decision, issuing an order in 2000 that cataloged unpaid bills, extravagant spending and other "financial irresponsibility" up to that time. Justices reserved their strongest condemnation for his failure to stay current on support payments for his only child.

His overall behavior, they wrote, showed "a total lack of respect for the rights of others and a total lack of respect for the legal system, which is absolutely inconsistent with the character and fitness qualities required of those seeking to be afforded the highest position of trust and confidence recognized by our system of law."

He worked instead as a paralegal for the Miami-Dade public defender and then taught Internet research to lawyers and started four business ventures, including two bikini companies. Before Florida Bar officials admitted him in 2005, he had to demonstrate that he had rehabilitated himself.

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http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/caylee-anthony/orl-casey-anthony-lawyer-jose-baez-caylee-050309,0,3439656.story

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New Documents Claim Caylee Should Have Been Found Earlier
Sunday, May 03, 2009 8:13:00 AM

Reported by Jacqueline Fell

ORLANDO -- A slew of new documents released Friday claim the body of Caylee Anthony should have been found months before it actually was, according to an internal investigation of an Orange County Sheriff’s deputy regarding the December day her remains were recovered.

The documents center around the day Caylee's remains were found and look into her death. However, they did not specify how she died.

It was a call from meter reader Roy Kronk that led authorities to finding Caylee.

Skeletal remains were found less than a mile away from her home in east Orange County.

But this wasn't the first time Kronk called the Orange County Sheriff's Office about something suspicious in that area.

Now, the deputy, Richard Cain, who officials said should have found the remains in August, should be fired.

In the internal investigation released Friday, an Orange County captain said, “You failed to thoroughly investigate the call for service, which ultimately delayed the discovery of the remains of Ms. Caylee Anthony.”

Cain is appealing the decision.

FBI laboratory reports on Caylee’s skull were also released.

The hair found was tested for Alprazolam and Clonazepam, among others. These drugs are used for treating anxiety.

No drugs were found, but experts said that does not mean she wasn't exposed to those drugs.

Also, centering on the site where her remains were found, a dead rattlesnake was autopsied.

The report said the snake was killed when it was run over, most likely by a vehicle.

The documents released Friday include interview transcripts by Orange County detectives and other FBI lab reports.

No pictures, audio or videos were released.

http://www.cfnews13.com/News/Local/2009/5/1/more_documents_in_casey_case_expected_today.html

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Casey Anthony won't get fair trial in Orlando, attorney tells 'Today' show

Walter Pacheco | Sentinel Staff Writer
9:28 AM EDT, May 4, 2009

(May 4, 2009)

There's too much media coverage in Orlando to have a fair trial, one of Casey Anthony's attorneys told NBC's 'Today' show this morning.

Attorney Linda Kenney-Baden said people searching online with such phrases as "women who kill children'' will get five to 10 news articles.

"If you put in Casey Anthony, you'll get 7 million hits. But most of it is from the local coverage and reprinting of local coverage stories. Because every single day since I've been in this case, which is Dec. 11th, there has been a story, a story, a story," she said. "Even when there's a non-story, there's a story."

In contrast, the attorney said, the national media "gives us a fair shake."

Baden also questioned the recent release of documents by the State Attorney's Office.

"We have an autopsy of a snake, but we don't have an autopsy of the child for which they are seeking to take this woman's life for killing her," Baden said.

When asked about Casey Anthony's behavior after the disappearance of Caylee Marie, like partying with friends at a local club, Baden said people grieve differently.

"It is evidence of nothing," Baden said.

Also today, a spokeswoman for Casey Anthony's local defense attorney, Jose Baez, said he will be filing a change of venue motion later this afternoon at the Orange County Courthouse.

"He will file this Motion and then answer media inquiries outside the courthouse. This Motion will not be widely available before it is filed; he will not provide a copy to the media at this time. There will be no individual interviews granted,'' her statement said.

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/breakingnews/orl-bk-casey-caylee-anthony-050409,0,3137800.story

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Part 2
Who is Jose Baez? Defending Casey Anthony brings celebrity, headaches

Henry Pierson Curtis | Sentinel Staff Writer
May 4, 2009

Casey Anthony is not the first murder suspect Jose Baez has defended.

But representing her has brought him more public attention, scrutiny and controversy than any other case since he became a lawyer four years ago.

In the process, he has bristled at suggestions that his trial experience is limited and at questions about how he is paying for the expensive legal team he has assembled.

From his office down the street from the Osceola County Jail, he has worked on several hundred criminal cases conducted in courthouses across Central Florida. This semester he also taught a course in pretrial practice at Florida A&M University College of Law in Orlando.

He was a low-profile local attorney, however, until he started working for Anthony, the 23-year-old mother accused of killing her toddler daughter, Caylee. Before that, no one was asking him to appear on ABC, CBS, NBC and CNN or to jump aboard Fox TV reporter Geraldo Rivera's 70-foot ketch for an afternoon of sailing.

Along with the celebrity have come insinuations that Baez is over his head in the Anthony case — sometimes from a law professor or someone such as former prosecutor Nancy Grace of Headline News.

Baez, 40, would not be interviewed for this story. His spokesperson issued a statement accusing the Orlando Sentinel of engaging "in a sensationalist persecution of a Hispanic lawyer…"

Earlier, however, he suggested that the newspaper could get a balanced view of his legal abilities by talking to the judge and prosecutor in a Lake County child-murder case he defended last year.

Circuit Judge Mark Nacke would not comment. Judges rarely comment on attorneys because anything they say might suggest they are not impartial toward a lawyer who could appear before them in court again.

Assistant State Attorney Bill Gross said it was the first time in his 30-year career that a defense lawyer had used him as a professional reference. He said Baez had done a competent job and showed promise.

"I've been doing this a lot longer than he, and I could recognize that he does have a lot of God-given talent. He is quite quick-witted, has an excellent ability to communicate," Gross said. "He did a very good job considering his relatively short time as an attorney."

Baez's client was convicted and sentenced to 15 years in prison for manslaughter and child abuse in the fatal beating of a 2-year-old girl. Baez fielded questions from reporters in English and Spanish because the victim was the granddaughter of Puerto Rican boxer Wilfredo Vázquez, a world champion.

William H. Stone, chief assistant public defender in Lake County, said he, too, was impressed.

"I heard nothing but glowing comments about his abilities and representation of his client," Stone said.

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http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/caylee-anthony/orl-jose-baez-casey-anthony-profile-050409,0,6717896.story

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Baez Files For Change Of Venue In Casey Case

Posted: 7:54 am EDT May 4, 2009Updated: 3:19 pm EDT May 5, 2009
ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. -- Jose Baez filed for a change of venue on Monday afternoon (read motion). Baez claims the jury pool in Central Florida is tainted and therefore Casey Anthony (read Casey's statement) cannot have a fair trial.

Casey Anthony's attorney, Jose Baez, is pushing for a change of venue because of too much local publicity. Prosecutors have never gone on camera for the case, but Baez does it regularly to react to evidence and other developments.

Even Monday, he timed his news conference so that he could do it live at the top of the five o'clock news. Eyewitness News opted not to air it and he was upset about that.

WFTV reporter Kathi Belich had the chance to ask Baez whether he helped cause the publicity problem, but Baez would not answer the question. Casey herself doesn't like the questions Belich has asked her in the past and it's one of the reasons Casey says she wants her murder trial moved out of the Orange County courthouse.

Casey Anthony's defense attorney held a news conference just in time for the five o'clock news to complain about all the publicity in the case. He says he wants to move the trial to the Miami-Dade area or to Broward County.

"It simply is that the local coverage has been so constant and at times so inflammatory that members of the local community have already formed their opinions without having heard one piece of evidence," Baez said Monday.

Baez says his research shows that 84-percent of WFTV web visitors who answered a poll said they believe prosecutors should seek the death penalty against Casey Anthony. He said, in four months, more than 14,000 stories aired about the case, but only three-percent of them aired in the Miami area and even less in the Tallahassee area. Yet, he wants the trial in Miami.

"It's disingenuous. The bottom line is that every time you go on TV to complain about the case it just reenergizes the interest of the national media," WFTV legal analyst Bill Sheaffer said Monday (watch full interview).

Sheaffer says moving some 200 witnesses, a judge and court personnel and dozens of investigators, for possibly a month, will cost tens of thousands of dollars. Finding a jury of a white woman's peers won't be difficult, but they can't know much or have an opinion about her.

Sheaffer says interest could wane and the judge might try to seat a jury in Orange County before moving on.

"The judge will confer with the chief judge, Perry. They would confer with the chief justice of the Florida Supreme Court," Sheaffer said.

Baez also filed a signed affidavit from Casey herself complaining about questions Eyewitness News asked her, such as did she kill Caylee?

Casey's lawyer didn't like Kathi Belich's question Monday either (raw video | images). She had only one for him:

"Can you explain your complaints about publicity when you're the one holding news conferences all the time and going on national television?" Belich asked.

Baez never answered. But it appears he likes publicity as long as he likes what's been publicized, otherwise he's less fond of it.

Casey Anthony has been in jail since October and is facing first-degree murder charges in the death of her 2-year-old daughter, Caylee Anthony. Prosecutors plan to seek the death penalty. Her trial is not expected to start until at least October.

http://www.wftv.com/news/19360044/detail.html

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Anthony Attorney Wants Trial Moved To South Fla.
Defense Says Miami-Dade Co. Has Seen Less Media Coverage

POSTED: 6:57 am EDT May 4, 2009
UPDATED: 6:32 pm EDT May 4, 2009

ORLANDO, Fla. -- Casey Anthony's attorneys filed a motion for a change of venue to South Florida on Monday.

"The local coverage has been so constant and at times so inflammatory that the local public has already formed their opinions before hearing evidence," Baez told reporters just moments after filing the motion at the Orange County Courthouse.

Casey Anthony, 23, is charged with first-degree murder in connection with the death of her daughter, Caylee, whose remains were found in Orange County woods in December 2008.

Her attorneys have said they were researching the need for a change in venue because of pretrial publicity. They think South Florida has heard the least amount of media coverage of the case.

Baez's motion also included comments from his client, saying reporters harrassed her asking her if she killed her daughter. Casey Anthony's statement was signed by her and dated December 10 -- one day before Caylee's remains were discovered.

The decision comes only days after another round of evidence was released in the case, which is expected to go to trial later this year.

Anthony is being held without bail at Orange County Jail.

During NBC's "Today" Show on Monday, Linda Kenney Baden, another of Casey Anthony's attorneys, criticized the local media.

"Every single day since I've been in this case, which is Dec. 11th, there has been a story, a story, a story," Baden said. "Even when there's a non-story, there's a story."

(Watch Kenney Baden on "Today" Show)

http://www.wesh.com/news/19359753/detail.html

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WFTV Confronts Casey's Attorney On Change Of Venue Motion
Jose Baez filed a motion for change of venue in the case against Casey Anthony. (05/04/09)

http://www.wftv.com/video/19366689/index.html

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INTERVIEW: WFTV Analyst Bill Sheaffer On Casey Venue Change
Leagal analyst Bill Shaeffer talks to WFTV about Casey's change of venue.
May 05, 2009

http://www.wftv.com/video/19366465/index.html

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Nancy Grace Transcripts....

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/ng.html

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Can Casey Anthony Get Impartial Jury?
Most Floridians Questioned By TV Station Recognize Woman

POSTED: Monday, May 4, 2009
UPDATED: 8:18 am EDT May 5, 2009

ORLANDO, Fla. -- Local 6 investigative reporter Tony Pipitone traveled the state of Florida to find out if Casey Anthony, whose attorneys on Monday filed a change of venue motion, could get an impartial jury outside of Orange County.

Pipitone went from Palm Beach to Miami and Fort Lauderdale before headking to Tampa and Jacksonville, showing people a picture of Anthony and asking them if they recognized her.

Anthony, 23, remains jailed on first-degree murder charges in the death of her daughter, Caylee, whose remains were discovered in December. Caylee was 2 years old when she was reported missing in July.

In Palm Beach County, which has a population of 1.3 million people, the first person Pipitone approached knew immediately who Anthony was.

"That's that Casey girl," a woman said. "Yeah, I see her on TV all the time."

"Oh, that's one of the mothers, one of the ex mothers," a man said.

"Casey Anthony," another man replied. "I've seen her on the news."

"That's the woman -- her child, missing child," yet another person told Pipitone.

Most of the people seemed to know who Anthony was. But not everybody, as one man told Pipitone he had never seen her.

In Miami, which has a population of 2.4 million, she was less well known.

"Do you recognize this woman?" Pipitone asked.

"No," the man said.

"Have you ever heard of Casey Anthony?" Pipitone replied.

"No. No, sir," a couple said.

But Pipitone said most of the people he talked to in Miami knew who she was.

"That's the girl that killed her little daughter -- I hope that she didn't kill -- but apparently her (daughter's) bones were found," a man said.

"She's the one who killed her little girl, Caylee?" a woman asked.

Most of the residents of Fort Myers, which has a population of 600,000 in Lee County, who Pipitone talked to knew of Anthony.

"(She's) all over the news. It's the tot mom," a woman said.

"Sounds like you watch Nancy Grace," Pipitone said.

"Yeah," she replied.

"She's the one ... is it Caylee? The little girl?" a man said.

A person told Pipitone that Anthony killed her daughter.

In Tampa, with a population of 1.2 million, most people recognized Anthony from her picture, and the few who didn't seemed to remember after being told her name.

"That's the one who murdered, (who is) accused of murdering her little girl," a woman said.

"She's Caylee's mother, Caylee Anthony," a Tampa resident said.

And in Jacksonville, population of 850,000, most of the residents questioned by Pipitone also recognized Anthony from her picture.

"I'm slightly obsessed with her case," a woman said.

An experienced Miami death penalty attorney said just knowing Anthony from a picture is not enough to keep someone off a jury unless the potential juror has an opinion about what she did and whether she's guilty of the crime.

Anthony's defense wants to have her trial somewhere where details about the case, like perhaps whether Caylee's body was in the trunk of Anthony's car, that may not be put into evidence are not in the juror's heads.

http://www.clickorlando.com/news/19365404/detail.html

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WDBO Local News
Top lawyers weigh in on Casey's change of venue motion
By
Marva Hinton
@ May 5, 2009 10:12 AM
Casey Anthony's attorney, Jose Baez, is taking steps to get her trial moved from Orange County to South Florida.

Baez filed a motion for a change of venue late Monday afternoon. In it, he cites excessive media coverage in Central Florida and the fact that public opinion is squarely against his client.

Two prominent Orlando defense attorneys say with all the publicity surrounding this case, Baez didn't have much choice but to try to get the trial moved.

"I think it's something he had to do and something he would want to do," said Mark Nejame. "I would be surprised if the State Attorney's Office opposed it. As much as many people want to have her convicted, it is essential that she receive a fair trial so that this case is tried once and not two or three times."

Diana Tennis agrees.

"I cannot imagine any judge in Judge Strickland's position not erring on the side of protecting Ms. Anthony's rights, and I would be surprised at this point if it doesn't move," said Tennis.

But Tennis also says that all of this could have been avoided.

"Had there been a concerted effort to keep all parties quiet, this would not have become the three-ring circus that is was, and Central Florida might not have been such a bad place to be," said Tennis.

Both Nejame and Tennis also say they're not surprised that Baez would want to move the trial south.

"The lore among lawyers is that South Florida is a liberal, New Englander retirement area and is thought of as being a pretty favorable place for defense lawyers," said Tennis.

She also notes that there is bit of hypocrisy in Baez complaining about pre-trial publicity. Baez has done several national TV interviews and talks to the media following every hearing and deposition in the case. He called a news conference Monday afternoon to discuss his motion for a change of venue.

"I think that that's somewhat disingenuous to come in and complain about publicity that you've obviously so much enjoyed," Tennis said.

Tennis also argues that even if the trial is moved to Miami it'll be hard to find 12 jurors who haven't heard of the case. But Nejame says the issue is not whether they've heard of it but whether they've already formed an opinion.

Casey Anthony is accused of murdering her two-year-old daughter, Caylee, last summer. If convicted, she could face the death penalty.

Early on in this case, Nejame represented Casey's parents, Cindy and George Anthony, but is no longer involved with the proceeding.

http://wdbo.com/localnews/2009/05/casey-anthonys-attorney-jose-b.html

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Corrections officer, detective questioned in Casey Anthony case
The depositions come a day after Casey Anthony's attorney requested that the trial be moved.

Sarah Lundy | Sentinel Staff Writer
10:55 AM EDT, May 5, 2009

A Orange County corrections officer and a deputy were questioned under oath Tuesday by Casey Anthony's attorney, Jose Baez.

Casey Anthony, 23, remains jailed on first-degree murder charges in the death of her daughter, Caylee Anthony, whose remains were discovered on Dec. 11 less than a mile from her family home.

Lt. Tammy Unser led Anthony to the jail's medical center on the day child's remains - later identified as Caylee - were found by an Orange County meter reader. She told investigators how Casey Anthony hyperventilated when she saw a news report. of the findings.

Deputy Phillip Graves was also questioned by the defense.

The depositions were not open to the public.

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/topic/orl-casey-anthony-update-050509,0,6727341.story

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Report: Casey Anthony's attorney still questioning corrections officers
Casey Anthony's attorney, Jose Baez, questions corrections officers about the day Caylee's remains were found.

Alan Schmadtke | Sentinel Staff Writer
12:27 PM EDT, May 6, 2009

Casey Anthony attorney Jose Baez is continuing his questioning today of an Orange County corrections officers about the day that his client learned that her daughter may be dead, a Web site is reporting.

According to WFTV.com, Baez wants to finish talking to the duo about the December day that Caylee Marie Anthony's remains were discovered less than a mile from the Anthonys' house in east Orange County.

Anthony was in jail but watched televised media reports about the discovery.

The remains were not identified as 2-year-old Caylee until the next week.

The State Attorney's office has already released audio and transcripts of interviews with Lt. Tammy Unser and Sgt. Billy Richardson. Unser's interview can be heard here. Richardson's interview can be heard here.

Information from Baez's interviews is not expected to become public.

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/breakingnews/orl-bk-casey-anthony-jose-baez-depositions-050609,0,3205192.story

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Casey Anthony: WFTV says it won't retract report that the defense team called 'this fabrication'
posted by halboedeker on May 6, 2009 2:20:58 PM


Casey Anthony's defense team wants a retraction from WFTV-Channel 9.

The station says no way.

Jose Baez's spokeswoman said WFTV's Kathi Belich was wrong when she reported this week that Baez "faxed copies of his motion for a change of venue to some reporters before he ever filed it with the court."

Baez spokeswoman Marti Mackenzie fired off an e-mail to the station: "Please retract this fabrication that you reported. Let us know when you plan to retract your report."

"We're not going to retract it," WFTV news director Bob Jordan told me. "Faxed or handed. Makes no difference how it was transmitted. What matters is that it was transmitted to reporters."

Mackenzie said that simply wasn't so and that the motion wasn't provided to any reporter before it was filed.

"Their reports are tainted with the way they like to spin their own story," Mackenzie said today. "Kathi Belich, it appears, came late to a news conference so she could make her own entrance. She hangs back and then tries to grab Jose by herself. So much of this is about theater. These are things that are a trademark of Channel 9, the confrontational interview. "

Mackenzie said WFTV has sent out a message, through all its Anthony reporting, that the station is pro-prosecution. But this particular report -- about the change of venue motion -- was enraging because it was a fabrication, Mackenzie said.

Casey Anthony is charged with the first-degree murder of her daughter, Caylee.

http://blogs.orlandosentinel.com/entertainment_tv_tvblog/2009/05/casey-anthony-wftv-says-it-wont-retract-report-that-defense-team-called-a-fabrication.html

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Prosecutors want to know who will help Jose Baez in Anthony case
Defense says new attorney will be revealed later this month

Sarah Lundy | Sentinel Staff Writer
6:58 PM EDT, May 7, 2009

Prosecutors want to know who on Casey Anthony's legal team is qualified to handle a death-penalty case, according to paperwork filed Thursday in Orange Circuit Court.

And Anthony's lead attorney, Jose Baez, promptly filed an objection, saying the new lawyer would be revealed before the next hearing.

Florida law requires experienced attorneys -- who meet certain qualifications -- be the attorney of record in death penalty cases. The Orange-Osceola State Attorney's office made the Anthony case a death penalty case last month, four months after Anthony’s 2-year-old daughter Caylee Marie Anthony were discovered less than a mile from her home.

Anthony remains in the Orange County Jail charged with first-degree murder in Caylee’s death.

Baez does not meet the death-penalty criteria, which includes having five years’ trial experience and being lead attorney in at least nine state or federal jury trials of serious or complex cases.

In his objection, Baez said despite the fact he speaks to Assistant State Attorney Linda Drane Burdick nearly every day and even spent Tuesday with her questioning witnesses, no one in the State Attorney’s office has asked about a new attorney on the case.

Regardless, Baez’s spokeswoman, Marti Mackenzie, said the issue will be moot soon.

A new death-qualified attorney has joined the team and will be at a hearing scheduled later this month. She would not identify the attorney.

"At that time, the defense will introduce the highly qualified and outstanding death-qualified attorney as the newest member of the defense team," she said.

The defense team once had Miami-attorney, Terence Lenamon, who handles capital punishment cases, helping with the case. However, he is no longer involved.

Lenamon was brought in last fall to write a report, outlining why prosecutors should not go for the death penalty against Anthony.

In October, the state announced it was not going to seek it.

Two months later, the remains were found, which led to prosecutors changing their minds.

In April, they filed paperwork, stating they were going to seek the death penalty.

Meanwhile Thursday, CNN announced that Anthony’s parents, George and Cindy Anthony, will appear on its “Larry King Live” show on Wednesday. King will ask the questions.

George and Cindy Anthony were on the King show Dec. 10, the night before Caylee’s remains were found.

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/breakingnews/orl-bk-casey-anthony-baez-attorney-050809,0,6582310.story

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Who will handle Casey Anthony's death-penalty case?
Prosecutors want to know who on Casey Anthony's defense team is qualified to handle her case.

By Sarah Lundy | Sentinel Staff Writer
May 8, 2009

Prosecutors want to know who on Casey Anthony's legal team is qualified to handle a death-penalty case, according to paperwork filed Thursday in Orange Circuit Court.

And Anthony's lead attorney, José Baez, promptly filed an objection, saying the new lawyer would be revealed before the next hearing.

Florida law requires experienced attorneys — who meet certain qualifications — be the attorney of record in death-penalty cases. The Orange-Osceola State Attorney's Office made the Anthony case a death-penalty case last month, four months after the remains of Anthony's 2-year-old daughter, Caylee Marie Anthony, were discovered less than a mile from her home.

Anthony remains in the Orange County Jail charged with first-degree murder in Caylee's death.

Baez does not meet the death-penalty criteria, which includes having five years' trial experience and being lead attorney in at least nine state or federal jury trials of serious or complex cases.

In his objection, Baez said despite the fact he speaks to Assistant State Attorney Linda Drane Burdick nearly every day and even spent Tuesday with her questioning witnesses, no one in the State Attorney's Office has asked about a new attorney on the case.

Regardless, Baez's spokeswoman, Marti Mackenzie, said the issue will be moot soon.

A new death-qualified attorney has joined the team and will be at a hearing scheduled later this month. She would not identify the attorney.

"At that time, the defense will introduce the highly qualified and outstanding death-qualified attorney as the newest member of the defense team," she said.

The defense team briefly brought in Miami attorney Terence Lenamon, who handles capital-punishment cases. Last fall, he wrote a report outlining why prosecutors should not go for the death penalty against Anthony.

In October, the state announced it was not going to seek it.

Once the decision was made, Lenamon was no longer part of the defense team.

Two months later, the remains were found, which led to prosecutors changing their minds.

In April, they filed paperwork, stating they were going to seek the death penalty.

Meanwhile Thursday, CNN announced that Anthony's parents, George and Cindy Anthony, will appear on Larry King Live on Wednesday. King will ask the questions.

George and Cindy Anthony were on King's show Dec. 10, the night before Caylee's remains were found.

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/caylee-anthony/orl-casey-anthony-attorney-08050809may08,0,6318914.story

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Casey Anthony: George and Cindy to be guests on 'Larry King Live'
posted by halboedeker on May 7, 2009 3:43:00 PM


George and Cindy Anthony will be guests on CNN's "Larry King Live" on Wednesday.

The parents of Casey Anthony will be there with their lawyer, Brad Conway. Larry King will be asking the questions. George and Cindy were interviewed Dec. 10 on the King show, the night before Caylee's remains were found.

Another guest will be Jon Whynock, who wrote "Caylee's Song" and performed it at the toddler's memorial. He is likely to perform a portion of the song, a King spokesman said.

Casey Anthony is charged with the first-degree murder of her daughter, Caylee.

"Larry King Live" airs at 9 nightly. A spokesman for the show said it's likely there will be other guests on Wednesday.

http://blogs.orlandosentinel.com/entertainment_tv_tvblog/2009/05/casey-anthony-george-and-cindy-to-be-guests-on-larry-king-live.html

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Jose Baez takes 3 more depositions in Casey Anthony case

OrlandoSentinel.com Report
6:37 PM EDT, May 11, 2009

The defense team for Casey Anthony went through another round of depositions Monday at the State Attorney's office.

Jose Baez deposed three people: Orange County Sheriff's Deputy Adriana Acavedo and two publics works employees.

Acavedo was the deputy who was to meet up with meter reader Roy Kronk following Kronk calling in tips about a body being in the woods near Anthony's house in southeast Orange County. Those calls came in August.

The remains of 2-year-old Caylee Marie Anthony were found in December after Kronk's persistent tips finally were investigated more fully.

In August, Acavedo drove to meet Kronk, who did not show for the meeting, according to documents released by the State Attorney's office.

The others who were deposed Monday are co-workers of Kronk.

Casey Anthony is being held without bail on first-degree murder charges in the death of her daughter. Prosecutors have filed a motion that they will seek the death penalty in the case.

Read The TV Guy and More for his take on today's television coverage of the depositions.

Although some depositions in the overall Anthony case have been made public -- including those given by Casey's parents, George and Cindy Anthony -- those have been part of a civil suit and not part of the criminal case.

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/breakingnews/orl-casey-anthony-depositions-051209,0,2399719.story

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Casey Anthony: George, Cindy are public-relations flops
George and Cindy Anthony will appear on CNN's Larry King Live Wednesday

Hal Boedeker
11:28 AM EDT, May 12, 2009

Larry King teased last night to George and Cindy Anthony's appearance on his CNN show on Wednesday. "A lot of traffic on our blog about it," King said. He asked viewers to take part in the conversation at CNN.com/LarryKing.

The tragedy of toddler Caylee Anthony mainly drives interest in the perplexing story. Casey Anthony has been charged with murdering her daughter.

But the media performance of George and Cindy, Caylee's grandparents and Casey's parents, sustains the public's interest, too. George and Cindy have done just about everything wrong in public-relations terms, says Ron Sachs. His Ron Sachs Communications in Tallahassee deals in crisis management.

"It's as bad as it could get," Sachs says of the way the grandparents have conducted themselves. "It's a runway train off the tracks, and that usually has one outcome: disaster."

The problem?

"There's a stunning lack of discipline in how the story is told," Sachs says. "When crimes are alleged, long before you get to a court of law, you're being tried in the court of public opinion. If you don't speak, it's almost an admission of guilt. If you speak and perform poorly, it's worse than an admission of guilt."

Sachs says the grandparents don't come off as likable, and they've been overexposed.

Mason Moore, director of public relations at Fry Hammond Barr in Orlando, says he would have advised the couple to keep a lower profile. "I didn't see any positives from them having such high visibility in the beginning," he says. "They were so visible and outspoken from the beginning. It damaged their credibility."

Mark NeJame quit as the Anthonys' attorney in November, saying he couldn't help them if they wouldn't take his advice.

"My heart goes out to them, but I continue to spend my energy and time addressing things that might not need to be addressed if I had better control of the case," NeJame said then.

Brad Conway has taken over as their attorney, but evidently he hasn't been able to exert control either. The Anthonys made the huge blunder of agreeing to an exclusive interview with Oprah Winfrey, then talking to other outlets, such as CBS' "Early Show."

The result: The queen of daytime television dumped the couple. And in this media world, it's never wise to anger Winfrey.

Now the Anthonys have turned to CNN's King. They appeared on his show in December, the night before Caylee's remains were found.

People who have followed the case will watch to see how King pushes the couple to answer questions. Will they say something of value? Or flub another opportunity?

"Anybody in that jackpot of trouble needs to tell their story," Sachs says. "They don't need to look like Brad Pitt. They have to be a regular person who's believable. They have erred on the side of being pathetic, but not sympathetic. It's one of the worst cases I've seen of a poor performance on a giant stage when the stakes are life and death."

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/topic/orl-casey-anthony-george-cindy-anthony-cnn-051209,0,1515500.column

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Casey Anthony: Jail dismisses report that she freaked out
posted by halboedeker on May 12, 2009 4:57:16 PM


"Did Casey Anthony freak out and have to be tied to a bed the day she found out prosecutors were seeking death?" WESH-Channel 2 anchor Martha Sugalski asked.

That story from a former jail inmate isn't true, the Orange County Jail says.

WESH's Bob Kealing explored the issue this afternoon.

A fellow inmate told RadarOnline.com that Anthony turned misty-eyed and sought help. Anthony is charged with the first-degree murder of her daughter, Caylee.

The inmate, Teri Narsesian, says Anthony "was screaming, 'I'm pissed,' looked directly into my room and said, 'Help me.' " Narsesian said she could do nothing for her. (Kealing said Narseisan was jailed for violating bad-check probation.)

The jail disputed Narsesian's story in a written statement. "There is no indication that the incident, as reported in the tabloid media, ever occurred," jail spokesman Allen Moore wrote.

He added that Anthony "has been a very cooperative inmate." It was the rare instance someone said something nice about Anthony.

http://blogs.orlandosentinel.com/entertainment_tv_tvblog/2009/05/casey-anthony-she-has-been-very-cooperative-inmate-jail-says.html

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Casey Anthony: WESH asks if Jose Baez wants to put her on the stand
posted by halboedeker on May 13, 2009 4:41:13 PM

Does Jose Baez want to put Casey Anthony on the stand and claim that Caylee's death was an accident?

That theory came from a legal analyst during a WESH-Channel 2 report this afternoon.

And the theory grew out of a TV interview. Terence Lenamon, a Miami attorney who quit the Anthony defense team, talked to Nancy Grace on her Headline News show Tuesday night. Lenamon said he believed the defense's approach should be mental-health-related.

That's where WESH came in with the speculation. Criminal defense attorney Richard Hornsby, who has offered analysis for the NBC affiliate, suggested that Lenamon's statement means that Baez wants to put Anthony on the stand. She is charged with daughter Caylee's murder.


Hornsby saw Lenamon's approach as more conservative -- one that would avoid putting Casey on the stand.

Baez today conducted three depositions, including one with a Universal Studios executive.

In a noon report, WFTV-Channel 9's Kathi Belich discussed Baez's arrival at the state attorney's office for the depositions. Baez "showed up all alone today" and "didn't stop to talk," she said. "Baez never even took his sunglasses off."

And she added: "After facing criticism for complaining that the murder trial should be moved because of all the publicity in the case, when he is the only one who conducts regular interviews, he seems to be clamming up."

Could that be possible?

http://blogs.orlandosentinel.com/entertainment_tv_tvblog/2009/05/casey-anthony-wesh-asks-if-jose-baez-wants-to-put-her-on-the-stand.html

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Inmate Details Anthony's Response To Death Penalty
Narsesian Tells Web Site Anthony Thrashed In Bed, Needed To Be Restrained

POSTED: 3:15 pm EDT May 12, 2009
UPDATED: 6:03 pm EDT May 12, 2009

ORLANDO, Fla. -- Orange County Jail officials are denying a report that Casey Anthony had to be restrained the day she found out the state was seeking the death penalty.

A corrections spokesman confirmed that a woman who posted a report on a Web site was in Casey Anthony's pod in April when she learned the state was seeking the death penalty against her.

The report is posted on RadarOnline.com and said that Casey Anthony was in a dining area and started yelling and getting angry when she heard the news.

Anthony is in the Orange County Jail charged with first-degree murder in connection with the death of her daughter, Caylee.

“I have been able to confirm that there was no time in which inmate Anthony had to be placed on a restraint bed,” Orange County jail spokesman Allen Moore said in an e-mail. “Additionally, there is no indication that the incident, as described in the tabloid media, ever occurred. As we have stated before, Casey Anthony has been a very cooperative inmate who follows jail rules and has created no operational problems or disruptions.”

The woman, identified as Teri Narsesian, 44, said Anthony was screaming and thrashing in the bed. At one point, Thomas said Anthony looked at her through tears and asked her for help.

Narsesian was in jail for three weeks in April on charges of violating her probation for a bed check charge.

WESH 2’s reporter Bob Kealing will have updates on this story during the news starting at 4 p.m., plus an exclusive look at the woman making the accusation during the 6 p.m. news.

http://www.wesh.com/news/19440964/detail.html

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http://www.wesh.com/caseyanthony/index.html

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Baez Deposes DCF Investigator, Deputy
Anthonys To Make TV Appearance

POSTED: Wednesday, May 13, 2009
UPDATED: 5:06 pm EDT May 13, 2009

ORLANDO, Fla. -- Three more witnesses will be deposed on Wednesday by Casey Anthony's defense team.

Defense attorney Jose Baez deposed a Department of Children and Families investigator for most of Wednesday morning.

Investigator William Procknow visited Anthony twice to look into child abuse allegations; once while Anthony was in jail and later while she was out on bond. At that time, Anthony was charged with child abuse in her daughter's disappearance.

Procknow said Anthony referred to her missing daughter, Caylee Anthony, as "that child," suggesting some form of detachment.

Procknow said Anthony insisted that Caylee had been kidnapped by her babysitter, Zenaida Gonzalez.

Baez is also deposes Leonard Turtora, a security official at Universal Studios, for several hours.

Turtora was at Universal the day Anthony led detectives through the park in search of her office, only to admit she had lied about her employment there. He also checked the employee database for deputies to confirm that Anthony did not work at Universal.

The final deposition of the day was Deputy Eduardo Turso. He was one of the first deputies to respond to Suburban Drive on Dec. 11 when meter reader Roy Cronk called authorities to report finding a body.

The body was later identified as Caylee.

Anthony, 23, remains jailed on first-degree murder charges in Caylee's death. Caylee was 2 years old when she was reported missing in July.

Baez did not go into specifics about what was discussed during the depositions.

Meanwhile, Anthony's parents will again appear on national TV to answer questions about the death of their granddaughter, Caylee.

George and Cindy Anthony are scheduled to be on "Larry King Live" Wednesday night. The last time they appeared with Larry King was the night before Caylee's bones were found in a wooded area near their east Orange County home.

George and Cindy Anthony will likely be asked about their daughter possibly facing the death penalty if she's convicted of murdering Caylee.

http://www.clickorlando.com/news/19448859/detail.html

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Anthonys: Caylee's Killer Still Loose
Grandparents Of Slain Toddler Appear On 'Larry King Live'

POSTED: Thursday, May 14, 2009
UPDATED: 3:35 pm EDT May 14, 2009

George and Cindy Anthony appeared on "Larry King Live" Wednesday night to discuss their daughter, Casey Anthony, and the first-degree murder charge against her.

Casey Anthony is in jail on charges that she killed her daughter, Caylee Anthony.

Caylee was missing for six months when her body was found in a wooded area near the Anthony family home in December.

George and Cindy Anthony discussed several topics with King, including evidence against their daughter and why they have not visited her in jail in months.

King pressed George and Cindy Anthony about Casey Anthony's guilt and the parents' unwavering support for their daughter.

Cindy Anthony said she asked her daughter directly if she killed Caylee, and Casey Anthony said no.

George and Cindy Anthony told King whoever killed their granddaughter is still out there.

Cindy Anthony said the family has a private detective and the defense is also looking for another suspect in Caylee's killing.

When asked if they knew of any other suspect, the Anthonys' attorney, Brad Conway, said the family could not comment on the matter at this time.

George Anthony told King he knows Casey Anthony did not kill his granddaughter because he "saw the love she had for Caylee."

King asked the Anthonys why their Casey Anthony did not call police until 31 days after Caylee went missing and was photographed out partying while Caylee was missing.

"A lot of people do weird things under stress and tragedy. It doesn't make her guilty," Cindy Anthony said.

When King asked the Anthonys about what should happen to whoever did kill Caylee, Cindy Anthony said she did not believe in the death penalty for anyone.

George and Cindy Anthony also discussed a foundation they have launched in Caylee's name. They said the proceeds will go to counsel families when a child goes missing.

The Anthonys told King they grew tired of recordings of their visits with their daughter being released to the public, which is why they have not visited her in jail in months.

http://www.clickorlando.com/news/19460760/detail.html

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George, Cindy Anthony Appear On 'Larry King'
Baez To Hire New Attorney Who Meets Death Penalty Case Requirements

POSTED: 12:31 am EDT May 14, 2009
UPDATED: 12:40 am EDT May 14, 2009

Casey Anthony's parents, George and Cindy Anthony, appeared on CNN's "Larry King Live" Wednesday night.

The Anthonys fielded questions that ranged from their daughter's demeanor as a mother, to whether they thought their own daughter was guilty of killing 2-year-old Caylee.

Cindy Anthony also said her "faith" stopped her from taking her own life.

On Wednesday, new details surfaced in the case against Casey Anthony.

The qualified death penalty attorney on Casey Anthony's team spoke out about why he left the team

"We had a difference in what I think should have been the approach, which is more mental health-related," Terrance Lenamon said on the "Nancy Grace Show."

Lenamon said he wanted to have an insanity approach, but attorney Jose Baez rejected that idea.

A Baez representative said the team will be introducing a new attorney who meets the death penalty requirements.

http://www.wesh.com/news/19456858/detail.html

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Casey Anthony: What did you think of the George-Cindy interview on CNN?
posted by halboedeker on May 13, 2009 10:05:20 PM



Larry King was astonished by the number of messages from the public. He showed the stack before questioning George and Cindy Anthony tonight on CNN.

