Caylee Marie Anthony #175 11/29/10 - 12/20/10

[trimmonthelake]

http://myclerk.myorangeclerk.com/CaseDetail.aspx?CaseID=6236234
11/29/2010     Motion to Compel
Additional Discovery
11/29/2010     Motion
Defendant's; to Seal Penalty Phase Discovery Response
11/29/2010     Court Minutes
11/30/2010     Motion
to Approve Prior Travel of Out of State Experts

12/01/2010Motion Defendant's; to Seal Penalty Phase Discovery Response
12/01/2010Amended Notice of Hearing 12/20/10 1:30 pm

12/01/2010 Motion
for Additional Hours of Investigation

[trimmonthelake]

http://bullstopper.wordpress.com/2010/12/01/what-does-the-duct-tape-mean-to-george-anthony/
What Does the Duct Tape Mean to George Anthony
12/01/10

[trimmonthelake]

http://www.wesh.com/r/25975094/detail.html
Baez Wants Reimbursement For Experts' Travel
Casey Anthony Defense Attorney Files Request In New Motion
POSTED: 2:59 pm EST December 1, 2010
UPDATED: 3:10 pm EST December 1, 2010
ORLANDO, Fla. -- Casey Anthony defense attorney Jose Baez says his team's experts should be reimbursed for their prior travel expenses.
In a new motion, Baez asks to be paid back for the travel costs of five experts who came to Orlando in July to review evidence in the case

Motion  http://www.wesh.com/pdf/25975125/detail.html

Baez argues that Judge Belvin Perry agreed in October to pay such costs within strict state guidelines for travel expended.

Anthony was declared indigent in March. A state commission now doles out funding for her defense, at taxpayers' expense.

The new motion does not specify how much money Baez is asking for.

[trimmonthelake]

http://www.myfoxorlando.com/dpp/news/anthony_case/120110-Casey-Anthony-expert-list
Casey Anthony’s defense team names list of experts
Updated: Wednesday, 01 Dec 2010, 2:46 PM EST
Published : Wednesday, 01 Dec 2010, 2:46 PM EST

ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. (WOFL FOX 35) - On Wednesday Casey Anthony’s defense team released their list of experts expected to testify at her murder trial.

Anthony has pleaded not guilty on charges that she killed her 2-year-old daughter Caylee Marie, claiming a babysitter kidnapped her toddler. Caylee was last seen in June of 2008, but she was not reported missing until a month later. Her remains were found in woods near the family's home in December 2008.
Anthony’s defense is hoping some big time scientists can help raise reasonable doubt with the jurors.

Dr. Henry lee is the biggest name on the list. He’s worked on dozens of high profile cases like OJ Simpson and Joan Benet Ramsey. His specialty is finding the tiniest of clues
More power house experts, a husband and wife team from Holland. Dr. Richard Eikelenboom is known for his advances in trace DNA., a science where a few skin cells can be used to identify a suspect. His wife, Dr. Thelma Eikelenboom is a coroner and forensic expert.  11 other experts round out the list.

The defense experts are expected to testify about DNA evidence where Caylee's remains were found near her home along with evidence collected from Casey Anthony’s car.

The trial is set to start next May.

[Curly]

http://www.wesh.com/r/25975094/detail.html
Baez Wants Reimbursement For Experts' Travel
Casey Anthony Defense Attorney Files Request In New Motion
POSTED: 2:59 pm EST December 1, 2010
UPDATED: 3:10 pm EST December 1, 2010
ORLANDO, Fla. -- Casey Anthony defense attorney Jose Baez says his team's experts should be reimbursed for their prior travel expenses.
In a new motion, Baez asks to be paid back for the travel costs of five experts who came to Orlando in July to review evidence in the case

Motion  http://www.wesh.com/pdf/25975125/detail.html

Baez argues that Judge Belvin Perry agreed in October to pay such costs within strict state guidelines for travel expended.

Anthony was declared indigent in March. A state commission now doles out funding for her defense, at taxpayers' expense.

The new motion does not specify how much money Baez is asking for.

Blow it out your bugle, Bozo.

