Caylee Marie Anthony #164 6/25/10 - 7/14/10

[SunnyinTX]

I'm wondering if Linda Kenney Baden is next to go. Like her or not, I can't see her wanting her reputation ruined either by defending Casey.

Hi nrcg, I have wondered that myself.  I don't believe she would fall into the expert category, even though her expertise is forensics, she is still an attorney....and would have to not only work pro bono, but also pay her own expenses.  Unless we 'see' her at the depositions of the people from the lab, then I doubt we will see her at all.  JMO of course

Good morning Monkeys.  Nice to see you back from vacation Sunny.

I have been wondering about LKB myself lately.  Is she ggoing to be willing to counter attack cutting edge science ?  She may turn up in Tenn..but that may be it..give her opinion and off she goes on her merry way.

Lyons quitting is no big surprise..what  took her so long.  I guess she milked the publicity and money cow dry and is on her merry way.

I wonder if the mitigation specialist and the detective that worked with her will stay..or are they adios too?

Yep Joran definitely needs some help in Peru..maybe she and Baez could hop a plane with Geraldo in tow///lol.

Hi GDD!  thanks, it's good to be home. uummmm interesting questions re the mit specialist and Mort....my guess is they will since they are being paid by the good people of FL!  unless a higher paying case comes their way and takes up their time

[SunnyinTX]

I'm wondering if Linda Kenney Baden is next to go. Like her or not, I can't see her wanting her reputation ruined either by defending Casey.

Hi nrcg, I have wondered that myself.  I don't believe she would fall into the expert category, even though her expertise is forensics, she is still an attorney....and would have to not only work pro bono, but also pay her own expenses.  Unless we 'see' her at the depositions of the people from the lab, then I doubt we will see her at all.  JMO of course

I am familiar with her expertise in Phil Spector's first trial, while she was as boring as watching paint dry, she appeared to know what she was doing  LOL  Good point, if she isn't there at the depositions of the lab people, she has taken a hike also.

I didn't watch much of the Spector trial and didn't see her in action...so I will depend  on your impression of her...

PS - it only took me 35 minutes to reply to this.......ggggggrrrrrrrrrrr

[SunnyinTX]

http://www.cfnews13.com/static/articles/images/documents/Andrea_Lyon_motion_to_withdraw_as_counsel.pdf

[SunnyinTX]

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/caylee-anthony/os-casey-anthony-andrea-lyon-20100630,0,2682343.story

Chicago attorney Andrea Lyon, who joined the Casey Anthony defense team to fight prosecutors' desire to seek the death penalty for the 24-year-old Orlando woman, is no longer on the team.

Lead Anthony attorney Jose Baez confirmed that Lyon has left the defense because of financial issues. He filed paperwork with the Orange County Clerk of Court's office late Wednesday reflecting Lyon's departure.

"We're sad to see her leave, but we completely understand that it's a fiscal reason," Baez said.

He said Lyon will remain "fully accessible to us if we need her at any time."

Local attorney Cheney Mason, a veteran of high-profile murder cases, remains on the team, and Baez said, "You're really not going to notice any difference in the way the team operates."
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Casey Anthony's defense will not be jeopardized by the departure, he said.

"She [Lyon] would not have left if she felt it would affect Casey. I know that," Baez said.

Lyon was not immediately available for comment. An outgoing message on her office answering machine said she would not be receiving her voice messages.

In late May 2009, Lyon, a nationally known death-penalty attorney, joined Casey Anthony's defense team.

At that time, her team needed to find a qualified death-penalty attorney who met the state's criteria — which includes five years' trial experience and service as lead attorney in at least nine state or federal jury trials of serious or complex cases.

By then, Lyon, a DePaul University law-school professor, had handled more than 130 murder cases and more than 30 potential capital cases.

Terence M. Lenamon, a Miami death-penalty attorney who briefly worked on the Anthony case, said the loss of Lyon is not good for Casey Anthony's defense.