The parents of Casey Anthony said they're still surprised that granddaughter Caylee's body was found. And they can't believe daughter Casey is responsible for the child's murder.

King questioned George and Cindy forcefully, although he kept stumbling over all those names that start with C. There wasn't a lot new in the interview, which took up the hour. They talked about their foundation at the hour's end, which no doubt infuriated many viewers. How did you think the interview went?

King asked why is the public taking its anger out on George and Cindy.

"They don't understand," Cindy said. "They don't understand unconditional love."

The parents defended Casey as a loving mother, and Cindy dismissed the idea that Casey had acted weirdly while the toddler was missing.

They acted more subdued than usual. Cindy talked about her faith, and she lost the chewing gum that has been a hallmark of many TV appearances.

George and Cindy haven't talked to jailed Casey since Oct. 14. Every time they go to jail the visit is videotaped and all over Nancy Grace and 6 o'clock news, Cindy said. They want to see Casey every day, Cindy said, but they're afraid their daughter will be picked apart on the evening news.

Cindy said she and George fear seeing Casey would hurt their daughter.

"Look at the negative stuff about us. George and I haven't done anything," Cindy said.

"They have good things to say to their daughter," said Brad Conway, the Anthonys' attorney.

There were questions that didn't receive answers.

How does Cindy explain Caylee's body being found so close to home? She couldn't.

Why didn't Casey call police sooner about the missing girl? Cindy didn't have an explanation.

Is there any other suspect? Conway said the parents couldn't comment.

Why was Casey out partying? Cindy said that was one night and that Casey had been searching for clues.

Cindy also said she had no regrets about what she -- Cindy -- had done.

The parents correspond with Casey. Conway said they don't discuss the case in their letters.

George said he wished he had an opportunity to talk to Casey. But Conway said all the visitations are monitored.

George doesn't want to believe he has a child who could do this.Could George be blinded by Casey's being his daughter? He said he could make up his own mind.

Cindy said they talked to Casey when she was at home. Cindy did ask Casey if she did it; the young mother said no.

George discussed his suicide note. Cindy said her faith kept her from trying suicide.

A motive for the murder? "There is not motive," Conway said.

George and Cindy said they didn't approve of the death penalty. Cindy said they wouldn't cut ties to Casey if their daughter is found guilty.

George says they're lucky to get three to four hours of sleep a night.

Might they go see Casey? "I don't want anything to hurt Casey," Cindy said.

http://blogs.orlandosentinel.com/entertainment_tv_tvblog/2009/05/casey-anthony--6.html

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Casey Anthony: Terence Lenamon blasts Orlando TV coverage of his Nancy Grace appearance
posted by halboedeker on May 14, 2009 10:40:54 AM



Miami attorney Terence Lenamon, who left the Casey Anthony case in a dispute with Jose Baez, is blasting Orlando television coverage that suggests his appearance on Nancy Grace's program produced a bombshell.

"Ridiculous," Lenamon told me this morning. "Someone said to me, 'They're trying to sell TV time.' "

Lenamon took issue with analyses of his short interview on Grace's Headline News program.

"It's a huge stretch for anyone to think because I'm positing mental-health issues that I'm conceding guilt," Lenamon said. "That's so far from the truth. What we're talking about is looking at explanations that someone would act that way in a certain period of time."

Lenamon, a death penalty expert, wrote a report explaining why Anthony's case doesn't fit the state's criteria for the death penalty. Anthony is charged with the first-degree murder of her daughter, Caylee, and the state is seeking the death penalty.

Lenamon said he had a very limited time with Anthony. He said he and Baez had "a disagreement over strategy over mental-health mitigation."

Translation? "I am suggesting a route to take, and Mr. Baez is disagreeing with me. He is lead counsel."

Lenamon said he had great concern over the case's future because of media exposure. He feared that "the death penalty lawyer who will be brought in will be rubber-stamping a preplanned defense."

"I am suggesting that whoever that lawyer is has to be independent of the strategy in evaluating the case," Lenamon added.

"I am hopeful they bring in some big-shot death penalty lawyer," he said. "I will be the first one to say it's the best move Mr. Baez has made since bringing me in."

Lenamon blasted lawyer Richard Hornsby's take -- given on WESH-Channel 2 -- that Baez means to put Anthony on the stand. "I totally disagree with what he's saying," Lenamon said.

Lenamon said Hornsby's take was "ridiculous sensationalism" and "completely unfair to both Mr. Baez, myself and the client."

Lenamon also termed ridiculous that view of WFTV-Channel 9 legal analyst Bill Sheaffer that Lenamon's comment was a bombshell. WFTV also used the term "insanity" to describe Lenamon's take on Anthony.

"I never used the word insanity," Lenamon said. "They are loose with words up there. It was clearly never said. If I said that I would be technically crossing the line."

Lenamon also issued a statement in response to the media coverage:

"The importance of an experienced death qualified attorney's independent involvement in Ms. Anthony's case cannot be overemphasized. The penalty of death is unique in both its severity and finality. Standards consistent with both Florida law and the American Bar Association's Guidlines for the Appointment and Performance of Counsel in Death Penalty Cases (Feb. 2003) require conflict-free investigation, evaluation and preparation. In that I am no longer involved in the case, I am confident that Mr. Baez will aggressively pursue assuring that Ms. Anthony is provided death-qualified counsel that will diligently represent her interests."

http://blogs.orlandosentinel.com/entertainment_tv_tvblog/2009/05/casey-anthony-terence-lenamon-blasts-tv-coverage-of-his-nancy-grace-appearance.html

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George, Cindy Defend Casey On National TV

Posted: 10:27 pm EDT May 13, 2009Updated: 9:57 am EDT May 14, 2009
ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. -- George and Cindy Anthony are still defending their daughter, Casey Anthony. The couple and their attorney were on Larry King Live on Wednesday night and they say they still think Casey isn't responsible for Caylee's death.

Watch full interview here...
http://www.wftv.com/video/19459412/index.html

"I don't want to believe I have a child that would hurt a child and I still don't think she would hurt a child," George Anthony told Larry King Wednesday night.

George and Cindy are really making the rounds on national TV right now, but like most TV interviews they didn't want to answer all of the questions.

Larry King began by asking George and Cindy about the day Caylee was found dead just a couple of blocks from the family home.

The Anthonys found out about the discovery of Caylee's remains at the airport waiting to fly back to Orlando.

"That was the longest flight I've ever taken," said Cindy Anthony.

"Was it a surprise?" King asked.

"We didn't realize it was actually Caylee for about eight or nine days later, until it was confirmed it was actually her," Cindy said.

The last time the two were on the national cable show was the night before Caylee's body was discovered. Wednesday night, attorney Brad Conway would often step up to answer questions.

For a long time, George and Cindy have avoided visiting their daughter in jail because they don't want the taped visitations released to the media. However, Conway doesn't seem to mind releasing the audio recordings.

"I don't see the downside to that. They have good things to say to their daughter. "I love you," and our prayers are with her, so I don't see a downside to going in there or a downside to that being broadcast," Conway said.

Cindy said she hasn't talked to Casey since October 14 of last year. That's when Casey was indicted for murder and taken to jail.

During the interview, the two said that even if their daughter Casey is found guilty of killing their granddaughter, they will still support her.

"I don't want to believe I have a child that would hurt a child and I still don't think she would hurt a child," Cindy said.

Conway also disputed the claim there was a heart sticker on the piece of duct tape over Caylee's mouth.

"Not true, there was no heart-shaped sticker on the duct tape," Conway said.

http://www.wftv.com/news/19455990/detail.html

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Casey's Ex-Death Penalty Attorney Releases Statement

Posted: 4:40 pm EDT May 14, 2009
ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. -- Casey's former death penalty attorney Terence Lenamon released a statement (read Lenamon's statement) Thursday that appears to be a thinly veiled criticism of her current defense team.

Lenamon says American Bar Association guidelines require conflict free investigation, evaluation and preparation.

He and defense attorney Jose Baez parted ways over a disagreement about whether Casey should use a mental health defense.

Eyewitness News has learned that Baez is keeping very tight control over Casey and her defense, even though he is not a death penalty attorney and has not yet met the requirements to hire one.

http://www.wftv.com/news/19463864/detail.html

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Casey Lawyer Wants Civil Suit Tossed
Hearing Scheduled For May 19

POSTED: Friday, May 15, 2009
UPDATED: 2:33 pm EDT May 15, 2009
ORLANDO, Fla. -- A hearing has been scheduled in the civil case against Casey Anthony.

The hearing, which will be held on May 19, is regarding a motion to dismiss the lawsuit filed against Anthony by Zenaida Gonzalez.

When Anthony was arrested and charged with child neglect in July in the disappearance of her daughter, Caylee, Anthony told detectives Caylee had been kidnapped by a nanny named Zenaida Gonzalez.

Gonzalez is suing Anthony for $15,000 in damages.

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http://www.clickorlando.com/news/19472154/detail.html

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Anthony's Defense Wants Civil Case Dropped
Gonzalez Says Being Named As Nanny Defamed Her

POSTED: 11:05 am EDT May 15, 2009
UPDATED: 2:29 pm EDT May 15, 2009

ORLANDO, Fla. -- Attorneys for Casey Anthony are expected to ask a judge to dismiss the defamation suit against her next Tuesday.

Zenaida Gonzalez of Kissimmee claims Anthony's allegations that a babysitter by the same name kidnapped Caylee caused her to lose her job and ruined her good name.

Anthony is in the Orange County Jail, charged with murder in her daughter's death. Caylee's remains were found last December in a wooded area off Suburban Drive near the Anthony family home in East Orange County.

In recent depositions, Anthony's family members said under oath that based on physical description, the woman she was describing is not the same one one suing her. But each also admitted that they never actually met the woman Anthony described.

Friday morning, Gonzalez' attorney Keith Mitnik said he's confident the case will not be dismissed. Mitnik told WESH 2 that they were in the process of amending their original complaint and in Tuesday's hearing will ask that they also be allowed to seek punitive damages against Casey.

"There could be some fireworks," Mitnik said.

Later in the week, another hearing is expected before Judge Jose Rodriguez to determine whether he will order the Anthonys to answer certain questions they would not in their depositions at the offices of Morgan and Morgan last month.

http://www.wesh.com/news/19471201/detail.html

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COMMENT LEFT ON LARRY KINGS BLOG FROM SOMEONE WHO REPORTEDLY KNOWS THE ANTHONY’S

May 13th, 2009 8:29 pm ET by MEI Note: This person could be traced through IP address to identify if the Anthonys wanted refute
You both are immoral, sociopathic, and some of the worst people that I have ever been acquainted with. Yes..you know me. In Your letter you talk about love fo family….how about getting out there and finding the REAL killer of this baby?…..or maybe tell everyone in this blog how the Kid Finders Network takes donations in the front door, and then get them out the back door through 2 sign companies that Milstead owns. Also KFN pays for the billboards….which Sherri Milstead owns. I spoke to you about this…both of you…..and what did you tell me?….don’t worry about it….no one knows and the money may as well go to Dennis. Well I do not agree, of course, which is why I walked awayfrom both of you. You are using this child as a meal ticket…period. I Also know, for the readers here, that the reason you go on LKL is because he agrees to not question you, but to repeat questions that you already know are coming…you could not handle a live audience…you would get crucified…again..your words…not mine. George is making $40,000 a year being a spokesman for KFN….how much is Cindy getting? The loopholes in Non-profit are scary. But Florida has both of you figured out. Remember when you Cindy was at Blanchard park?….You told me that you have to go to prove to the media that you are tough and will not let Padilla stomp all over you. You know the real reason was because someone else was going to get a piece of the Caylee money train. Don’t bother calling me….I will record it anyway, and put it away with the rest of the tapes I have.

Both of you are dispicable people. Lee was lucky to get out, and Casey will never get out…you know this…George thinks otherwise, but

http://www.cayleedaily.com/2009/05/caylee-anthony-foundation-what-the-anthonys-dont-want-you-to-know/

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Casey Anthony May 15
A LOOK BACK

ANTHONY’S FIRST ATTEMPT TO RECEIVE MONEY WAS WHEN CAYLEE WAS MISSING , THAT DID NOT DO WELL AT ALL

The Trust Account moneyat time of shutdown: The Account held less than $2,500. So far, about $500 has been spent on T-shirts, bracelets and other small items, Kelley said.Source

Anthony’s Trust Fund Shut Down:

A trust fund set up to help in the search for Caylee Anthony has been shut down. Both the law firm that administers the fund and the bank where the money was deposited said they’re backing out.

Attorney Paul Kelley of Bichler & Kelley PA said he’s saddened that his law firm had to make a decision to stop administering the trust fund connected with HelpFindCaylee.com.

Kelley said the trouble started when SunTrust Bank told him they’d been getting harassing e-mails from people critical of the fund, and the bank was shutting down the account. Kelley said his firm got some of those same e-mails.

Kelley said he won’t reveal the exact amount in the fund, but he said it wasn’t much and that all of it spent so far has been used to pay for search-related items, like posters and water for volunteers. He also said he can account for every penny spent and that none of it went directly to the Anthony family.

Anthony family members did not return WESH 2 News’ phone calls about their reaction to the trust fund controversy. Source: WESH.com Channel 2 News POSTED: 1:30 pm EDT September 21, 2008
Why the Anthonys want a NON-PROFIT Foundation

Talk about con-artist well if you didn’t know any before now you do, the Anthonys. Cindy and George appeared on the Larry King show and proclaimed they would not recieve salaries from their foundation. Well let’s see they will what recieve “administration fees” same as a salary. They are quite the partners in crime as they lie to the world and to the FBI. All the Anthonys have to do is get paid via the term management services like the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. It’s simply a name game — you are not fooling anybody George and Cindy Anthony.

Furthermore,take a deep breath for this one, the Anthonys will be able to apply for Grants! Yes a non-profit organization has many many ways to recieve free money/grants. I did wonder how Kidfinders came up with $30,000 for a boat well it likely came from a grant.

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http://www.cayleedaily.com/2009/05/caylee-anthony-foundation-what-the-anthonys-dont-want-you-to-know/

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Judge To Consider Motion To Dismiss Zenaida Slander Case
Posted: 10:41 am EDT
May 18, 2009
Updated: 1:54 pm EDT
May 18, 2009

ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. -- A judge will consider a motion Tuesday to dismiss the Zenaida Gonzalez slander case against Casey Anthony. Casey originally told detectives she thought a babysitter named Zenaida Gonzalez kidnapped Caylee.

A woman with the same name is suing Casey for slander in civil court. Detectives haven't been able to prove Caylee ever had a babysitter named Zenaida.


DEPUTY CAIN WILL TRY TO GET JOB BACK

Also in the case against Casey, Orange County deputy Richard Cain will try to get his job back Tuesday.

Last August, Deputy Cain went to the area where Caylee Anthony's remains were eventually found. However, while he was there Cain said he saw nothing suspicious.

The sheriff's department says he didn't do a proper search and he was fired for lying about it. Cain gets two chances to appeal his firing.


CASEY'S EX-DEATH PENALTY ATTORNEY RELEASES STATEMENT

Casey Anthony's former death penalty attorney, Terence Lenamon, released a statement (read it) Thursday that appears to be a thinly-veiled criticism of Casey's current defense team.

Lenamon says American Bar Association guidelines require conflict free investigation, evaluation and preparation.

Lenamon and defense attorney Jose Baez parted ways over a disagreement about whether Casey should use a mental health defense.

Eyewitness News has been told Baez is keeping very tight control over Casey and her defense, even though he is not a death penalty-qualified attorney and has not yet hired one for his team.


GEORGE, CINDY DEFEND CASEY ON NATIONAL TV

George and Cindy Anthony are still defending their daughter, Casey Anthony. The couple and their attorney were on Larry King Live on Wednesday night and they say they still think Casey isn't responsible for Caylee's death.

"I don't want to believe I have a child that would hurt a child and I still don't think she would hurt a child," George Anthony told Larry King Wednesday night.

George and Cindy are really making the rounds on national TV right now, but like most TV interviews they didn't want to answer all of the questions.

Larry King began by asking George and Cindy about the day Caylee was found dead just a couple of blocks from the family home.

The Anthonys found out about the discovery of Caylee's remains at the airport waiting to fly back to Orlando.

"That was the longest flight I've ever taken," said Cindy Anthony.

"Was it a surprise?" King asked.

"We didn't realize it was actually Caylee for about eight or nine days later, until it was confirmed it was actually her," Cindy said.

The last time the two were on the national cable show was the night before Caylee's body was discovered. Wednesday night, attorney Brad Conway would often step up to answer questions.

For a long time, George and Cindy have avoided visiting their daughter in jail because they don't want the taped visitations released to the media. However, Conway doesn't seem to mind releasing the audio recordings.

"I don't see the downside to that. They have good things to say to their daughter. "I love you," and our prayers are with her, so I don't see a downside to going in there or a downside to that being broadcast," Conway said.

Cindy said she hasn't talked to Casey since October 14 of last year. That's when Casey was indicted for murder and taken to jail.

During the interview, the two said that even if their daughter Casey is found guilty of killing their granddaughter, they will still support her.

"I don't want to believe I have a child that would hurt a child and I still don't think she would hurt a child," Cindy said.

Conway also disputed the claim there was a heart sticker on the piece of duct tape over Caylee's mouth.

"Not true, there was no heart-shaped sticker on the duct tape," Conway said.


CASEY'S ATTORNEY DEPOSES DCF WORKER

Casey Anthony didn't call Caylee her daughter, she called her "that child," according to a DCF child abuse investigator who talked to Casey before she was charged with Caylee's murder.

That DCF worker was questioned under oath Wednesday by Casey's attorney.

Casey lied to the child abuse investigator and she lied to another witness the defense questioned Wednesday, a Universal Studios security guard where she said she worked.

Jose Baez was uncharacteristically quiet with reporters again Wednesday. He didn't stop to talk, never even took off his sunglasses, as he raced past cameras into the State Attorney's Office. He was there to question under oath a state child abuse investigator about what Casey told him last summer.

The DCF worker says Casey referred to Caylee as "that child," according to documents previously released to Eyewitness News. He says Casey told him she was very interested in telling her side of the story and repeated she was innocent. Casey told him Caylee's father, a middle school classmate who was killed in a crash after moving to Kentucky, had set up a trust fund in her name. She said his family now lives in Italy.

Though she said she could get overemotional about Caylee, she was the opposite, very cool and smooth. Casey told DCF that she enjoyed working with the agencies and volunteers looking for Caylee, but she did not cooperate with them or help them in the search.

Universal Studios Security Guard Leonard Tortura also heard Casey's lies for himself. She tried to convince him to let her in when she took detectives there claiming she had an office where they might find clues about Caylee's whereabouts. She didn't work there or anywhere else for two years.

Jose Baez also questioned one of the Orange County deputies who was the first to see Caylee's remains on December 11. He answered meter reader Roy Kronk's 911 call that day and saw Caylee's skull with duct tape attached.


WHAT'S NEXT IN CASE AGAINST CASEY?

Casey Anthony will be back in court on May 28. At that time, we may learn more about the mystery death penalty-qualified attorney that Jose Baez says has joined the defense team.

Casey's attorneys will also fight to keep a jail video secret. It shows Casey doubling over and hyper-ventilating after she learned a young girl's remains had been found that turned out to be her daughter.


http://www.wftv.com/news/19491712/detail.html

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Casey's Former Best Friend Speaks Out For First Time
Posted: 8:30 pm EDT May 21, 2009
Updated: 11:46 am EDT May 22, 2009

ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. -- Casey Anthony's former best friend spoke for the first time about conversations she had with her after Casey's first arrest. Annie Downing testified under oath Thursday in the civil case against Casey Anthony.

Downing said Casey almost confided in her about Caylee's disappearance after Casey got of jail the first time last year.

"She would start saying something and I would back out of it, I really didn't want to know. I didn't want to be that person that knew everything," Downing said.

Downing was answering questions at an hour-long deposition in the defamation lawsuit against Casey Anthony brought by Zenaida Gonzalez.

Gonzalez has the same name as the mysterious baby sitter who Casey claimed kidnapped Caylee. It's believed Casey got Zenaida's name from the Sawgrass Apartments where several of her friends, including Downing lived for some time.

Downing says she has never heard of Zenaida or "Zanny the Nanny," but she believes Caylee did have a nanny. Downing says she just doesn't know the identity of that person.

According to Downing, she spent hours talking to Casey while she was out of jail.

"She did say whoever had her child they were telling her to say everything that she said," Downing stated.

Downing also says almost a year before Caylee disappeared, Casey and her mother Cindy Anthony had been fighting over the little girl.

"She said, 'I feel like I'm having a breakdown, I feel like I'm losing it, I need to get away,' she said she wanted to go to an institution," said Downing.

At one point last year, Casey said in an internet conversation, that she could score some Xanax from Annie Downing to go out and party.

Downing wanted to set the record straight and say that was a lie and she was never involved in drugs.


CASEY ANTHONY'S ATTORNEY TO QUESTION DEPUTY AGAIN

Casey Anthony's defense team is calling back a witness for a second round of questioning. Jose Baez will question Orange County Deputy Adriana Acevedo again next month, even though he already took her deposition last week.

Deputy Acevedo first responded to the scene where Caylee's remains were eventually found when meter reader Roy Kronk originally called 911 to report seeing something suspicious in August. She went there again, two days later, with Kronk and another deputy.

Acevedo's deposition is scheduled for June 8.


HEARING TO TRY TO FORCE ANSWERS

George and Cindy Anthony will be back in the hot seat on May 21 in the civil case against Casey. Lawyers for Zenaida Gonzalez will try to convince a judge to force Casey, her parents, and her brother to answer the questions they refused to answer during the deposition.

Attorneys will also depose one of Casey's friends.

Gonzalez is suing Casey because she claimed a woman with the same name kidnapped Caylee.


WHAT'S NEXT?

On May 28, Jose Baez will be back in court trying to get a jail videotape thrown out. The tape supposedly shows Casey's reaction as she watched the discovery of Caylee's remains play out on Channel 9.



http://www.wftv.com/news/19532607/detail.html

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Casey Anthony: Jose Baez to introduce attorney on Thursday
posted by halboedeker on May 26, 2009 12:28:06 PM

Who will be Casey Anthony's death-certified attorney?

We will find out Thursday, WESH-Channel 2 reports.

Attorney Jose Baez will introduce this addition to Anthony's defense team at a hearing that day, the NBC affiliate says.

In a report several weeks ago, Baez's spokeswoman told WESH's Bob Kealing that the defense team planned to introduced the death-qualified attorney at the hearing. Kealing explained the challenge for the attorney new to the team: "If this trial does go as planned in October, that means that this new lawyer they're bringing on would have only about five months to get up to speed in a very complicated capital murder case."

Also today, WFTV-Channel 9 noted that Anthony's defense team hopes to block the release of a jail videotape showing her reaction when Caylee's remains were found in December. Anthony is charged with her daughter's murder. WFTV likes to highlight that Anthony was watching the station's coverage in the jail.

"She supposedly collapsed and started hyperventilating after watching our news coverage in December," WFTV anchor Vanessa Echols said.

The way WFTV keeps noting that Anthony was watching its coverage is odd. This weird bragging makes it seem as if Casey Anthony was reacting to something specific to WFTV's coverage. Could it have been the sight of Kathi Belich?

What do you think?

http://blogs.orlandosentinel.com/entertainment_tv_tvblog/caylee_and_casey_anthony/

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Judge To Rule On Video Of Casey’s Reaction To Remains
Monday, May 25, 2009 9:38:30 AM

ORLANDO -- A big hearing is expected this week in the Casey Anthony criminal case.

An Orange County judge will decide if the videotape of Anthony's reaction to news of the discovery of her daughter’s remains will be made public.

Anthony was videotaped at the jail back in December when she was shown news coverage.

Deputies say she collapsed into her chair and started hyperventilating.

However, Anthony's attorneys are trying to get the release of that tape blocked. They say she never should have been recorded in the first place.

A hearing on the issue is set for Thursday.

http://www.cfnews13.com/News/Local/2009/5/24/will_casey39s_reaction_video_be_released.html

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Infamous Casey Pic 1 Year Old
Anthony Charged In Death Of Daughter, Caylee

POSTED: Tuesday, May 26, 2009
UPDATED: 12:22 pm EDT May 27, 2009

ORLANDO, Fla. -- An infamous picture showing Casey Anthony wrapped only in the American flag at an "anything-but-clothes" party was taken a year ago on Memorial Day weekend.

Local 6 News reporter Tony Pipitone continues to revisit the past year in the life of Anthony, who is charged with first-degree murder in the death of her daughter, Caylee, whose remains were found in December. Caylee was 2 years old when she was reported missing in July, about a month after she was last seen alive.

The controversial picture was taken on Sunday, May 25, 2008, at the party hosted by Iassen Donov.

"She was at our 'anything-but-clothes' party," Donov told investigators.

Anthony's then-best friend Amy Huizenga also attended the party.

"I don't know if you guys have seen the picture of Casey and the American flag. That's from the no-clothes party we had in May," Huizenga said to investigators in a released interview.

She also told investigators that Anthony's mother, Cindy Anthony, confronted her daughter over the picture. Huizenga said Casey Anthony told her mother that she was working the night of May 25 and needed her mother to watch Caylee.

"She pretty much shoved that picture that she had printed it off from a computer in her face, and said, 'You're at work, huh?'" Huizenga said.

Brandon Snow, a former boyfriend of Casey Anthony whom she claims impregnated her, leading to a miscarriage on Valentine's Day 2007, was at the party and had a discussion with Casey Anthony.

"She pulled him aside and he was intoxicated. She pulled him aside, went to talk to him out front, maybe to have a heart-to-heart. I don't know what was said. They were out front (and) Casey came running to the back bawling hysterically getting the people that she was, she came with, to leave," said Annie Downing, a friend of Casey Anthony.

"She said she had a miscarriage, that she was pregnant, but then she had a miscarriage. But he didn't believe it," Donov said. "And being that I guess Casey now is a pathological liar, I trust Brandon. I believe him."

Donov also has a theory about what happened to Caylee.

"I think she killed her kid. I don't think anybody else was involved," he said.

http://www.clickorlando.com/news/19573512/detail.html

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Casey Anthony's new attorney to be revealed Thursday

Sarah Lundy | Sentinel Staff Writer
10:45 AM EDT, May 27, 2009

Jose Baez won't be the lead attorney of record for Casey Anthony after Thursday.

A new attorney - one who is considered by the state to be experienced enough to handle death penalty cases – will be revealed after the 10 a.m. hearing before Orange Circuit Court Judge Stan Strickland.

Baez has been mum about the identity of the new attorney, only promising the media he plans to introduce this lawyer Thursday. It's unclear whether Baez will still be calling the shots or whether the new attorney will be directing the defense.

Casey Anthony, 23, is charged with first-degree murder in the death of her 2-year-old daughter, Caylee Marie. The toddler was reported missing in July. A meter reader found her remains five months later in December is woods less than a mile from the Anthony home.

Prosecutors announced earlier this year their plans to seek the death penalty if the single mother is convicted. Florida law requires experienced lawyers who meet certain qualifications to be the attorney of record in death-penalty cases.

Baez does not meet those requirements, including having five years' trial experience and being lead attorney in at least nine state or federal jury trials of serious or complex cases.

Prosecutors filed a motion earlier this month, asking Baez to name the new death penalty attorney. He objected to the request and alerted the court the person would be revealed at the hearing.

Thursday's hearing will focus on several requests filed by Baez. He wants cell phone records, including any photos and text messages, from a dozen people, including Casey Anthony's parents, friends, the meter reader who found Caylee's remains, and the deputy who overlooked a tip.

Some are fighting the request, saying it's too broad and violates their privacy.

The judge will also hear arguments about why the state should or should not release video of Anthony at the jail the day she learned a child's remains were found near her home. Jail officers reported she hyperventilated.

Baez also wants jail officials to stop monitoring and disclosing any communication between Casey Anthony and her defense team.

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/newsletter/orl-bk-casey-anthony-new-attorney-hearing-052709,0,2025710.story

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Report: Makeshift Caylee Anthony memorial removed
A TV station is reporting the makeshift memorial for Caylee Anthony, daughter of Casey Anthony, has been removed.

7:54 AM EDT, May 27, 2009

The sprawling memorial the public created on Suburban Drive to honor Caylee Marie Anthony has been removed, according to WFTV.

It's unclear who removed the memorial, located near where the toddler's remains were found.

Read more at WFTV.
http://www.wftv.com/news/19570665/detail.html

Source: http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/breakingnews/orl-bk-caylee-anthony-memorial-052709,0,6943476.story

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No Decision On Casey Reaction Video
Anthony Charged With Killing Daughter, Caylee

POSTED: Thursday, May 28, 2009
UPDATED: 10:35 am EDT May 29, 2009

ORLANDO, Fla. -- Defense attorney Jose Baez was informed that he needed provided materiality for requesting phone records for several witnesses in the case against Casey Anthony during a hearing on Thursday.

VIDEO: New Attorney|Hearing|Decision
PICS: Casey Anthony In Court

Judge Stan Strickland did not rule on the release of a jailhouse video of Anthony's reaction to the news that a body was found near her family's home in east Orlando. The body was later identified as her daughter, Caylee Anthony.

The defense argued that Anthony's reaction should have never been recorded.

"Your honor, this is cruel. This is inhumane. This is illegal. This is unconstitutional. This defies an common sense of what law enforcement should or should not do," defense team member Todd Macaluso said. "The tape doesn't prove or disprove any fact in this case. What this tape is is a violation of her medical rights to privacy."

According to the defense, Tammy Unser, the corrections officer who was with Anthony during the video, clarified during an interview that Anthony did not collapse upon hearing the news, she sat down in a chair. Unser also said that she changed the subject to football, not Anthony.

Strickland said he wants to hear from the media before deciding whether to seal the video at a hearing next week.

In regards to the phone records request, Strickland gave Baez one week to try to work out an arrangement with the witnesses who object to having their phone records released and provide the court with justification for the requests.

Strickland asked Baez to file an order requesting the phone records for the witnesses who did not object to the records request.

"At the end of business next Thursday, if I haven’t heard from you, I will deny the motion without prejudice so that you can refile it stating materiality and the numbers you're seeking and if all else fails I'll do an on camera inspection of the records that are provided," Strickland said.

Anthony's defense team is seeking photos and text messages from a dozen people, including Anthony's parents, friends and meter reader Roy Kronk, who found Caylee's remains. Kronk and others argue that Baez's request is a violation of their privacy.

Also during Thursday's hearing, an attorney who is capable of trying death-penalty cases in Florida was introduced as the newest member of Anthony's defense team.

Andrea D. Lyon, a clinical professor of law at the DePaul University College of Law in Chicago where she also directs the law school's Center for Justice in Capital Cases, was introduced by Baez at a court hearing.

Baez is not qualified to be the attorney of record in a death-penalty case, according to Florida law. Lyon has tried more than 130 homicide cases.

Anthony, 23, is charged with first-degree murder in the death of her daughter. Caylee was 2 years old when she was reported missing in July.

According to a news release, Baez said he welcomes the addition of Lyon to Anthony's defense team. The team also includes Linda Kenney Baden, who concentrates in forensic evidence and Macaluso, a California-based trial lawyer who concentrates in complex litigation.

Anthony appeared in court at Thursday's hearing.

http://www.clickorlando.com/news/19587793/detail.html

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Casey's Attorney Says Video Release Would Be "Cruel"

Posted: 7:15 am EDT May 28, 2009Updated: 6:30 pm EDT May 28, 2009
ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. -- Casey Anthony and her defense team were in court Thursday to ask Judge Stan Strickland to keep the public from seeing a behind the scenes video from the jail as she watched a WFTV news report that a child's remains, later identified as Caylee, had been discovered on December 11.

Circuit Judge Stan Strickland delayed a decision on whether to release the video, saying he wanted input from lawyers from media organizations before he rules.

Casey walked into the courtroom smiling at 10:05am Thursday, wearing a long sleeve blue shirt and striped gray slacks. Wearing her hair down, Casey smiled a few more times then turned serious as her lawyers spoke.

Casey's attorney told Judge Stan Strickland the jailhouse video should be sealed permanently because making it public would be "cruel" and "inhumane." However, Baez will get access to two private investigators and her family's phone records because they did not contest the motion.

Baez will not get the phone records from Casey's ex-fiancé, Jesse Grund, Casey's former friend Amy Huizenga and meter reader Roy Kronk, because they contested the motion to release the records.

Jose Baez may have tipped his hand on his defense strategy while fighting for access to the phone records of Casey's ex-fiancé.

"Mr. Grund was for all intense and purposes a suspect in this case," Baez stated in Court.

However, the sheriff's office never named Grund as a suspect in Caylee's disappearance or murder.

Kronk is the man who reported seeing a suspicious bag in a wooded area, which eventually was identified as Caylee Anthony's remains.

Kronk's attorney, as well as attorneys for the other witnesses, told the judge that the request was too broad and amounted to a "fishing expedition." The judge asked Anthony's attorneys to re-file their motion for the phone records so that the timeframe of the information they're requesting is more narrowly focused.

Cindy and George Anthony, along with their attorney Brad Conway, were in attendance. Kronk was also in the courtroom. Also in attendance were WFTV legal analyst Bill Shaeffer and Casey Anthony's new death penalty-qualified attorney Professor Andrea D. Lyon.

Casey's defense team argued that their client's rights were violated when she was videotaped. The video in question reportedly shows Anthony doubling over and hyperventilating after learning her daughter's remains were found as she watched Channel 9.

Defense attorney Todd Macaluso told the judge that releasing the surveillance video would violate Anthony's right to privacy since it was filmed while she was in a medical office at the Orange County Jail, seeking medical treatment. Anthony's attorneys have alleged that her jailers worked with the Orange County Sheriff's Office to have the television news on in the medical office so Anthony's reaction could be recorded.

The Orange County Sheriff's Office has said there was no orchestration with the jail.

"This is cruel. This is inhumane. This is illegal. This is unconstitutional," Macaluso said. "This defies any common sense of what law enforcement should and should not do."

"Why is it so critical for Baez's team to keep that video away from the media? Well, the saying is, 'A picture is worth a thousand words,'" Eyewitness News legal analyst Bill Sheaffer said.

Baez claims the videotape was staged. He says Anthony was brought in front of the camera and told Caylee's remains were found just to see her reaction.

"Look, where is she? She's in jail. Does she have a right to privacy, in the jail? And the answer to that is no, she does not," Sheaffer explained.

Baez claims releasing the video could create more problems in getting a fair trail by tainting the jury pool.

Judge Strickland has to decide whether to accept Lyons as the death penalty attorney in the case. The judge also gave the media a week to decide whether they want to fight to get a copy of the jail video.

The jail has a week to respond to allegations it violated Casey's civil rights when it recorded her reaction to a child's remains being found.

Casey was charged with murdering her 2-year-old daughter, Caylee Anthony, and Orlando prosecutors have filed notice they intend to seek the death penalty. Caylee Anthony disappeared last June and Casey Anthony has pleaded not guilty to her murder.


NEW DEATH QUALIFIED ATTORNEY ATTENDS HEARING

Casey's attorney Jose Baez introduced Professor Andrea D. Lyon to Judge Stan Strickland at a Thursday morning court hearing.

Professor Lyon has extensive experience trying death penalty cases and before walking into the hearing, she was not interested in talking to Eyewitness News.

VIDEO REPORT: New Attorney

"Is it going to take someone like you to get Casey off the hook?" asked WFTV reporter Mark Boyle.

"My comments will come out, we have no comments right now," replied Lyons.

"Is there any reason you took on this case," asked Boyle.

"Please get that out of my face," Lyon replied.

However, after the hearing, Lyon did comment on the case.

"I am a recent member of the team and I am learning the case and that's going to take some time to do. The trial will not go in October. This is a death penalty case and requires the preparation not only of the defense of the case, but the defense of Miss Anthony's life," said Lyon to WFTV.

Lyon didn't waste anytime going after the prosecution.

"The state has noticed up the death penalty. They have done so for strategic reasons, in my opinion and you will hear about those strategic reasons in my motions I will be filing, challenging even their right to ask for the death penalty," she said.

According to Lyon's website, she claims to be the first woman in the country to serve as an attorney on a death penalty case. She is a professor of law at DePaul University and director of the Center for Justice and Capitol Cases.

Lyon said she's tried 130 homicide cases and defended over 30 potential capitol cases. Of that 30, Lyon says she has taken 19 through the penalty phase and won them all.

Lyon is writing a book, about her experience as a death penalty attorney. The book is scheduled to be released January of 2010, about three months after Casey's trial.

http://www.wftv.com/news/19587979/detail.html

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Land Owner Says He Did Not Remove Caylee Memorial
Stuffed Animals, Religious Objects Had Lined Site

POSTED: 2:55 pm EDT May 27, 2009
UPDATED: 3:57 pm EDT May 28, 2009

ORLANDO, Fla. -- The owner of the property where the remains of slain toddler Caylee Anthony were found did not remove a massive makeshift memorial that had accumulated on the site, listing agent Tina Martin said.

Caylee's grandparents George and Cindy Anthony and the Orange County government have also said they did not remove the memorial.

Hundreds of stuffed animals, dirty and wet from exposure to the elements, had been at the site for the past six months, along with signs, religious items and a fair amount of debris. The memorial was removed earlier this week.

Caylee's mother, Casey Anthony, is in the Orange County Jail charged with her daughter's murder. Caylee's remains were found last December in a wooded area off Suburban Drive near the Anthony family home. The site is listed for sale at $89,900.

The Anthony family's attorney, Brad Conway, told WESH 2 this week he was going to approach the county about cleaning up the site. A source with Orange County told WESH 2 they did not remove the memorial.

Conway said that the Anthonys are glad the memorial site was cleaned up.

http://www.wesh.com/news/19581546/detail.html

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New Attorney: No Casey Anthony Trial By October
Judge Delays Decision On Jail Video

The newest member of Casey Anthony's defense team said there is no way Anthony's trial will start in October.

Andrea Lyon, a professor at DePaul University College of Law, was introduced at a hearing Thursday. Lyon is to handle death-penalty matters.

