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Casey Anthony’s attorneys fight back on fraud case trial date
When will Casey Anthony go to trial on her fraud charges? It’s a battle that’s been brewing between the state and Casey’s defense for months.
New motions filed by Anthony attorneys Jose Baez and Dr. Andrea Lyon argue the defense cannot afford to waste precious time and resources on a fraud case, with the capital case hanging over their heads.
“The complexity of the capital case necessitates a delay in the check forgery case,” the motion reads.
Baez and Dr. Lyon argue that forcing them to divert their attention away from Casey’s capital case would impede her right to a fair trial.
The motion says the state’s delay in their decision to seek the death penalty for Casey has added to the defense’s workload and forced them to bring on an additional attorney(Dr. Lyon) who needs time to catch up on details of the case.
Furthermore, the defense argues, there will be no harm in delaying the fraud case because the alleged victim in the case, Amy Huizinga, has already been compensated by her bank, and Baez’s firm reimbursed the bank for more than $600.
Finally, the defense says Casey has already served more time in jail than a person would for a first-time conviction on a crime of that type.
The motion asks judge Stan Strickland to delay the fraud trial until after she’s tried for killing her daughter Caylee.
Other motions:
The defense is seeking to quite the bounty hunter who first bailed Casey out of jail.
They argue that because bounty hunter Leonard Padilla and his team provided security for Casey, they’re considered “agents of the defense.”
Therefore, what they saw and heard is privileged information.
Padilla has been no stranger to national television, often commenting on what he and his team heard during their time inside the Anthony home.
Miss Anthony’s defense wants to make sure that insight isn’t available to the prosecution.
Another motion filed by the defense labels Equusearch founder Tim Miller a “material witness” and seeks records of searches for Casey Anthony.
The defense wants records of search locations and volunteers.Source: wdbo.com here
Debra - You are right. The 2 crimes are interwoven.
I don’t know much about the court system but,by Baez the incredible BULK be in trouble for trying to pay the bank back for his theiving client? It seems to me that he ought to be in trouble with the court for this and a lot of other wrongs that he has done.
Off topic - I will be disappointed for any team to hire Michael Vick. Pete Rose was banned from baseball for LIFE for gambling. This is much more serious. And the way these guys makes multi-millions….
Hi Jane, I agree about Michael Vick. If he gets hired, I won’t ever watch another game with his team playing.
Regarding the letter sent by the bank to Baez - it doesn’t say in the letter that they returned the check. Do we know for sure that they did?
I don’t know about the bank part of all that. I didn’t realize the bank was going to try to get the money back from Casey. I don’t remember that part being discussed much.
New thread.
Okay, what’s up. No one here, no one on the new thread. I feel like I am in the Twilight Zone!!!????
Crazy ~ From what I understand, the letter said it cannot accept payment, which means to me the money order was either sent back or destroyed.
The timing of the prosecution asking for a speedy trial and Bozo sending a check to the bank sounds very fishy or unethical to me.
sounds unethical to me too
Before I go see what’s happening on the new thread,
Vick should NEVER be allowed to play again.
I will not defend the other actions of sports figures, but other than the ones who kill someone, most are just drug charges or assault, then that guy who got 30 days for vehicular homocide (An atrosity, but that was not intentional, alto 30 day?) What Vick did was cruel and inhumane! AND went on for many years! Plus, has he been in rehab yet for his admitted drug addiction! NO!