"In the long run I think it's going to be detrimental to the client," Lenamon said. "I think Andrea is a great lawyer … I'm severely disappointed someone with such great experience and who clearly had the client's best interest in mind is leaving the team."

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Anthony Colarossi can be reached at acolarossi@orlandosentinel.com.

I highlighted a couple things that I though were particularly interesting

[SunnyinTX]

http://blogs.orlandosentinel.com/entertainment_tv_tvblog/2010/06/casey-anthony-andrea-lyon-leaves-a-money-pit-how-big-a-blow-is-it.html

farewell »
Casey Anthony: Andrea Lyon leaves a ‘money pit’; how big a blow is it?
Caylee and Casey Anthony, WESH, WFTV, WKCF, WRDQ — posted by halboedeker on June, 30 2010 10:28 PM
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What do Tom Hanks and Casey Anthony have in common?

They have both starred in something called “The Money Pit.”

WFTV-Ch. 9, via its 10 p.m. news on sister station WRDQ-Ch. 27, explained that defense attorney Andrea Lyon “wants out because the case is a money pit,” anchor Vanessa Welch said tonight.

WFTV explained that defense attorney Jose Baez will continue to consult with Chicago attorney Lyon but that she was leaving the case for financial reasons. Casey Anthony is charged with first-degree murder in the death of her daughter, Caylee.

WFTV legal analyst Bill Sheaffer said he wasn’t surprised Lyon had departed because the money has been exhausted. Sheaffer added that Orlando defense attorney Cheney Mason can take over Lyon’s duties and said if Lyon were a true believer she would still be with the case.

Yet Baez described Lyon as “a wonderful lawyer” who believes in Anthony’s case and who spent her own money on the case, WFTV’s Kenneth Moton reported.

WESH-Ch. 2 legal analyst Richard Hornsby said Lyon’s departure was a huge blow. “The defense as a whole is definitely going to take a step back without her resources and knowledge,” he said.

Do you agree?

Hornsby didn’t buy Baez’s cost explanations for Lyon’s departure. “She wouldn’t have had to have a lot of costs to incur,” he said. “I think the cost excuse is really a cover for something a lot bigger with Andrea Lyon’s belief in the defense team.”

Baez told WESH that simply wasn’t true and that’s Lyon’s departure wouldn’t affect the defense.  (The report aired on the 10 p.m. news on sister station WKCF-Ch. 18.)

So how big is Lyon’s departure?



Monks, I am posting as many of these as possible until the server spits me out again

[SunnyinTX]

http://www.wesh.com/video/24104269

[SunnyinTX]

http://www.cfnews13.com/static/articles/images/documents/Andrea_Lyon_motion_to_withdraw_as_counsel.pdf

point #5 in the motion.....she says she can't continue to represent Kc in the absence of quite substantial funds to cover the costs, which she anticipates will increase.....

yeah!  right!

[SunnyinTX]

I just posted the State's Witness List and will ask Klaas to make it a sticky so we can add to it.

Done.  MB

[SunnyinTX]

http://wdbo.com/localnews/2010/07/breaking-emergency-hearing-in.html


WDBO Local News      
BREAKING: Emergency hearing in Anthony case
By
Brittny Krause
@ July 1, 2010 4:44 PM Permalink | Comments (0)
Casey Anthony will appear in court Friday afternoon in an emergency hearing.

The emergency motion by her defense attorneys is asking the judge to appoint a special magistrate to watch as expert witnesses look over evidence in possession of the Sheriff's Office.

Anthony's attorneys are arguing that allowing the officials from the Sheriff's Office to be present while counsel and expert witnesses inspect the items of evidence would unfairly subject statements made between counsel and the expert witnesses to discovery, creating an unfair prejudice against the defendant (Anthony) in her preparation for trial.

Judge Perry will be hearing the motion in the case against Casey Anthony tomorrow at 1:30pm.