She said because she is just learning the case, she will need more time to prepare a defense.

Lyon also said she will prove the case does not qualify for the death penalty. See said motions will be filed in the next few months showing that the state does not have sufficient evidence to prove that Anthony's case is a death penalty case.

Thursday morning's hearing on the release of a jail video of Anthony ended without a decision.

Prosecutors argued that they have not had enough time to review and response to the new motion. Circuit Court Judge Stan Strickland also wanted to give attorneys for media outlets seven days to argue for the release under the state's public records law.

Anthony’s attorney filed the motion late Wednesday laying out arguments for why the jail video of Anthony should be sealed.

The 17-page motion makes several arguments against the video’s release, including that it was cruel, that it violated her right to counsel, and that it invades her right to keep medical records private.

Strickland also heard arguments from several people who have objected to the defense's request for their phone records, including Roy Kronk, the former meter reader who found Caylee's remains. The judge is requiring Baez to amend the motion to limit the amount of information he is seeking.

The jail video was made on the day a child’s body was found in December 2008. The child was identified later as Anthony’s daughter, Caylee.

In his motion, attorney Jose Baez argues that the videotaping was orchestrated to “get some reaction to the discovery of Casey Anthony’s remains believing that it was evidential in some way.”

Anthony is Orange County Jail awaiting trial on a first-degree murder charge in connection with Caylee’s death.

According to those who've seen the jail video, Casey Anthony is watching breaking news coverage of the discovery of a small child's remains near her home. She reportedly doubles over, then later, according to witnesses, asked for a sedative.

Baez said the video also captured part of his meeting with Casey Anthony in jail that same day. Although there is no sound on the video, Baez claims it is a violation of Casey's right to attorney-client privilege.

Also Thursday, Baez will argue why he should be entitled to subpoena a sweeping amount of information from a number of key players in the case; much of it revolves around telephone records.

Just this week, one of the people subpoenaed, Casey's former fiancée, Jesse Grund, filed an objection in court saying Baez' subpoena is too broad and would constitute an invasion of privacy. Others, including Casey Anthony's friend Amy Huizenga and the man who discovered Caylee's remains, Roy Kronk, have filed similar objections.

Baez also said he plans to introduce Anthony's new death-penalty-qualified lawyer on Thursday at the hearing before Judge Stan Strickland.

http://www.wesh.com/news/19583277/detail.html

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PDF: Baez Motion on Casey Video
http://www.wesh.com/download/2009/0527/19583157.pdf

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Introducing Andrea Lyon, Casey Anthony's newest lawyer
Casey Anthony's defense team added a death-certified attorney to team, and it's DePaul University law professor Andrea Lyon

Sarah Lundy and Amy L. Edwards | Sentinel Staff Writers
5:22 PM EDT, May 28, 2009

Three months ago, nationally known death penalty attorney Andrea Lyon spoke in Orlando at a seminar on capital punishment put on by The Florida Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers.

Lyon was back in town Thursday, this time garnering the spotlight as the newest addition to Casey Anthony's defense team.

Needing to find a death penalty attorney that meets the state's criteria, which includes having five years' trial experience and being lead attorney in at least nine state or federal jury trials of serious or complex cases, Anthony's defense team secured someone who easily fills the role. Lyon, a DePaul University law school professor, has handled more than 130 murder cases and more than 30 potential capital cases.

"She is a fighter," said Terence M. Lenamon, a death penalty attorney from Miami who briefly worked on the Anthony's case last fall. "She will do things the way she thinks they need to be done."

Anthony, 23, is charged with first-degree murder in the death of her 2-year-old daughter, Caylee Marie. The toddler's remains were found Dec. 11 in woods less than a mile from her family home in east Orange County.

Last month, the state announced its plans to seek the death penalty against the single mother.

Lyon is a clinical professor of law and also directs the law school's Center for Justice in Capital Cases, according to her Web site.

In 1990, she founded the Illinois Capital Resource Center and served as its director until joining the University of Michigan Law School faculty in 1995.

Lyon also has a book coming out next year: Angel of Death Row: My Life as a Death Penalty Defense Lawyer. It tells the story of the first woman in the nation to serve as lead attorney on a death penalty case.

Outside the Orange County Courthouse Thursday, Lyon was quick to say she may be the lead attorney on paper but considers herself an equal member of an "excellent team," which includes Jose Baez from Kissimmee, Linda Kenney Baden from New York and Todd Macaluso from San Diego.

She said prosecutors are seeking the death penalty for "strategic reasons."

"You will hear about those strategic reasons in motions that I will be filing, challenging their right to even ask for the death penalty in these circumstances," Lyon said. "I believe Florida law simply doesn't allow asking for the death penalty in these circumstances."

She does not expect a trial to start in October, as scheduled. More time will be needed to prepare the case, she said.

News of Lyon's addition overshadowed Thursday's hearing, which focused on phone records and whether a video of Anthony taken in jail the day she heard about child's remains discovered can be released to the public.

The defense team doesn't want it out. The county and state don't object to sealing the video.

Orange Circuit Court Judge Stan Strickland said he wanted to provide the media an opportunity to argue why it should be public record. No hearing date has been set yet.

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/orl-casey-anthony-andrea-lyon-052809,0,3393018.story

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Casey Anthony case: Jail officials tell attorneys what happened on Dec. 11

Sarah Lundy | Sentinel Staff Writer
6:58 PM EDT, June 1, 2009

More than 200 pages of transcripts from interviews with two Orange County Jail officials were filed in court this afternoon in the case against Casey Anthony, a 23-year-old accused of killing her daughter.

Lt. Tammy Unser and Sgt. Billy Richardson were questioned last month about what happened at the jail on Dec. 11 – the day the remains of Anthony's 2-year-old daughter were found less than a mile from her family home.

Anthony is charged with first-degree murder in the death of her daughter, Caylee Marie.

Unser and Richardson were questioned by Anthony's defense team, including Jose Baez and Linda Kenney Baden. Prosecutor Linda Drane Burdick also was present.

Unser testified that a commander at the Orange County Sheriff's Office instructed jail officials to take Anthony to the medical facility where she could see the news reports on the television. A video recorded Anthony's reaction as she sat there for more than 30 minutes, according to the deposition.

Richardson told attorneys that he thought it was "a little cruel that they were doing this to her," he said. When asked about it, Unser agreed, saying it was unnecessary.

Baez has asked Orange Circuit Court Judge Stan Strickland to prevent the video from being released to the public.

Strickland has not ruled on the issue.

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/breakingnews/orl-bk-casey-anthony-case-jail-officials060109,0,1658927.story

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Photos Of Caylee Taken 1 Year Ago
Casey Anthony Charged With Murder In Daughter's Death

POSTED: Tuesday, June 2, 2009
UPDATED: 8:35 pm EDT June 2, 2009

ORLANDO, Fla. -- Local 6 News reporter Tony Pipitone continued his look into the last year of the Casey Anthony case, saying photos of her daughter, Caylee, could play a role in her trial.

VIDEO: Photos Of Caylee
http://www.clickorlando.com/video/19638398/index.html

Anthony, 23, is charged with first-degree murder in the death of Caylee, whose remains were found in December. Caylee was 2 years old when she was reported missing in July.

Two of the last photos ever taken of Caylee were captured on June 2, 2008, at the Sutton Place Apartments, Pipitone reported. The pictures were taken by Anthony's then-boyfriend, Tony Lazzaro, and law enforcement looked into whether the photos showed evidence of possible child abuse.

"She came over the 2nd?" an Orange County sheriff's investigator asked Lazzaro in a released interview.

"Yes," he replied.

"OK. Tell me, was the child with her?" the investigator said.

"Yes, the child was with her. For what I remember, we went down to the pool, from what I have on the photo on my phone," Lazzaro said.

Pipitone said the photo shows an apparent bruise or scrape under Caylee's right eye.

http://i39.tinypic.com/ab4evp.jpg

The blemish came up in July 2008 when Anthony was seeking bond.

Anthony's mother, Cindy Anthony, said at a hearing last year that Caylee bumped into a table and that caused the apparent bruise or scrape. But that incident happened in January 2008, according to police records.

The photos in question were taken a year ago, exactly two weeks before Caylee was last seen alive. She was then reported missing about a month later.

http://www.clickorlando.com/news/19637691/detail.html#

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Women Say They Saw Couple Removing Caylee Memorial Signs

POSTED: 5:01 pm EDT June 2, 2009
UPDATED: 3:21 pm EDT June 3, 2009

ORLANDO, Fla -- Two women said they have filed a criminal complaint against George and Cindy Anthony after the Anthonys and another couple allegedly chased them out of the neighborhood where the remains of Caylee Anthony were found.

Lois Peter and Denise Hill said two memorial signs to Caylee they've erected at the Suburban Drive site have disappeared since Friday. Monday, they said they waited around in the dark to see if they could spot who was taking the signs.

"We don't know how she died or where she died," said Hill. "This is all we have."

At about 10:30 p.m., they said they saw Caylee Anthony's grandparents George and Cindy Anthony removing the signs.

"I saw Cindy last night taking the cross and putting the cross in George's car, no doubt whatsoever," Peter said.

"It just hurts really bad Caylee's grandparents would do this," said Hill. "We're allowed to love her too."

The said they two took a picture of a dark vehicle with a white haired man resembling George Anthony on the driver's side. After they took the picture, the women said they were pursued out of the neighborhood by the Anthonys and their friends from the group Kidfinders, Dennis and Sherry Milstead.

Hill said the two couples finally cornered them at the entrance of a nearby gated community.

"The Milsteads and the Anthonys blocked us in, got out of the car and came over to our car. We called 911," she said.

Tuesday afternoon they went to the sheriff's office to fill out sworn statements. The sheriff's department confirms there is a call to 911, but would not honor a request by WESH 2 to release the tape.

The Anthony's attorney Brad Conway said he is not aware of any incident involving the Anthonys.

Last week, when all the toys and signs disappeared from the impromptu memorial site, Conway said the Anthonys were not involved.

Casey Anthony is Orange County Jail awaiting trial on a first-degree murder charge in connection with her daughter Caylee Anthony’s death.

http://www.wesh.com/news/19636880/detail.html

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EBay Seller Offers Yearbook With Anthony Photos
Colonial High Yearbook On Sale For $179.99

POSTED: 12:38 pm EDT June 3, 2009
UPDATED: 1:10 pm EDT June 3, 2009

ORLANDO, Fla. -- A Colonial High School yearbook featuring Casey Anthony is up for sale on eBbay at a collector's item price.

The yearbook is being sold for $179.99 or you can make an offer to the seller. As of Wednesday afternoon, there were no bids listed.

According to the seller, Anthony is pictured at least twice inside, and although there are signatures from other students, there is none from Anthony.

It was Anthony's junior year at Colonial High.

Others have tried to sell items associated with the case, such as a Casey Anthony voodoo doll and a doll called Caylee Sunshine.

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Updated: 28 minutes ago

CASEY ANTHONY CASE
eBay seller trying to make $280 off yearbook with Casey Anthony photos
A yearbook showing Casey Anthony at Colonial High School is for sale on eBay.

Amy L. Edwards | Sentinel Staff Writer
4:15 PM EDT, June 3, 2009

There are countless pictures of Casey Anthony floating around on the Web that you can view for free.

But an eBay seller is hoping someone is willing to fork over about $280 for an old high school yearbook with Anthony's pictures inside.

Earlier today, the asking price was about $180. This afternoon, the seller bumped it up to $279.99.

According to the eBay listing, Anthony is pictured as a junior at Colonial High, and as a member of the travel and tourism club.

The listing doesn't say who the yearbook once belonged to, but it states there are autographs inside. There are no autographs from Anthony.

An Orlando Sentinel reporter e-mailed the seller asking why they would sell a yearbook with old photos of Anthony, when there are hundreds of free pics on the Web.

This is the response the seller just sent the reporter:

"Dear aledwardsosc,

If you had done your homework, you would have found we currently have 109 yearbooks listed. Included are yearbooks with Daunte Culpepper, Deion Sanders, Vail Bloom, Kevin Lewis, Eric Powell, Jeff Conine, Jermile Weeks, Chris Johnson, Maurice Price, Bucky Dent, Kevin Eakin, Drayton Florence, Deanna Wright and Senator John Connally.

Most yearbooks we have listed do not have anyone famous or infamous.

We have sold yearbooks with Casey Kasem and even notorious murderer Mark David Chapman, who killed John Lennon. No complaints or questions on that one.

We acquire these yearbooks randomly from estate auction lots. We list every one we get. If there is anyone - ANYONE - of note in the yearbook, we mention it.

We do not appreciate the accusation that we are simply trying to make money off the tragedy surrounding the Anthony family. We sell yearbooks. Period. We have ONE yearbook, we are not reprinting them or making voodoo dolls to sell. One officially published yearbook. Also, this yearbook has been listed since May 15.

Again, we mention ANY public figure in our listings.

Perhaps you'd like to contact Mr. Seth Poppel at 206-709-4628 or sethpoppel@aol.com of the Yearbook Library. We contacted him first regarding his interest in this yearbook, which he passed on because he'd prefer the 2004 yearbook. He can explain the collectibility of yearbooks to you.

Must be a slow news day, huh?
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/breakingnews/orl-bk-casey-anthony-photo-060309,0,4477288.st

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P.I. To Stop Casey's Attorneys From Getting Phone Records

Posted: 3:45 pm EDT June 3, 2009Updated: 4:21 pm EDT June 3, 2009
ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. -- The Anthonys' private investigator Dominic Casey has decided to prevent Casey's defense team from getting his cell phone records, even though he's posted them on his website.

Dominic Casey was on his cell phone while private investigator Jim Hoover shot video of Dominic Casey, on November 15 and 16 at the scene where Caylee's remains were discovered a month later on December 11. He had several calls, but with whom is still a mystery.

The private eye posted partial phone records from November on his company website, but the defense wants to know about the other calls.

Casey Anthony's Attorney, Jose Baez, was originally granted access to the private investigator's phone records, because Dominic Casey did not contest a motion that was filed by Baez.

Casey was charged with murdering her 2-year-old daughter, Caylee Anthony and Orlando prosecutors have filed notice they intend to seek the death penalty.

Caylee Anthony disappeared last June and Casey Anthony has pleaded not guilty to her murder.

http://www.wftv.com/news/19647738/detail.html

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Anthony Yearbook Fetches $500 Bid
Mom Faces Murder Charges In Death Of Caylee Anthony

POSTED: Thursday, June 4, 2009
UPDATED: 8:44 am EDT June 4, 2009

ORLANDO, Fla. -- An unnamed buyer has shelled out $500 for a copy of a high school yearbook that contains pictures of Casey Anthony, who is charged with murder in the death of her daughter, Caylee.

The 2003 Colonial High School yearbook was sold Wednesday on eBay.com for $499.99, plus shipping and handling. The book didn't belong to Anthony, who was a junior in 2003.

Caylee disappeared last June and her remains were not found until last December. Anthony has pleaded not guilty.

Prosecutors have filed notice they intend to seek the death penalty in Anthony's case, which has garnered national attention.

http://www.clickorlando.com/news/19654121/detail.html

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Anthony P.I. Won't Hand Over Records
Dominic Casey Searched Woods Month Before Caylee Remains Found

POSTED: Wednesday, June 3, 2009
UPDATED: 5:37 pm EDT June 3, 2009

ORLANDO, Fla. -- A private investigator working on behalf of Casey Anthony and her family will turn over some -- but not all -- of his cell phone records, despite a court order instructing him to do so.

Dominic Casey searched the woods off Suburban Drive in east Orange County about a month before Caylee Anthony's remains were found nearby in December.

Casey later filed a complaint with the Florida Bar against Anthony's attorney, Jose Baez, claiming that Baez told him not to call 911 if he discovered Caylee's body.

Last week, a judge ordered the private investigator to turn over his cell phone records to Anthony's defense team, but in newly filed court papers, Casey claims he has not yet received the request.

He said he will not release any phone records relating to his work with Anthony or her attorneys, claiming such information is confidential.

Anthony, 23, remains jailed on first-degree murder charges in the death of Caylee, who was 2 years old when she was reported missing last July.

http://www.clickorlando.com/news/19648782/detail.html

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Private investigator Dominic Casey doesn't want to turn over his records to Casey Anthony's attorneys.

Sarah Lundy | Sentinel Staff Writer
12:32 PM EDT, June 4, 2009

Private investigator Dominic Casey doesn't want to turn over all of the cell phone records requested by Casey Anthony's defense team, according to court documents.

Dominic Casey's attorney, Diana Tennis, is requesting Orange Circuit Court Judge Stan Strickland set aside his order, directing the phone company to release the records. She argued that her client was not notified of a hearing last month where the issue was discussed.

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New Anthony Attorney To Formally Enter Case
Defense Needed Lyon To Try Death Penality Case

POSTED: 12:24 pm EDT June 5, 2009
UPDATED: 12:44 pm EDT June 5, 2009

ORLANDO, Fla. -- This week, the new member of Casey Anthony's defense team filed paperwork asking permission to enter the case.

In a motion, Chicago attorney Andrea Lyon included a copy of her bar certificate from the state of Michigan.

Lyon said her first priority will be to prove the evidence against Casey Anthony does not warrant the state seeking the death penalty.

Casey Anthony is in the Orange County Jail charged with the murder of her daughter, Caylee. Caylee's remains were found in a wooded area off Suburban Drive near the Anthony family home last December.

http://www.wesh.com/news/19668661/detail.html

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Anthonys To Be Questioned Regarding Complaint
Women Say George, Cindy Chased Them Away From Caylee Memorial

POSTED: 4:50 pm EDT June 4, 2009
UPDATED: 6:28 pm EDT June 4, 2009

ORLANDO, Fla. -- Orange County investigators are questioning George and Cindy Anthony in connection with a criminal complaint filed by a pair of local women Tuesday.

It all stems from an incident where the women claim Cindy Anthony took down their memorial cross to Caylee then, along with George Anthony ,chased them out of the neighborhood.

George and Cindy Anthony are the parents of Casey Anthony, who is at the Orange County Jail charged with the murder of her daughter, Caylee. Caylee's remains were found in a wooded area off Suburban Drive last December.

A sheriff's spokesman said they either have questioned the Anthonys or they plan to in connection with this case, but they are still not releasing a 911 call made by the women during the alleged pursuit.

Monday night, Lois Peter and Denise Hill said they staked out the area along Suburban Drive to see who kept taking down their memorial crosses to Caylee. At around 10:30 p.m., they said they snapped a picture of George Anthony waiting in his vehicle while Cindy Anthony took down the cross. After that, the women said the Anthonys and their friends pursued them out of the neighborhood.

The Anthonys' lawyer, Brad Conway, told a different version of events and claims the women nearly ran over George Anthony.

Given the sensitivity of the situation, a sheriff's spokesman said they want to move slowly and be thorough in their investigation. He wanted to be clear that just because the Anthonys are being questioned does not mean any charges will result.

http://www.wesh.com/news/19660011/detail.html

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No Charges To Be Filed Against Anthonys
Women Said Anthonys Chased Them From Memorial

POSTED: 11:53 am EDT June 8, 2009
UPDATED: 12:16 pm EDT June 8, 2009

ORLANDO, Fla. -- George and Cindy Anthony will not face charges in connection with a criminal complaint filed by a pair of local women last week, Orange County Sheriff's Department Corporal Susan Soto said.

The women filed a complaint saying that Cindy Anthony took down their memorial cross to Caylee, then, along with George Anthony, chased them out of the neighborhood.

George and Cindy Anthony are the parents of Casey Anthony, who is at the Orange County Jail charged with murder in the death of her daughter, Caylee. Caylee's remains were found in a wooded area off Suburban Drive last December.

Monday night, Lois Peter and Denise Hill said they staked out the area along Suburban Drive to see who kept taking down their memorial crosses to Caylee. At around 10:30 p.m., they said they snapped a picture of George Anthony waiting in his vehicle while Cindy Anthony took down the cross. After that, the women said, the Anthonys and their friends pursued them out of the neighborhood.

The Anthonys' lawyer, Brad Conway, said the incident did not happen that way at that the women nearly ran over George Anthony.

http://www.wesh.com/news/19691148/detail.html

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Casey Anthony's defense team wants judge to delay jail video release decision

Sarah Lundy | Sentinel Staff Writer
6:31 PM EDT, June 8, 2009



Updated: 6:31 p.m.

Casey Anthony's defense team wants a judge to postpone his decision on whether to release a jail video of Anthony so they have more time to investigate media leaks by the state.

Orange Circuit Court Judge Stan Strickland has not decided if the video taken of Anthony, 23, at the Orange County Jail the day she learned the remains of a child were found near her family home. Her attorneys have accused jail officials and Orange County Sheriff's Office of setting her up.

Her defense team doesn't want the video of her in the medical facility made public. The media does and have filed legal requests. Prosecutors say they have no preference.

Anthony is charged with first-degree murder in the death of her daughter, Caylee Marie. On Dec. 11, bones of the 2-year-old were found less than a mile from the east Orange County home she shared with her family.

Defense attorneys Jose Baez and Andrea Lyon asked for 60 days to look into reports of media leaks by investigators. The extra time also would allow Lyon – a death penalty attorney new to the case – to catch up on all the material.

The five-page motion lists various media reports during the last year that cited "sources close to the investigation." The leaks lead to reports that will prevent Anthony from receiving a fair trial, according to the legal documents.

Marti Mackenzie, the spokeswoman for the defense team, sent an e-mail, saying neither she nor the lawyers would comment.

"I will have nothing to say to the media until such time as deemed appropriate by Jose Baez and Andrea Lyon," she wrote.

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/breakingnews/orl-bk-casey-anthony-jail-video-060809,0,3034256.story

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No charges filed against Casey Anthony's parents
George and Cindy Anthony won't face charges after two women claimed they were chased by the Anthonys. Hear the 911 call

Gary Taylor | Sentinel Staff Writer
6:43 PM EDT, June 8, 2009

George and Cindy Anthony will not face charges stemming from an incident last week in which two St. Cloud women said they were chased by the couple.

The June 1 incident was investigated by detectives from the Orange County Sheriff's Office who determined no criminal violations occurred, said Sheriff's Sgt. Susan Soto.

The women told deputies they were chased by the couple after they caught Cindy Anthony removing a cross left at the former site of a memorial to the couple's dead granddaughter, Caylee.

The Anthonys' daughter, Casey Anthony, 23, is charged with first-degree murder in the death of her daughter, Caylee. The toddler's remains were found on the Suburban Drive property, less than a mile from the Anthony home.

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Anthony Attorney Wants Delay On Video Decision
Baez Argues Video Part Of State Misconduct

POSTED: 11:15 am EDT June 9, 2009
UPDATED: 4:43 pm EDT June 9, 2009

ORLANDO, Fla. -- Casey Anthony's attorney Jose Baez wants a judge to delay the decision on whether a video of Anthony's reaction to the discovery of a child's remains on Suburban Drive – even as media outlets lineup to fight for the tape's release.

Baez said he wants the decision delayed in order to give the defense team's new attorney Audra Lyon time to becomes more familiar with the case.

The defense team plans to present an argument that the tape is part of a broad pattern of state misconduct intended to create a presumption of guilt and poison the pool of potential jurors, Baez said.

"The pattern of leaks raises a clear inference of an attempt to create a presumption of guilt in the mind of the public," Baez said.

The defense team has also argued that Anthony's right to medical privacy would be violated with the tape's release, even though Baez's motion says Anthony received no medical treatment while at the nurse's station.

The corrections sergeant who escorted Anthony to and from and the nurse's station said she was aware something was going on and wanted to know more.

"When I went down there to get her and told her to go to the clinic, she was listening to the radio, and her reply back to me was, 'good, because there's something going on and I want to know about it," corrections sergeant Billy Richardson said in his April deposition.

While watching the coverage, Richardson said Anthony told him she "felt sick to her stomach" and was "going to throw up."

Some lawyers WESH 2 spoke to argued that a video of Anthony reacting emotionally to the discovery of a child's remains could also be interpreted as evidence she did not know her daughter was dead, so releasing it to the public would not be as harmful to her case as Baez has said.

http://www.wesh.com/news/19701850/detail.html

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Officer: Anthony Wanted To See Remains Coverage
Corrections Officer Says Anthony Knew Something Was Happening

POSTED: 12:12 pm EDT June 10, 2009
UPDATED: 12:48 pm EDT June 10, 2009

ORLANDO, Fla. -- An Orange County corrections officer testified under oath that Casey Anthony wanted to watch TV on the day her daughter's remains were found.

Anthony is at the Orange County Jail charged with murder in her daughter, Caylee's death. Caylee's remains were eventually identified late last year. They were found in a wooded area near the Anthony family home.

Officer Billy Richardson said that Anthony knew something was going on that day, even though it was not known at the time that the remains were Caylee.

In his deposition, Richardson said, "When I went down there to get her and told her to go to the clinic, she was listening to the radio."

He claims her reply back was "Good, because there something going on and I want to watch TV to know about it."

Jail guards videotaped her reaction to the news when she told Richardson she felt sick to her stomach.

Her attorney is trying to delay any decision on the potential release of that tape.

http://www.wesh.com/news/19713862/detail.html

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911 Call In Anthony Complaint Released

A 911 call from two women who said George and Cindy Anthony were chasing them has been released.

George and Cindy Anthony are the parents of Casey Anthony, who is at the Orange County Jail charged with the murder in the death of her daughter, Caylee. Caylee's remains were found in a wooded area off Suburban Drive last December.

Lois Peter and Denise Hill said they were putting crosses at the site where Caylee's remains were found -- but someone kept removing them.

They stayed late one night and say they saw Cindy Anthony take the cross out and claim they snapped a picture of George Anthony and that that is when the alleged chase started.

The Anthony's lawyer, Brad Conway, said events did not happen that way and that the women nearly ran over George Anthony.

The women filed a criminal complaint against the Anthony's – but police said the couple will not face charges.

http://www.wesh.com/news/19701850/detail.html

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Baez Demands P.I.'s Phone Records
New Motion Calls For Dominic Casey's Personal Phone Records

POSTED: Wednesday, June 10, 2009
UPDATED: 2:18 pm EDT June 10, 2009
ORLANDO, Fla. -- In a new motion, Casey Anthony's defense team is demanding that a private investigator hand over his phone records.

The motion does not specifically accuse private investigator Dominic Casey of wrongdoing, but it does raise questions about his honesty and his repeated visits to the woods where Caylee Anthony's remains were later found, Local 6 reporter Mike DeForest said.

Caylee was reported missing in July and Casey, who was working for Anthony's defense team at the time, visited the woods off Suburban Drive on at least three different occasions in the month before Caylee's body was found nearby. Casey now works for the Anthony family.

Defense attorney Jose Baez filed the new motion Wednesday, which is demanding Casey's private cell phone records. Baez said Casey gave inconsistent statements about who is seen speaking on the phone with in a video recording of one of his searches.

Casey originally told Local 6 he was speaking to his daughter, but the private eye later told detectives he was on the phone with a psychic who allegedly told him where to find Caylee's body.

Another private investigator who worked with Casey, Jim Hoover, claimed Casey knew where Caylee's remains were hidden. Hoover shot the video of Casey on his phone while searching the woods.

Casey's attorney said the motion is a simple dispute over phone records and she hopes Anthony's defense team is not trying to implicate her client in a crime. She said she has worked out an agreement with Baez to turn over phone records.

The Florida Bar is investigating complaints filed against Baez by Casey. Casey said Baez told him not to call 911 if he found Caylee's body. Baez has disputed that claim.

Casey Anthony is being held at the Orange County Jail on first-degree murder charges in her daughter's death.

http://www.clickorlando.com/news/19714691/detail.html

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Facebook group to hold Caylee Marie Anthony vigil

Willoughby Mariano | Sentinel Staff Writer
7:10 PM EDT, June 10, 2009

A Facebook group formed in memory of slain toddler Caylee Marie Anthony is organizing a vigil to commemorate the one-year anniversary of her disappearance, an organizer said.

The vigil, run by In Memory of Caylee Marie Anthony, will take place 6 p.m. June 16 at Jay Blanchard Park, said Scotti Simpson, the group's organizer.

They hope to meet at a pavilion there, but are still raising money for the $125 rental, Simpson said.

Caylee Marie was reported missing July 2008, but had not been seen at her Hopespring Drive home for more than a month. The girl's remains were found in December, and her mother Casey Anthony faces a murder charge in her death.

Richard Grund, who at one time thought he might be the grandfather of Caylee, is speaking at the event.

The public is welcome.

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/breakingnews/orl-bk-caylee-anthony-facebook-vigil-061009,0,2369525.story

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June 11, 2009

Another document release is expected in the case against Casey Anthony and the Anthony family is contesting the release of some information.

http://www.clickorlando.com/video/19725053/index.html

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Anthonys Want Autopsy Results Sealed
Autopsy Report, Hundreds Of Pages Of Documents To Be Released Friday

POSTED: 11:21 am EDT June 11, 2009
UPDATED: 9:24 pm EDT June 11, 2009

ORLANDO, Fla. -- Caylee Anthony's autopsy results are set to be released on Friday, along with hundreds of pages of documents about the case.

On Thursday, George and Cindy Anthony asked that their granddaughter's autopsy results be sealed until the trial of their daughter, Casey.

According to her assistant, Medical Examiner Dr. Jan Garavaglia included results of toxicology and anthropology tests done on Caylee's remains. The Anthony's lawyer said making the report public will cause the Anthonys "great anguish."

In a new motion, George and Cindy Anthony's lawyer, Brad Conway, said making public Caylee's autopsy report will cause the family great anguish as they continue to struggle with their only granddaughter's loss.

Garavaglia announced her initial findings as Caylee's cause of death being a homicide by unknown means. She added that there were more tests to be done.

Now, her assistant confirmed to WESH 2 that toxicology and anthropology tests on the remains are back and are part of Garavaglia's 20-to-30-page autopsy report.

It was unclear what effect, if any, the test results had on Garavaglia's findings. However, because Caylee's body was so badly decomposed, Garavaglia said in December that she didn't expect to ever determine an exact cause of death.

"I think it will probably stay that way," Garavaglia said.

Conway said he wants the autopsy report sealed until Casey Anthony's trial.

A representative for state attorney Lawson Lamar told WESH 2 that they will release the report along with other evidence as required by Florida law.

Garavaglia's representative would not comment on what additional findings the doctor made in the autopsy report.

Friday morning, the state attorney's office is expected to release the report, along with about 1,000 pages of documents. They will not be releasing pictures or video.

http://www.wesh.com/news/19724301/detail.html

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Casey Anthony case: Autopsy will not be released Friday from State Attorney's Office
TV reports are saying Caylee Anthony's grandparents, George and Cindy Anthony, are fighting the release of the toddler's autopsy report.

Sarah Lundy | Sentinel Staff Writer
4:13 PM EDT, June 11, 2009

Prosecutors are expected to release hundreds of pages of documents to the public Friday in the case against Casey Anthony, but not the autopsy report on Caylee Anthony's remains.

In a motion made public Thursday, Anthony's parents, George and Cindy Anthony, are asking that prosecutors be restricted from releasing the autopsy on the little girl, whose remains were discovered Dec. 11 in east Orange County. They were found less than a mile from the Anthony home.

Orange Circuit Court Stan Strickland issued an order late Thursday that will delay the release of the autopsy reports, which were expected to be made public on Friday, until the issue is addressed in court. He wants to hear from the media about the Anthonys' request.

"For reasons unknown to the court the motion was served only upon the State Attorney's Office," Strickland wrote in the order. "The real party in interest in this matter is the various news media."

Casey Anthony, 23, is charged with first-degree murder in the death of Caylee.

"George and Cindy Anthony are respectfully asking . . . to restrict the release of the autopsy results," according to the motion. "The information contained within the report will cause great anguish to the Anthony family, still struggling with the loss of their only granddaughter. . .

"Releasing the autopsy report to the media at this point in time causes endless comment and speculation in the media and public forums, such as the Internet. The publication of these results has already been the topic of countless television programs despite the fact that the actual autopsy report has not been released."

The motion does say that the Anthony's realize the autopsy report will eventually be released during the trial.

The State Attorney's Office is releasing the information in response to public records requests. Prosecutors are required by law to release the documents that they provided to the defense. Some information, such as autopsy photos, can be exempt from public record laws.

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/breakingnews/orl-bk-casey-anthony-autopsy-documents-61109,0,5615388.story

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Judge Orders Temporary Stay Of Caylee Autopsy Details

Posted: 12:38 pm EDT June 11, 2009Updated: 6:34 pm EDT June 11, 2009
ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. -- In the case against Casey Anthony, 1,000 documents are expected to be released Friday. However, Judge Stan Strickland ordered a temporary stay (read order)on the release of Caylee Anthony's autopsy results, which was included in the documents.

Brad Conway, the attorney for George and Cindy Anthony, filed a motion on Thursday (read motion) to block the release of the autopsy findings.

Eyewitness News learned that the motion did not give the media enough notice, so a judge delayed the release until all parties can fight it out in court.

The documents contain details gathered during an autopsy of Caylee Anthony's remains that were found on December 11 in a wooded area less than one mile from her family's east Orange County home.

Conway filed the motion on behalf of George and Cindy to restrict the autopsy release, because he wants the results either during trial or a hearing so that a coroner can explain them. Conway also says George and Cindy have not seen the autopsy results by their own choice.

The documents that will be released Friday will contain Caylee's toxicology results and police interviews. WFTV.com will work to post the documents as soon as they become available.

Casey Anthony, 23, is in the Orange County jail facing first-degree murder charges. She is accused of killing her 2-year-old daughter Caylee Anthony.

http://www.wftv.com/news/19725145/detail.html

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Judge Orders Temporary Stay Of Caylee Autopsy Details

Posted: 12:38 pm EDT June 11, 2009Updated: 6:34 pm EDT June 11, 2009
ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. -- In the case against Casey Anthony, 1,000 documents are expected to be released Friday. However, Judge Stan Strickland ordered a temporary stay (read order)on the release of Caylee Anthony's autopsy results, which was included in the documents.

Brad Conway, the attorney for George and Cindy Anthony, filed a motion on Thursday (read motion) to block the release of the autopsy findings.

Eyewitness News learned that the motion did not give the media enough notice, so a judge delayed the release until all parties can fight it out in court.

The documents contain details gathered during an autopsy of Caylee Anthony's remains that were found on December 11 in a wooded area less than one mile from her family's east Orange County home.

Conway filed the motion on behalf of George and Cindy to restrict the autopsy release, because he wants the results either during trial or a hearing so that a coroner can explain them. Conway also says George and Cindy have not seen the autopsy results by their own choice.

The documents that will be released Friday will contain Caylee's toxicology results and police interviews. WFTV.com will work to post the documents as soon as they become available.

Casey Anthony, 23, is in the Orange County jail facing first-degree murder charges. She is accused of killing her 2-year-old daughter Caylee Anthony.

http://www.wftv.com/news/19725145/detail.html

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Blogger: Cindy Called Casey Sociopath
New Documents Released In Casey Anthony Case

POSTED: Friday, June 12, 2009
UPDATED: 1:29 pm EDT June 12, 2009

ORLANDO, Fla. -- Hundreds of pages of discovery documents were released by the state attorney's office Friday morning in the case against Casey Anthony.

VIDEO: New Documents Released
PDF: Interview With Searcher | Interviews With Blogger, Anthony's Friends

The documents contain the previously released transcripts of several depositions taken for the civil case against Anthony, including interviews with Anthony's family members, as well as police interviews with Joy Wray, Sean Krause, Ricardo Morales and Michelle Murphy, a friend of Anthony's.

Krause is a blogger who told police Cindy Anthony told him during an interview that she feels Casey Anthony had something to do with Caylee Anthony's death. Krause blogged about the interview on his Web site. Krause said Cindy Anthony "admitted her daughter was a sociopath."

Krause said Cindy Anthony later retracted her comments. Krause died from Cancer in February.

Wray participated in the search for Caylee's body and brought investigators photos from her searches.

In an October interview with Sgt. John Allen, Wray said she participated in two of Tim Miller's searches with Equusearch. Wray told Allen her pictures were from searches of Lake Moss and Blanchard Park.

Wray said she was at Blanchard Park the day Leonard Padilla found bones and toys at the bottom of a lake.

"I think he was making a show and planting stuff," Wray said about Padilla.

Wray said she began searching the area off of Suburban Drive two days after Caylee was reported missing because she had a "gut feeling." She said she searched the area alone more than 10 times. She said the area had around 6 inches of standing water.

Caylee's body was found in the same wooded area, which is near the Anthony family's east Orlando home, in December. Although the area had previously been searched, search teams said it had substantial amounts of standing water, which may have been why Caylee's body was not located during previous searches.

The incident report from Wray's interview and submission of photos said, "It should be noted that Joy admitted to me of being Baker Acted five times."

Also included in the release was screen shots of Universal Studio's Web site. Anthony initially told police she worked at Universal, and even led investigators there before turning around and admitting she no longer worked there.

Caylee autopsy results were expected to be released with the documents, but a last-minute motion filed by George and Cindy Anthony's attorney blocked the release.

Anthony is charged with first-degree murder in Caylee's death. Documents have been released by the prosecution periodically leading up to the trial.

Local 6 is scouring the newly-released documents; check back with ClickOrlando.com and watch Local 6 News at noon for more information.

http://www.clickorlando.com/news/19734095/detail.html

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Book About Casey Anthony Case To Be Released

Posted: 12:18 pm EDT June 12, 2009Updated: 4:59 pm EDT June 12, 2009
ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. -- The first book about the Casey Anthony case is available for preorder months before its release. Eyewitness News found a book online called "Mommy's Little Girl" (see Amazon listing)

The book was written by Diane Fanning, a true crime author with no connection to the case. It is scheduled to be released in early November.

http://www.wftv.com/news/19735957/detail.html

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New Documents, Evidence Released In Casey Case

Posted: 12:38 pm EDT June 11, 2009Updated: 6:19 pm EDT June 12, 2009
ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. -- Eyewitness News obtained nearly 900 pages of documents and new evidence in the case against Casey Anthony Friday.

