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Casey Defense Witness Backs Out Of Questioning
http://www.wftv.com/news/25370431/detail.html
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A key witness, who could help defend Casey Anthony, backed out of being questioned under oath about falsifying documents, but Texas EquuSearch volunteer Laura Buchanan can't avoid prosecutors forever. She's under subpoena and she will have to answer their questions under oath about whether she made up a document to help Casey.
Investigators are looking into allegations that Buchanan falsified records to make it appear as though Caylee Anthony's body was not in the woods near her house on Suburban Drive in September 2008. That was three months after Caylee disappeared, and three months before she was found.
Buchanan was to be deposed by prosecutors for a second time Wednesday about those records. However, Tuesday, Buchanan backed out saying she was ill.
"It is certainly suspect and damning to the defense that all of a sudden she's too ill to proceed with the deposition," WFTV legal analyst Bill Sheaffer said.
If investigators find Buchanan did falsify records in the death penalty case against Caylee's mother Casey, Buchanan could be in serious legal trouble.
"Were there any witnesses that can testify that they were at the location where Caylee's body was found prior to the discovery of the body and that the body wasn't there? That's the sole issue," Sheaffer said.
Sheaffer says, if they don't have that, they can do all the press releases and media interviews they want, but it won't help Casey convince a jury in that she's innocent.
You just can't make this stuff up!!!