Hearing 4/5/10 (Criminal) - Motion to Subpeona Texas Equusearch Documents Denied

Motion Denied After Tempers Flare During Casey Hearing

Updated: 5:47 pm EDT April 5,2010

ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. -- Lawyers yelled in court Monday during the latest hearing in Casey Anthony's murder case, but Casey sat expressionless, rarely cracking a smile and hardly saying a word to her lawyers. In the end, Judge Stan Strickland denied Casey's defense team their request read order.

JUDGE'S ORDER: Judge Denies Defense Request
CASEY ARRIVES: Raw Video | See Images
CASEY HEARING ON 4/5: Part 1 | Part 2
VIDEO REPORT: Judge Denies Casey Request
DOCUMENTS: Motion To Get Records | State Response

Casey walked into the court room just ahead of 10:00am (raw video | images), wearing a striped button-down long sleeve collar shirt and dark pants. She sat next to attorneys Jose Baez and J. Cheney Mason.

Casey's lawyers fought for more information about the volunteers who searched for Caylee. They're looking for anyone who searched the woods prior to the discovery of Caylee's remains there.

Many volunteers have said the ground was covered with too much water, but Casey’s defense claims they found at least one person who claims EquuSearch still searched, but came up with nothing.

“Either because of laziness or sloppiness, this information hasn't been tracked down,” EquuSearch attorney Mark NeJame argued in court.

There were explosive accusations and angry arguments Monday morning.

“They're trying to kill Ms. Anthony. We're trying to save her life. We can't do that if we're handcuffed,” defense attorney Jose Baez said.

Casey appeared stoic in court as her attorney asked the court to force Texas EquuSearch to hand over documents related to the search for Caylee Anthony. Casey's defense wants information about the thousands of volunteers who searched for the toddler.

But the non-profit group doesn't want all of the volunteers' personal information made public and NeJame pointed out he already released information on 32 people who worked near the place Caylee's remains were found and offered Baez a chance to look at the rest of the documents, just not make copies.

“Judge, these documents are critical, we need them,” Baez argued.

Baez said the defense found a bombshell, an EquuSearch volunteer who claims to have searched the remains area months prior to the discovery, but wasn't on the list of 32. That man, Joe Jordan, doesn't believe Caylee's remains were in that area when he searched, but NeJame said Jordan's information was in the documents he handed over and he questioned, if the rest of documents are so critical, why Casey's attorneys haven't stopped by to look at them.

“It is beyond me, it is incredulous to suggest that there is this bombshell, that things have been hidden from them when they’re just still sitting in my office. Come by after court, pay a visit,” NeJame argued.

Baez did most of the speaking Monday; Casey's new high-profile attorney, J. Cheney Mason, didn't play a big role.

Late Monday afternoon, Judge Strickland denied the defense request, but said Casey's attorneys can still go and look at the documents and, if they flag something that could be important, they can go back to the judge and try to get that released. The judge, though, isn't going to blanket release all the documents.

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

I just love it when he says "No way Jose!"

Baez has been told repeatedly that he was free to go to NeJame's office and look at the records. There is no need for them to make all the volunteers' personal information public. I'm glad Judge Strickland ruled against the defense on this one.

You can watch the hearing at the following links.

Part 1: http://www.wftv.com/video/23056801/index.html

Part 2: http://www.wftv.com/video/23057236/index.html

aww.. that is too bad..

jose ACTUALLY has to do his job now.. the one he should have done MONTHS ago..

good for strickland.. he seems to have his head firmly on his shoulders and he too, is tiring of bozo's bull hockey.

Thank you for the update, J4A! I had a strong feeling Judge Strickland would deny the request from the defense. Mark Nejame put the bomb in bombshell....Baez' references to bombshell information is so laughable it's not even funny!

Casey Anthony prosecutors want transcript from August hearing when defense announced her innocence

Orlando Sentinel
Updated: 9:45 a.m. Tuesday, April 6, 2010
Posted: 9:44 a.m. Tuesday, April 6, 2010

Prosecutors want transcripts of an August hearing where one of Casey Anthony's defense attorneys announced her innocence in court.

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.

Anthony, 24, is charged with first-degree murder in the death of her daughter, Caylee. The 2-year-old's remains were found in woods less than a mile from her family home in December 2008.

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.

http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/state/casey-anthony-prosecutors-want-transcript-from-august-hearing-529041.html

I am assuming they are requesting these transcripts as a result of yesterday's hearing?

hmm.. i wonder what THAT is all about.

is that the same hearing they were discussing yesterday that baez tried to include TES as an agent of the state, and there was arguments prepared yesterday to the contrary?

i think there was something in the hearing about getting the transcripts from that hearing to clarify the claims against TES and the state being one and the same. I think the pros. wants to make sure that TES is considered what it is in the future, a volunteer organization.

Judge denies release of recorded interview
April 7, 2010 2:54 PM

Judge Stan Strickland has denied the request of Casey Anthony's lawyers to use a recorded interview with a Texas Equusearch volunteer.

Joe Jordan illegally recorded his interview on October 27th with Mort Smith, an investigator for Anthony's defense and Kelly Sims, a member of Casey Anthony's legal team.

The interview conflicts with an interview Jordan gave to law enforcement on November 5th.



http://wdbo.com/localnews/2010/04/judge-denies-release-of-record.html

Yippeee...Now what's the score??? Judge Strickland ?...Defense ?....This is one weird game...

Defense? What defense? Her goose is sooo cooked.