The State Attorney's Office released 855 pages of documents Friday morning and Eyewitness News learned the report contains several interviews with people close to Casey Anthony.

The documents also contain new information on people who helped search for Caylee Anthony and information about Casey's employment before Caylee disappeared.

NEW DOCUMENTS RELEASED JUNE 12:
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» LEE DEPO: Read It | Watch Part 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5
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MOTION: To Block Autopsy Release | Order To Stay
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Link below....

One of the transcripts released is an interview between detectives and Michelle Murphy. Murphy has been a friend of the Anthony family since she was five years old.

Murphy told investigators she was at Caylee's 2nd birthday party when she noticed friction between Casey and her mother, Cindy Anthony.

"It was kind of weird just because I guess it seemed like they were both um…competing kind of," Murphy told detectives.

Michelle Murphy also told investigators she has never heard of Zeneida Gonzalez.

"You ever heard of Zeneida Gonzalez?" asked a detective.

"Never," she responded.

"What about Zanny the Nanny?" he asked.

"Nope," Murphy responded.

The documents also contain a transcript of an interview with Casey's friend Ricardo Morales, Sean Krause a crime blog writer on the internet who had conversations with Cindy and Joy Wray who was a part of the EquuSearch team.

Krause told investigators that Cindy Anthony always suspected Casey had something to do with Caylee's death.

Wray became involved in the case just days after Caylee disappeared and told investigators she searched along Suburban Drive for the body because she had a, "Gut feeling." Wray said she looked around the area for clues at least 10 times, which is the same spot where Caylee's body was found on December 11.

There were also transcripts of depositions with George, Cindy and Lee Anthony from the Zenaida Gonzalez civil case. In the videotaped depositions, each family member seemed to be on the defensive. The Anthonys' Private Investigator Jim Hoover's deposition was also included in the documents.

Caylee Anthony's autopsy and toxicology reports were also supposed to be released Friday, but Judge Stan Strickland ordered a stay (read order) on them following a motion by the Anthonys' attorney, Brad Conway, (read motion) asking to block the results of the findings. The Anthonys say they fear the results will be exploited.

Legal analyst Bill Sheaffer says the motion is a waste of time.

"This is a complete waste of judicial time in addressing this motion," Sheaffer said.

The motion wasn't filed in time to give the media enough notice, so the judge delayed the release and a final decision on the request until all parties can fight it out in court.

It could be a couple of weeks before a hearing is set on whether to release the autopsy findings. The Anthonys' lawyer wants to hold off on the public release until a medical examiner can explain the results.

Casey Anthony, 23, is in the Orange County jail facing first-degree murder charges. She is accused of killing her 2-year-old daughter Caylee Anthony.

http://www.wftv.com/news/19725145/detail.html

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Garavaglia: No Change In Caylee's Cause Of Death
Interviews Released In Case Against Casey Anthony

POSTED: 5:28 pm EDT June 11, 2009
UPDATED: 5:35 pm EDT June 12, 2009

ORLANDO, Fla. -- Orange County medical examiner Dr. Jan Garavaglia said Friday that the autopsy report on the remains of Caylee Anthony draws no new conclusions as to her cause of death.

Garavaglia reported in December that the toddler's death was a homicide of unknown origin. However, she added that she included a summary in her 30-page report that draws some conclusions about what happened to Caylee based on tests and other evidence gathered since she made her initial findings.

That autopsy report was to be included in the hundreds of pages of new evidence released by the state attorney's office in the case against Casey Anthony Friday morning. However, George and Cindy Anthony succeeded in the effort to at least temporarily block the release of their granddaughter's autopsy report.

Casey Anthony remains in the Orange County Jail charged with murder in the death of her daughter, Caylee. The toddler's remains were discovered in December in a wooded area off Suburban Drive near the Anthony family's home.

The Anthonys argued that the release of the autopsy results would cause the family great distress.

Judge Stan Strickland is expected to hold a hearing on the matter next week.

The document released included an interview with an Anthony family friend who said she was concerned about Caylee's safety during an incident 15 months before her disappearance.

Michelle Murphy is a friend of the Anthony family who has known Lee Anthony, Casey's brother, since the first grade. In her interview with police, she described a phone call between her and Casey Anthony 15 months before Caylee vanished in which Anthony said she was "feeling crazy." Murphy said she feared Caylee was in danger and offered to come and pick her up.

In the documents, Murphy said Anthony told her she felt like she wasn't being a very good mother and was considering committing herself for psychological reasons. Murphy said she wasn't sure if it was a ploy for sympathy or a reaction to Anthony's stormy relationship with her parents.

Murphy detailed a tumultuous relationship between Casey and Cindy Anthony regarding Caylee -- and said that during Caylee's second birthday the two competed over gifts.

Murphy also said that George and Cindy Anthony had often spoken of gaining custody of Caylee, and that during a vigil held after the toddler went missing he speculated as to what would have happened if they had gotten custody instead of just discussing it.

Murphy said Casey Anthony had lied about being pregnant with Caylee -- saying doctors believed she may have a tumor. The next day, Murphy said Anthony appeared overjoyed to be carrying a baby.

Finally, Murphy said Anthony had at one point said she was pregnant again and that Cindy Anthony was furious. She said Casey Anthony later said she had miscarried.

A deposition from Internet blogger Sean Krause was also included in Friday's release. Krause had a crime blog called The Daily BS, and, one point, had daily phone conversations with Cindy Anthony.

Krause told investigators that on the day that bounty hunter Leonard Padilla was searching Blanchard Park for signs of Caylee, Cindy Anthony called him, crying.

He said he took that opportunity to say to her, "You know, I really strongly believe that you know your daughter murdered Caylee."

Krause said that on that particular day, it "was the first time that she agreed that she actually really believed that her daughter, you know, actually did something to Caylee." The next day, according to Krause, Cindy Anthony "retracted her statement."

"That kind of irked me," Krause told investigators, "You go from one extreme to the other. You want sympathy, but then you retract your own statement. Then you tell people "No, you can't use that because I believe my granddaughter is still alive."

Krause said he felt like he "really, really hit a nerve."

Krause said he asked Cindy Anthony about a rumor he heard that Casey Anthony worked for an escort service called Universal, and he said that she responded that she "knew nothing of it."

In his interview, Krause also told investigators that he and Cindy Anthony got into a dispute over videos and pictures sent to him anonymously of Caylee and Casey Anthony.

"She wanted these videos," Krause told investigators. He said he gathered that Cindy Anthony wanted to "release some videos of Caylee for profit -- maybe to pay for Casey's defense fund."

A copy of Universal Orlando's Web site was also among the 1,000 pages of evidence released.

Earlier in the case, Casey Anthony led investigators to the theme park after identifying it as her place of employment. Investigators said she did an about-face in the hallway and admitted she was lying. The pages appeared to list and contain photos of former or current employees.

Also among the documents released Friday were interviews with George and Cindy Anthony, Lee Anthony, James Hoover and Zenaida Gonzalez in regards to a civil lawsuit filed by Gonzalez. She filed a defamation lawsuit against Casey Anthony, claiming that Anthony naming her as the nanny who kidnapped Caylee ruined her good name.

http://www.wesh.com/news/19728108/detail.html

[Marian Paroo]

Book About Casey Anthony Case To Be Released

Posted: 12:18 pm EDT June 12, 2009Updated: 4:59 pm EDT June 12, 2009
ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. -- The first book about the Casey Anthony case is available for preorder months before its release. Eyewitness News found a book online called "Mommy's Little Girl" (see Amazon listing)

The book was written by Diane Fanning, a true crime author with no connection to the case. It is scheduled to be released in early November.

http://www.wftv.com/news/19735957/detail.html

Pretty bizzare to have a book out before the trial is over, or perhaps even started!:shrug:

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Casey Anthony case: Caylee last seen by grandmother a year ago today
Last video of Casey Anthony's daughter, Caylee Marie, was captured a year ago today.

Sarah Lundy | Sentinel Staff Writer
9:31 AM EDT, June 15, 2009

We didn't see the video until she was already missing. But exactly a year ago, Caylee Marie Anthony looked like a happy little girl.

She played with her ponytail. She cooed to herself -- in her own 2-year-old language -- as she flipped through a children's book, Suppertime for Frieda Fuzzypaws.

These are among the images George and Cindy Anthony remember about their granddaughter. They're also the last known ones captured of the toddler's life.

That was the last day Cindy Anthony saw her granddaughter alive.

The next day, June 16, 2008, she told her grandpa George goodbye and left their east Orange County home with her mother, Casey Anthony.

Casey was to drop her daughter off with a baby sitter before going to work at Universal Studios.

It was another month -- a bizarre, confusing and agonizing month -- before George and Cindy learned the truth. Caylee was missing.

What has happened in the year since thrust the Anthonys and Central Florida law enforcement into a national spotlight. And into a national obsession.

What started as a search for a little girl turned into a hunt for a body. What started as a routine missing-person case evolved into a bizarre mix of cops, private investigators, child hunters.

Once a sympathetic mother, Casey is now in jail, charged with killing her little girl, shrouded with a reputation as a promiscuous young woman who often had too little regard for being a single mother.

The media has feasted on the details, thousands of pages of discovery released by prosecutors as well as hundred of photos.

The image of a beer-drinking Casey at a party wrapped in an American flag became symbolic.

In the local media, what started as the Search for Caylee is now the Case against Casey, a saga that encompasses both criminal and civil charges.

In the backdrop, we wonder: Will we ever know what really happened?

Where is Caylee?

For weeks, then 22-year-old Casey Anthony dodged her parents, Cindy and George Anthony.

Casey and Caylee lived with the Anthonys so the grandparents were used to seeing the toddler nearly every day.

But they hadn't seen or heard from their only granddaughter in weeks.

A few times Cindy Anthony reached Casey by phone or text. But Casey always had an explanation. Take your pick: Caylee is with the nanny. Caylee is taking a nap. Caylee is at the beach.

On July 15, Casey ran out of excuses.

The grandparents were notified about Casey's Pontiac Grand Prix, which had been towed to Johnson's Towing after being abandoned two weeks earlier.

The couple went to Johnson's to get the car and were overcome by the stench of something dead coming from inside the car.

"When I first went there to pick up that vehicle I got within three feet of it I could smell something," George Anthony later told investigators. "I think I whispered out to myself, 'Please don't let this by my Caylee.' "

It sent Cindy Anthony into a panic.

She called one of Casey's friends who helped track down Casey at her boyfriend's apartment. Cindy Anthony drove Casey home where she demanded to know Caylee's whereabouts.

Casey again: Caylee is with the nanny.

Angry, scared and frustrated, Cindy drove Casey to a police substation, hoping Casey would talk under fear of arrest. The substation was closed.

Finally, Casey revealed to her older brother, Lee Anthony, the unthinkable: Caylee has been missing for 31 days.

Cindy Anthony calls 911. She begs dispatchers for help: "I told you my daughter was missing for a month," she frantically tells the operator. "I just found her today, but I can't find my granddaughter. There's something wrong. I found my daughter's car today and it smelled like there's been a dead body in the damn car."

Investigators respond. Through the Anthonys, they release the June 15 video of Caylee playfully looking through her book.

They also struggle to work through the slew of lies told by Casey.

Casey tells them she worked at Universal Studios: lie.

She describes how she dropped Caylee off at an apartment at Sawgrass Apartments: lie.

And the biggest lie: She tells investigators she left her child with a nanny named Zenaida Fernandez Gonzalez.

Detectives look for Gonzalez. Eventually, they determine the nanny doesn't exist.

The next day, July 16, Central Florida media catches up with Casey. Detectives arrest Casey for child neglect, filing false statements and obstructing a criminal investigation.

TV crews catch Casey being escorted to the Orange County Jail. That image -- Casey in her jeans and blue hoodie -- becomes an iconic one for the case.

Even though no one other than Casey has seen Caylee in a month, police still label her as a missing child. A bond hearing six days later changes everything.

Detective Yuri Melich testifies that dogs used to find dead bodies were alerted to the trunk of Casey's car and under a playhouse in the Anthonys' backyard.

Orange Circuit Court Judge Stan Strickland sets Casey's bond at $500,000.

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http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/breakingnews/orl-bk-casey-anthony-anniversary-061509,0,6260536.story

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Debate Continues Over Anthony Jail Video
Prosecutors File Response Saying Baez Wasting Time Over Video

POSTED: 4:03 pm EDT June 15, 2009
UPDATED: 5:13 pm EDT June 15, 2009

ORLANDO, Fla. -- Prosecutors in the case against Casey Anthony argued Monday that her attorney, Jose Baez, is building what amounts to a propaganda campaign accusing the state of prosecutorial conduct without any evidence to prove it.

Tony Lazarro, Anthony’s former boyfriend, was the latest key state witness to come forward and file court papers Monday asking to be shielded from a subpoena. Baez is seeking to find out who Lazarro talked to and when.

Lazarro has cooperated with investigators and provided phone records to detectives. But, Baez wants to go back more than a year of phone records and Lazarro argued that would be an invasion of his privacy.

Prosecutors on Monday also filed a response saying Baez is wasting time over the jail video of Anthony watching news coverage of a child's remains being found near her home.

Casey Anthony is in the Orange County jail charged with murder in the death of her daughter, Caylee. Caylee's remains were found last December in a wooded area off Suburban Drive near the Anthony family home.

In a response to recent statements from Baez, prosecutors said he's trying to deflect attention from the evidence in the case and focus on bogus claims of government "misconduct." They asked the judge to make a decision on whether or not to seal the video without having another hearing.

Prosecutors said it's time to move forward and out of the "quagmire" Baez has created over the issue.

Meanwhile, Judge Stan Strickland has issued an order granting Andrea Lyon admission in to the case. Lyon is a Chicago law school professor, who will lead the defense efforts against prosecutor's attempts to seek the death penalty. Lyon is a veteran of more than 100 homicide cases.

http://www.wesh.com/news/19759604/detail.html

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Casey Anthony's parents appear on 'Early Show'
One of Casey Anthony's attorneys, Linda Kenney Baden, appeared on NBC's 'Today' show.

Walter Pacheco and Amy L. Edwards | Sentinel Staff Writers
10:06 AM EDT, June 16, 2009

George Anthony and Cindy Anthony appeared on national television this morning and talked about their slain granddaughter Caylee Marie and their foundation.

"Yesterday was a tough day. Today is a tough day. Every day has been a tough day," Cindy Anthony said during her interview on CBS' The Early Show.

"We just miss her so much."

The Anthonys talked about the foundation they've established to help families of missing children.

Cindy Anthony said families of missing children need financial and emotional support.

"So many children are forgotten," she said.

Watch the interview at CBSnews.com.
http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=5091216n&tag=contentMain;contentBody

Meanwhile, one of Casey Anthony's defense attorneys appeared on NBC's Today show, but answered very little about the case.

Host Meredith Vieira asked Anthony's defense attorney Linda Kenney Baden if she could provide some insight into her client's thoughts on today's date -- a year after anyone last saw Caylee Marie Anthony alive.

But Linda Baden, who appeared alongside her husband, Michael Baden, avoided answering Vieira's questions, saying only that "we have an innocent client and we are going to be addressing all those issues in court in the next year to come."

The Badens' new criminal thriller Skeleton Justice debuts today. They answered questions about their book.

"I can't tell you what the client says," Linda Baden told Vieira. "I can't do."

Vieira laughed it off by telling Baden, "so you basically won't tell me anything, will you Linda?"

Anthony, 23, is charged with first-degree murder in Caylee's death. The 2-year-old girl's remains were recovered near the home of her grandparents on Dec. 11.

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/breakingnews/orl-bk-casey-anthony-attorney-061609,0,1546569.story

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Anthonys Talk On Anniversary Of Caylee's Disappearance

Posted: 8:57 am EDT June 16, 2009Updated: 12:44 pm EDT June 16, 2009
ORLANDO, Fla. -- It is an emotional day for the family of Caylee Anthony.

"I just miss her. I miss her so much," said Cindy.

It was one year ago Tuesday that George Anthony said he last saw his granddaughter alive. George and Cindy Anthony went on national television Tuesday morning and talked about the heartbreak they have gone through in the last year.

"It's been a tough year. Yesterday was a tough day. Today has been a tough day. Every day has been a tough day this year," Cindy said.

The Anthonys appeared on national TV and talked about their pain of losing Caylee Marie Anthony. George Anthony remembered the last few moments he ever spent with his granddaughter, Caylee.

"Last time I saw her was June 16, one year ago today. I woke up with her in the morning at 7:30 and got a chance to have breakfast with her. Just before 1:00pm that day I didn't realize that would be the last time I would see her," George said Tuesday.

The Anthonys used the interview to offer their help to other families of missing children. They admitted that with the controversy surrounding their granddaughter's disappearance, some families of missing children do not want their help.

Caylee was last seen one year ago Tuesday, but she wasn't reported missing until one month later. Casey Anthony, 23, is in the Orange County jail charged with Caylee's murder. Casey Anthony has pleaded not guilty and says a baby sitter kidnapped her toddler.

Caylee's remains were found in woods near the family's home on December 11.


ANTHONYS' ATTORNEY APPEARS ON GMA

George and Cindy's attorney, Brad Conway, appeared on Good Morning America Tuesday. However, Conway did not clear up any of the suspicion that Casey had something to do with her daughter, Caylee Anthony's death.

RAW VIDEO: Brad Conway On GMA

"But do you know of any theory that rules out Casey as being under the umbrella of suspicion here?" asked GMA reporter Chris Cuomo.

"I do not, no. I don't," responded Conway.

But Conway does think someone else may have been involved with the crime.

"I think there's reason to believe that other people were involved. The question is what was their involvement? How deep was it? Was it minimal or was it actually bordering on conspiracy?" asked Conway.

Conway went on to say that he and his clients are trying to take control over the information that the public gets to see. They want to make sure Casey gets a fair trial.

http://www.wftv.com/news/19765683/detail.html

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Anthonys' Attorney Appears On GMA

Posted: 11:47 am EDT June 16, 2009Updated: 12:03 pm EDT June 16, 2009
ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. -- George and Cindy's attorney, Brad Conway, appeared on Good Morning America Tuesday. However, Conway did not clear up any of the suspicion that Casey had something to do with her daughter, Caylee Anthony's death.

RAW VIDEO: Brad Conway On GMA
http://www.wftv.com/video/19767094/index.html

"But do you know of any theory that rules out Casey as being under the umbrella of suspicion here?" asked GMA reporter Chris Cuomo.

"I do not, no. I don't," responded Conway.

But Conway does think someone else may have been involved with the crime.

"I think there's reason to believe that other people were involved. The question is what was their involvement? How deep was it? Was it minimal or was it actually bordering on conspiracy?" asked Conway.

Conway went on to say that he and his clients are trying to take control over the information that the public gets to see. They want to make sure Casey gets a fair trial.

http://www.wftv.com/news/19767180/detail.html

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NEW YORK, June 16, 2009
Slain Tot's Kin: Missing Girl's Dad Wrong

(CBS) The grandparents of a murdered central Florida two-year old say the father of a missing northern Florida five-year-old is making a mistake by rejecting their offers to come to his aid.

"When your child's missing, you take any bit of help that you can," Cindy Anthony remarked to Early Show co-anchor Maggie Rodriguez Tuesday. "You take every help. You don't turn anybody away. You can't turn anybody away."

Cindy's daughter, Casey Anthony, 23, has pleaded not guilty to first degree murder in the death of Casey's daughter, Caylee Anthony. Prosecutors say they'll seek the death penalty.

Caylee was last seen by Cindy and her husband, George Anthony, a year ago. It wasn't until a month later that Casey revealed Caylee was missing. Casey was arrested in October. Caylee's body was found in December. Casey's trial is tentatively set for this coming October.

Casey has claimed Caylee was with a babysitter when she vanished.

Cindy Anthony was responding Tuesday to the recent rejection of efforts by her and George to help Ronald Cummings, a 25-year-old northern Florida man whose daughter, Haleigh Cummings, has been missing since early February.

Haleigh was reported missing when Ronald Cummings returned home from work to his mobile home in a heavily wooded area north of Satsuma. Ronald Cummings' girlfriend, Misty Croslin, 17, says she tucked Haleigh into her own bed at 8 o'clock and, when she woke up, Haleigh had vanished.

Rodriguez reminded Cindy and George Anthony that, in nixing their efforts to reach out to them, Ronald Cummings had said they were doing so because have their own agenda.

"They have every right to say what they want to say," George observed to Rodriguez, "because they are controlling that. And I understand that. We're just here to help in any way we can -- just a little bit of support. I'll stand in the background. I'm not gonna be there in the forefront. I never was at the beginning.

"I was just offering some support, some moral support and some ways that he could possibly bring more awareness for his child. That's what I was trying to help with. ... And if he called and said, 'George, I need your help, I'd still be there to help him. I'm not going to stop unless he tells me to stop. But I understand. It's a tough situation for everybody."

Cindy told Rodriguez Cummings is erring in turning her and George away. "You know," Cindy said, "that one exposure of your child's face out there could be that one time. So, you know, to him I say, you made a mistake.

"We're the ones who got national attention for their daughter the first night, because I was on the phone with national media. And that was the day of Caylee's memorial, Feb. 10. We had just gotten home from her memorial and heard about Haleigh. So we hurried up and made desperate phone calls to people in the national media to say, 'Hey, start covering the story.' And that was a day that I should have been home just worrying about myself."

Cindy wept when telling Rodriguez how she feels at this point. "It's been a year," Cindy recalled. "Yesterday was a tough day. Today is a tough day. Every day has been a tough day this last year. And I just miss her. I just miss her so much."

George said, "The last time I saw her was June 16, one year ago today. I woke up with her in the morning at 7:30, got a chance to have breakfast with her. Just before 1:00 that day, I didn't ever realize that that'd be the last time I would see her, have a chance to kiss her, hold her. I would hear her call me Jo-Jo, and put her in a car and wave good-bye to her."

Cindy and George have set up a foundation in Caylee's memory "to continue to bring awareness of children, you know, children that are missing," Cindy says, and give their families emotional and financial support.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/06/16/earlyshow/main5091256.shtml

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Caylee Last Seen Alive 1 Year Ago
Toddler Last Seen June 16, 2008

POSTED: 6:55 am EDT June 16, 2009
UPDATED: 4:54 am EDT June 17, 2009

ORLANDO, Fla. -- It's been exactly one year since George Anthony said he last saw his granddaughter, Caylee, alive.

He said she was with his daughter, Casey Anthony, and was leaving the family home in East Orange County on June 16, 2008.

The family shot video of the 2-year-old visiting her great-grandfather on Father's Day last June 15.

Casey Anthony is in the Orange County Jail charged with murder in Caylee's death. Caylee's remains were found last December in a wooded area off Suburban Drive. Video: Casey Anthony In Jail

A memorial for Caylee was held Tuesday evening in Blanchard Park in East Orange County.

"I didn't want to do this along Suburban Drive," said Richard Grund, memorial speaker. "I immediately said no that's not how I remember her...swinging, singing."

A Facebook sight dedicated to Caylee's memory has more than 22,000 members. When he saw that number, Grund said he realized Caylee has become a symbol for many all over the world who've felt abused and abandoned. But, he said it's time to move past the obsession over Caylee.

"There are other kids out there," Grund said. "Let's take this focus and share it."

http://www.wesh.com/news/19764863/detail.html

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Crowd Gathers For Caylee Memorial At Blanchard Park

The memorial at Blanchard Park is to commemorate one year since Caylee was last seen alive. (06/16/09)

http://www.wftv.com/video/19771472/index.html

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Casey Anthony jail video will not be released
The video showed Casey Anthony's reaction after she learned a child's remains were found near her home.

Sarah Lundy | Sentinel Staff Writer
11:55 AM EDT, June 17, 2009

The public will not see the video of Casey Anthony the day she learned a child's remains were found less than a mile from her home.

Orange Circuit Court Judge Stan Strickland ordered today that the video taken at the Orange County Jail on Dec. 11 be sealed.

"While the court is loathe to shield any public record, an argument can certainly be made that the contents of the video are highly inflammatory," Strickland wrote in his three-page order.

In making his decision, he watched the video and applied a legal three-part test, which included whether the video could impact a potential jury pool.

"Given the nature and scope of the pretrial publicity, it is not unreasonable to assume that many persons in the potential jury pool might view this video and develop a 'hardened' attitude in reference to the defendant's guilt," he wrote.

Anthony's defense team didn't want the video released and argued it would taint a potential jury pool and it violated her Constitutional rights. Media, including the Orlando Sentinel, had filed legal papers to persuade the judge to release the video.

Anthony, 23, is charged with first-degree murder in the death of her daughter, Caylee Marie. An Orange County meter reader found the 2-year-old's bones in December in woods a few blocks from the east Orange County home the girl shared with Anthony and her grandparents.

Hours after the discovery, jail officials moved Anthony from her cell and to the medical facility where a TV was showing reports of the find.

The video showed her reaction while watching the TV report. At that point, investigators had not confirmed the remains were Caylee but everyone believed it was the child.

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/breakingnews/orl-bk-casey-anthony-news-061709,0,7936902.story

[Marian Paroo]

Bottom line - what does it matter what the public does or not see?

It's what the jury sees that counts!

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Judge To Decide On Release Of Caylee's Autopsy
Hearing Scheduled For Friday In Casey Anthony Case

POSTED: 11:03 am EDT June 18, 2009
UPDATED: 5:37 pm EDT June 18, 2009

ORLANDO, Fla. -- The next legal battle looming in the case against Casey Anthony is over the release of Caylee Anthony's final autopsy report.

A day after a judge ordered that a controversial jail video be sealed, a hearing on a new motion over the autopsy was scheduled.

Attorney Brad Conway, an attorney for the Anthony family, told WESH 2 the Anthonys are asking to have the autopsy report sealed until trial only to spare Caylee's grandparents the anguish of having to hear all of the details discussed over and over.

According to the motion, the autopsy's release now "will cause great anguish to the Anthony family, still struggling with the loss of their only granddaughter."

The motion also says that the release would cause "endless comment and speculation in the media and public forums, such as the internet." (PDF: Read The Complete Motion)

But Al Tompkins, an instructor at the Poynter Institute, said the Anthonys' argument that the release of information would make them uncomfortable does not justify cutting off the free flow of information in Florida otherwise known as the public's right to know.

The Poynter Institute is a nonprofit think tank for professional journalists.

"We have a very open system and have worked really hard to keep it that way," Tompkins said. "Those in the media are going to have to show some restraint or we put a big target on us."

Without restraint, Tompkins said it will get easier and easier for judges to justify withholding information.

"If we release autopsy photos, the media would go crazy with this," he said. "You could almost hear the judge's reasoning and it's very hard to argue against it."

Medical examiner Jan Garavaglia told WESH 2 last week that her initial findings on the cause of death have not changed in the final report. She ruled that Caylee Anthony died as a result of homicide by unknown means.

Circuit Court Judge Stan Strickland is scheduled to hear the motion at 11 a.m. Friday in the Orange County Courthouse. He has issued a temporary stay of the autopsy report's release until that hearing.

Casey Anthony is charged with first-degree murder in connection with the death of her daughter, Caylee, who was 2 when she was reported missing in June 2008. Caylee's remains were found in woods not far from the Anthony family's home in Orange County.

Strickland on Wednesday sealed a jail video that was taken of Casey Anthony in December 2008 when the media reported a child's remains were found near her home. Those remains eventually were identified as Caylee's.

Casey Anthony is in Orange County Jail on no bond awaiting trial, which isn't expected to start until October at the earliest.

http://www.wesh.com/news/19788891/detail.html

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Hearing to determine release of autopsy report in Casey Anthony case
Casey Anthony's parents don't want the public record released to the media.

Sarah Lundy | Sentinel Staff Writer
11:06 AM EDT, June 18, 2009

Casey Anthony's parents are fighting the release of their granddaughter's autopsy report. A hearing is set Friday to address the issue in court.

Anthony's parents, George and Cindy Anthony, don't want the report, which is public record, released to the media. In a request to the judge, the attorney for George and Cindy Anthony, Brad Conway, wrote that the release would "cause great anguish to the Anthony family" as they continue to struggle with the loss of their only granddaughter.

Casey Anthony, 23, is charged with first-degree murder in the death of her daughter, Caylee Marie. An Orange County meter reader found the remains of the 2-year-old in woods less than a mile from her family home on Dec.11. Authorities say Caylee was murdered but the cause of death could not be determined.

Anthonys do not want to have to endure "endless comment and speculation in the media and public forums" about how their Caylee died.

The Orlando Sentinel is requesting the report and plan to have an attorney at the hearing.

Casey Anthony will not be there.

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/breakingnews/orl-bk-casey-anthony-autopsy-hearing-061809,0,2913411.story

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Hearing Scheduled On Release Of Caylee Autopsy Results

Posted: 11:26 am EDT June 18, 2009Updated: 7:04 pm EDT June 18, 2009
ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. -- Caylee Anthony's grandparents will try to convince an Orange County judge that he should not release their granddaughter's autopsy report.

A hearing is scheduled Friday at 11:00am on the release of Caylee's autopsy results. Casey Anthony is not expected to attend the hearing.

Casey, 23, is in the Orange County jail facing first-degree murder charges. She is accused of killing her 2-year-old daughter Caylee Anthony.

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The Anthonys say releasing the report would cause them even more anguish and are afraid that the results will be exploited. Their lawyer, Brad Conway, wants to hold off on the public release until a medical examiner can explain the results.

On June 10, George and Cindy Anthony's attorney, Brad Conway, filed a motion to block (read motion) Caylee's autopsy result findings. Judge Stan Strickland, however, ordered a stay (read order) on the release of the findings.

The Anthonys' motion claims that publicizing the report would cause endless speculation.

What the public does know already is that investigators found duct tape stretched across Caylee's mouth when they found her remains on December 11.

They found adhesive on that tape in the shape of a heart, which matched a heart sticker that they also found near her remains.

Investigators say the duct tape, the trash and laundry bags she was stuffed into are similar to tape and bags found in the Anthonys' home.

Despite the detectives' findings, the Anthonys' say they are too upset for the public to see the autopsy report.

"Every time there's a motion filed to block the release of something what do you assume? You assume that there must be something inflammatory and damning," said WFTV Legal Analyst Bill Sheaffer (watch full interview).

Sheaffer says Caylee's grandparents have no legal standing in the case to ask the judge to seal a public record and says there is no legal basis for their argument.

"Unless there's a legal basis other than emotional distress, which is not a legal basis, this judge will not block the release of this public document," Sheaffer explained.

The hearing may last fifteen minutes and the judge said he is not inclined to seal public records.

http://www.wftv.com/news/19789313/detail.html

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Caylee Autopsy Report Will Be Released
George Anthony Makes Emotional Plea To Judge

http://www.wesh.com/news/19800528/detail.html

ORLANDO, Fla. -- The family of Caylee Anthony gathered in an Orange County courtroom on Friday to try to seal the autopsy results of their slain granddaughter, but a judge turned down the motion.

George Anthony delivered an emotional plea to Judge Stan Strickland asking that the results of the autopsy be held until the Casey Anthony trial begins. He said the public could misinterpret and sensationalize the findings.

"Please give us some peace and show us some dignity by keeping this report sealed," George Anthony said. "Thank you, judge, for giving me this brief moment. It's all for her. This is for her today."

Cindy Anthony, the grandmother of Caylee, was also in the courtroom for the hearing and appeared to be crying during the testimony, holding her head in her hands.

Casey Anthony did not attend the hearing Friday. She is charged with first-degree murder in the death of her daughter, Caylee, who was 2 years old when she was reported missing in June 2008. Caylee's remains were found in woods not far from the Anthony family's home in Orange County.

Attorneys for the defense asked George Anthony about the numerous TV appearances he's made regarding the investigation before the attorney for the family, Brad Conway, addressed Strickland.

Conway said he saw no reason for the autopsy results to be released, saying the information would cause needless additional pain and suffering to his clients.

But Strickland said the results contained only factual information, and while he wished he could assist the Anthonys in the matter, he found no legal reason to stop the release of the autopsy findings.

"Legally, the anguish that they feel is just not the test for whether or not this information should be released," Strickland said. "I think it is information that the public has a right to see."

Cindy Anthony shook her head back and forth as the ruling was announced.

"I'm not happy to make the ruling. In fact, I wish I didn't have to, but it's something that I legally have to do," Strickland said.

Some X-ray images that were included in the autopsy report will be withheld.

Jose Baez, the defense attorney for Casey Anthony, asked that the release of the report be delayed for 48 hours to allow the defense team time to prepare. Strickland denied the request.

The defense made another request to remove descriptions of the X-ray images, but Strickland said both sides would have to agree on their removal before it would be considered by the court.

George Anthony's Plea
http://www.wesh.com/video/19800997/index.html

Hearing Images
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Judge Stan Strickland's Ruling
http://www.wesh.com/video/19801101/index.html

Special Section
http://www.wesh.com/caseyanthony/

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Conway Discusses Caylee Autopsy On 'Today'
Family's Attorney Talks About Report

POSTED: 9:50 am EDT June 22, 2009
UPDATED: 12:07 pm EDT June 22, 2009

ORLANDO, Fla. -- An attorney for the family of Caylee Anthony appeared on NBC's "Today" show on Monday to discuss the release of an autopsy report on the toddler.

Judge Stan Strickland ordered the report released on Friday after hearing an emotional plea from George Anthony to keep the results private.

The autopsy report indicated that Caylee Anthony's remains were completely skeletonized, meaning no soft tissue or ligaments were found. Almost all of Caylee's skeleton was found.

A portion of the report indicated duct tape found on the head of the skeleton -- and that the tape was clearly placed prior to decomposition, according to Orange County Medical Examiner Dr. Jan Garavaglia.

Conway said the family was disappointed about the release of the report, but he said it would remain to be seen whether it would affect a jury pool.

The attorney said the family last saw Casey Anthony on Oct. 14 but has exchanged letters with their daughter.

http://www.wesh.com/news/19821493/detail.html

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Anthonys' Attorney Comments On Autopsy Reaction

Posted: 11:01 am EDT June 22, 2009Updated: 1:52 pm EDT June 22, 2009

ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. -- George and Cindy Anthonys' attorney, Brad Conway, says he is now working to prepare them to handle the details inside Caylee Anthony's autopsy report.

Conway appeared on a morning news program Monday and said the release of Caylee's autopsy report and Father's Day made things tough for the Anthonys.

"This was a very difficult weekend for both George and Cindy and they got through it as best they could, but it was very, very hard," said Conway.

Casey Anthony remains in the Orange County jail facing murder charges for Caylee's death. Her parents haven't visited her since October.

http://www.wftv.com/news/19822164/detail.html

VIDEO REPORT: Conway On Morning Show
http://www.wftv.com/video/19823838/index.html

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Casey Anthony case: Prosecutors want trial date set in fraud case
The state wants the trial set within the next 60 days.

Sarah Lundy | Sentinel Staff Writer
5:08 PM EDT, June 22, 2009

Prosecutors want the fraud case against Casey Anthony to go to trial within the next two months, according to a request filed today by the state.

Anthony, 23, is charged with more than a dozen fraud charges, including fraudulent use of personal identification information, forgery of a check and uttering a forged check.

Anthony's friend, Amy Huizenga, told investigators that she loaned her car to Anthony while Huizenga was on vacation last summer. When she returned, Huizenga learned checks were missing from her car and that her bank account had a zero balance.

Authorities say Anthony used her friend's check to buy more than $400 worth of clothes and groceries at area Target and Winn-Dixie stores. According to investigators, she also withdrew $250 from the bank and attempted to pay a $574 phone bill, but there wasn't enough money left in Huizenga's account.

Prosecutors don't want wait to resolve the fraud case with the murder case. Anthony is charged with first-degree murder in the death of her 2-year-old daughter, Caylee Marie.

Last month, attorneys said the murder trial won't likely happen until next year.

"Given the complexities of the two cases, it is unreasonable to allow the forgery case to languish another year without a resolution," Assistant State Attorney Frank George wrote in the two-page request.

No trial date has been set yet.

In the murder case, George filed a separate request for the state.

Prosecutors want a picture of Anthony's tattoo of the words "Bella Vita," which means "Beautiful Life." She got the tattoo around July 3, which is after her daughter disappeared.

A picture of the tattoo "would be relevant and material in evaluating issues to be presented in connection with the upcoming trial," he wrote.

Orange Circuit Court Judge Stan Strickland has not responded to the request.

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/breakingnews/orl-bk-casey-anthony-fraud-trial062209,0,6615801.story

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Prosecutors Want Photos Of Casey Anthony's Tattoo

Posted: 4:06 pm EDT June 22, 2009Updated: 4:11 pm EDT June 22, 2009
ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. -- Prosecutors want permission to go into the jail to take pictures of a tattoo Casey Anthony got two weeks after her daughter, Caylee, disappeared.

Eyewitness News previously reported about the tattoo on Casey's back, which reads "La Vita Bella," which is Italian for "The Beautiful Life."

The state believes it could be important to their case.

http://www.wftv.com/news/19825617/detail.html

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Casey Anthony's tattoo artist speaks out
Tattoo artist Danny Knight talked about Casey Anthony in a TV interview.

8:41 AM EDT, June 24, 2009

The owner of the tattoo parlor where Casey Anthony got inked after her daughter went missing, spoke on a national news show recently to discuss his interaction with her.

Danny Knight, owner of Cast Iron Tattoo, told Nancy Grace that Casey Anthony spoke only briefly of Caylee during a visit to his Orlando shop. She told Knight the same story she'd told her parents, boyfriend and friends -- Caylee was with the nanny.

While making an appointment to get a third tattoo, Casey Anthony told Knight she would bring Caylee with her to the next appointment. However, Casey Anthony was jailed and never got the tattoo.

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/breakingnews/orl-bk-casey-anthony-tattoo-062409,0,4355421.story

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Orange leaders split on legal costs, strategy in Casey Anthony case

Leaders approved an additional $2,500 to pay for Roy Kronk's legal fees in the Casey Anthony case.

Orange County leaders approved another $2,500 payment this morning to the lawyer of the county worker who discovered the body of Caylee Anthony, but commissioners raised vocal concerns about the escalating costs and legal strategy in the case that has attracted national media scrutiny.

