The defense never ever asked for this deal. This is what the prosecution was willing to offer.
The news conference with the State Attorney's office, the comment was that they(the State Attorney's office) was contacted by the defence(Jose Baez) about a possible deal. While technically they did not ask for the deal that was offered, they did request a deal.
There is another annoying fact to me. Baez kept saying they had not been contacted by the State about a deal. This was the night they were upset about the leak about the air sample, and was said in front of the Anthony's house. I am sure local 6 still has the video on it. Baez out and out lied. I thought it was common for a lawyer to use the "No Comment" card, or ignore a subject, but I would think straight out lying to the press, and thus the American people through the press would not be a good thing for his reputation.
I have wondered since then that if Baez has been feeding bad information to Anthony's, (just telling them what they want to hear) bad information to Casey(not sure if that would even matter at this point), and I really have to wonder what in the world he told Anthony Padilla. According to Padilla last night on Nancy Grace, Baez did not keep his word to him, and did not have a meeting with him that afternoon, after the noon press conference that Padilla would not revoke the bond. Padilla also noted that he had called one of his security people on Friday afternoon to see if Casey had to any of them since the noon press conference, and the answer was no. Padilla then told his nephew that they would go ahead and revoke the bond on Saturday morning. Which leads me to believe that Baez told Padilla that Casey would talk to him Friday afternoon, or one of his employees, which did not happen. (The last part is just what I gathered from his comments concerning his phone call to the security team.)