2010.04.05 - Today's Current News - ***NO DISCUSSIONS HERE PLEASE ***

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WHAT'S NEXT IN CASEY CASE?
Updated: 4:55 pm EDT April 5,2010

"Snip" http://www.wftv.com/news/23053460/detail.html

Later this month, more discovery documents are expected to be released.

In May, the civil case brought against Casey by Zenaida Gonzalez will have a pre-trial hearing.

Meanwhile, no one objected to the release of 50 jail house letters written by Casey so they could be made public as early as Tuesday afternoon.

 

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Casey Anthony: Judge denies defense team on Texas EquuSearch request
Caylee and Casey Anthony, Jose Baez, WESH, WFTV, WKMG — posted by halboedeker on April, 5 2010 5:32 PM

http://blogs.orlandosentinel.com/en...defense-team-on-texas-equusearch-request.html

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First came the shouting in the morning. Then came the ruling in the afternoon.

Judge Stan Strickland has denied the Casey Anthony defense team’s move to seek all documents on Texas EquuSearch volunteers who looked for Caylee Anthony.

Casey Anthony is charged with first-degree murder in the death of her daughter. WFTV-Channel 9 anchor Martie Salt said Anthony this morning “sat expressionless, never cracking a smile and hardly saying a word to her lawyers.”

 

[Angel Who Cares]

Judge Denies Anthony's Witness Request
Defense Asked Texas Equusearch To ID All Searchers
POSTED: Monday, April 5, 2010
UPDATED: 6:49 pm EDT April 5,2010
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Circuit Judge Stan Strickland on Monday denied a request by Casey Anthony's defense to gain access to documents on over 4,000 volunteers that helped search for Caylee Anthony.

Anthony's defense recently tried to force TES to turn over documents on all volunteers who had helped search, not just the ones identified by the company as having been in the area.

TES argued that the files on all the volunteers have been available to the defense since Aug. 27, 2009, and that Anthony's lawyers would be welcome to review them at their office. TES also said that no visit to review the documents has yet been made.

Strickland said since all documents are available to the defense, and Buchanan's affidavit supports the claims made by TES, that there was no reason to modify the previous court order.

If the order had been amended, thousands of volunteers could have lost their anonymity.

Article:
http://www.clickorlando.com/news/23060256/detail.html

 

[Angel Who Cares]

Casey Anthony: Jail letters could be made public Tuesday
posted by halboedeker on April, 5 2010 6:55 PM
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&#8220;Jail letters could be released tomorrow,&#8221; WKMG-Channel 6 said tonight. The release could come tomorrow afternoon, WKMG anchor Jacqueline London added.

&#8220;Jose Baez tells me he will not object to the release of letters Casey wrote to another inmate in jail,&#8221; WESH-Channel 2&#8217;s Amanda Ober reported. &#8220;We may get a look at them as soon as tomorrow.&#8221;

Article:
http://blogs.orlandosentinel.com/en...ail-letters-could-be-made-public-tuesday.html

 

[Angel Who Cares]

Casey Anthony case: State seeks transcript from August hearing
It&#8217;s the hearing where defense team announces her innocence
7:25 p.m. EDT, April 5, 2010
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Assistant State Attorney Linda Drane Burdick wants the transcripts for the two-hour hearing on Aug. 21, 2009. She doesn't explain in her one-page request filed Monday why the state seeks the information.

At the August hearing, attorney Todd Macaluso, who is no longer a member of the defense team, announced in court: "The body or remains of Caylee Anthony were placed there after Anthony was locked up in the Orange County facility."

The defense at the time wouldn't go into details about what evidence they had. Macaluso's statement was part of the defense's request to obtain records from Texas EquuSearch, the volunteer group that helped search for Caylee.

The group claims there was too much flooding in the area and they could not search the exact location where Caylee was later found.

Article:
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news...ony-august-trancript-20100405,0,4865653.story