"This case has no limit," said Commissioner Mildred Fernandez. "It's a taxpayer issue."

The total tab for utility worker Roy Kronk's defense now comes to $15,000. Commissioners said this high-profile case, which now involves a death-penalty trial for the girl's mother Casey Anthony, could drag out and prove terribly costly.

However, County Mayor Rich Crotty said of Kronk, a county worker, "he's our guy," noting that "he did the right thing" and that his efforts likely saved taxpayers "a ton of money" by ending a costly search effort. The county elected to pay for Kronk to get a lawyer after it was clear Anthony's attorney's and others would want to question him.

Crotty agreed, though, that any future payments to Kronk's attorney would need a full board discussion; today's payment was included on a consent agenda, which rarely gets debated. But Crotty objected to the idea of requiring Kronk himself to be present to defend any future requests.

Some commissioners worried aloud about what message their squabble about legal fees would send to workers and whether it would discourage them from doing the right thing, as they agreed Kronk did when he pushed investigators to check out what he feared could be the body of a missing child.

"Will they think twice?" Commissioner Scott Boyd said. "I would hope not."

But Commisioner Fred Brummer said he was primarily concerned that Kronk's lawyer was fighting a request to see his client's cell phone records.

"We should not be trying to suppress the evidence," Brummer said, adding that the scrutiny into a front-line county worker's private affairs was acceptable. "That's a problem with life."

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/caylee-anthony/orl-bk-casey-anthony-roy-kronk-063009,0,2354756.story

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Kronk Finally Collects Reward For Caylee Tip

Commissioners Agree To Up Former Meter Reader's Legal Fees

ORLANDO, Fla. -- Former meter reader Roy Kronk has finally collected his $5,000 CrimeLine reward for his tip relating to the discovery of slain toddler Caylee Anthony's remains.

The news comes on the same day that, in a split vote, Orange County commissioners approved spending more taxpayer money for Roy Kronk's legal representation.

Commissioners decided to spend an additional $2,500 to pay the lawyer for the former meter reader who discovered Caylee Anthony's remains while on duty. That brings the total now to $15,000 in taxpayer money paid to Kronk's lawyer since December.

Orange County Sheriff Jerry Demings, who also sits on the CrimeLine board, said Kronk was awarded the money for his tip related to the Anthony case. Former Anthony family spokesman Mark NeJame also gave Kronk $5,000 earlier as a goodwill gesture. Kronk also received a $20,000 photo licensing fee for a nationally televised interview after the discovery.

Kronk discovered Caylee Anthony's remains in Orange County woods near the Anthony family home in December -- three months after he made an initial call to authorities about his suspicions.

Caylee's mother, Casey Anthony, is charged with first-degree murder in connection with her death. She is being held in Orange County Jail on no bond.

Her trial is scheduled to start no earlier than October.

Kronk has faced depositions about what he saw as well as requests from Anthony's defense attorneys for phone records.

His escalating legal fees lead some commissioners to consider putting a cap on them.

"This is not corporate America. This is taxpayer money," Mildred Fernandez said.

Another commissioner objected that the $2,500 approved Tuesday is going to litigate Kronk's fight against having to turn over phone records.

"The issue is we shouldn't be trying to suppress evidence, then we wouldn't have to pay the attorney's fee," Fred Brummer said.

Kronk's lawyer, David Evans, said he does not anticipate coming back to ask for thousands more. If he does, Crotty said it will require a full commission discussion like it did Tuesday.

http://www.wesh.com/news/19894810/detail.html

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Kronk to get thousands
from taxpayers
Updated: Tuesday, 30 Jun 2009, 5:16 PM EDT
Published : Tuesday, 30 Jun 2009, 4:55 PM EDT

ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. (WOFL FOX 35) - The meter reader who found little Caylee Anthony's body will get thousands more from taxpayers to pay for his lawyer. Orange County voted to pay up to $15,000.00.

The Orange County Commission Chamber isn't a place you'd expect arguments over legal fees in the high profile death penalty case against Casey Anthony. "Folks we have a county employee. He works for us, he's our guy and he's saving our taxpayers a ton of money," said Orange County Mayor Rich Crotty.

Crotty agrees with Roy Kronk's attorney that the meter reader ended a lengthy and costly search when he finally discovered the body of little Caylee last December, months after she disappeared. "Do we stand behind our employees who do something good and do the right thing."

The board voted to pay Kronk's lawyer another $2,500.00 to fight a new motion in the case for a total of $15,000.00 so far. That's the new cap for now.

One of the two 'no' votes came from commissioner Mildred Fernandez. "We need to be very careful on what situations we will keep spending tax payer's money in a case that maybe can last 20 years."

The other vote against approving the payment came from Fred Brummer. He doesn't care about the final amount... He won't side with Kronk, who's fighting a defense motion to turn over his personal phone records. "We shouldn't be trying to surpress the evidence, it's not about how he gets his money, we shouldn't be trying to surpress the evidence."

The county's attorney expects Kronk to come back and ask for even more money, as his name keeps getting dragged farther into the case against Casey. But the next time Kronk's lawyer wants more money, he'll have to come in front of the board and ask for it in person.

http://www.myfoxorlando.com/dpp/news/anthony_case/063009kronk_taxpayer_money

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Nancy Grace to feature Cindy Anthony in upcoming 2-part special

On the upcoming Friday and Monday episodes of Nancy Grace's HLN show, she will scrutinize Cindy Anthony, mother of accused murderer, Casey Anthony.

Cindy Anthony is no stranger to media and public scrutiny. She and her husband George have appeared on numerous television shows unabashedly supporting their daughter, Casey, accused of murdering their granddaughter, 2-year-old Caylee.

Casey is charged with killing her daughter and dumping the body, enclosed in trash bags, in a wooded area near the Anthony family home. Caylee’s skull was found with duct tape wrapped around the nose and mouth area.

Casey told authorities the last time she saw her little girl was around June 16, 2008, when she dropped her off with a babysitter. Police investigated Casey’s story, but found the babysitter did not exist and the address Casey had given them for the sitter was an apartment that had not been occupied for months.

Cindy Anthony contacted authorities to report Caylee missing when Casey could not produce her granddaughter for over a month.

Grace’s special is entitled, “Nancy Grace Investigates: Raw & Uncensored Cindy Anthony Caught on Tape!”

Hal Boedecker reports the show is billed by HLN as “a special inside look at the mother of accused killer Casey Anthony.” The two-part program will examine moments from Cindy’s deposition in the Zenaida Gonzalez defamation lawsuit against Casey. To see the complete video of Cindy's deposition, click here.

Part 1 is scheduled to air Friday and Part 2 on Monday. You can watch live streaming of both parts when they air, by clicking here.

Casey’s murder trial is tentatively scheduled for Oct. 12, but due to legal complexities, will likely be delayed until sometime in 2010.

http://www.examiner.com/x-1168-Crime-Examiner~y2009m6d30-Nancy-Grace-to-feature-Cindy-Anthony-in-upcoming-2part-special

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Casey Anthony case: 'Mommy's Little Girl' author defends title, book
Hal Boedeker | Sentinel TV Critic
3:06 PM EDT, June 25, 2009
Author Diane Fanning says she has heard from people who aren't happy that she has written a book about the Caylee Anthony case. "Mommy's Little Girl" from St. Martin's Press will be published in November.

Among the most-frequent complaints:

1. A book is premature before Casey Anthony's murder trial.

"Maybe we shouldn't have any news stories, either," Fanning said today from her home in Texas. "If it's wrong to do this, then it's wrong to have newspaper stories, magazine stories and TV reports. You can't wait on the vagaries of the justice system."

Fanning notes that her book on astronaut Lisa Nowak was released in November 2007 and that trial is set for December.

Fanning said when she agreed to write about Casey Anthony, who is charged with daughter Caylee's murder, the trial was set for January, then pushed to March. The earliest the trial could start now is next year.

"There is a point in the public world when things get in place and you can't stop that train," Fanning said. "It was supposed to be a post-trial book. This case is so different. There is so much available. Will I write a sequel? It's up to the publisher."

2. The Anthonys will profit from the book.

"A lot of people in the general public seem to believe to write a book like this, you have to purchase rights," Fanning said. "Not true. It's no more true of writers who work for newspapers. People make the assumption I put money in the Anthonys' pocket. It's not true, and it's not ethical. There were enough people to talk to. I could round out what was available from documentation."

3. The title is disrespectful to Caylee.

"Some people are upset by the title," Fanning said. "I didn't pick the title, but I thought it was a good title. No matter how horrendous a mother might be, that child is always mommy's little girl. Children love without any limitation."

The subtitle is "Casey Anthony and Her Daughter Caylee's Tragic Fate."

"She didn't have a long life," Fanning said of the toddler. "I couldn't fill the whole book with Caylee."

4. She is profiting off the tragedy.

"I'm making my living," Fanning said. "That's it. This is what I do to get my paycheck. I write books."

The Anthony saga is her 10th true-crime book, and St. Martin's Press is one of the most respected publishers in that field.

Fanning said readers should expect the Anthony discovery information presented in story form along with anecdotes about Caylee and other people connected to the Anthony family.

"There are stories and anecdotes that have never been published before -- not earth-shattering, but I think it adds another texture to the story," Fanning said.

Fanning started the book on the day after Casey Anthony was arrested in the murder in October. The author finished the more than 300-page work May 15.

The constant outpouring of documents made this book easier to write than others, Fanning said. "What was more difficult, I have never seen another case, except Lisa Nowak, where everyone had a lawyer and a publicist," the author said. "It's very strange to me, and it is odd to me that both cases happened in Orlando. I don't think it says anything about Orlando."

She also couldn't interview some of the major players, such as George and Cindy Anthony.

Fanning said she couldn't discuss her conclusion because lawyers are looking over the book before its publication.

"In all my books, there's an afterword, and I give my opinion," she said. "And it's there in this book."

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/breakingnews/orl-bk-casey-anthony-book-author-062509,0,7673530.story

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Anthony Trial Delayed Until At Least 2010
Judge Rules To Allow News Outlets To Argue For Anthony Jail Video

POSTED: 11:48 am EDT July 7, 2009
UPDATED: 1:18 pm EDT July 7, 2009

ORLANDO, Fla. -- The Oct. 12 trial date for Casey Anthony has been canceled.

A status hearing on when the trial will go forward is scheduled for Jan. 21.

In other news in the case, the judge in the case against Casey Anthony Tuesday ruled he will allow news organizations to argue against sealing a video made of Anthony in jail.

Casey Anthony, 23, is in the Orange County Jail charged with murder in the death of her daughter, Caylee.

Local news organizations argue that the video is a public document and should be released along with hundreds of other items of evidence in the case.

Anthony's defense team has argued that the video's release could poison the pool of potential jurors.

The video reportedly shows Anthony's strong emotional reaction to news coverage of a child's remains found near the Anthony home..

http://www.wesh.com/news/19979715/detail.html

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Casey Anthony October Trial Date Cancelled

Posted: 11:03 am EDT July 7, 2009Updated: 6:25 pm EDT July 7, 2009
ORLANDO, Fla. -- Eyewitness News was the only station at the Orange County courthouse Tuesday when prosecutors and Casey Anthony's defense team met with Judge Stan Strickland to discuss Casey's trial date. In the morning meeting, Judge Strickland pushed back the original October 12 trial date to January 21.

"The October 12 trial date would, with the death penalty, would virtually be impossible," Strickland said during the Tuesday morning meeting. "So, I'll go ahead and strike that October trial date and we'll set this status slash pretrial in January."

Lawyers met with Circuit Judge Stan Strickland about Casey Anthony's trial schedule. They decided to meet again in January to figure out whether they'll be ready by next summer.

One reason for the delay is new defense team member Andrea Lyon's teaching schedule, which WFTV legal analyst Bill Sheaffer says wouldn't go over well with a lot of judges.

"You cancel everything. You better be ready for trial. In the state system, we're more flexible and especially in a case like this where it's a capital case and someone's life is on the line," Sheaffer said.

Sheaffer says Judge Stan Strickland does not want to give the defense an argument they could use on appeal saying they weren't ready when they had to go to trial.

Lyon says she'll be filing various motions after Labor Day. Sheaffer expects there to be a lot of motions coming from every member of the defense team on whichever issues each attorney is focused on.

"There will be dozens of motions filed. There will be a number of motions filed regarding the admission of evidence," Sheaffer said.

"You can't be a shrinking violet to represent these types of cases," Sheaffer said.

Lyon told the judge she wants to weigh in on the order of future hearings.

"You're gonna be requesting a suggested priority. If you have any problem with that, I'm just gonna make a suggested priority. That's all. The court, of course, could decide," said Strickland.

The Illinois attorney is tough as nails with the media and in court hearings, but Eyewitness News learned she has been nicknamed "Cryin' Lyon" because of her teary arguments to juries. Sheaffer said that tactic might not work with Florida jurors.

"They tend to not be taken in by theatrics, hysterics; they tend to listen to evidence," he said.

Sheaffer also expects the defense to file motions against the death penalty and expects some of the motions might be new arguments to the State of Florida. Sheaffer says the state of Florida's death penalty has been well-tested, all the way up to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Additionally, the judge said that he wants an affidavit from Amy Huizenga showing she wants to invoke her right to a speedy trial in the check fraud case that the prosecution wants to move forward on. Casey is charged with stealing her friend's checkbook and buying personal items with forged checks.

Also during Tuesday's conference the defense told the judge it has no objection to investigators photographing Casey's tattoo, as long as a defense representative is present. The tattoo reads, "La Vita Bella", which means "the beautiful life," in Italian. Casey got the tattoo on her back after Caylee disappeared. It is unclear why investigators want the pictures.

Casey Anthony is accused of killing her young daughter Caylee and dumping her remains near the Anthony family home.


ORGANIZATION GRANTED RIGHTS TO FIGHT FOR JAILHOUSE VIDEO RELEASE

Meanwhile, an order filed Tuesday granted one local media organization limited rights to fight for the release of a potentially incriminating videotape of Casey Anthony.

Judge Stan Strickland sealed a jailhouse video tape, which guards say shows Casey emotional and hyperventilating as she watched a child's remains being discovered on TV. The findings were later identified as Caylee Anthony's remains.

http://www.wftv.com/news/19979145/detail.html

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INTERVIEW: Analyst Bill Sheaffer On Casey Trial Date Change

WFTV legal analyst Bill Sheaffer talked about Casey's murder trial date being changed. (07/07/09)

http://www.wftv.com/video/19983221/index.html

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Casey Anthony case: October trial date canceled
The Casey Anthony trial is delayed.


Sarah Lundy Sentinel Staff Writer
1:52 PM EDT, July 7, 2009

The October trial date for the Casey Anthony murder case has been canceled. No new date was set but a status hearing was scheduled for Jan. 21 at 10 a.m.

This was decided at a scheduling conference held this morning in Orange Circuit Court Judge Stan Strickland's chambers.

Anthony, 23, is charged with first-degree murder in the death of her 2-year-old daughter, Caylee Marie. The toddler's remains were found less than a mile from her home five months after she was reported missing.

Since the state announced it was seeking the death penalty, authorities agreed the trial date would likely not take place this fall. However, it was officially delayed today.

Andrea Lyon, the latest attorney to join Anthony's defense team, flew from Chicago to attend the meeting. She wanted the judge to know she would be filing motions related to the death penalty in the next several weeks. She requested they be heard before the court in a specific order, said court spokeswoman Karen Levey. She also asked that the hearing dates be scheduled on Thursday or Friday – days she doesn't teach class at DePaul University law school.

The judge agreed, Levey said.

The prosecutors addressed two other issues: Anthony's tattoo and her fraud case.

The state's request for a photo of Anthony's "Bella Vita" – which means "Beautiful Life" - tattoo was moot. She got the tattoo around July 3, which was after she says she last saw her daughter.

The defense didn't oppose a picture so authorities are scheduling one to be taken soon, Levey said.

Prosecutors want to move forward in the check fraud case against Anthony and requested a trial be scheduled in the few months. She's charged with more than a dozen fraud counts, including fraudulent use of personal identification information and forgery of a check.

Anthony's friend, Amy Huizenga, told authorities that she lent her car to Anthony while she was on vacation last summer. When she returned, she noticed the checks she left in her car were missing and her bank account had been drained.

Strickland requested a sworn affidavit from Huizenga, saying she too is requesting a speedy trial and doesn't want to wait on the murder case.

The defense can respond before Strickland rules on the state's request for a trial.

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/orl-bk-casey-anthony-trial-date-canceled-070709,0,3746045.story

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WDBO Local News
Casey Anthony's ex-boyfriend hires lawyer
By
Drew Petrimoulx
@ July 6, 2009 2:26 PM

The man who was Casey Anthony's boyfriend at the time of her arrest has hired a lawyer.

Tony Lazzaro(pictured) told investigators he met Casey on the social networking website Facebook.com and that she regularly stayed at his apartment in the weeks leading up to her arrest.

Attorney William R. Jay tells WDBO that he's been told by lawyers for Zenaida Gonzales that Lazarro will soon be deposed in Casey's civil case - though nothing had been filed in court as of Monday.

Lazzaro was previously deposed by lawyers for Casey in her criminal case, and Jay said he expects his client to again by questioned in that case "now that they have a death penalty qualified lawyer" - referring to the addition of Dr. Andrea Lyon to the defense team.

Jay said he will represent Lazzaro in both cases.

We're also awaiting word from the judge on Casey fraud case. She accused of stealing money and checks from her friend Amy Huizenga.

Casey's lawyers want to stave off that case until her capital murder trail is completed, but state's attorneys have asked that it be held within two months.

http://wdbo.com/localnews/2009/07/casey-anthonys-exboyfriend-hir.html

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Frantic 911 call launched yearlong Caylee drama

* Story Highlights
* Cindy Anthony called 911, reported Caylee missing a year ago
* Child already had been missing for a month
* Casey Anthony was arrested several times, charged with murder in October
* Caylee's skeleton was found in December in vacant lot near family's home

updated 2 hours, 50 minutes ago

By Ann O'Neill
CNN

(CNN) -- One year ago, a sheriff's dispatcher in Orange County, near Orlando, Florida, received a strange 911 call. A small child was missing -- and had been for a month.

The child's grandmother was frantic, talking a mile a minute. But her mother seemed unemotional, disconnected from the drama around her.

So began the Caylee Anthony case, a mystery that became a nightly fixture on cable television and captivated true-crime buffs across the country.

Today, the tot's 23-year-old mother, Casey Anthony, is in jail, charged with first-degree murder, and faces the death penalty if convicted. She denies harming her daughter or having anything to do with her disappearance.

Her attorney, Jose Baez, has said that once all the facts are known, it will become clear that his client is innocent.

While reports of missing children are not unusual -- a Haleigh and a Haylee are two recent examples -- several elements came together in the Caylee case to make it a high-profile news story, said Robert Thompson, who heads the Bleier Center for Television and Popular Culture at Syracuse University.

"The fact that it's a toddler had that really dramatic, 'this is our worst nightmare' thing. It doesn't get any more dramatic than that," he said. "Then, of course, there's Casey herself."

The 30-day delay in reporting Caylee's disappearance, along with the frequent release of police documents containing the personal details of the family's life, whetted the public's appetite. See how the case unfolded »

"By that time, it becomes self-fulfilling," Thompson said. "Once the story gets into the inbox of places that cover this thing -- Dateline, America's Most Wanted, Greta van Susteren, Nancy Grace, Geraldo -- it becomes a packaged drama. We want to know how it turns out."

Caylee's body was found December 11, six months after she disappeared and just a few blocks from her grandparents' house. The remains were bagged and partially buried in a swampy, vacant lot.

Duct tape covered the child's mouth. But the cause of Caylee's death is just one of many questions that remain unanswered a year later. And the answers are not likely to come soon, if at all. Casey Anthony's trial, originally scheduled to begin October 12, has been pushed back until some time next year.

Thousands of pages of court files have been made public. Police questioned Anthony's friends and boyfriends, pored through her cell phone records, went through her computer, and seized her digital photo albums. They even analyzed her sleep patterns. But the picture that emerges is far from clear.

The story begins at about 9:40 p.m. on the evening of July 15, 2008, with Cindy Anthony's call to 911. The call capped a day in which she and her husband, George, a retired police officer from Ohio, received an impound notice and tracked down their daughter's abandoned white 1998 Pontiac Sunbird -- and then their daughter, Caylee's mother, who was staying with a boyfriend.

"I found out my granddaughter has been taken," Cindy Anthony told the 911 dispatcher. "She has been missing for a month. Her mother finally admitted that she's been missing. ... We're talking about a 3-year-old little girl!"

"I need to find her," Cindy Anthony continued. "I told you my daughter was missing for a month. I just found her today, but I can't find my granddaughter. She just admitted to me that she's been trying to find her herself. There's something wrong. I found my daughter's car today, and it smells like there's been a dead body in the damn car."

George Anthony told police later that the car gave him "a bad vibe."

"I got within three feet of it. I could smell something. You look up and you say, please don't let this be. Please don't let this be," he said in a July 24 police interview.

A cadaver dog confirmed for police the scent of human decomposition in the car trunk. Casey Anthony's friends told police she said she hit an animal with the car. But many of her stories did not check out, investigators said.

Although Casey Anthony has frequently fallen out with her parents, they have always insisted that she is innocent. They haven't visited her in jail for months, in part because authorities record the visits and release them to the public.

During the search for Caylee, some say Casey Anthony didn't behave the way one would expect of a worried mother. She went to nightclubs and sent hundreds of text messages to friends, according to cell phone and text transcripts and investigative reports released by police.

Those phone and text records also showed that she hardly mentioned her missing daughter.

At one point, police analyzed her sleep patterns, finding that the cell phone calls and text messaging ceased for only three or four hours a night at about the time Caylee disappeared.

For weeks, curiosity seekers camped out in lawn chairs outside the Anthony home, where the family had posted large flyers asking, "Where is Caylee?" When the crowd grew unruly, Cindy Anthony waved a hammer and George Anthony shouted back at the hecklers.

Authorities say they also found traces of chloroform, a knock-out drug, in the trunk of Casey Anthony's car. And they said that on her computer, they found Internet searches of missing children and chloroform Web sites.

Investigators first labeled Casey Anthony a person of interest, and later, a suspect. She was indicted on a charge of first-degree murder on October 14.

But Thompson, the pop culture professor at Syracuse, cautions that the final curtain hasn't fallen on this drama.
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"It isn't necessarily a slam dunk," he said. "We have the JonBenet Ramsey case to show that we may think one thing, and it isn't so." Early in that investigation, authorities said John and Patsy Ramsey were "under an umbrella of suspicion" in their daughter's death, but they later were cleared.

"These things are capable of twisting around," Thompson said. "But that's another element that makes them interesting."

http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/07/15/florida.caylee.anniversary/index.html?iref=mpstoryview

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Casey Anthony case began one year ago today
Casey Anthony's daughter, Caylee Anthony, was reported missing one year ago today.


Bianca Prieto Sentinel Staff Writer
7:32 AM EDT, July 15, 2009

One year ago today police and the public were introduced to what would become one of the most strange and bizarre cases to rock Central Florida in years -- it's the day Caylee Marie Anthony was finally reported missing.

A frantic and sobbing Cindy Anthony made two very different 911 calls that night. First to report her daughter Casey Anthony for stealing the family car and money. About an hour later, she called deputies again -- this time frantic and panic stricken to report that her granddaughter Caylee Anthony had been stolen.

She told a dispatcher it "smelled like there's been a dead body" in the car driven by her daughter, Casey Anthony. The toddler hadn't been seen in a month.

Casey Anthony told deputies, friends and her parents that she'd dropped her brown-haired daughter off with a nanny named Zenaida Fernandez-Gonzalez in June and never saw them again. Instead of reporting Caylee Anthony missing then, she waited and partied and did her own "investigation" to find her daughter, she told deputies.

Since that day the case has twisted and turned, drawn a bizarre national following and landed Casey Anthony with a first-degree murder charge in her daughter's slaying. The nanny, who deputies believe doesn't exist, has never been found.

The local and national media descended on the family's Lee Vista area home and picked their lives apart.

Five months later, the skeletal remains of missing Caylee Anthony were found in a wooded lot less than a mile from the Anthony family home by an Orange County employee. The medical examiner determined the child had been murdered.

The first-degree murder trial is slated to begin next January, however a check fraud case (Casey Anthony is also accused of stealing money from her friend) may start before then.

Meanwhile, Casey Anthony sits alone in an Orange County Jail cell with no visitors and no phone calls. People from around the country keep a balance in her commissary account and the snacks, candy bars and junk food stocked in her cell.

The case is far from over.

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/breakingnews/orl-bk-casey-anthony-anniversary-071509,0,6588217.story

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Baez Wants To Ban Bounty Hunter From Testifying
Attorney Says Leonard Padilla's Statements Privileged

POSTED: 5:22 pm EDT July 16, 2009
UPDATED: 12:10 pm EDT July 17, 2009

ORLANDO, Fla. -- Casey Anthony's defense team filed a flurry of court papers Thursday afternoon, including a motion that would keep bounty hunter Leonard Padilla and his employees from acting as state witnesses during Anthony's trial.

Anthony is in the Orange County Jail. She is charged with first-degree murder in the death of her daughter, Caylee. Caylee's remains were found in a wooded area off of Suburban Drive near the Anthony family home last December.

Attorney Jose Baez has filed a motion for a protective order that includes privacy agreements Padilla and his employees signed last August, which was when nephew Tony Padilla bailed Anthony out of jail. Baez argues that Padilla and his employees were working for him at the time so their statements made to the police about what they heard from Anthony are privileged and should not be released to the public. He also says that attorney-client privilege should ban Padilla and his employees from being witnesses for the state.

One criminal defense attorney WESH 2 News spoke with said lawyers and bail bondsmen cannot enter in to confidentiality agreements and he does not think Baez' strategy to keep these statements out of court will work.

While his employees were in close contact with Casey, Padilla has said she made some potentially damaging statements. While she was out of jail and Caylee was still missing, Anthony allegedly blurted out, "They haven't even found the clothes she was wearing." In November, Padilla confirmed the statement.

"Everything's been a game to her...to lead us to believe the clothing was somewhere but not in the proximity of the body," Padilla said.

For more than a week, Padilla's employee Tracy McLaughlin essentially babysat Anthony in the Anthony home.

Padilla's employees routinely drove her to and from Baez's office. Padilla said Anthony was plenty chatty.

"She would drop little statements when she was being driven back when she was with Tracy," Padilla said.

What else Anthony may have told McLaughlin and other employees remains a mystery.

McLaughlin to this point has maintained a very low profile and turned multiple down interview requests.

Baez filed the motion now because the statements from Padilla and his employees were due to be part of an evidence release from the state attorney's office later this month.

http://www.wesh.com/news/20079093/detail.html

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Attorneys for Casey Anthony ask judge to put off check fraud trial

Willoughby Mariano Sentinel Staff Writer
6:56 PM EDT, July 16, 2009

Lawyers for accused child killer Casey Anthony filed a slew of motions in Orange County Circuit Court today, including one asking a judge to put off trial in her check fraud case.

Attorneys Jose Baez and Andrea Lyon argued that they're too busy preparing for Anthony's first-degree murder case to handle a fraud trial. Anthony faces the death penalty in the death of her daughter, Caylee Marie Anthony. Trial is delayed until next year at the earliest.

Prosecutors asked Circuit Court Judge Stan Strickland in a June 22 motion to set a date for the fraud trial within the next two months.

Anthony, 23, faces more than a dozen fraud counts, including fraudulent use of personal identification information and forgery of a check. Investigators said she used her friend's checkbook to buy clothes and other items.

In a separate motion, Anthony's defense asked that testimony from bounty hunter Leonard Padilla be barred from her murder case. Padilla bonded Anthony out of jail and signed a privacy agreement with Baez preventing him from taping Anthony's statements. The agreement also emphasizes Padilla does not represent Baez's law firm, according to court documents.

Defense attorneys argue attorney-client privilege prevents Padilla from giving testimony.

In another motion, defense attorneys asked Tim Miller, head of search group Texas Equusearch, be certified as a material witness in the murder case. Miller's group helped search for Caylee Marie Anthony. The defense motion argues Miller has crucial information on how efforts were conducted.

Caylee Marie's body was found in December. She was reported missing by her grandparents July 2008.

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/breakingnews/orl-bk-casey-anthony-update-071609,0,7182649.story

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Prosecutors in Casey Anthony case want transcript

Prosecutors assigned to the case against Casey Anthony are asking a judge to order a transcript of a side bar conference from a hearing on March 25.

The transcript would be used for "purpose of trial," according to a court document filed today by Assistant State Attorney Linda Drane Burdick.

It's unclear what information would be used for trial.

Anthony, 23, is charged with first-degree murder in the death of her daughter, Caylee Marie. The toddler's remains were found in December in woods less than a mile from her family home in east Orange County.

At the March 25 hearing, prosecutors wanted Anthony's attorney, Jose Baez, to reveal how the case was being funded and questioned whether he had any conflict of interest. They wanted to ensure he was not playing two roles for Anthony: defense attorney and story agent.

That would be a conflict of interest, Assistant State Attorney Jeff Ashton argued at the hearing.

Baez denied it, saying he did not have any literary rights to his client's story. He and New York-based defense attorney, Linda Kenney Baden, have retainer agreements with Anthony.

Orange Circuit Court Judge Stan Strickland met with Baez and the prosecutors in a closed meeting to discuss whether there any conflict of interest.

Strickland returned to court and announced he found no conflict of interest.

The judge has not ruled on the state's request for the transcript.

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/breakingnews/orl-bk-casey-anthony-072109,0,984426.story

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Judge orders transcription of meeting

ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. (WOFL FOX 35) - We may finally learn just how Casey Anthony’s attorney is getting paid. On Tuesday Judge Strickland granted a state motion requesting that a court reporter transcribe everything that was said in a side bar conference during a hearing held back on March 25th. On that day, Casey Anthony, her attorney Jose Baez, prosecutors and the judge headed into a side room for what's called an in camera meeting. The hearing that day was on a state motion asking them to reveal how Casey Anthony was paying for her lawyers. After the hearing the judge said everything was okay by the rules.

The state attorney's office wants this private meeting transcribed for the trial and Tuesday’s order from the judge says the court reporter must have that typed up and in to him by 5 pm Thursday.

If this comes up at trial, we could finally find out what the financial agreement is between Casey Anthony and her defense team.

http://www.myfoxorlando.com/dpp/news/anthony_case/072109judge_orders_transcription

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Document: Casey Anthony Repaid Allegedly Stolen Money Anthony Is Accused Of Fraud, Homicide

ORLANDO, Fla. -- A document filed among 100 others last week indicates that Casey Anthony has paid back money she allegedly stole from a friend.

Anthony's legal team has been trying to get the check fraud case delayed in the face of her upcoming capitol murder case. Anthony is in the Orange County jail awaiting trial on charges that she killed her 2-year-old daughter Caylee.

Security camera images showed Anthony writing checks to buy beer, bras and other clothing before she told her family her daughter Caylee was missing. Later, detectives accused her of draining her friend Amy Huizenga's checking account to pay for the spending spree.

In a court document filed by Jose Baez last week, Bank of America acknowledged a $664 check received from Baez's office in reference to the Amy Huzeinga case. Baez denies he's the one who cut the check, but he would neither confirm nor deny that the check came from Anthony.

The bank told Baez "it is to be noted that Bank of America did not take this payment in lieu of criminal prosecution." Prosecutors want to move forward with the check fraud case while waiting for the murder trial. Baez and company have asked for a delay arguing the death penalty case is occupying all of their attention.

The state attorney's office and a Bank of America spokeswoman in Atlanta would not comment on the check payment. Huizenga's lawyer Kirk Connell could not be reached for comment.

http://www.wesh.com/news/20132509/detail.html

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State Prosecutors Depose Cindy Anthony

Posted: 5:09 pm EDT July 28, 2009
Updated: 6:37 pm EDT July 28, 2009

ORLANDO, Fla. -- Cindy Anthony was called to the State Attorney's Office on Tuesday to answer questions in her daughter's murder case and only Eyewitness News was there. Cindy was deposed Tuesday to answer questions under oath.

It has been a long time since Cindy Anthony agreed to answer the questions of people involved in prosecuting her daughter for murder, but Tuesday she was under subpoena to answer.

CINDY ARRIVES: See Images | Watch Raw Video
VIDEO REPORT: Cindy Anthony Gets Deposed

For some reason, Cindy's deposition was hush-hush. All the others so far were made public through court documents, but Eyewitness News tipped off. Caylee Anthony's grandmother walked into the State Attorney's Office with no fanfare or fiery comments, choosing instead to say nothing.

When she was questioned by investigators two weeks after she reported Caylee missing and said it smelled like a dead body in Casey's car, she completely changed her story.

"I find it very hard to believe that Caylee, Casey had an opportunity to put Caylee in there for a short period of time to get the car stench that bad," Cindy told investigators in August.

Tuesday, months after they stopped communicating with investigators, there were a lot of new questions, some about the evidence taken from the Anthonys' home in December, which investigators say matches evidence found with Caylee's remains.

Eyewitness News asked defense attorney Jose Baez whether he was concerned about Cindy's deposition Tuesday.

"We'll have to see how it goes. Let the state do their thing," Baez said.

Cindy left the courthouse with her attorney after 5:00pm after facing four hours of questioning under oath and made no comment.

"It's an ongoing investigation. There's nothing to hide. Nothing to do. It's part of what the State Attorney's Office does," attorney Brad Conway said. "There's nothing about this case for George and Cindy or Lee, there's nothing easy about it for anybody."

The deposition is not public unless one of the parties asks for a transcript. Then the transcript would be a public record.

http://www.wftv.com/news/20205386/detail.html

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ANTHONYS HAND OVER DOCUMENTS

George and Cindy Anthony were able to get out of a court hearing Friday by handing over documents about their daughter, Casey Anthony. The State Attorney's Office plans to use the documents in Casey's murder trial.

George and Cindy Anthony were ordered to be in court Friday afternoon, but their attorney, Brad Conway, managed to put the brakes on that just before the hearing.

"Everything is done. Everything is settled," Conway said Friday morning.

BRAD CONWAY: Before, After Meeting With Judge
VIDEO REPORT: Hearing Cancelled, Documents Turned Over

Judge Stan Strickland had scheduled the hearing for 1:30pm. Judge Strickland wanted to know why he shouldn't hold the Anthonys in contempt of court because the State Attorney's Office requested information stored on the family's computer earlier this month, but it was never turned over.

Friday morning, Conway hand-delivered what could be evidence in the case against Casey.

"Why is it taking so long for these documents to be turned over the attorney's office?" WFTV reporter Mark Boyle asked.

"There's not an issue there. Just sometimes it takes time to get things together," Conway replied.

However, Conway blamed the Anthonys' broken computer.

"Whose computer were the documents stored on?" Boyle asked.

"Mark, I'm not going to comment on that right now," Conway replied.

Conway would not give any details about what was in the documents. The public will not find out what's in them until the prosecution makes it part of the public record.

Meanwhile, Casey Anthony remains behind bars at the Orange County jail charged with killing her daughter, Caylee Marie Anthony. Casey Anthony's trial date was originally set for October, but it was recently rescheduled for January 21.

http://www.wftv.com/news/20205386/detail.html

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PROSECUTORS FILE MOTION FOR TRANSCRIPT IN CASEY CASE

Prosecutors in the case against Casey Anthony say they want transcripts. They want a judge to order a transcript from part of a hearing in March.

READ: Motion For Transcription
VIDEO REPORT: New Motion Filed


During that hearing, prosecutors questioned who was paying for Casey's defense and whether her attorney was involved in a conflict of interest.

According to the Ninth Circuit Court, on Thursday the court reporter filed an Affidavit stating that the sidebar conference at the end of the hearing on March 25, 2009 was held off the record. Therefore, no transcript is available of that portion of the hearing. The in-camera was on the record, but is sealed.

Prosecutors want to use the transcript for Casey's murder trial in 2010. Casey Anthony is in the Orange County jail accused of killing her daughter Caylee Anthony.

http://www.wftv.com/news/20205386/detail.html

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Attorney Won't Deny Anthonys Have Book Deal
Posted: 5:47 pm EDT August 5, 2009
Updated: 7:08 pm EDT August 5, 2009

ORLANDO, Fla. -- It was George Anthony's turn to be deposed Wednesday by prosecutors working on Casey Anthony's murder trial. Cindy and Lee Anthony went last week, but George was the only one who stopped to talk with reporters.

George seemed nervous about answering questions Wednesday, but WFTV reporter Kathi Belich found out he may have had some questions of his own for a book publisher.

Eyewitness News heard from a reliable tipster that the Anthonys, their private investigator and their lawyer are negotiating a package book deal with Simon and Schuster, which is owned by CBS, so Eyewitness News asked about it, because the publisher isn't talking.


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BOOK DEAL? Kathi Belich Asks Brad Conway
VIDEO REPORT: Attorney Won't Deny Book Deal
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Cindy Anthony told Eyewitness News last year that she was considering a book and now a tipster, who's been right before, told Eyewitness News the Anthonys, their private investigator Dominic Casey, who was videotaped searching and probing the woods where Caylee's remains were later found, and their lawyer, went to New York recently for talks with Simon and Schuster, a division of CBS that Wikipedia calls the fourth largest publisher in the country.

"I heard that you, George, Cindy and Dominic Casey went to New York and met with Simon and Schuster recently about a book deal," Belich told attorney Brad Conway (watch full interview).

"I wouldn't comment on anything personal like that. I don't know. I wouldn't comment on it, Kathi," he said.

"Why not?" Belich asked.

"There's no reason to," Conway said.

"Is it true?" Belich asked.

"I'm not gonna say whether it's true or not true," Conway replied.

There has been a lot of speculation about how the already financially-strapped Anthonys are supporting themselves.

The Caylee Marie Anthony Foundation, which the Anthonys started last year, just got its tax exempt status this year, so it doesn't have to file any financial statements with the government about the donations it's collected or how it's spending the money until next year.

Records show the foundation predicts it will collect less than $25,000 this year. George told Eyewitness News on Wednesday that neither he nor Cindy is working.


