At the last Hearing on May 11, 2010, SA Linda Drane Burdick said that the State has about 6,000 photos, and there will need to be a Hearing for the Judge to rule on which photos will be admitted into evidence during the murder trial. (after the Defense and State have tried to come to an agreement between themselves on which photos will be used).
It seems extremely WRONG in my opinion, that CBS (or ABC or any media) is HELPING the Defense, the accused baby murderer, by publishing photos of the VICTIM, which were sold by the VICTIM's family members! CBS and other media are HELPING the accused baby murderer taint a potential jury pool, by publishing photos which try to manipulate the potential jury into having an opinion of the accused baby murderer as a "good mother". This is all done in advance of any rulings by a Judge as to whether the photos will be admitted into evidence at trial.
At the Hearing on May 11, 2010 Lyon stated several times that the accused murderer is portrayed by the public as a promiscuous, bad mother and worse, and there was much discussion of the "blue dress party photos". The SAME DAY photos are published by the media, depicting a happy, smiling, clean Caylee with a smiling mother. OBVIOUS damage control, IMO.
IMO it is disgusting the VICTIM of murder is being SOLD to assist the accused murderer, and also that the media is legally allowed to assist the DEFENSE by publishing photos which portray the accused murderer in the best possible light, while not allowing the State to present their photo evidence to contradict that portrayal.