[Brandi]

Casey Anthony Hearing Scheduled For Tomorrow
Anthony Expected To Be Present At Hearing
ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. --
Officials say there will be a hearing in the Casey Anthony case Friday afternoon.

Karen Connolly Levey, the chief of due process services for the 9th Judicial Circuit Court of Florida, said in a release that Anthony would be present at the hearing.

The hearing is to address a motion by the defense, who wants a magistrate to be present when expert witnesses are inspecting evidence in the case.

The hearing is scheduled to begin at 1:30 p.m.
http://www.wesh.com/news/24113604/detail.html

[SunnyinTX]

http://www.wesh.com/caseyanthony/24112886/detail.html

Indigency Takes Toll On Casey Anthony Defense
Expert Witnesses Added To List By Defense

POSTED: 4:09 pm EDT July 1, 2010
UPDATED: 4:40 pm EDT July 1, 2010
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ORLANDO, Fla. -- Attorneys for Casey Anthony filed a new list of witnesses on Thursday who will testify on behalf of her defense.

Four of the eight names on the list are expert witnesses. The defense team wanted to include more experts, but Judge Belvin Perry denied the use of more tax money to pay for them.

The witness list includes a plant expert from Colorado, Dr. Jane Bock, and an insect expert from Nebraska, Dr. Timothy Huntington. A Canadian forensic anthropologist is also included, as well as Florida International University professor Dr. Ken Furton. They are expected to challenge tests on the air in Casey's car.

"The case has always been kind of simple, and the witness list reflects that," defense attorney Richard Hornsby said.

Hornsby said the experts will attack the science involved in the tests. Others on the list, including Roy Kronk's ex-wife, will be used to try to raise reasonable doubt that someone else could have put Caylee Anthony's remains in the woods after Casey Anthony was indicted and jailed.

Hornsby said the list looks minimal since Anthony declared indigency.

"I think the defense had some grandiose ideas about how they were going to attack the state's case with experts from all over the country," Hornsby said.

But those ideas were cut back by Perry, who because of Anthony's indigency became the decider of which defense experts were necessary and which ones were not.

"If you're only going to have one testify, why do I have to pay for two?" Perry asked.

"Once you declare indigency, you're not entitled to an extravagant defense -- just a reasonable defense," Hornsby said.

[SunnyinTX]

 http://www.wesh.com/news/24112886/detail.html


Defense Releases Expert Witness List

1. Dr. Jane Bock - University of Colorado
Study Plant Remains to Help Sove Crimes

2. Dr Timothy Huntington
Forensic Entomologist
Assistant Professor of Biology at Concordia University, NE
Study Insects

3. Dr. Scott Fairgrieve - Forensic Anthropologist
Northeastern Regional Forenic Pathology Unit, Ontario
Consult in Search, Recovery, and analysis of human remains

4. Dr. Kenneth Furton
Expert Chemist
International Forensic Research Institute at Florida Internationl University
Drug analysis, use of trained dogs

5. Dr. Lee

6. Dr Kobilinsky

[no rose colored glasses]

Thank-you so much for these updates. An emergency hearing tomorrow, interesting, and probably a big waste of time.

[Puzzler]

http://www.thehinkymeter.com/2010/07/01/kyron-horman-and-caylee-anthony-cases-legal-maneuverings-in-2-cases/

Kyron Horman and Caylee Anthony cases: Legal maneuverings in 2 cases

[mizjay]

Casey Anthony Hearing Scheduled For Tomorrow
Anthony Expected To Be Present At Hearing
ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. --
Officials say there will be a hearing in the Casey Anthony case Friday afternoon.

Karen Connolly Levey, the chief of due process services for the 9th Judicial Circuit Court of Florida, said in a release that Anthony would be present at the hearing.

The hearing is to address a motion by the defense, who wants a magistrate to be present when expert witnesses are inspecting evidence in the case.