GEORGE ANTHONY ANSWERS QUESTIONS UNDER OATH

George was questioned under oath Wednesday by prosecutors and also previously testified before the grand jury, which indicted Casey last year on charges of murdering her 2-year-old daughter Caylee. George Anthony has made inconsistent statements under oath before, but if he does it with prosecutors he could face legal problems, because his grand jury testimony is on the record.


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GEORGE TALKS: George Anthony Before Depo
JOSE BAEZ TALKS: Casey's Attorney's Comments
LEGAL ANALYST: Bill Sheaffer On Deposition
VIDEO REPORT: George Answers Questions
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George was upbeat but winded as he talked with Eyewitness News about facing prosecutors' questions under oath.

"Hopefully I keep the emotion in check and do the best I can. I can't guarantee what's gonna happen when I get up there," George said Wednesday morning before being questioned (watch interview).

George was carrying what appeared to be transcripts of his prior statements. He said he brought them to refresh his memory.

"Little things just to help, 'cause after a while all of us tend to forget some things after a while," he said.

If the former law enforcement officer contradicts what he most likely told a grand jury last year, about smelling a dead body in Casey's trunk and that less than two weeks after Caylee's disappearance Casey would not let him near that trunk, WFTV legal analyst Bill Sheaffer says George could face possible perjury charges; it would probably do more harm to the defense than good.

"It's gonna cause a jury to say, 'You know what? He's now lying or fudging to protect his daughter.' And it actually will reinforce his earlier statements to the grand jury," Sheaffer said (watch interview).

George says he has no idea what prosecutors asked Cindy under oath last week.

"I'm just nervous. I'm, a year ago, I never would've ventured that I thought I'd be doing something like this. I was just the old George. I was just some guy who lived on Hopespring Drive," George said before the questioning.

Cindy spent more than a day and a half answering prosecutors' questions under oath last week. The questions and answers in these depositions will most likely not become public until the trial.

Bill Sheaffer says prosecutors are probably deposing the Anthonys under oath in case they end up being "hostile witnesses" by attempting to protect Casey by changing their stories.

The defense in the criminal case against Casey has said that it plans to file a string of motions after Labor Day. Plus, we're expecting more documents to be released in the case any day now.

As of right now, there aren't any more hearings scheduled in the case until January.

http://www.wftv.com/news/20295323/detail.html

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More documents could be released in Casey Anthony case
The State Attorney's Office could release investigative material in Casey Anthony case.

Sarah Lundy Sentinel Staff Writer
6:02 p.m. EDT, August 5, 2009

The State Attorney's Office may release more investigative material later this week in the case against Casey Anthony.

It's unclear what will be in the discovery - information initially turned over to the defense.

Anthony, 23, is charged with first-degree murder in the death of her 2-year-daughter, Caylee Marie.

Her father, George Anthony, was questioned today under oath by prosecutors. He was deposed at the State Attorney's Office.

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/breakingnews/orl-bk-casey-anthony-discovery-080509,0,6864172.story

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August 6, 2009

Conway on teevee this morning. Nothing new, really...http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/26184891/vp/32312161#32312161

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August 7, 2009

Docs on the hoof!

http://www.wftv.com/news/20316176/detail.html
http://www.wesh.com/news/20314235/detail.html
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/breakingnews/orl-bk-casey-anthony-080709,0,1967471.story

Cell phone info:

http://www.wesh.com/download/2009/0807/20317220.pdf

This is weird, you guys...the phone records show Casey wasn't calling the babysitter. Why would that be? :shrug: (http://blogs.orlandosentinel.com/entertainment_tv_tvblog/2009/08/casey-anthony-wftv-notes-that-she-wasnt-phoning-babysitter-.html)

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August 7, 2009

Here's more ping tracking and "behavioral analysis" type of thing-similar to what's been released but seems a bit more detailed. Notice when the pings show Casey leaving on the 16th-after 4 pm. Didn't George say they left at around 1 pm that day? iirc.

http://www.wftv.com/pdf/20318259/detail.html

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Anthony's Tattoo To Be Photographed
Hearing In Case Scheduled For Next Week

POSTED: Sunday, August 9, 2009
UPDATED: 7:11 pm EDT August 10, 2009
ORLANDO, Fla. -- A judge will allow prosecutors to go into the Orange County Jail to take photos of Casey Anthony's tattoo.

In a previously filed motion the prosecution requested to take photographs of a tattoo on Anthony's shoulder.

Tattoo artist Danny Colomarino told investigators he gave Anthony the tattoo, which says "La Vita Bella," meaning the beautiful life, in early July 2008, two weeks after her daughter, Caylee Anthony, went missing.

The prosecution said they need the picture for their case.

Although the tattoo does not prove anything, it verifies that Anthony visited the tattoo shop. Colomarino said Anthony never mentioned her child was visit.

"It just blows me away how calm of a demeanor she had, and openly talked about her kid. And you know, knowing what I know now, there was no emotion," Colomarino said.

Strickland said an Orange County deputy can go into the jail to take the photo of Anthony's tattoo.

Judge Stan Strickland made the ruling on Monday, the same day he scheduled a new hearing in the Anthony case.

Four motions will be heard Friday, Aug. 21, including a defense motion to certify Tim Miller as a material witness. Tim Miller is the founder and director of Texas Equusearch, a search group involved in the search for Caylee.

Caylee's body was found by a meter reader in a wooded area in east Orlando in December after a five-month search.

The defense is also asking Strickland to bar Leonard Padilla, Tony Padilla, Robert Dick and Tracy McLaughlin from testifying for the state.

The defense said the four had an attorney-client relationship with Casey Anthony.

Leonard Padilla is the bounty hunter who initially bonded Anthony out of jail last summer.

Casey Anthony's defense is also asking that her check forgery case be delayed until after her murder trial and that the subpoena for her ex-boyfriend, Tony Lazarro, be quashed.

Meanwhile, Caylee's grandparents marked what would have been the child's fourth birthday by releasing balloons on Sunday

George and Cindy Anthony released the balloons at a ceremony held at Eastside Baptist Church in Orlando.

Caylee was 2 years old when she was reported missing in July 2008, about a month after she was last seen alive.

Casey Anthony, 23, remains jailed on first-degree murder charges in the death of her daughter. Casey Anthony has pleaded not guilty.

The state attorney's office on Friday released new documents in the case, including photographs and a 3-D movie of the wooded area where Caylee's remains were discovered. The documents also showed that no blood was found in the trunk of Casey Anthony's car.

Within the past two weeks, George and Cindy Anthony, and Casey's brother, Lee Anthony, were deposed by prosecutors in the case.


http://www.clickorlando.com/news/20339410/detail.html

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Caylee's 4th Birthday Celebrated At Morning Service
Friends, Family Release Balloons Outside Church

POSTED: 7:40 pm EDT August 9, 2009
UPDATED: 7:49 pm EDT August 9, 2009

ORLANDO, Fla. -- Family and friends celebrated what would have been Caylee Anthony's fourth birthday on Sunday.

At Eastside Baptist Church, about 100 people remembered the girl during a morning service.

Caylee's mother, Casey Anthony, is on trial, accused of killing the toddler.

In attendance at the service were Caylee's grandparents, Cindy and George Anthony, and their attorney, Brad Conway.

Cameras weren't allowed inside, but those who attended said that the girl's grandparents were re-baptized and the congregation watched a video montage of Caylee.

After the service, there was one more tribute.

The group released balloons, many of them purple, which was Caylee's favorite color.

Trenton Duckett's father, Josh Duckett, was also there.

Monday is Trenton's fifth birthday. The Lake County boy has been missing since 2006.

http://www.wesh.com/news/20338300/detail.html

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Casey Anthony: Even the family's baptisms are controversial
posted by halboedeker on Aug 10, 2009 1:36:15 PM

Motions by Casey Anthony's defense team made headlines on noon newscasts today.

WKMG-Channel 6 and WFTV-Channel 9 reported that the defense wants Anthony's check-forgery case delayed until after her murder trial. Anthony is accused of the first-degree murder of her daughter, Caylee.

Both stations reported that the defense wants Tim Miller of Texas Equusearch certified as a material witness.

WKMG also reported that the defense wants these people barred from testifying for the state: Leonard Padilla, Tony Padilla, Tracy McLaughlin and Robert Dick. The defense said those people had an attorney-client relationship with Anthony, anchor Erick Weber said. (Those four people entered into agreements with the defense counsel.) The hearing on the motions will be Aug. 21.

But another Anthony story -- from Sunday -- was stirring heated conversation on the Internet. On what would have been Caylee's 4th birthday, grandparents George and Cindy Anthony were re-baptized, according to people who attended the service.

In a sign of low regard for George and Cindy, some readers questioned the Anthonys' timing and motives in being re-baptized. I read about this development on the WESH-Channel 2 Web site. And I've heard about it from readers who were outraged.

Were the Anthonys upstaging Caylee on what should have been her day? When your baptisms are controversial, you really have an image problem.

http://blogs.orlandosentinel.com/entertainment_tv_tvblog/caylee_and_casey_anthony/index.html

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Anthony's Italian Tattoo To Be Photographed
Judge Grants Prosecutors' Request

POSTED: 12:06 pm EDT August 11, 2009
UPDATED: 10:39 am EDT August 12, 2009

ORLANDO, Fla. -- A new order is out from Judge Stan Strickland in the case against Casey Anthony.

He has granted prosecutors' request to get a photograph of Casey's tattoo. Prosecutors said the tattoo is important because it shows Anthony's mind set at the time she said she was conducting her own search for her missing daughter, Caylee Anthony.

That tattoo reportedly says, "la bella vita," which means "the beautiful life" in Italian. Investigators said Anthony got the tattoo while Caylee was missing last summer. The artist who gave Anthony the tattoo testified that she was calm and cool and did not give any hint her daughter was missing.

Casey Anthony is at the Orange County Jail. She is charged with first-degree murder in the death of her daughter, Caylee. Caylee's remains were found in a wooded area off Suburban Drive near the Anthony family home last December.

http://www.wesh.com/news/20357984/detail.html

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Casey Anthony: Is some skin that big a deal or not?
posted by halboedeker on Aug 11, 2009 6:44:30 PM


WESH-Channel 2 anchor Martha Sugalski teased this afternoon that Casey Anthony had been ordered to "show some skin."

That grabbed the attention, all right. Say what?

Actually, Anthony has been ordered to show a tattoo. Judge Stan Strickland has signed an order to let prosecutors have her tattoo photographed.

It wasn't that big a deal, though, because Anthony's defense team had never objected.

At a July scheduling conference, prosecutors even let the judge know the issue was moot for that reason.

The tattoo says "Bella Vita" -- which means "Beautiful Life" -- and Anthony had herself inked in early July 2008, shortly after her daughter, Caylee, disappeared. Anthony is charged with the child's murder.

WESH's Bob Kealing noted that the tattoo artist described Casey as calm and cool.

What's the importance of the tattoo? Orlando defense attorney Richard Hornsby, who does legal analysis for WESH, said prosecutors could describe the tattoo as an admission of guilt. "The tattoo is going to be a very critical piece, if used correctly, because it could be argued that is as much a confession as Casey Anthony admitting to it herself," Hornsby said.

Prosecutors could also ask Anthony to show the tattoo on her left shoulder to the jury, Hornsby told Kealing.

http://blogs.orlandosentinel.com/entertainment_tv_tvblog/caylee_and_casey_anthony/index.html

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Casey Anthony: Texas EquuSearch says it couldn't search spot where toddler was later found
posted by halboedeker on Aug 20, 2009 4:26:59 PM


WESH-Channel 2 led its 4 p.m. news with more on the Casey Anthony case.

"New evidence is emerging that could blow a hole in the defense's case," anchor Aixa Diaz said.

Tim Miller said his group, Texas EquuSearch, could not search the area where Caylee Anthony's remains were later found. The reason?

"It was simply too wet," WESH's Bob Kealing said.

Mark NeJame, Miller's attorney, said they were trying to answer media speculation that the spot had been searched in November and that Caylee's remains were not there.

The toddler was found in December. Casey Anthony is charged with the first-degree murder of her child.

NeJame used to advice George and Cindy Anthony, Casey's parents and Caylee's grandparents, on public relations. But the attorney resigned out of frustration because he couldn't control the Anthonys.

http://blogs.orlandosentinel.com/entertainment_tv_tvblog/caylee_and_casey_anthony/index.html

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Casey Anthony's Father Storms News Conference
Friday, August 21, 2009 5:53:26 AM

Reported By Jacqueline Fell

ORLANDO -- The father of Casey Anthony was so unhappy with his former attorney releasing photos of the scene where his granddaughter's remains were found, he stormed into the middle of a press conference Thursday.

Attorney Mark NeJame, along with his client, Tim Miller, held the press conference to talk about the photos. He also wanted to talk about defense attorney Jose Baez's efforts to force Miller, the head of EquuSearch, to make public the names of search volunteers.

In a legal motion NeJame filed Thursday, he said revealing their identities could "cause a chilling effect on future volunteers" who would want to help in searching for missing children. NeJame also released a letter he sent to the defense laying out his arguments for why EquuSearch should not be compelled to release their files.

* NEW: NeJame Letter To Defense Regarding EquuSearch
* NEW: NeJame Motion To Deny Request For EquuSearch's Records
* NEW: Renewed Motion to Compel Bench Notes, Standards, Data, and Communications with Law Enforcement

In the motion, NeJame argues that none of the volunteers searched the area where Caylee Anthony's remains were found. The photos NeJame released Thursday showed the area where the remains were found were under water at the time of the search, on Nov. 7.

Baez has filed a number of motions, including one that tried to get EquuSearch to turn over maps, communications records and other information on searchers and their involvement with investigators. That motion was denied in January.

NeJame told the press he would hand out documents, disks of information and photos regarding EquuSearch's search for Caylee last year. He said the foliage in the search area was so thick, someone could be within inches of an item and not see it.

The defense has also filed a motion to make Miller a material witness. Judge Stan Strickland is expected to hear that motion in court on Friday at 9:30 a.m.

At one point George Anthony interrupted the news conference and demanded to talk with NeJame in private. After NeJame returned, he had no comment on the discussion.

In the press conference, NeJame said he doesn't object to Miller as a material witness, but continues to say that EquuSearch was acting as a private company, and was not hired by the Sheriff's Office.

Miller and NeJame have teamed up before. They recently held a press conference in Orlando to announce they would help in the search for missing Satsuma girl Haleigh Cummings.

During Friday's hearing, the defense wants to delay Casey's criminal check fraud trial until after the murder trial. They also want bounty hunter Leonard Padilla and his associates to not be able to talk about their conversations with Casey Anthony.

http://cfnews13.com/News/Local/2009/8/20/nejame_miller_reveal_all_in_anthony_case.html

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Casey Anthony: George barges into Mark NeJame's news conference
posted by halboedeker on Aug 20, 2009 5:50:22 PM


With the Casey Anthony case, the drama never ends.

Even a low-key news conference ultimately generates fireworks.

George Anthony, Casey's father, stormed into a news conference this afternoon.

"Apparently there was some sort of misunderstanding," WESH-Channel 2's Bob Kealing said this afternoon. "It's fair to say he barged right in there. He demanded to see Mark NeJame. They went into a conference room. They had a talk for about, oh, half an hour or so. Came out. Said they cleared up the misunderstanding. But they wouldn't talk about what it was about."

NeJame was presenting information for Tim Miller of Texas EquuSearch. Miller said there was no way his group could have searched the area in November where toddler Caylee Anthony's remains were found a month later. The spot was too wet, NeJame and Miller said. Casey Anthony, George's daughter, is charged with the first-degree murder of her daughter, Caylee.

WFTV-Channel 9 captured Miller reacting with surprise at George's arrival. "George barged into NeJame's news conference," WFTV's Kathi Belich said. Anthony was "demanding to see his former attorney, Mark NeJame, in NeJame's own office. They went behind closed doors. And minutes later, the Anthonys' current attorney, Brad Conway, rushed in without saying anything to join NeJame and George."

http://blogs.orlandosentinel.com/entertainment_tv_tvblog/caylee_and_casey_anthony/index.html

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Casey Anthony: Defense team was behind George's storming news conference, WKMG reports
posted by halboedeker on Aug 20, 2009 7:01:35 PM

Sometimes not having to produce 4 p.m. and 5 p.m. newscasts works in WKMG-Channel 6's favor.

That was the case tonight as the CBS affiliate gave a fuller explanation of George Anthony's storming into a news conference where Texas EquuSearch was releasing photos about the search for his granddaughter, Caylee. Casey Anthony, George' daughter, is charged with the first-degree murder of Caylee.

WKMG-Channel 6's Tony Pipitone explained that Casey Anthony's defense team had been talking to her father, George.

George Anthony "was told by Casey's defense team today that it felt the release of the photos was inappropriate and that he should demand that [Mark] NeJame, who once represented George and Cindy Anthony, stop releasing the information."

Anthony and NeJame went behind closed doors "and shouting could heard for some time," Pipitone said.

http://blogs.orlandosentinel.com/entertainment_tv_tvblog/caylee_and_casey_anthony/index.html

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Casey Anthony: WKMG see 'blockbuster developments' in defense's claim that someone else placed Caylee's remains in woods
posted by halboedeker on Aug 21, 2009 12:39:10 PM


Casey Anthony was back in court for a hearing, and it was big news on noon newscasts.

WKMG-Channel 6 decorated the screen with "blockbuster developments" -- and that approach caught the attention. Louis Bolden highlighted the defense's claim that it has specific evidence that someone other than Anthony placed Caylee Anthony's remains in the woods. "They would not say what that evidence is," Bolden added. Casey Anthony is charged with the first-degree murder of her daughter, Caylee.

Defense attorney Todd Macaluso told the court, "There is substantial evidence ... that the body or the remains of Caylee Anthony were placed there after Casey Anthony was locked up in the Orange County correctional facility. ... And that proves her innocence."

Bolden called attention to Casey Anthony's tears when her father took the stand to talk about the family's dealings with bounty hunter Leonard Padilla.

WFTV-Channel 9's Kathi Belich also highlighted Anthony's emotional reaction when took the stand. "When George got off the witness stand this morning, he looked at his daughter, Casey, as he walked past, with his hands folded and mouthed the words, 'I love you' to her."

Continue reading "Casey Anthony: WKMG see 'blockbuster developments' in defense's claim that someone else placed Caylee's remains in woods" »

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Casey’s Lawyer Wants ‘Flamboyant Cowboy’ Padilla To Shut Up
Friday, August 21, 2009 3:59:08 PM

Reported by Nick VinZant and Allison Walker

ORLANDO -- Casey Anthony’s defense team asserted in court Friday that new evidence shows she did not kill her toddler daughter, Caylee.

Casey’s lawyers said they also want a gag order for the bounty hunter that first posted her bail to stop talking -- both in court and to reporters.

The issues addressed during Friday's hearing will just add to the growing complexity of the case.

The Search In The Woods

Jose Baez said that Casey was in jail at the time Caylee Anthony's remains were found in a wooded area, so she could not have been the one that dumped her body. Her lawyers contend that volunteers for Texas Equusearch should be interviewed about searches near the area where the toddler's body was discovered.

So far Judge Stan Strickland has decided to hold off on making a ruling about forcing Texas EquuSearch to turn over the names and information of volunteers who took part in the search for Caylee Anthony. There was no ruling either if Tim Miller, the founder of EquuSearch will be named a material witness in the case.

Lawyers for Casey Anthony hope to use his testimony to show it would have been impossible for Casey to dispose of Caylee's body in woods near her home because Casey was in jail at the time. They also asked for permission to travel to Texas to take an up to four-hour deposition from Miller.

The judge did grant the defense access to some phone and communication records for Tony Lazzaro - Casey's former boyfriend.

Friday morning’s appearance marked Casey Anthony’s first appearance in court in several months. It may have been the first opportunity in months for her parents to see her in months.

Baez called George Anthony to the stand and as he approached the stand he came face-to-face with his daughter. She wept for several minutes, wiping away tears as her father appeared to choke-up.

After his testimony, he returned to his seat, clutched his heart and mouthed the words "I love you." to his daughter.
The bounty Hunter

Another motion includes keeping bounty hunter Leonard Padilla quiet. The defense wants to stop the former bail bondsman from being a witness for the state.

Padilla posted bail for Casey the first time she was released, but he later said Casey would not cooperate with his search for Caylee Anthony.

But on Friday, Baez argued Padilla was just a “flamboyant cowboy” who wanted to bail his client out of jail. Baez said Padilla's statements should be inadmissible on the grounds that Padilla was acting as a counselor to the defense at the time so the conversations are privileged.

Prosecutors grilled George Anthony about the arrangement made with Padilla to post bond for his daughter and the security at his home.

Prosecutors said Baez’s argument that he is “busy” is an excuse because lawyer Andrea Lyon has not quit her day job as an instructor and Baez has gained more clients since the state announced it would seek the death penalty against Casey Anthony. Prosecutors said Anthony’s defense team should be able to set aside one day for the check fraud trial.

Thursday's Confrontation

This all comes after an interesting turn of events Thursday during a news conference.

The lawyer for Tim Miller of EquuSearch, Mark NeJame, was giving a news conference when George Anthony barged in uninvited.

Anthony and NeJame went off in private to take care of a misunderstanding.

The conversation happened minutes after NeJame and Miller showed photographs of the scene taken on Nov. 7, 2008 where Caylee Anthony's remains were found more than a month later.

Miller says he and 32 of his volunteers could not search the exact spot where Caylee's remains were later found because there was standing water.

http://cfnews13.com/News/Local/2009/8/21/defense_casey_didn39t_dump_caylee.html

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News 13 Streaming Video
Casey Anthony Hearing: Aug. 21, 2009

http://www.cfnews13.com/Features/CaseyAnthony/Video/Aug21Hearing.aspx

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Casey Anthony Gets Emotional During Hearing On Motions

Posted: 9:06 am EDT August 21, 2009Updated: 6:29 pm EDT August 21, 2009

ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. -- The case against Casey Anthony was back in court Friday and, for the first time in months, Casey was there and she couldn't hold back tears. Casey Anthony's attorneys filed several motions heard by Judge Stan Strickland, which included keeping the prosecution from taking Casey's check fraud case to court and being able to treat the EquuSearch founder and searchers as a witnesses.

Casey walked into the courtroom around 9:40am wearing a blue, long-sleeve shirt and a pair of grey pants. She was not nearly as happy-looking as previous court appearances (see images | watch video) where she was smiling and seemingly upbeat.

Casey saw her parents for the first time in three months when she entered the courtroom. George and Cindy Anthony were all smiles before the hearing started at 9:45am (see images).

Also in court were Casey's attorneys, Jose Baez, Todd Macaluso and Andrea Lyons, and EquuSearch founder Timothy Miller's attorney Mark NeJame, as well as a team of state prosecutors.

Casey's attorney asked the judge to allow her attorneys to interview the head of EquuSearch, claiming his testimony could prove her innocence.

Defense attorneys for Casey Anthony argued that testimony should be taken from the head of Texas EquuSearch, Timothy Miller, about the search for Anthony's toddler daughter, Caylee. The searchers looked near woods where the toddler's body eventually was found in December. They also asked to be allowed to review records on thousands of volunteers who participated in the searches for the little girl last summer and fall.

They hoped that testimony would show it would have been impossible for Anthony to dispose of the 2-year-old girl's body in the woods because she was arrested and in jail two months before the discovery of Caylee's remains.

"There is substantial evidence that we've found ... that the body or remains of Caylee Anthony was placed there after Casey Anthony was locked up," attorney Todd Macaluso argued. "It proves that somebody else placed the remains in the area."

The attorney for EquuSearch, Mark NeJame, said the request was too broad and would create "a tremendous chilling effect" on volunteers for future searches. He said defense attorneys should only be given information on 32 volunteers who searched the area where the body later was found.

Miller held a press conference Thursday with attorney Mark Nejame to show some of the photographs he took in the area where Caylee Anthony's body was later found (photos released) in an attempt to disprove the defense's theory that the body was dumped after Casey was jailed.

WFTV legal analyst Bill Sheaffer says it'll be a hard sell to a jury that the mystery killer took great pains to keep secrets until November, after EquuSearch left, then killed Caylee and went to the area which posed the greatest risk of getting caught to hide her body, Caylee's neighborhood, where the media and law enforcement were often focused.

"Not only does it not raise reasonable doubt, it just defies logic. So the defense is gonna have a problem in that area," Sheaffer said.

Circuit Judge Stan Strickland said he would make a ruling by next week.

"My intention on the EquuSearch records is to grant your motion in some form, I just need to think about what that needs to be," Strickland said.

Casey's attorneys also argued that Anthony's comments to a bail bondsmen should not be allowed at the trial. Casey Anthony's father, George, testified about how bondsmen led by Leonard Padilla were hired to post her $50,000 bond last year.

George Anthony took the stand under oath around 10:45am to answer questions from Jose Baez (watch raw video). The courtroom camera then showed that Casey had begun to cry, wiping tears away with a tissue (see images | watch video).

After a few questions from Baez about security guards involved in the case and bounty hunter Leonard Padilla, the prosecution questioned George, asking if he was aware of the fact that Padilla paid the $50,000 for Casey's bail. George said he was not aware and the prosecution expressed surprise that he wouldn't have known that.

The prosecution then pressed George on the security that was provided at their home after Casey's release.

"They bonded our daughter out of jail and secured our house ... that's the bottom line," George said. "They were at my house for numerous amount of days ... protecting us and my daughter."

"You're categorizing that as security only?" a prosecuting attorney asked, which George affirmed.

George stepped down from the stand just before 11:00am and gestured a sign of support toward a still visibly upset Casey, mouthing "I love you," and sat down in the courtroom audience.

The reason George's testimony is relevant is the defense is trying to claim Padilla and his employees were providing security for Casey, while also providing legal services somehow, so that information they have divulged to investigators is really privileged information that shouldn't enter into the case or into the public arena.

The defense had also made a request for phone calls made by Casey's ex-boyfriend, Tony Lazzaro (read Lazzaro motion). The judge did allow defense attorneys to have cell phone records from June 1, 2008 to Dec. 18, 2008. The calls were monitored by law enforcement after Casey Anthony's arrest in July.

Meanwhile, the judge said he will rule at a later time on a court date for Casey's check fraud case, something the defense filed a motion to get delayed until after the murder trial (read motion).

"I just want to let you guys know that it was awesome to see my daughter today. It's been a long time since I've seen her and it just gives me a lot of peace to see that she actually looks okay and she looks healthy and that's important to me," Cindy Anthony said while leaving the courthouse after the hearing (watch raw interview).

"I think they're absurd, tack them onto, just put them on the [list of] ridiculous accusations that have been made in this case," attorney Jose Baez said after the hearing when asked how he feels about state accusations that he doctored signed documents in the case (watch raw interview).

Casey Anthony is facing first-degree murder charges for allegedly killing her daughter, Caylee Anthony.

http://www.wftv.com/news/20490968/detail.html

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Casey Anthony: WFTV asks if defense is holding it together
posted by halboedeker on Aug 21, 2009 6:29:29 PM

"Is her defense team keeping it together?" WFTV-Channel 9 anchor Bob Opsahl asked.

Yes, more Casey Anthony. It was a big day in the case. At 5 tonight, WFTV's legal analyst said the defense team's strategy defied logic. The defense argues there's substantial evidence that someone else dumped Caylee Anthony, and that proves Anthony is innocent of the murder of her child.

At 6, the station studied mistakes by the defense team.

"Last-minute motions, incorrect motions, lack of motions -- it's not the kind of work we were told to expect from Professor Andrea Lyon, as the defense likes to call her," WFTV's Kathi Belich said.

Belich listed the mistakes: In seeking Texas EquuSearch records, defense lawyer Lyon had a last-minute motion with the wrong case number. Lyon hadn't filed the proper paper work to join the Anthony check fraud case. And the defense team failed to alert the media that it wants to keep public records secret.

"There were several missteps," WFTV legal analyst Bill Sheaffer said. And he added that Lyon had been touted as an expert and "a lawyer's lawyer."

What does it all mean? Could Anthony's legal dream team be a nightmare?

http://blogs.orlandosentinel.com/entertainment_tv_tvblog/caylee_and_casey_anthony/index.html

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Anthonys To Mail Letters To Casey Despite Policy
Bar Clears Baez Of Ethics Claims

POSTED: 4:30 pm EDT September 1, 2009
UPDATED: 6:28 pm EDT September 1, 2009

ORLANDO, Fla. -- The Orange County Jail said Tuesday that its re-emphasis on the ban for lawyers bringing personal letters into the jail has nothing to do with Casey Anthony's attorney.

Administrators have posted a sign strongly reminding lawyers visiting the facility that it is a felony to bring in contraband items, including personal letters.

Brad Conway, the attorney for George and Cindy Anthony, confirmed that Baez has a standing policy of controlling letters going between Casey Anthony and her family. Conway said his clients are cut off from their daughter.

Conway said the Anthonys are breaking that agreement and will begin mailing letters directly to their daughter. Conway said that defense team member Andrea Lyon agrees that the Anthonys should be able to have a video visit with Casey Anthony.

Officials deny that it was Baez or his actions that prompted the jail's re-emphasis of the rules.

Casey Anthony is in the Orange County Jail charged with murder in the disappearance of her daughter, Caylee. Caylee's remains were found last December in a wooded area off Suburban Drive near the Anthony family home.

Meanwhile, the Florida Bar said Tuesday that it has cleared Casey Anthony's attorney, Jose Baez, of two ethics complaints filed against him earlier this year.

The bar said it can find no grounds to further pursue to complaints made against Baez by the Anthonys' former private investigator, Dominic Casey.

Casey at one time also worked for Baez.

In April, he complained to the bar that Baez had failed to pay for him for services rendered.

Casey also claimed Baez instructed him not to call 911 if he ever found Caylee Anthony's remains.

Baez denied both of those claims and this week a spokeswoman for the bar said they could not find any evidence to support Casey's claims.

http://www.wesh.com/caseyanthony/20672110/detail.html

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Speedy Trial Request Granted In Casey Fraud Case
Check Fraud Trial To Take Place Before Anthony's Murder Trial

POSTED: 11:15 am EDT September 3, 2009
UPDATED: 12:02 pm EDT September 3, 2009

ORLANDO, Fla. -- Judge Stan Strickland has ruled on the state's request for a speedy trial in the forgery case against Casey Anthony.

The defense argued that holding this trial before Casey Anthony's murder trial would hamper its ability to prepare for the murder trial.

The state offered a plea from Amy Huizenga, who is Anthony's friend from whom she allegedly stole money.

Huizenga said this has caused her mental stress; her name pops on the Internet in connection with the case which embarrasses her. Also, she worries it will hurt her chances of finding a job.

Strickland has approved the motion for a speedy trial, so the forgery trial will go before the murder trial.

Strickland will set a date for the trial in the near future.

The state has offered to go non-jury with this trial, allowing a judge to hear the testimony and rule on the charges.

http://www.wesh.com/caseyanthony/20705831/detail.html

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New Trial Date Request Granted In Casey Case

Posted: 11:04 am EDT September 3, 2009
Updated: 6:30 pm EDT September 3, 2009

ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. -- If prosecutors have their way, Casey Anthony will already be a convicted felon before she stands trial in her daughter's murder. A judge ruled Thursday he'll schedule her check forgery trial before her murder trial (read order).

Target surveillance video of Casey Anthony using Amy Huizenga's stolen checks to buy sexy lingerie, beer, the blue hoodie she wore the first time she was arrested and her big white sunglasses has been viewed thousands of times. Bank of America video showing her smile after the teller handed her $250 from Huizenga's checking account has also been widely viewed.

Friday, Circuit Judge Stan Strickland rejected the defense claim that the check fraud trial would hinder work on Casey's murder case. The judge says Huizenga has suffered enough stress and embarrassment and deserves justice.

WFTV legal analyst Bill Sheaffer believes there are unspoken reasons the defense wanted to put off Casey's 13-count check fraud trial. First, if Casey has any intention of taking the stand during her murder trial.

"If I were the prosecutor I would ask, 'Have you ever been convicted of a crime?'" Sheaffer said.

If she's convicted of stealing Huizenga's checks, she'd have to say yes.

"As soon as a jury hears that, it would be as though what a dog hears when you talk to a dog after you say its name, it's just blah, blah, blah," Sheaffer said.

If Casey is convicted of stealing the checks, it could hurt her chances of fighting the death penalty if she's convicted of the premeditated murder of her daughter Caylee.

"The greater likelihood that, one, you're going to have the jury recommend death and, two, the sentence of death would be upheld on appeal," Sheaffer said.

Judge Strickland says testimony in Casey's check fraud trial should only take a day or two and he plans to schedule that trial soon. The defense says it's "disappointed." Huizenga says it's hindering her job opportunities and signed an affidavit supporting that (see affidavit).

http://www.wftv.com/news/20705694/detail.html

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Padilla Tapes May Be Released In Casey Case

Posted: 4:54 pm EDT September 2, 2009
Updated: 5:10 pm EDT September 2, 2009
ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. -- New tapes could be released as early as Friday in the case against Casey Anthony. They are recordings of bounty hunter Leonard Padilla and his team.

Investigators interviewed them in California last year and there are more than three hours of recordings.

The defense tried to stop the release of the tapes by saying Padilla was part of their team. However, a judge shot that down and approved the release.

http://www.wftv.com/news/20691896/detail.html

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Inmate Writes Letter To Judge In Casey Case

Posted: 2:16 pm EDT September 1, 2009
Updated: 3:45 pm EDT September 1, 2009
ORLANDO, Fla. -- An inmate who had already mailed a letter to the clerk of courts claiming he knew who killed Caylee Anthony also sent a letter to a judge involved in the case (read letter).

READ LETTERS: To Judge | To Clerk Of Courts | Jackson's Mug

The letter, like the previous one (read previous letter), claims that the inmate, Jerry Jackson, is "a very close friend" of the person who killed Caylee Anthony.

"I do not know if Ms. Anthony (sic) played a part in the murder but the person who did kill her daughter is a ex-boyfriend of hers," Jackson wrote in the letter Eyewitness News obtained Tuesday.

It was addressed to "Judge Evans," who is likely Judge Robert Evans. Evans is the judge who signed a court order to obtain Casey's cell phone records.

Jerry Jackson is a 21-year-old inmate (see mug) behind bars since 2004 on a 30-year sentence for crimes committed in 2002, including sexual battery with a weapon, armed burglary and kidnapping.

The previous letter, written on July 22, 2009 and addressed to "whom ever is representing Ms. Anthony," suggests that Jackson knows who killed Caylee Anthony and claims it was not Casey. The letter was mailed to the Clerk of Courts and added to the Casey file.

"I happen to know for a fact who killed her in which who is not Casey Anthony," Jackson wrote in the letter. "The person that killed her was a guy whose name I will not reveal at this time."

Jackson wrote, if no one responded by August 15, he'd take the information to his grave. Jackson has received mental health treatment and has told Eyewitness News in the past he's committed unsolved crimes that police say is not true.

Jail officials said Jackson never told anyone at Union Correctional Prison in Raiford, Fla. that he had the information and neither law enforcement involved in case nor Casey's defense has visited him.

In April 2006, a then 18-year-old Jackson claimed in a letter written from behind bars that he kidnapped missing 13-year-old Ashani Creighton and killed her. However, his claims were dismissed amid a history of mental illness.

http://www.wftv.com/news/20669869/detail.html

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Jose Baez Cleared Of Alleged Ethics Violations

Posted: 11:28 am EDT September 1, 2009
Updated: 1:36 pm EDT September 1, 2009
ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. -- Eyewitness News learned Tuesday that the Florida Bar has cleared Casey Anthony's defense attorney, Jose Baez, of allegations of ethics violations. The investigation began in April.

The allegations involved private investigator Dominic Casey. He's the man who was recorded in the area where Caylee's remains were discovered months before they were found on December 11 .

BAEZ CLEARED: From Committee | To Dominic Casey
VIDEO REPORT: Jose Baez Cleared

Dominic Casey claimed attorney Jose Baez told him not to call 911 if he found Caylee's remains. Also, there was an issue about payments from the defense team.

The Bar says there was insufficient evidence for both claims.


TIM MILLER TO TESTIFY IN CASEY ANTHONY CASE

The defense team scored a small victory in the case against Casey Anthony on Thursday. Tim Miller, founder of EquuSearch, has agreed to testify as a defense witness.

JUDGE'S ORDERS: Read Order On Tim Miller | On Leonard Padilla
VIDEO REPORT: EquuSearch's Tim Miller To Testify

"That the attorney for Timothy Miller … has agreed to present Timothy Miller as a representative of Texas Equusearch (TES) for deposition in Orlando, Florida," Judge Stan Strickland wrote in the order (read it).

However, the defense will only get search records pertaining to the 32 volunteers who searched near the spot where Caylee's remains were ultimately found and they have to pay for the records.

"That the documents of the thirty-two (32) searchers, which were referenced by Mark E. NeJame as counsel for Timothy Miller and (TES) at the hearing on August 21, 2009, are to be disclosed to both the State and Defense," the judge further wrote in the order.

The judge also denied a motion and ruled Thursday (read it) that California bounty hunter Leonard Padilla was not part of the defense team.

That means statements he and his associates made about conversations they had with Casey while they were protecting her, can be made public.

The defense wanted records from all 4,000 volunteers who looked for Caylee, but the judge denied that.

"That all documents related to all the other searchers working with or under Texas Equusearch are not to be disclosed," Judge Stan Strickland wrote.

Casey's lawyers claim someone else dumped the remains near her home when Casey was in jail. She's still there, facing a possible death sentence for her daughter's murder.

http://www.wftv.com/news/20667181/detail.html

[One2Snoop]

Man Wrote Letter Offering Reward For "Zanny"

Posted: 11:41 am EDT August 27, 2009
Updated: 4:02 pm EDT August 27, 2009
ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. -- Eyewitness News obtained a letter Thursday (read it) submitted as evidence in the case against Casey Anthony from a man offering a reward for "zanny the nanny" to come forward.

