Okay, after much study of Cindy's depo (more than I ever hoped to do of any depo lol), I've concluded there are two separate and distinct issues/objections here. This is in regards to issue/objection #2. (I've written up issue/objection #1 too, but it's really too long to post and I have to figure out how to condense it.)
Relevant pages of Cindy's depo:
http://www.docstoc.com/docs/13348352/Cindy_BaezObjections_SealedStuff
Note: n/n = page/line
- 503/1 SA asks if Cindy saw Casey take anything from the garage out of the house (SA does not specify to Baez)
- Important! 503/7 SA asks if Cindy observed Casey "gathering up photographs or videos, anything like that, images of Caylee?". Cindy
says yes.
- 503/11 Baez interrupts Cindy's 'yes', objects, and asks to go off record. SAs Burdick and Ashton say it should be on record.
Finally SAs and Baez agree to go off record only for Baez to talk to his "co-counsel" (Lyon, I assume?)
- 506/1 Back on record and Baez: "It's our position that this is an area that's going to be in violation of a court order.
We're asking if you guys would like to discuss it off the record. If you don't, and you want to continue and proceed, we're
going to ask that we suspend the deposition until we can get guidance from the Court."
- Discussion continues.
- 507/6 SA and Baez agree Baez' concern is not that SA will discover something they don't know, but that the public will discover something they don't know. hmmmmmm.
- 507/16 SA states therefore there's no reason to suspend the depo, and 507/23 Lyon disagrees.
- Important! 508/1 Lyon: "this information will make its way into the public wheel some kind of way once the question is answered."
Okay, let's go back and look at the question again: 503/7 SA asks if Cindy observed Casey "gathering up photographs or videos, anything like that, images of Caylee?". Cindy says yes. ("Yeah. She --")
Hmmmm... There's the question. And there's the answer.
- Finally, after more discussion, Baez states he will take it to the Court for a ruling. There is agreement that Cindy will come back if the Court says the question is appropriate.
- 511/4 SA moves on with the depo to duct tape question, and the issue is not brought up again.
Conclusion:
- Baez' objection was based on a court order to seal.
- The only court order to seal that is pertinent to the question asked and objected is regarding how the defense is getting paid.
- The question was asked, and answered. The information is now "in the public wheel".
-
The defense team is getting paid by Casey selling photos, videos, and/or images of her murdered daughter, Caylee.
MOO