The hearing is scheduled to begin at 1:30 p.m.
http://www.wesh.com/news/24113604/detail.html

Thank you Brandi.    Maybe not such a bad idea to have an independent person oversee some of the defense experts handling evidence if ya know what i mean.

[Scatty]

…“I'm not surprised that the money having run out, the publicity surrounding Andrea Lyon’s book having been exhausted, that she's exiting the defense team,” WFTV Legal Analyst Bill Sheaffer said…

http://www.wftv.com/news/24102408/detail.html

I had the same thought as well. And didn’t LKB also have a book out with hubby? I think she didn’t want to seem too obvious by quitting after the book tours were over. Lyon, on the other hand, is too arrogant to believe that anyone might think she was motivated by publicity. Everyone on the not-so-dream team is motivated by publicity imo. I don’t think Baez will leave, because he was a nonentity before this case, and if he quits will turn back into a “nothing” legal hack before you can say “Bozo!”

[monkalicious]

…“I'm not surprised that the money having run out, the publicity surrounding Andrea Lyon’s book having been exhausted, that she's exiting the defense team,” WFTV Legal Analyst Bill Sheaffer said…

http://www.wftv.com/news/24102408/detail.html

I had the same thought as well. And didn’t LKB also have a book out with hubby? I think she didn’t want to seem too obvious by quitting after the book tours were over. Lyon, on the other hand, is too arrogant to believe that anyone might think she was motivated by publicity. Everyone on the not-so-dream team is motivated by publicity imo. I don’t think Baez will leave, because he was a nonentity before this case, and if he quits will turn back into a “nothing” legal hack before you can say “Bozo!”

Absolutely, Scatty.  Although I think he will always be a "nothing". 

[monkalicious]

Casey Anthony Hearing Scheduled For Tomorrow
Anthony Expected To Be Present At Hearing
ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. --
Officials say there will be a hearing in the Casey Anthony case Friday afternoon.

Karen Connolly Levey, the chief of due process services for the 9th Judicial Circuit Court of Florida, said in a release that Anthony would be present at the hearing.

The hearing is to address a motion by the defense, who wants a magistrate to be present when expert witnesses are inspecting evidence in the case.

The hearing is scheduled to begin at 1:30 p.m.
http://www.wesh.com/news/24113604/detail.html

Thank you Brandi.    Maybe not such a bad idea to have an independent person oversee some of the defense experts handling evidence if ya know what i mean.

Not a bad idea, at all.  But why is this an emergency?  It's not like the defense suddenly woke up to the fact that their client is accused of murder and they will eventually have to go to trial...Oh, wait, maybe they just did!

[mizjay]

Casey Anthony Hearing Scheduled For Tomorrow
Anthony Expected To Be Present At Hearing
ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. --
Officials say there will be a hearing in the Casey Anthony case Friday afternoon.

Karen Connolly Levey, the chief of due process services for the 9th Judicial Circuit Court of Florida, said in a release that Anthony would be present at the hearing.

The hearing is to address a motion by the defense, who wants a magistrate to be present when expert witnesses are inspecting evidence in the case.

The hearing is scheduled to begin at 1:30 p.m.
http://www.wesh.com/news/24113604/detail.html

Thank you Brandi.    Maybe not such a bad idea to have an independent person oversee some of the defense experts handling evidence if ya know what i mean.

Not a bad idea, at all.  But why is this an emergency?  It's not like the defense suddenly woke up to the fact that their client is accused of murder and they will eventually have to go to trial...Oh, wait, maybe they just did!

LOL .      I think maybe they're mean spirited and want to make sure everybody has to be there right before a holiday weekend. Morons!

[mizjay]

Hope to goodness Spindy doesn't sit there waving a little American flag at her preciousness. That'll ruin it for me. Wonder if slunt will grace them with a glance? Wonder if the SS Caylee Marie is packed with beer and snacks and will be parked in the courthouse parking lot? So many questions......