READ LETTER: Man Offers Reward To "Zanny"

Steven Perry Sr. of Gold Canyon, Arizona appears to have faxed the letter on November 28, 2008, but it wasn't entered into evidence with the Clerk of Courts until August 24, 2009.

In the brief letter Perry writes, "if the real zanny the nanny will come forward and present herself to nancy grace or hlns mike galanos, i will pay you 1 million dollars for coming forward, no questions asked."

http://www.wftv.com/news/20582348/detail.html

[One2Snoop]

Inmate Claims He Knows Who Killed Caylee

Posted: 2:43 pm EDT August 24, 2009
Updated: 12:26 pm EDT August 27, 2009
ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. -- A Florida prison inmate wrote a letter concerning the Casey Anthony case in July 2009 and Eyewitness News obtained a copy Monday (read it).

READ LETTER: Jerry Jackson's Letter | Inmate's Mug

Jerry Jackson is a 21-year-old inmate (see mug) behind bars since 2004 on a 30-year sentence for crimes committed in 2002, including sexual battery with a weapon, armed burglary and kidnapping.

The letter, written on July 22, 2009 and addressed to "whom ever is representing Ms. Anthony," suggests that Jackson knows who killed Caylee Anthony and claims it was not Casey. The letter was mailed to the Clerk of Courts and added the Casey file.

"I happen to know for a fact who killed her in which who is not Casey Anthony," Jackson wrote in the letter. "The person that killed her was a guy whose name I will not reveal at this time."

Jackson wrote, if no one responded by August 15, he'd take the information to his grave. Jackson has received mental health treatment and has told Eyewitness News in the past he's committed unsolved crimes that police say is not true.

Jail officials said Jackson never told anyone at Union Correctional Prison in Raiford, Fla. that he had the information and neither law enforcement involved in case nor Casey's defense has visited him.

In April 2006, a then 18-year-old Jackson claimed in a letter written from behind bars that he kidnapped missing 13-year-old Ashani Creighton and killed her. However, his claims were dismissed amid a history of mental illness.

http://www.wftv.com/news/20533924/detail.html

[lorettalockhorn]

Casey Anthony: WKMG says duct tape on toddler was rare make
posted by halboedeker on Sep 3, 2009 6:47:49 PM

The duct tape found on Caylee Anthony's remains is rare and could be a major setback for Casey Anthony's defense, WKMG-Channel 6 reported tonight.

The defense has argued that Henkel duct tape was the best seller in the country, WKMG's Tony Pipitone said. Yet the tape attached to the toddler is a special make.

"This specific, industrial, fire-resistant tape is a tiny fraction of all the tape sold by Henkel," Pipitone said in a first-rate, eye-opening report. "We tried to buy some today. We couldn't find any."

And what does this mean? "It is extremely rare" and "a crucial find," Pipitone said of the duct tape.

Prosecutors said today in a court papers that they will explain how rare that tape is. And Pipitone said the prosecution will argue that the tape is a link between the body and Anthony. WKMG earlier reported that the tape found on Caylee's remains was similar to tape on a gas can in the Anthony home.

The station held its big find until 6:30 p.m. and teased to it several times. WKMG anchor Jacqueline London said "just within the last few hours" the station "exclusively uncovered how the state plans to use" the tape at the murder trial.

There was more bad news today for Anthony's defense team.

Judge Stan Strickland ruled today that her check-forgery trial will be scheduled before her murder trial. She is charged with the first-degree murder of her daughter, Caylee.

WFTV and WKMG stressed what the scheduling could mean: Anthony might be a convicted felon -- on as many as 13 counts -- before the murder trial starts.

WFTV legal analyst Bill Sheaffer explained how a conviction might play at the murder trial if Anthony takes the stand. "If I were a prosecutor, the first question out of my mouth would be: Miss Anthony have you ever been convicted of a crime?" Sheaffer said.

She'd have to say yes...

http://blogs.orlandosentinel.com/entertainment_tv_tvblog/2009/09/casey-anthony-why-the-defense-possibly-suffered-a-huge-loss.html#more

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Casey Anthony case: Casey defense team files motion to dismiss case

The latest filings in the Casey Anthony murder case on Thursday appear to be the boldest to date.

Anthony's defense team is asking Orange Circuit Court Judge Stan Strickland to dismiss the case since the state prevented them from being able to properly inspect the crime scene.

Anthony, 23, is charged in the death of her 2-year-old daughter, Caylee Marie, who disappeared last summer. Her remains were found in Dec. 11 in a wooded area less than a mile from the house Casey Anthony shared with her parents.

State investigators finished with the crime scene on Dec. 19.

"Without access to crime scene before the state removed the remains and topsoil, Miss Anthony was unable to gather evidence regarding the precise arrangement of the remains and the surrounding landscape," her attorneys wrote in the motion. "Without this evidence, defense experts cannot effectively examine or challenge the conclusions made by state experts."

And just in case Strickland isn't inclined to get rid of the case in which Anthony is charged with first-degree murder, defense attorneys also filed an amended motion about a change of venue. The defense suggests Miami-Dade, Broward or Palm Beach counties as possible places for the murder trial, which is unscheduled but could come to court sometime in 2010.

The defense asked that Strickland rule on the change of venue within 30 days, that he give the defense 10 days to reply and then set a hearing date on the motion.

Also filed on Thursday were motions related to the videotaping Casey Anthony has endured since being in the Orange County Jail.

The defense asked that the jail "immediately cease and desist from monitoring and/or disclosing any communications" that Anthony has with her attorneys and that it "destroy all video or audio tapes or reports" of meetings between her and her attorneys.

And it wants the jail to destroy videos of Anthony and her attorneys.

Anthony also wants to visit with her family without fear their meetings will be recorded and released to the media.

Shortly after her arrest last year, telephone calls Anthony made from jail and video visits she had with her brother, Lee, and her parents, George and Cindy Anthony, were released to the public.

"Because all the videos have all been released in their entirety, many blogs, newspapers and radio stations have analyzed every detail of their conversations," her defense attorneys Jose Baez and Andrea Lyon wrote in the court document.

Her family has not visited her at the jail in a year. Her parents attend court hearings in order to see her.

Anthony's attorneys argue that she needs her family support and providing video of visits to the media could be deemed as an attempt to punish Anthony. Her lawyers also say that without family visits her defense team can not adequate prepare for her death penalty case.

In addition, the defense filed a document asking the judge to grant a previous request from the state, which asked for a transcript of George Anthony's testimony before the grand jury, which indicted Casey Anthony on first-degree murder in October.

The defense team also responded to the state’s request for documents supporting the defense’s claim that someone else placed Caylee’s body in the woods.

Anthony’s attorneys wrote that they have “logically interpreted the state’s own materials” provided to the defense and learned other timing details from depositions taken so far.

This story is developing.

Check back for updates.

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/breakingnews/orl-bk-casey-anthony-defense-motions-091709,0,3657298.story

[Wagsy]

Anthony civil case hearing in January

Updated: Tuesday, 22 Sep 2009, 6:17 PM EDT
Published : Tuesday, 22 Sep 2009, 5:55 PM EDT

ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. (WOFL FOX 35) - It appears the civil case against Casey Anthony could be around for a while. On Tuesday the judge scheduled a hearing for January 10, 2010.

Zenaida Gonzalez claims Casey ruined her life when she said a babysitter with the same name stole her daughter Caylee.

Anthony has pleaded not guilty on charges that she killed her daughter, 2-year-old Caylee Marie , claiming a babysitter named Zenaida Gonzale kidnapped her toddler. Caylee was last seen in June of 2008, but she was not reported missing until a month later. Her remains were found in woods near the family's home in December.

In January the judge will decide if a private investigator will have to go through depositions with Gonzalez’s attorneys and if the private investigator Dominic Casey will be fined. They claim he lied under oath.

In Casey’s criminal case state prosecutors are firing back at her defense team. Last week the defense filed a motion to dismiss the murder charges claiming investigators ruined the crime scene evidence. The state attorney's office filed a motion claiming that the defense is exaggerating their argument. They are also bashing the defense for not providing sworn statements from their "celebrity experts" saying how it would be useful. No hearing has been scheduled yet on this motion.

http://www.myfoxorlando.com/dpp/news/anthony_case/092209_anthony_civil_case

[One2Snoop]

FBI Docs: Stain Shaped Like Child's Body In Casey's Trunk

Posted: 8:57 am EDT September 29, 2009Updated: 4:51 pm EDT September 29, 2009
ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. -- Over 1,000 new pages of documents were released Tuesday in the case against Casey Anthony. They include a statement that an FBI investigator saw an outline of a small body in the fetal position in Casey's trunk.

According to many of the emails among the documents released, the Anthonys’ private eye, Dominic Casey, was really looking for dirt on key people involved in the case, innocent people who have never been considered as suspects in Caylee's murder and he was looking for a conspiracy theory, too.

There are also new revelations in the new documents about the mysterious stain in Casey Anthony's car trunk. FBI investigators say the stain is shaped like a child's body in the fetal position. The FBI says the child's back, bottom and legs could be seen most clearly.

WFTV legal analyst Bill Sheaffer says it adds to the hair and air in the trunk showing evidence of decomposition.

“Why is a child's body gonna be in the trunk of that car dead or alive? It's significant that the child's body was in the trunk of that car,” Sheaffer said.

The new records also include dozens of emails exchanged between Cindy Anthony and private investigator Dominic Casey, which focus on digging up dirt on key people involved in the case.

One of the most bizarre emails accuses Casey's ex-fiance's father, Richard Grund, of having weird religious beliefs that might lead him to human sacrifice rituals. Dominic Casey was also focused on finding connections between Grund and meter reader Roy Kronk, who found Caylee's remains near the Anthonys' house in December, and was investigating Kronk's relative and the relatives of Casey's ex-boyfriend, Ricky Morales.

Cindy said finding a connection between Kronk and Grund would be "huge." She wrote, "I want him to go down for this if he is involved. I have people that can fly under the radar and make it happen."

“There's always been a sense of desperation about the defendant's case, especially because Casey has made so many inconsistent statements,” Sheaffer said.

Eyewitness News also learned that Dominic Casey expects to be paid by the Anthonys, according to their contract, and that he had offered Casey's brother Lee an internship. Dominic Casey’s emails are marked "privileged and confidential,” but they are now public record.

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http://www.wftv.com/news/21146562/detail.html

[One2Snoop]

State releases more Casey Anthony case documents
FBI analyst said photo appears to show silhouette of child in fetal position in trunk of Casey Anthony's car


Sarah Lundy, Bianca Prieto and Amy L. Edwards Sentinel Staff Writers
3:38 p.m. EDT, September 29, 2009

A stain in the trunk of Casey Anthony's Pontiac appeared to be the outline of a child in a fetal position, according to an e-mail between FBI officials released today.

The e-mail was just one of 1,000 pages of documents released by the State Attorney's Office on Tuesday in the first-degree murder case against Casey Anthony

A FBI analyst said several people examined a photo of a trunk liner, where a stain "appears to be the outline or silhouette of a child in the fetal position."

"You can make out what may be the back, bottom, and legs most clearly . . . several of us can see this image and agree there is good chance we are seeing something significant," FBI intelligence analyst Karen Cowan wrote in a September 2008 e-mail.

Two days later, an FBI photo technologist responded to the e-mail: "I would note that, although we may be able to draw conclusions about whether marks represent impressions or stains, for example, we do not report conclusions about what may or may not have left any marks or impressions in cases like this -- it is too speculative. Others can draw their own conclusions about that."

Dozens of FBI reports and e-mails were released, documenting the vast amount of items that were inspected by the federal agency.

Documents also noted the contamination of the duct tape found wrapped around Caylee Anthony's remains.

Investigators found a female DNA profile on the duct tape that did not match Caylee Anthony, Cindy Anthony or Casey Anthony.

Investigators later found that a female lab technician who handled the tape during processing contaminated the tape with her DNA.

Another unrelated e-mail between FBI officials discusses hair found inside Casey Anthony's car that is microscopically similar to Caylee's. The e-mail states it is different from Casey Anthony's hair.

The e-mail author, from the FBI's Trace Evidence Unit, also stated, ". . . I can't say absolutely that the hair came from a dead body but it is consistent . . . "

Casey Anthony sits in the Orange County Jail facing a first-degree murder in the death of her 2-year-old daughter, Caylee Marie. The state is seeking the death penalty in a case not expected to go to trial until next year.

The toddler was reported missing in July 2008 -- about a month after she was last seen alive. Her remains were found five months later in woods less than a mile from her family home in east Orange County.

The medical examiner determined the toddler was killed but could not give a cause of death.

Copies of reports released Tuesday show federal investigators examined items for blood -- such as a spare tire cover and pants -- but none was detected.

Also gleaned from the documents is that Dominic Casey, the private investigator working for George Anthony and Cindy Anthony, kept a cheat sheet on the people involved in the Casey Anthony case, including reporters and hecklers, according to the documents.

His report shows pictures and notes on the probability of the individuals carrying a weapon.

Included in his list:

* Nancy Grace. Talk show host. Disseminates hatred towards [sic] family.
* Kathi Belich. Reporter. Disseminates hatred towards [sic] family.
* Richard Grund. Threats against family. His SRT Website boasts: "My Glock Rocks." Note: Potential for carrying.
* Zenaida Gonzalez. Accusations against family…Note: Gang member tatoo's [sic].
* John Morgan. Exhibitionist. Attorney for Zenaida.
* Katherine Harris. Protester. Threats against family. Note: Potential for carrying.
* Leonard Padilla. Disseminates hatred towards [sic] family. Padilla carries knife at "lower back area" in a sheath.

George and Cindy Anthony signed a contract with the private investigator on Oct. 31, 2008.

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http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/breakingnews/orl-bk-casey-anthony-caylee-092909,0,3058472.story

[One2Snoop]

New discovery in Casey Anthony case

Updated: Tuesday, 29 Sep 2009, 5:10 PM EDT
Published : Tuesday, 29 Sep 2009, 9:37 AM EDT

* MyFox Orlando Report

ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. (WOFL FOX 35) - New discovery has been released in the case against Casey Anthony.

FBI Crime Lab Reports

Duct tape product specification report

Orange County Sheriff's office investigative documents

Transcript of interview with Annie Downing conducted January 6, 2009

The discovery information includes forensic reports from the FBI lab in Quantico, Va., the same lab that confirmed the identity of her daughter Caylee's remains.

Anthony has pleaded not guilty on charges that she killed her daughter, 2-year-old Caylee Marie, claiming a babysitter kidnapped her toddler. Caylee was last seen in June 2008, but she was not reported missing until a month later. Her remains were found in woods near the family's home in December.

Casey Anthony’s trial is expected to start next year.

Included in the documents released are FBI e-mails regarding a photograph taken of the trunk of Casey Anthony’s car.
Photo of the trunk
http://media.myfoxorlando.com/photogalleries/092909anthonycaseFBIcrimelabreport/1/lg/8858-8939_Page_19.htm

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http://www.myfoxorlando.com/dpp/news/anthony_case/092909_Casey_Anthony_discovery

[One2Snoop]

Defense files motion to ditch murder, child-abuse charges against Casey Anthony
Brad Conway, the attorney for George and Cindy Anthony, also released FBI reports and e-mails that support Casey Anthony's case.

Sarah Lundy
12:40 p.m. EDT, September 30, 2009

Casey Anthony's defense team filed specific motions today to have the two most serious charges against her removed -- first-degree murder and aggravated child abuse.

Attorneys for Anthony, who is in the Orange County Jail accused of killing her 2-year-old daughter Caylee Marie Anthony, had filed a prior sweeping motion to have the case dismissed.

But in the most recent filing, attorneys argue that the state doesn't have enough evidence to prove either the murder charge or the child-abuse charge.

Meanwhile, Brad Conway, attorney for Casey Anthony's parents, George and Cindy Anthony, released at a news conference more FBI lab results and e-mails that have not been released publicly.

Among the information in the newly-released documents is a report that says fabric fibers found on the duct tape that was on little Caylee Anthony's mouth was not consistent with duct tape found on a gas can that also had duct tape on it.

The gas can was once in the car but was recovered as evidence from the Anthonys' home, investigators said.

Caylee Anthony was reported missing last July. Her remains were recovered in December in a wooded area less than a mile from the Anthonys' home in east Orange County.

Check back for updates.

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/breakingnews/orl-bk-casey-anthony-new-evidence-093009,0,1049758.story

[One2Snoop]

Anthonys’ Attorney Releases “New Evidence” In Case

Posted: 12:33 pm EDT September 30, 2009Updated: 2:25 pm EDT September 30, 2009
ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. -- Just one day after prosecutors released 1,000 pages of documents in the case against Casey Anthony, the Anthony family attorney released his own Wednesday (read the docs here).

Attorney Brad Conway made public what he called "new evidence." Conway said the new documents that he released raise new questions about the entire case.

The Anthonys' attorney held a news conference at his downtown office Wednesday and released new documents that the defense has just given to the Anthonys, which have not been released publicly through ongoing records requests.

Conway says the documents show the duct tape found on Caylee Anthony’s skull did not match the duct tape found on the Anthonys’ gas can. The newly released FBI test results show the fibers on the two pieces did not match, but earlier tests show the adhesive on the two pieces match and an earlier comparison shows the FBI believes the two pieces to be from the same source roll.

The Anthonys’ attorney admits there might be more tests that have been done, after the fiber tests, which could be more definitive; they just haven’t been released yet if they’ve been done.

Some of the documents Conway referred to Wednesday, which they say raise questions about the evidence we’ve heard about so far, are old reports going back to the beginning of 2009. There are a lot of documents yet to be released, to both the public and the defense, and the FBI might still be conducting tests on some of the evidence at this point.

“The gas can and the duct tape, in the, at the crime scene and they were similar and people draw conclusions on that. Now we have an FBI report that says they’re dissimilar, that they’re not matched. And, so, now I think the view of the land is a little bit more accurate than it was say six months ago,” Conway said Wednesday.

The Anthonys did not attend the news conference Wednesday. Their attorney said they wanted to seize the opportunity while there were questions out there to try to change public opinion. They admit the overwhelming public opinion right now is that Casey is guilty and they want her to get a fair trial.

http://www.wftv.com/news/21160448/detail.html

[One2Snoop]

Duct Tape Doesn’t Add Up, Anthony Attorney Says
Wednesday, September 30, 2009 3:11:03 PM

Reported by Jacqueline Fell, Scott Harris and Adam Longo

ORLANDO -- Brad Conway, the attorney for George and Cindy Anthony, held a news conference Wednesday to release more documents in the case against Casey Anthony.

Conway said he can prove the duct tape at the crime scene does not match tape found at the Anthony home. This comes one day after the state turned over more than 1,000 pages of information.

Conway said he held Wednesday’s news conference at the request of George and Cindy Anthony.

The attorney said there is an overwhelmingly skewed public opinion about Casey Anthony. He said most people think she is guilty and he has even gotten e-mails from people who say Casey doesn't even deserve a trial. Conway said Casey's family wants to remind everyone that she is innocent until proven guilty.

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http://cfnews13.com/News/Local/2009/9/30/sources_duct_tape_evidence_in_casey_case_doesn39t_ add_up.html

[One2Snoop]

New motions filed, evidence disputed

Updated: Wednesday, 30 Sep 2009, 12:57 PM EDT
Published : Wednesday, 30 Sep 2009, 12:16 PM EDT

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) - Casey Anthony's attorney Jose Baez filed motions Wednesday to have the death penatly procedures stopped and the first degree murder and aggravated child abuse charges dropped. Earlier in the day attorney Brad Conway, who represents Casey's parents George and Cindy Anthony, says evidence being used by prosecutors has some problems.

Jose Baez filed a motion to preclude death penalty procedures and a motion to dismiss counts one and two in the indictment of Casey Marie Anthony, the murder charge and aggravated child abuse.

Attorney Brad Conway said Wednesday a forensics report shows that duct tape found on 2-year-old Caylee Anthony's mouth doesn't match duct tape found at the Anthony home.

The attorney also says that no hairs showing signs of decomposition were found in the car used by Casey Anthony.

Anthony, 23, has pleaded not guilty on charges that she killed her daughter, 2-year-old Caylee Marie , claiming a babysitter kidnapped her toddler. Caylee was last seen in June of 2008, but she was not reported missing until a month later. Her remains were found in woods near the family's home in December.

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http://www.myfoxorlando.com/dpp/news/anthony_case/093009_Casey_Anthony_discovery

[One2Snoop]

New Caylee Anthony Evidence

October 2, 2009 5:08 AM

New evidence shows that hairs found in the trunk of murder suspect Casey Anthony do not belong to her. Maggie Rodriguez spoke with Casey Anthony's lawyer Jose Baez.

http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=5357899n&tag=cbsnewsTwoColUpperPromoArea

[One2Snoop]

Attorney: Nothing connects Casey to crime scene....

http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/26184891/vp/33136180#33136180

[One2Snoop]

WFTV Discovers Possible Duct Tape Link In Casey Case

Posted: 5:06 pm EDT October 2, 2009Updated: 6:37 pm EDT October 2, 2009
ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. -- It's the duct tape that could strengthen the link between Casey Anthony and her daughter's body and it was discovered only by Eyewitness News.

Eyewitness News found the same rare type of tape that was found on Caylee's skull being used by the Anthony family on a Caylee Anthony poster.

You can't buy the tape from Home Depot. It is industrial-grade duct tape that hasn't been sold in years.

DOCUMENT: State's Case File On Duct Tape
VIDEO REPORT: Possible Link To Duct Tape

With the debate over the duct tape evidence intensifying this week, Eyewitness News re-analyzed video that was taken in the months before Caylee's body was found.

The discovery could make it even more difficult for the defense to argue that Casey didn't put the tape over Caylee's mouth. The defense has really been trying to shoot down the duct tape evidence recently.

"If the defense tries to advance that, that it was one of the volunteers that took that tape, killed the child, put the tape over the child's face to frame Casey, that strains credibility and it will turn the jury off," WFTV legal analyst Bill Sheaffer said.

However, the video taken by Eyewitness News on July 20, 2008 just days after Casey's arrest and one month after Caylee Anthony disappeared, shows that the duct tape on the Anthonys' Caylee posters has the same unique markings as the duct tape on the Anthonys' gas can and the tape found over Caylee's mouth.

A photo of the duct tape on the Anthonys' gas can, which is the one Casey is accused of stealing from her parents in June of 2008, shows distinct markings that it's made by the Henkel Company and shows some of the specifications.

In July of 2008, the Anthonys had set up a command post and put up posters with Caylee's photo on them. They used what appeared to be the same duct tape with Henkel logo.

Both pieces, which apparently came from the Anthonys' home, appear to be the same kind of rare duct tape according to page number 3378 in the state's case file, (read document) that investigators found over Caylee's mouth when her remains were found in the woods near the Anthonys' home.

Page number 3378, shows that the FBI says the duct tape found over Caylee's skull showed the same black oval Henkel logo and the "spec max temp 200 degrees Fahrenheit"

The FBI says it's an industrial tape that hasn't been made for years.

Eyewitness News received a response from the defense team's public relations representative Marti McKenzie.

"The defense team won't respond to anything that hasn’t been entered as evidence in the case," McKenzie said.

Court documents show the defense has had the FBI photos of the duct tape that was over Caylee's mouth, showing the Henkel logo which matches the Anthonys' duct tape, since March.

http://www.wftv.com/news/21185313/detail.html#

[One2Snoop]

Was There Impression Of Child's Body in Casey's Car?
Attorneys Argue Against Evidence On 'Today"

POSTED: 11:08 am EDT October 2, 2009
UPDATED: 4:35 pm EDT October 2, 2009

ORLANDO, Fla. -- Jose Baez and the Casey Anthony defense team criticized the state's evidence on a national stage on Friday.

They said there is nothing linking Anthony to the Orange County crime scene where her daughter Caylee's body was found in December 2008.

On NBC's Today show, Baez and Linda Kenney Baden pointing out the lack of any science linking Anthony to the area along Suburban Drive where someone dumped Caylee.

"You need something that connects her to the crime scene," said Kenney.

Watch The Story

Casey Anthony remains in Orange County Jail and is charged with first-degree murder in connection with Caylee's death. Her trial is scheduled for 2010.

But Baez and Kenney Baden did not mentioned Anthony car truck and the new revelation investigators have a photograph they believe shows the impression of a child's body in the truck.

Newly released e-mails between FBI lab analysts suggest they have a photograph taken of the stain in the trunk liner. Within the stain, they say an impression emerged they believe was a child's body in the fetal position.

Investigators also say they have hair and air-sample evidence of human decomposition from the trunk.

Defense attorney Richard Hornsby said evidence from her car alone suggests Anthony knows how Caylee died and what happened to her body.

"Casey never said it was stolen and when she abandoned it and her own parents go find it, there's smell of death," Hornsby said.

Baez said the truth about what happened will come out at trial -- if we ever get to that point.

Below is the complete video from the Today Show:

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http://www.wesh.com/news/21181767/detail.html

[One2Snoop]

Man Says He Saw Caylee Hours After Her Grandfather
Jim Thompson Says He Saw Caylee, Casey Anthony At Walmart

POSTED: 2:21 pm EDT October 5, 2009
UPDATED: 6:22 pm EDT October 5, 2009

ORLANDO, Fla. -- Prosecutors attempted to torpedo an attempt by attorneys for Casey Anthony to have the murder and child abuse charges against her dismissed on Monday.

Saying the defense's motion to dismiss was “legally flawed” and “inartfully” crafted, assistant state attorney Linda Drane Burdick asked the judge to strike the motion – meaning it should not be considered because it violated Florida Rules of Criminal Procedure.

“The flaws in Miss Anthony’s motion are glaring and fatal,” Drane Burdick wrote, saying Anthony herself would need to swear under oath to whatever facts she claims prove she is being illegally prosecuted.

“The court cannot even begin to consider the motion because Miss Anthony has alleged no facts and had not sworn to any material facts,” the prosecutor claimed.

Last week, Anthony’s attorneys sought dismissals, claiming there is no evidence tying her to the crime scene where her daughter, Caylee’s skeletonized remains were found last December – six months after she was last seen alive.

The defense motion did not include a sworn statement from Anthony.

“If and when Miss Anthony decides to swear to any or all material facts, the State of Florida will issue the response required,” the state said.

The state’s motion to strike goes on to say that even if its evidence is “all circumstantial,” the judge must wait until the close of all evidence at trial before ruling whether the charge should be dismissed.

http://www.clickorlando.com/news/21208224/detail.html

[One2Snoop]

Judge: Hand Over Anthony Grand Jury Testimony

Posted: 2:54 pm EDT October 6, 2009Updated: 3:10 pm EDT October 6, 2009
ORLANDO, Fla. -- A judge ordered Tuesday (read order) that the grand jury testimony George Anthony gave in October 2008 be handed over to state prosecutors in the case against Casey Anthony.

Prosecutors wanted a transcript of George Anthony's secret grand jury testimony given on October 14, 2008 that led to the first-degree murder indictment against his daughter Casey.

"... the original of said transcript shall be delivered to the State Attorney," Judge Stan Strickland wrote in the order issued Tuesday afternoon.

George, a former detective, told investigators he recognized the unmistakable odor of a dead body in the trunk of Casey's car when he picked it up at a wrecker service.

Prosecutors presented the grand jury case and George is working with the defense team, so both sides likely already know a lot about the testimony, which is supposed to be secret.

http://www.wftv.com/news/21218784/detail.html

[One2Snoop]

State: Casey Dismissal Motion 'Flawed'
Prosecution Asks Judge To Throw Out Motion

POSTED: Monday, October 5, 2009
UPDATED: 8:22 am EDT October 6, 2009

ORLANDO, Fla. -- Prosecutors attempted to torpedo an attempt by attorneys for Casey Anthony to have the murder and child abuse charges against her dismissed on Monday.

Saying the defense's motion to dismiss was “legally flawed” and “inartfully” crafted, assistant state attorney Linda Drane Burdick asked the judge to strike the motion – meaning it should not be considered because it violated Florida Rules of Criminal Procedure.

“The flaws in Miss Anthony’s motion are glaring and fatal,” Drane Burdick wrote, saying Anthony herself would need to swear under oath to whatever facts she claims prove she is being illegally prosecuted.

“The court cannot even begin to consider the motion because Miss Anthony has alleged no facts and had not sworn to any material facts,” the prosecutor claimed.

Last week, Anthony’s attorneys sought dismissals, claiming there is no evidence tying her to the crime scene where her daughter, Caylee’s skeletonized remains were found last December – six months after she was last seen alive.

The defense motion did not include a sworn statement from Anthony.

“If and when Miss Anthony decides to swear to any or all material facts, the State of Florida will issue the response required,” the state said.

The state’s motion to strike goes on to say that even if its evidence is “all circumstantial,” the judge must wait until the close of all evidence at trial before ruling whether the charge should be dismissed.

http://www.clickorlando.com/news/21208224/detail.html

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Prosecutors to get copy of George Anthony's grand jury testimony
George Anthony appeared before a grand jury in October 2008, a day before his daughter, Casey Anthony, was arrested.


Alan Schmadtke Sentinel Staff Writer

2:41 p.m. EDT, October 6, 2009


The State Attorney's office will get a copy of George Anthony's testimony before a grand jury, a judge ruled today.

Circuit Judge Stan Strickland signed an order today that a transcript of Anthony's appearance before the grand jury -- an appearance that came a day before his daughter was indicted on a charge of first-degree murder in the death of her 2-year-old daughter -- be delivered to the State Attorney's office.

Prosecutors asked for a copy of the Anthony's testimony in preparation for Casey Anthony's murder trial, which is expected to begin next summer.

Casey Anthony is in the Orange County Jail awaiting trial. She is accused of causing the death of Caylee Marie Anthony, who went missing in July 2008 and whose remains were discovered in a wooded area less than a mile from the Anthonys' home in east Orange County.

George Anthony appeared before the grand jury on Oct. 14. Casey Anthony was arrested on the murder charge the next day.

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/breakingnews/orl-bk-casey-anthony-grand-jury-100609,0,7743670.story

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Casey’s Attorney Answers ‘Plea Deal’ Question

Posted: 5:21 pm EDT October 5, 2009Updated: 4:34 pm EDT October 6, 2009
ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. -- For the very first time in the case against Casey Anthony, her lawyer says he won't rule out the chance of a plea deal.

"Any plea that would ever be taken would have to be taken by Casey,” Jose Baez told Geraldo Rivera during an interview over the weekend (watch comments).

BAEZ TALKS: 'Plea Deal' Comments To Geraldo
http://www.wftv.com/video/21207724/index.html

SHEAFFER ANALYSIS: Legal Analyst On Baez Comments
http://www.wftv.com/video/21207781/index.html

VIDEO REPORT: Plea Deal A Possibility?
http://www.wftv.com/video/21209460/index.html

Up until now, Casey's defense team and her family have insisted there would be no deals made. They insist she's innocent and say she would have to admit to something she didn't do to take a plea deal, even though she could face the death penalty by going to trial.

Prosecutors still haven't publicly offered a deal to Casey, but over the weekend talk show host Geraldo Rivera asked Baez, with all the evidence against Casey, why not agree to a plea deal to save her life. Baez says it’s up to Casey.

“Well, that’s not my decision to make. Umm, that, any plea that would ever be taken would have to be taken by Casey and she would have to accept a plea, if one were offered,” Baez told Rivera.

“The proper response would have been, ‘Are you kidding me? She’s innocent! We pled not guilty. We are going to trial,” WFTV legal analyst Bill Sheaffer said (watch full interview).

Baez made the surprising statements Sunday during a New York media blitz.

“’Cause it’s her that has to do the time. It’s her life at stake here,” Baez told Rivera.

But to this point, Baez has maintained Casey is innocent and that she has a very compelling reason for not calling law enforcement for a month after Caylee disappeared.

"We feel our client is innocent and we want her to have her day in court. She wants to have her day in court and, I know it's a hard thing for everyone to believe, but she is innocent,” Baez said on January 30.

Baez spent the beginning part of the interview with Rivera arguing that the evidence against Casey is weak at best and that the whole case should be thrown out.

“Well, there’s one thing that’s consistent about the defense and that’s their ability to continue to make inconsistent statements, one after the other,” Sheaffer said.

Eyewitness News received no response from Baez in attempts to get his comments Monday.

http://www.wftv.com/news/21209000/detail.html

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Hearing date set in Casey Anthony case
Several motions in the first-degree murder case against Casey Anthony will be addressed at a hearing next Friday.


Bianca Prieto and Amy L. Edwards Sentinel Staff Writer

5:04 p.m. EDT, October 7, 2009

Several motions in the first-degree murder case against Casey Anthony will be addressed at a hearing next Friday.

One of the topics to be discussed is a defense motion to dismiss. Casey Anthony's defense claims they and their experts were prevented from properly inspecting the crime scene where her daughter's remains were found in December.

Orange Circuit Judge Stan Strickland will hear the arguments for the motions at 9:30 a.m. on Oct. 16. Strickland will also preside over a status hearing in the check fraud case against Casey Anthony on the same day.

Casey Anthony is charged with first-degree murder in the death of her 2-year-old daughter who went missing last summer. Casey Anthony waited 31 days to report her daughter missing and blamed her disappearance on a nanny, who investigators don't believe exists.

Caylee Anthony's remains were found in December, five months after she was reported missing, in a wooded lot just blocks from the Anthony family home.

In other developments today, Casey Anthony's defense team will receive more investigative reports from prosecutors, a notice filed by the State Attorney's Office said.

About 40 pages will be released to the defense. Most of those will be forensic entomology investigative reports, the state's court filing said.

The documents are being released to the defense as part of the discovery process. The items will later be released to the public.

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/breakingnews/orl-bk-casey-anthony-court-100709,0,3887466.story

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Prosecutors: Casey’s Defense Filed Bogus Motion

Posted: 4:13 pm EDT October 8, 2009
ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. -- In a new document filed Thursday, prosecutors are accusing Casey Anthony’s defense team of filing yet another bogus motion, this time over the death penalty.

The defense wants the judge to take the death penalty off the table, but prosecutors say judges don't have that authority.

Prosecutors went as far as saying either the defense team doesn't understand the law or is purposely misstating it to grandstand.

Prosecutors say a hearing on the issue would be a waste of the court's time.

http://www.wftv.com/news/21241690/detail.html

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Casey Anthony defense wants to try fraud case outside Orange County
Casey Anthony's trial may begin around Nov. 30, according to court documents.
Sarah Lundy Sentinel Staff Writer

8:16 p.m. EDT, October 12, 2009


Casey Anthony's defense team has asked a judge to move her fraud trial to another county, issue written questionnaires to potential jurors and allow the attorneys to interview potential jurors individually rather than in a group, according to motions filed today in court.

The trial may begin around Nov. 30, according to court documents. Anthony, 23, is charged with more than a dozen counts, including forgery of check. She's accused of writing $662 in checks that belonged to a friend, Amy Huizenga.

Prosecutors wanted the fraud trial to be set before her murder trial, which is scheduled for next summer. Anthony is charged with first-degree murder in the death of her daughter, Caylee Marie.

Her defense team doesn't want evidence from her murder case to be used in her fraud case. They also don't want anyone mentioning any 'prior bad acts" by Anthony, such as Huizenga calling Anthony a "liar."

They suggest the trial be moved to Miami-Dade, Palm Beach or Broward counties. They want potential jurors to answer a 10-page questionnaire, including questions about whether they have heard about Anthony, her defense attorneys or the prosecutors.

The defense points to the extensive pre-trial publicity as one reason they want to question the jurors individually and not as a group. They don't want jurors to be reluctant to answer truthfully in front of others, according to the motion. No hearing dates have been set yet on these matters.

In the murder case, meanwhile, the defense filed another document arguing that the state prevented their experts from examining the lot where Caylee's body was found before it was cleared by evidence gatherers. The lawyers also want to be able to reproduce the crime scene photos so their experts can review them. The computer system created earlier this year for photos in the case has limited how the experts can see them.

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/orl-bk-casey-anthony-change-of-venue-101209,0,7045784.story

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Add new Casey Anthony stat -- one year anniversary of her indictment
By-the-numbers look at the past year of Casey Anthony's life


Walter Pacheco Sentinel Staff Writer

12:15 p.m. EDT, October 14, 2009

A year ago today, a grand jury indicted Casey Anthony on a first-degree murder charge, among other criminal counts, in the death of her 2-year-old daughter, Caylee Marie Anthony.

Since then, state prosecutors have released volumes of official case documents, including personal photographs from Casey Anthony's computer, cell-phone records, forensic reports and other mind-numbing paperwork.

But there are other methods of tracking this case: Google hits for "Casey Anthony," the times CNN's Nancy Grace has babbled about the "tot mom," and the number of sticks of beef jerky Casey Anthony has chowed down since deputies incarcerated the 23-year-old on Oct. 14, 2008.

7,900
Pages of discovery released by State Attorney's Office.

7
Charges Casey Anthony faces:

•First-degree murder.

•Aggravated child abuse.

•Aggravated manslaughter of a child.

•Four counts of providing false information to law enforcement.

1,073
Photos released by State Attorney's Office.

1,360,000
Google hits for "Casey Anthony."

3,920
YouTube videos on "Casey Anthony."

181
Nancy Grace shows dedicated to Anthony case.

366
Orlando Sentinel print stories and briefs about Anthony.

411
Total days Anthony has spent in jail (includes time she spent behind bars before the Oct. 14, 2008, murder indictment).

$2,605.26

Deposits in Casey Anthony's bank account.

•Commissary purchases: $2,229.47.

•Current balance: -$7.45.

6
Types of Anthony's favorite jail snacks:

•Chocolate-chip granola bars (118 bars).

•Jalapeño dip (58 cans).

•Hot peanuts (43 bags).

•Spicy Cajun chips (41 bags).

•Skittles (39 bags).

•Beef jerky (34 sticks).

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/caylee-anthony/orl-casey-anthony-anniversary-101409,0,240444.story

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1 Year Ago Today: Casey Anthony Charged With Murder
Wednesday, October 14, 2009 12:10:18 PM

Reported by Kelli Cook

ORLANDO -- Wednesday marks one year since a grand jury indicted Casey Anthony on a first degree-murder charge in the death of her 2-year-old daughter, Caylee.

On the anniversary of her indictment, the judge in the case has another slew of motions to consider Friday regarding both the murder case and unrelated check fraud charges.

Not only does attorney Jose Baez want his client’s murder trial moved out of Orange County, but he also wants Casey’s check fraud case moved to either Miami-Dade County, Palm Beach County or Broward County.

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http://cfnews13.com/News/Local/2009/10/14/1_year_ago_casey_anthony_charged_with_murder.html

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George Anthony Admits Possible Book Deal

http://www.wftv.com/video/21311710/index.html

Judge Won't Dismiss Charges, Fraud Trial Date Set
Posted: 9:52 am EDT October 16, 2009
Updated: 12:35 pm EDT October 16, 2009

ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. -- Casey Anthony will stand trial in January not for murder, but for stealing her best friend's checks. An Orange County judge Friday set a date for her check fraud trial. The judge also granted a motion (read order) filed by the state to dismiss the defense motion to have murder and child abuse charges dropped.

The judge also gave Casey's defense team until February to provide proof that someone else placed Caylee's body in the woods near the Anthony family home.


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Casey was in court Friday for the first time in months. Casey appeared before Judge Stan Strickland Friday wearing a sea-foam green, puffed-sleeve, belted shirt and her hair looked longer (see images).

The court hearing was a lot shorter than it was supposed to be, because Casey's defense team made some legal snafus. The defense took a pounding in court; it couldn't have some of the hearings it wanted to have because it didn't do what it should have.

The defense failed to provide a witness list for one of the issues and gave legal notice to the sheriff's office instead of the county to prepare for the jail camera issue (read motion), but the sheriff has not run the Orange County jail since 1987.

“It’s a farce. It doesn’t even come close to the legal requirements necessary for the court to even entertain a motion to dismiss,” state prosecutor Linda Drane-Burdick argued Friday.

That's how prosecutors described Casey Anthony’s defense team motion (motion | state response | defense reply) for the judge to throw out the murder and child abuse charges against Casey.

“The entire motion, from top to bottom, it is replete with errors, it’s insufficient as a matter of law,” Drane-Burdick said Friday in court.

“It cannot be the intent of the Florida legislature that a person swear to something that they do not have personal knowledge,” Casey’s attorney, Andrea Lyon, argued.

The judge decided not to rule on whether he'd throw out the charges against her during the hearing, but issued his order not to dismiss the charges just after noon.

“The content of the motion, as well as Ms. Anthony’s brief affirmations, are not enough to carry the day under Florida Rules of Pleading,” Judge Strickland wrote in his order (read it).

Meanwhile, the defense was ordered Friday to turn over, by February 1, any evidence it might have to back up its claim that someone else placed Caylee's body in the woods last year (motion | defense response).

“Is there gonna be a bombshell on February 1st,” WFTV reporter Kathi Belich asked Casey’s attorney, Jose Baez.

“There will be something. There definitely will be something,” Baez said.

The court issued details on the check fraud case against Casey less than an hour after the hearing. A pretrial status hearing was set for Friday, December 18, 2009 at 10:00am and the trial date was set for Monday, January 25, 2010.

The defense did win the right to have the photographs of Caylee's remains copied on CDs, which they will send to their experts.


http://www.wftv.com/news/21314971/detail.html
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Junk Food, Little Exercise Changes Anthony

Hearing Slate For Friday Morning

ORLANDO, Fla. -- Since Casey Anthony has been jailed, she has received hundreds of dollars in donations into her commissary account.

It was reported on Wednesday that she had spent all of that money and was overdrawn.

"It does look like she's gained a little bit of weight," said dietician Tara Gidus.

Gidus has worked with female inmates before and said Casey Anthony is buying the wrong things.

"You can see a little bit of fat on her back," Gidus said. "She's eating way too many calories in jail and not really getting enough exercise."


Casey Anthony has spent more than $2,200 in the commissary. Her account is 11 pages long. She recently ordered hot peanuts, hot and spicy corn chips, chili with beans and breath mints.

"All of those foods sound high-calorie, don't have nutritional value," Gidus said.

Her most recent order was denied because she owes the jail $8.95. George Anthony, Casey's father, put the account back in the black when he deposited $50 Thursday.

"Inmates consume large portions just because they are bored," Gidus said.

Inmates get one hour of outdoor recreation, weather permitting, and one former inmate who didn't want to be identified said he took advantage of the outdoors time.

"(I did) a lot of pushups," he said.

Anthony's trial is expected to begin sometime this summer. The state is seeking the death penalty.

In other news in the case, Anthony’s attorneys will motion to dismiss the case against her before Judge Stan Strickland Friday morning citing spoiled evidence.

State attorneys are expected to respond by striking the motion, which they call “legally flawed.”

Other motions expected by the state include a motion to compel reciprocal discovery and to compel the defense’s witness list.

The judge will also hold a status hearing in Anthony’s check fraud case.

Anthony was charged with check fraud after allegedly stealing money from her friend Amy Huizenga, Strickland approved a motion for a speedy trial regarding the fraud case in September.

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http://www.wesh.com/caseyanthony/21302432/detail.html

Casey Anthony: Jesse Grund tells '48 Hours Mystery' that she's 'this dark, selfish, remorseless individual'

Jesse Grund praises Caylee Anthony and blasts her mother, former fiance Casey Anthony, in an interview to air this weekend on "48 Hours Mystery."

The CBS newsmagazine shared excerpts from some interviews in the hour report. Maggie Rodriguez of "The Early Show" is the reporter. The program airs at 10 p.m. Saturday on WKMG-Channel 6.

"Caylee was a really easy baby, I gotta be honest ... so wonderful," Grund says. "I fell in love with her as soon as I saw her."

Casey Anthony told Grund that he was Caylee's father, but a paternity test proved otherwise. (Casey Anthony is shown conferring with attorney Jose Baez in this August photo by Red Huber of the Sentinel.)

"It said zero-percent probability that I was the biological father," Grund says. "It was relieving and heartbreaking at the same time. I didn't want anybody to be that little girl's father except for me."

Five months after Casey agreed to marry Jesse, she ended the engagement.

"She claimed I loved Caylee more than I loved her," Grund says.

"What do you think happened to Caylee?" Rodriguez asks.


"Honestly, I don't know ... The Casey that I knew was incapable of hurting a hair on Caylee's head ... But this person, this dark, selfish, remorseless individual that sits in jail right now, I'm not sure what she's capable of."

George and Cindy Anthony show "48 Hours Mystery" that they've turned their home into a shrine to Caylee. They also keep her death certificate out in the open.

"We're not gonna get rid of anything of hers," George tells Rodriguez. "Most everything we've held on to. We just can't let it go."

Cindy says of Caylee: "It wasn't Casey's child. It was our child. She belonged to all of us."

Rodriguez asks about Casey's behavior during the time Caylee was missing.

"Does it seem odd to you that she would be out dancing when Caylee was missing?" Rodriguez asks.

"Casey told us she was trying to find where Caylee was at," George says. "There's some kind of a connection there somewhere."

Defense attorney Jose Baez adds, "Things are not always as simple as they seem."

Rodriguez: "Would you care to elaborate?"

Baez: "No."

When Rodriguez asks about photos of Casey partying, Baez says, "Everything will come out at its proper time and place."

http://blogs.orlandosentinel.com/entertainment_tv_tvblog/2009/10/casey-anthony-jesse-grund-tells-48-hours-mystery-that-shes-this-dark-selfish-remorseless-individual.html

Anthony Family Interviews With Prosecutors Released

ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. -- New documents were released Thursday that detail the interviews between Casey Anthony’s family and the prosecutors taking her to trial for her daughter Caylee’s murder. There are more than 1,300 pages of transcripts from the depositions of George, Cindy and Lee Anthony.


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Recently, prosecutors asked the judge if they could get a transcript of George Anthony's grand jury testimony, because it seemed there were significant discrepancies between what he told the grand jury and what George told prosecutors earlier this year when they questioned him under oath, over one year ago, just before Casey was indicted for Caylee's murder.

The transcript from George Anthony’s August 5 deposition is 335 pages long. The first questions center on Casey’s childhood; she had no health problems or behavioral problems when she was a child or a young teenager.

The prosecutors questioned George about Father's Day weekend, right before Caylee disappeared, and the duct tape.

George told prosecutors under oath that he did not put a piece of duct tape on his gas can. He says he's put tape on it before, because the cap was broken, but claims he did not put that piece on because he would have done it in a much neater way.

When George was asked whether he recognized the duct tape, he told prosecutors that it's just duct tape, that he never looked at a particular brand. He told them the tape "could be from my house. It could not be from my house." Then he said he didn't recognize the tape on the can.

Investigators say the duct tape that was on the gas can matched the duct tape from the Anthonys' home and the three pieces of duct tape that investigators found over Caylee's face.

The State Attorney's Office won't say why the transcripts were filed as public documents Thursday. Eyewitness News learned that it is a very unusual move; usually the public doesn't find out what was said during criminal depositions until the trial.

Casey Anthony is due in court for a hearing Friday morning. WFTV.com will carry that hearing live online.

http://www.wftv.com/news/21308788/detail.html

George's depo

http://www.wftv.com/pdf/21310228/detail.html

#1 of Cindy's depo

http://www.wftv.com/pdf/21310276/detail.html

Lee's depo

http://www.wftv.com/pdf/21310241/detail.html

Cindy #2

http://www.wftv.com/pdf/21310288/detail.html

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Casey Anthony case: Judge declines to consider motion to dismiss
Defense attorneys claim they have evidence that proves Casey Anthony's innocence

Bianca Prieto and Sarah Lundy Sentinel Staff Writers

3:16 p.m. EDT, October 16, 2009

For now, Casey Anthony remains charged with first-degree murder and aggravated child abuse.

Orange Circuit Court Judge Stan Strickland decided this afternoon that he wouldn't consider the defense team's request to dismiss the charges. He agreed with prosecutors who said the defense's motion was legally insufficient.

The defense could opt to ask again.

Strickland ruled on this issue after a short hearing this morning in the murder case against the 23-year-old mother accused of killing her daughter.

Anthony is accused of killing her 2-year-old daughter, Caylee Marie. The toddler was reported missing in July 2008 -- although Casey Anthony told investigators that she had not seen her child since she left her with a babysitter mid-June. Investigators determined the nanny never existed

In December, a meter reader found the girl's remains scattered in woods less than a mile from her family home in east Orange County.

The state is seeking the death penalty in the first-degree murder case against Anthony, who remains in the Orange County Jail.

Defense attorney Jose Baez said her case is based primarily on evidence provided by the state. He said her defense team has discovered evidence that Caylee's body was put in the woods - where her remains were later found - while Casey Anthony was in jail.

Strickland ordered the defense to provide a witness list to the state by Feb. 1 or else explain why it can't do so. Prosecutors want to interview the witnesses who can support the defense's claim.

This request followed a statement made by defense attorney Todd Macaluso at a previous hearing that the defense had evidence that would prove Casey Anthony was innocent. He was not specific about what that evidence is.

In another issue, the defense will be allowed to get copies of crime scene photos, including autopsy pictures, to share them with their experts. Strickland ruled in their favor after Baez explained the defense experts were having trouble accessing a computer server created to house the pictures.

Authorities feared the photos would be leaked to the public.

Media, law students and other spectators packed a courtroom for this morning's hearing. Casey Anthony smiled at her parents, Cindy and George Anthony, as she walked into the courtroom.

Late Thursday, prosecutors filed transcripts of depositions that have been taken while preparing for trial.

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/orl-bk-casey-anthony-court-101609,0,7919515.story

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Transcripts Reveal Inconsistent Anthony Family Statements

Posted: 6:15 pm EDT October 16, 2009Updated: 6:46 pm EDT October 16, 2009
ORLANDO, Fla. --

WFTV reporter Kathi Belich is taking a closer look at Casey's parents and the enormous pressure they're facing as witnesses for the prosecution. Eventually, they'll be asked to tell the truth on the stand, even though they'll want to spare their daughter the death penalty.

If their answers in transcripts obtained by Eyewitness News on Thursday, from when they were questioned under oath last summer, are any indication, the jury is going to hear inconsistent statements and maybe even Cindy's shocking claim that she, not Casey, was researching online how to make chloroform, even though Cindy's explanation is unclear at best.

One day after WFTV revealed her father George's inconsistent statements to prosecutors under oath about duct tape he used on his gas can, which matches duct tape found layered over Caylee's face, his expression in court was serious.

WFTV also exposed his inconsistent testimony about recognizing the smell of human decomposition in Casey's trunk after telling investigators a year ago that he clearly had.

“So, George, you're not worried about possible perjury charges?” WFTV reporter Kathi Belich asked George Friday.

“George has a lawyer, who is going to take care of it. So, no, he's not,” attorney Brad Conway responded.

George and Cindy were warned by prosecutors last summer they could face perjury charges if they lied under oath. Eyewitness News found, in Cindy's deposition transcript, that she claimed she might have done a computer search on how to make chloroform accidentally while researching chlorophyll.

Chloroform, a potentially deadly substance, was found in high concentration in Casey’s car.

The Anthonys also tried to disconnect themselves and Casey from duct tape layered over Caylee's mouth. It bears a Henkel logo and specifications of the rare, industrial tape that went out of production years ago, the same markings on duct tape on the Anthonys' gas can and tape Eyewitness News found on one of the Anthonys' Caylee posters.

Cindy admitted they only had one roll, did not use it often, but did use it on the gas can and Caylee posters.

WFTV legal analyst Bill Sheaffer says the Anthonys' inconsistencies could lead the judge to deem them as "hostile prosecution witnesses," which would damage their credibility in the eyes of the jury and would allow prosecutors to ask them tougher, more direct questions at trial.

The hundreds of pages of depositions also revealed something else, that the Anthonys have been working on book deals with the help of their attorney Brad Conway. George Anthony told prosecutors Conway had been working with several people, but there was no official book contract yet.

On Friday, WFTV reporter Kathi Belich asked Conway about the book deals.

"George said you were negotiating book deals, that nothing was done yet, but you were in negotiations with various people?” Belich asked Conway.

“You know, we've been approached by a lot of people and, eventually, they have a lot to offer somebody and I hope they do get that opportunity, but right now there is nothing on the table, period, end of story,” Conway said.

There have been questions about how the Anthonys are paying Conway. The couple has claimed they've been unable to work. George did admit to prosecutors they took a few thousands dollars from the CBS network for a show.

http://www.wftv.com/news/21320358/detail.html

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Casey Anthony: '48 Hours Mystery' offers flashy recap, odd tidbits from George, Cindy Anthony
posted by halboedeker on Oct 18, 2009 11:41:55 AM

If you haven't been following the saga of Casey Anthony, last night's "48 Hours Mystery" offered a flashily edited, fast-moving recap of the strange case.

If you know the details, the report was a disappointment, but the baffling elements made it worth a look anyway.

Those licensing fees that news magazines pay for footage and photographs -- a standard industry practice -- produced a trove of new Caylee images. That's a mystery worthy of a "48 Hours" investigation: How much more Caylee footage do the Anthonys have and how do they decide to dole it out?

Reporter Maggie Rodriguez's scoop came from Casey Anthony's defense team. Anthony is charged with the first-degree murder of daughter Caylee, but defense lawyers said a stranger is responsible. In Rodriguez's "exclusive interview," the lawyers didn't say a lot more, but "48 Hours" gave a glimpse of the defense's strategy.

Rodriguez tried for balance. Supporting Casey were her attorneys and her parents, George and Cindy Anthony. Those critical of Casey included a Tampa prosecutor, former Casey fiance Jesse Grund, attorney John Morgan and his client Zenaida Gonzalez, who is suing Casey Anthony for defamation.

Gonzalez was in tears about Casey Anthony, saying, "She took everything away from me." Morgan called Cindy "rabid." Morgan was particularly withering about Casey's partying while her child was missing.

There was too much George and Cindy Anthony, but hasn't that always been the case? They're the self-serving couple who are always tone-deaf to the effect they're having. They're exasperating.

Their saga could be called "Here's What We Have to Say Today." Interviewing them is a thankless job because their story keeps changing.

Here's some of the latest from "48 Hours Mystery":

*** Did George confront Casey about her lies? He said they had "some discussions."

*** What about all they people who say Cindy and Casey have a contentious relationship? They're not being truthful, Cindy said. Cindy even called Casey her best friend

*** Cindy's explanation for never meeting the mysterious baby-sitter? "There's a lot of people I've never met," Cindy says.

*** Cindy maintains that she's not in denial, but acknowledges her first words to authorities could be Casey's downfall. Cindy says she most wants justice for Caylee -- and that, Cindy says, will be justice for Casey, too.

In the strangest tidbit, we learned that George and Cindy have turned their home into a shrine to Caylee and keep the child's death certificate out in the open.

If the grandparents had stayed inside their shrine -- and away from the media spotlight -- this would be a far different case.

But when you're tone-deaf to the public's reaction, you can't help yourself.



http://blogs.orlandosentinel.com/entertainment_tv_tvblog/2009/10/casey-anthony-48-hours-mystery-offers-flashy-recap-odd-tidbits-from-george-cindy-anthony.html

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Casey Anthony lawyers to depose meter reader who found remains
Casey Anthony's defense team will depose Roy Kronk, who found the remains of slain 2-year-old Caylee Marie Anthony, on Nov. 19.


Amy L. Edwards

4:41 p.m. EDT, October 21, 2009


Roy Kronk, the Orange County meter reader who found Caylee Marie Anthony's remains, will be questioned under oath by Casey Anthony's defense team.

A deposition noticed filed in the first-degree murder case against Casey Anthony states Kronk will be questioned at 9 a.m. Nov. 19.

The questioning will occur in a room at the State Attorney's Office.

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/breakingnews/orl-bk-casey-anthony-meter-reader-102109,0,5375129.story

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P.I. Fights Being Deposed In Casey Case

Posted: 3:32 pm EDT October 23, 2009Updated: 4:18 pm EDT October 23, 2009
ORLANDO, Fla. -- A private investigator has stepped up his fight to keep from going under oath in the case against Casey Anthony. Dominic Casey filed a motion on October 21, to stop his deposition scheduled for November.

In the motion (read), Dominic said his information is privileged because he once worked for Casey Anthony and for her lawyers.

He was videotaped in the woods near the Anthony family home in November, a month before Caylee Anthony’s remains were found in that same location.

Casey Anthony is in jail, accused of murdering her daughter Caylee.

http://www.wftv.com/news/21405263/detail.html

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Caylee Anthony: Company trying to shut down Web site that used child's image
posted by halboedeker on Nov 6, 2009 11:15:29 AM


The image of Caylee Anthony is gone from a Zwinky Web

The ad isn't legit, says Mindspark, the White Plains, N.Y.-based company that owns Zwinky. (It is pictured at right.)

But a faux Zwinky ad is still up on the Web.

"We're still working to get it shut down," said Mindspark spokeswoman Deborah Szajngarten this morning. "This is not what we're looking for."

Casey Anthony is charged with the first-degree murder of Caylee, her 2-year-old daughter.

A reader notes that more faux Zwinky advertisements have used the images of other crime victims, such as Natalee Holloway and Stephanie Condon, a murdered Oregon child.

What's Minkspark's reaction? "That's even more disturbing," Szajngarten said. "We're evaluating every possible option to the fullest extent of the law to have this shut down."

I placed a call to the person that faux Zwinky Web ad is registered to. No one answered.Here's the revised ad: see at the link

http://blogs.orlandosentinel.com/entertainment_tv_tvblog/2009/11/caylee-anthony-company-trying-to-shut-down-web-site.html

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Chloroform Evidence Among New Casey Documents

Posted: 9:21 am EST November 6, 2009Updated: 12:19 pm EST November 6, 2009
ORLANDO, Fla. -- Newly-released documents are shedding new light on the evidence prosecutors are using to build their case against Casey Anthony including details about the evidence at the scene where Caylee's body was discovered.

DOCUMENTS RELEASED 11/06/09
PHOTOS: Evidence Images From Documents
Forensic Entomology Lab Exam Report
Investigators Take Casey Tattoo Photos
1,765 Pages Of FBI Exams, Docs SLOW to load
Henkel Tape Product Specs, Supplier List

Investigators say they found traces of chloroform that was found on a bottle and a syringe.

There was very damning evidence found at the scene where Caylee's remains were found inside a Disney bag, including a bottle of Cool Blue Gatorade, but when they opened it they found instead a substance containing chloroform and cleaning fluid and a syringe holding a substance containing the potentially deadly chloroform.

Records show the Gatorade bottle they found was partially full of a fluid that was later through testing determined to contain chloroform and cleaning fluid. Inside the bottle was a plastic pouch containing a syringe where investigators also found chloroform.

During earlier investigators, computer searches were found on Casey Anthony’s computer on how to make chloroform months before Caylee disappeared and investigators found a web page about chloroform in Casey's ex-boyfriend's computer, which he says she could have seen, months before investigators say she went online researching chloroform.

Chloroform can be made with common household chemicals and can be deadly in high doses.

Investigators also found something on the clothing of Caylee's favorite doll, a doll her family says she never went anywhere without. The doll was found in Casey's car and they later believe that it was urine they found on the doll's clothing.

Chloroform is a byproduct of human decomposition, but investigators confirm what they consider to be an unusually high concentration of chloroform in Casey’s trunk and the new evidence released Friday could be the reason for that.

Most the documents released Friday are detailed reports of FBI examinations of evidence (read it). There are also some photos of evidence among the documents (see them).

Additionally, there is the entomology report (read it) that details bugs identified inside the trash bag found inside the trunk of Casey's car and what they tell about decomposition.

Also among the documents are Henkel tape product specs along with a list of suppliers (read it) and a document about the day investigators went to the jail to take photos of Casey's tattoo (read doc | see tattoo photos).

http://www.wftv.com/news/21539718/detail.html

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Casey Anthony case: Syringe in bottle contained traces of chloroform
FBI lab tests detected the dangerous chemical in evidence from the area where Caylee Marie's remains were found.

By Walter Pacheco, Bianca Prieto, Rene Stutzman and Anika Myers Palm, SENTINEL STAFF WRITERS

11:42 a.m. EST, November 6, 2009

FBI lab technicians detected traces of chloroform inside a sports drink and plastic syringe recovered near the scene where the remains of Caylee Marie were found in 2008.

Those details and others are included in the more than 2,100 pages of documents released today by the State Attorney's Office in the criminal case against Casey Anthony -- the 23-year-old accused of killing her daughter last year.

The report from the FBI's lab shows the Cool Blue-flavored Gatorade drink contained an "unknown liquid." The bottle also contained a plastic bag labeled "Disposable Syringe Kit" with a plastic syringe inside of the bag.

A report generated in June and labeled "Summary of results" by Dr. Michael Rickenbach of the FBI indicates chemical tests show the syringe contained chloroform, testosterone, ethanol and water.

Chloroform has been depicted in movies and on television when a person uses a rag soaked in the liquid to cover the mouth and nose of another, making the victim lose consciousness. A person can die if too much of the chemical is inhaled. Chloroform also is the byproduct of contact between chorine used in swimming pools and skin, sweat or urine. Commercially, it is used in refrigeration.

Testosterone is a natural occuring hormone in men and women. Levels decline gradually with age and the hormone can be prescribed as a controlled steroid to prevent or reduce osteoporosis, diabetes, cardiovascular disease and other diseases and disorders.

Investigative reports released last year show that someone at the Anthony home used the family computer to search the Internet for directions on how to make chloroform and ' neck-breaking.' Investigators also found traces of chloroform in the trunk of Casey Anthony's car, earlier reports show.

The FBI reports released today also show a doll recovered from Casey Anthony's white 1998 Pontiac Sunfire GT had "faint yellowish stains" on the front and back of its white clothing. The June lab tests showed slight traces of chloroform residue on the doll, according to Rickenbach.

But a later test in July indicated no chloroform on the doll. Other reports show the yellow stains may have been urine.

The documents show photographs of the doll, Gatorade bottle and syringe found at the scene.

Also included in the latest reports are communications between FBI lab technicians and sheriff's office investigators.

Anthony is charged with first-degree murder in the death of 2-year-old Caylee Marie, whose remains were found in woods less than a mile from her family's east Orange County home.

Authorities ruled her death a homicide but could not determine how she died.

The state is seeking the death penalty against Anthony, who remains in the Orange County Jail.

So far, more than 10,000 pages of documents have been made public.

Check back for more information.

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/breakingnews/os-casey-anthony-documents-20091106,0,4673834.story

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New Motions On Casey Murder, Fraud Charges

Posted: 11:53 am EST November 3, 2009Updated: 5:57 pm EST November 3, 2009

ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. -- Casey Anthony's defense team has filed three new motions in the case. One concerns the check fraud charges and the other two concern the death penalty murder case against her.

Casey is in the Orange County jail, accused of murdering her daughter Caylee Marie Anthony.

MOTIONS: Fraud | To Dismiss | Death Procedure
VIDEO REPORT: Motions Filed Against Casey

The defense says the death penalty should be dropped because the only reason prosecutors are seeking a death sentence is to seat a conviction-prone jury.

Also, Anthony's lawyers say there is no proof that Caylee was killed in a cold, calculated and cruel manner. They argue the indictment is defective, because it contains no facts; therefore, the defense has no idea how to defend her against the murder charge.

“But for the fact that we're dealing with the death of a child and a mother who's facing the death penalty you bet, that's just a laughable motion to be filed in the case at this time. It's just almost, when is the defense ever going to get serious?” WFTV legal analyst Bill Sheaffer said.

The defense is also arguing that prosecutors should not have filed three charges against Casey for every check she's accused of stealing from her best friend. They want the judge to drop some of the charges.

Casey’s pretrial for her check fraud case has been changed from December 18 to December 11, which is the anniversary of when Caylee’s remains were found.

http://www.wftv.com/news/21508310/detail.html

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Depositions in Anthony case Thursday

Updated: Wednesday, 11 Nov 2009, 5:07 PM EST
Published : Wednesday, 11 Nov 2009, 5:07 PM EST

More depositions are scheduled to take place Thursday in the case against Casey Anthony.

The girlfriend of her brother Lee, Mallory Parker, and a private investigators will be deposed Thursday.

Mallory Parker will give her deposition Thursday morning and when she is done Dominic Casey will be deposed. He is the private investigators who worked for George and Cindy Anthony.
Caasey Anthony has pleaded not guilty on charges that she killed her daughter, 2-year-old Caylee Marie , claiming a babysitter kidnapped her toddler. Caylee was last seen in June of 2008, but she was not reported missing until a month later. Her remains were found in woods near the family's home in December.

http://www.myfoxorlando.com/dpp/news/anthony_case/111109-anthony-deposition

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Anthonys Familys' P.I. Deposition Postponed

Posted: 12:18 pm EST November 10, 2009Updated: 12:40 pm EST November 10, 2009
ORLANDO, Fla. -- The Anthony family's private investigator will have to answer questions under oath in the case against Casey Anthony, but he'll get more time to prepare.

Private Investigator Dominic Casey was set to be deposed on Thursday, but it's been pushed back until December 16. Dominic Casey filed a motion (read) on October 21, to stop his November deposition.

Dominic has been trying to get out of the deposition. He says because he once worked for Casey’s defense team, he shouldn't have to answer any questions.

Dominic Casey was videotaped in the woods near the Anthony family home in November, one month before Caylee Anthony’s remains were found there on December 11.

http://www.wftv.com/news/21573563/detail.html

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Lee Anthony's Girlfriend Deposed Under Oath

Posted: 9:00 am EST November 12, 2009Updated: 5:42 pm EST November 12, 2009
ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. -- State prosecutors in the case against Casey Anthony deposed the girlfriend of Casey’s brother Lee Anthony Thursday.

BAEZ TALKS: Girlfriend Depo, Chloroform Evidence

Prosecutors questioned Mallory Park under oath. She has remained close with the entire Anthony family throughout the case.

Jose Baez was present for the deposition, but he wasn't revealing any details of what Parker may have been asked by prosecutors.

Next week, Roy Kronk, the meter reader who discovered Caylee's body, will also meet with prosecutors.

Video at the link...
http://www.wftv.com/news/21593666/detail.html

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Casey Anthony's attorneys to question former meter reader
Casey Anthony's defense team will question Roy Kronk Thursday.

By Sarah Lundy, Sentinel Staff Writer
11:57 a.m. EST, November 18, 2009

Roy Kronk, the Orange County meter reader who discovered Caylee Anthony's remains in December, is scheduled to be questioned by defense attorneys Thursday.

He will be deposed at 9 a.m. at the State Attorney's Office.

Kronk, who has since been fired from his position with the county, found the two-year-old remains on Dec. 11 in woods less than a mile from girl's family home in east Orange County. Months earlier, he had alerted deputies of a suspicious bag in the area. But deputies shrugged off his suspicions.

The volunteer search group, Texas EquuSearch, also reported not being able to look in the woods because of flooding from late summer storms.

Caylee's mother, Casey Anthony, 23, is charged with first-degree murder in the death of her toddler. Investigators got involved on June 15, 2008 after Casey Anthony's mother, Cindy Anthony, notified them. That's when Casey Anthony admitted to family members that Caylee had been missing for 31 days.

She told deputies that she left Caylee with a babysitter but when she returned later that day both had vanished. Investigators later determined the babysitter did not exist.

Kronk will be a key witness in the case. Casey Anthony's defense team will likely grill him about what he saw in the woods, when he saw it and what he did about it.

Her defense team has claimed that someone other than Casey Anthony put the child in the woods.

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/services/newspaper/printedition/monday/os-casey-anthony-meter-reader-questioned-20091118,0,2118885.story

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Kronk Faces Deposition In Anthony Case
Former Meter Reader Quiet, Calm

POSTED: 6:05 am EST November 19, 2009
UPDATED: 3:34 pm EST November 19, 2009

ORLANDO, Fla. -- Eleven months ago, Roy Kronk brought the search for slain toddler Caylee Anthony to an end when he found her body in a wooded area.

But attorneys want to know how Kronk knew where Caylee's body was located. It's just one of the questions he will face under oath on Thursday.

Images: Timeline Of Caylee, Casey Anthony Case | Images: Photos Of Caylee

Kronk showed up more than 30 minutes early for his 9 a.m. deposition, and had no comment except to say that he was thankful for his attorney.

An attorney for Kronk said there are some things in Kronk's past that he isn't proud of, but those things have nothing to do with his finding of Caylee's remains. The attorney said his client has always been honest about finding the missing toddler and how he made the discovery.

Kronk's lawyer said the deposition has been a slow, methodical process with a lot of questions about Kronk's past.

Kronk insists he found Caylee on his own and was not involved in her disappearance.

While Kronk's attorney said earlier that his client hasn't had a perfect past, he said that has nothing to do with the Anthony case.

Anthony family attorney Brad Conway said his clients know what it's like to be scrutinized by the public, and they don't want the man who found their granddaughter to be treated unfairly.

"Personal issues versus what happened in regard to the discovery of Caylee's remains are two different things, and they want to give him the chance to be full and complete about what happened," Conway said.

Defense attorneys Jose Baez and Andrea Lyon appeared to have their game faces on as the deposition began Thursday morning. Baez would only reveal that he expected the deposition would take all day.

http://www.wesh.com/news/21661209/detail.html

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New Anthony Defense Team Member Seen
P.I. Looking Into Past Of Man Who Found Caylee's Remains

POSTED: Thursday, November 19, 2009
UPDATED: 3:30 pm EST November 19, 2009

ORLANDO, Fla. -- The man who found the remains of Caylee Anthony was deposed on Thursday by Casey Anthony's defense team, which has added a private investigator to its lineup.

VIDEO: Roy Kronk Deposed
IMAGES: Casey Anthony Case | II | III

Casey Anthony, 23, remains jailed on first-degree murder charges in the death of her daughter, Caylee, whose remains were discovered in December by Roy Kronk in a wooded area near the Anthony family's east Orange County home.

As the man who reported finding Caylee's body twice, Kronk is a key witness for the prosecution, and a possible target for the defense.

Kronk first reported finding something suspicious in the woods near the Anthonys' home on Aug. 11, 2008, but after three phone calls, a deputy came out and said he found nothing. That deputy, Richard Cain, was later fired from the Sheriff's Office for lying to his superiors about his encounter with Kronk.

"They're trying to defend a first-degree murder charge and they'll ask the questions they want to ask, and we'll answer them and we'll be done," Kronk's attorney, David Evans, said.

A new member of the defense team was seen entering the courtroom on Thursday. Mort Smith is a Chicago-based private investigator who teaches at DePaul University, the same school where fellow defense team member Andrea Lyon teaches.

Smith has been digging into Kronk's personal life for the past several months in an effort to uncover information that might discredit the former meter reader, or at least cast doubt on his story of how he found Caylee.

Anthony's attorneys are likely to ask Kronk about why he returned to the woods and whether someone may have tipped him off that the body was there.

Anthony has pleaded not guilty in her daughter's death, saying a baby sitter took her child. Caylee was 2 years old when she was reported missing in July 2008, about a month after she was last seen alive.

Kronk, who was recently fired from his job as an Orange County meter reader, has not talked publicly since granting an interview to "Good Morning America" in January.

http://www.clickorlando.com/news/21661564/detail.html

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Casey’s Lawyer Questions Man Who Found Caylee
Thursday, November 19, 2009 1:59:35 PM

Reported by Adam Longo

ORLANDO -- The man who discovered Caylee Anthony’s remains almost a year ago has broken his silence amid a deposition by Casey Anthony’s defense team.

Roy Kronk, a former Orange County meter reader, discovered the 2-year-old’s body in a wooded area near the Anthony home in December 2008.

Defense attorney Jose Baez has waited almost a year to question Kronk, who made the first 911 call after finding Caylee’s remains, and has also claimed to have spotted “something suspicious” in the same area in August 2008.

As Thursday’s deposition broke for lunch, News 13 asked Kronk’s attorney, David Evans, how his client was paying for his services since Kronk was fired from his job for being absent too many times.

“At this stage of the game, I didn’t feel comfortable leaving him without representation,” Evans said. “So I’m going to stand by Roy and see it through.”

That was when Kronk, who had said nothing to the media all day, finally chimed in.

“I thank him for doing that,” Kronk said, “for standing by me and not abandoning me at this time.”

When asked if it has been a tough time for him, Kronk replied, “I just don’t prefer speaking to the media, to be honest. Yeah, it’s been very tough on me.”

The public has only gotten glimpses of Roy Kronk in the last year -- at the crime scene, at a press conference a week later, then on “Good Morning America,” after he was paid thousands of dollars -- whether that payoff was for a photo or an interview remains debatable.

Baez said his team planned to spend a considerable amount of time with Kronk Thursday.

“We’ll be here all day,” Baez told reporters before the deposition.

Kronk was not scheduled to be deposed until 9 a.m. Thursday, but he showed up at the Orange County Courthouse around 8:10 a.m., hoping to avoid reporters -- though he was not successful.

When News 13 asked Baez how crucial Kronk was to his defense, he replied, “We’re not going to talk right now. We got to get going.”

Baez told reporters he would talk after the deposition.

This deposition is not the first time Kronk has made statements about finding the Caylee’s body:

http://www.cfnews13.com/News/Local/2009/11/19/baez_questioning_kronk_about_recovery_of_caylee39s _remains.html

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Kronk - The motion to prove prior bad acts
http://www.wftv.com/pdf/21674732/detail.html


Memorandum of Law in Support of ...motion to introduce prior bads acts
http://www.wftv.com/pdf/21674736/detail.html

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Motion: Kronk Could Have Killed Caylee Anthony

Posted: 7:05 pm EST November 19, 2009Updated: 3:50 pm EST November 20, 2009

ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. -- Lawyers for Casey Anthony filed a motion (read motion) late Thursday that named the man who found Caylee Anthony's remains as a possible suspect in her death. Shortly after former meter reader Roy Kronk answered questions in a deposition on Thursday, Casey's defense filed the motion pointing the finger at Kronk.

Two of Casey Anthony’s lawyers appeared on national TV Friday morning to point the finger at the new 'suspect.' They said there is as much circumstantial evidence implicating Kronk as there is against their client.

RAW VIDEOS: Roy Kronk's Son | Kronk's Ex-Wives
READ: Motion, Kronk As Suspect | Memo Supporting Motion
BILL SHEAFFER: Comments On Baez Motion
RAW VIDEO: Kronk's Son Deposition
VIDEO REPORT: Casey's Attorneys On TV

"I haven't done anything wrong and I've maintained that the whole time," Kronk said after Thursday's deposition.

Casey's defense team claims they have a lot of reason to believe Kronk was involved. Their thoughts are based on interviews they did with Roy Kronk's ex-wives and girlfriends.

“I need you like now. I just found a human skull," Kronk said in the 911 call that led to finding Caylee's remains.

Nearly everyone, including the State Attorney's Office praised Roy Kronk when he found Caylee Anthony's remains, including her skull, in a wooded area on December 11, but the former Orange County meter reader is being picked apart by Casey Anthony's legal team, headed by attorney Jose Baez.

“They're doing what they’re expected to do. That is them trying to defend their client," Kronk’s attorney David Evans said.

Investigators cleared Kronk and said they don't believe he has anything to do with Caylee’s horrific death. But in a motion filed Thursday, Casey's attorneys claim Kronk is “equally as likely to be responsible for the death of the child."

"It is the nature of criminal defense to attempt to find someone to blame for a crime other than the person charged. Mr. Kronk has understood from the beginning that the defense might attempt to cast suspicions in his direction--because that's what defense attorneys do. In their zeal to defend Casey Anthony, defense counsel has filed papers with the Court that are filled with allegations that have no basis in fact and falsely accuse Mr. Kronk of various types of bad behavior," Kronk's attorney, David Evans, said in a press released Thursday evening. "As for Mr. Kronk, he vehemently denies the allegations against him and is confident that he will be vindicated. In the meantime, as he stated early on in this case, no good deed goes unpunished."

Also, in a surprise move, they showed off the interviews they did with Kronk's ex-wives.

Jill Kerley said he beat her in 1992 and tied her up with duct tape. That's crucial, because duct tape was used to cover Caylee's mouth when she was murdered.

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http://www.wftv.com/news/21668948/detail.html