[trimmonthelake]

http://www.wesh.com/r/25977055/detail.html
New Casey Witnesses Come With Doubt, Cost
Defense Team Uses Up Investigative Hours Finding New 'Key' Witnesses
POSTED: 5:36 pm EST December 1, 2010
UPDATED: 5:53 pm EST December 1, 2010
ORLANDO, Fla. -- Casey Anthony's defense team revealed this week it has new witnesses that could unravel the prosecution's claim Anthony dumped her own daughter in the woods, but finding those witnesses may be coming at a cost to taxpayers.

Anthony's lawyers filed a motion on Wednesday asking that Judge Bevin Perry approve funding for even more investigative hours.

Perry approved more hours in late October. Defense attorney Jose Baez requested 300 hours. Perry approved 30 hours at a cost of $40 per hour.
Anthony was declared indigent in March, so a state commission doles out funding for her defense.

Many of the hours that have been spent have been used up by the defense in questioning dozens of people who claim to have searched Suburban Drive, the area where Caylee Anthony's remains were discovered in December 2008.

Defense attorney Cheney Mason told WESH 2 News this week the defense has 15 to 20 people who say they searched in the exact area where the remains were discovered months before the find.

Their statements by the volunteers could blow apart the prosecution's claim that Anthony dumped the remains there.

Other volunteers with Texas EquuSearch have testified under oath that the area where the remains were found was under water for months.
Defense attorney Richard Hornsby, who is not affiliated with the case, said it would be difficult for the witnesses to know exactly where they had searched two years ago.

If the new witnesses aren't exactly sure of where they searched along the long, densely wooded stretch of road, their claims could be easily discounted.

"Until these people give very specific accounts of where they were and what they did, you have to take anything they say with a grain of salt," said Hornsby.

It remains to be seen how many of the volunteers will be subpoenaed by Mason and the defense team to testify about what they saw.

"I highly doubt he found anybody who was in that exact spot and until he presents a witness list under oath, I'm very questionable of anything he claims," Hornsby said.

Mason said he plans to present the new witness list to Perry on Friday.

[trimmonthelake]

http://www.wesh.com/r/25977055/detail.html
Video at link

[trimmonthelake]

http://myclerk.myorangeclerk.com/CaseDetail.aspx?CaseID=6236234
11/29/2010     Motion to Compel
Additional Discovery
11/29/2010     Motion
Defendant's; to Seal Penalty Phase Discovery Response
11/29/2010     Court Minutes
11/30/2010     Motion
to Approve Prior Travel of Out of State Experts

12/01/2010Motion Defendant's; to Seal Penalty Phase Discovery Response
12/01/2010Amended Notice of Hearing 12/20/10 1:30 pm

12/01/2010 Motion
for Additional Hours of Investigation

12/01/2010 Motion for clarification/to Compel Compliance with Order for Additional Discovery/with Attachments

[Desdemona]

Thank you, Trimm, and all who help keep Caylee's case up to date... It is appreciated.

[loca]

http://www.wesh.com/r/25977055/detail.html
Video at link

Mason is sounding as ignorant as baez!! They truly are fishing with rotten bait.

[Gizzie]

I came across this video while searching on youtube and just wanted to share. Thought it was pretty neat!

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/lbV0xvFcNH8?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/lbV0xvFcNH8?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US</a>

[Western Observr]

If they have all these witnesses who searched the area how come they are still making phone calls to everyone on the TES list, even people who were nowhere near that area?  They don't have one. Just more  hyperbole from Mason..

[TURBOTHINK]

Rodriquez is NOT a co-founder of The Body Farm at the University of Tennessee. He was an assistant in the Anthropology Dept when Bill Bass started the Body Farm He got his PH.D. from UT and went into the military as a medical examiner. I will be writing the media to tell them to check their facts before they print any such garbage.

Rodriguez, William C., III, Ph.D.,
No. 40    Office of the Armed Force Medical Examiner
1413 Research Boulevard, Bldg. 102
Rockville, MD 20850
E-mail: william.c.rodriguez1@us.army.mil     (301) 319-0000

[Curly]

The Jar is just a big blowhard. I can't stand him.

[TURBOTHINK]

http://bullstopper.wordpress.com/2010/12/01/what-does-the-duct-tape-mean-to-george-anthony/
What Does the Duct Tape Mean to George Anthony
12/01/10

I haven't read this yet, but it most likely means he is going to be accused as the murderer.

[TURBOTHINK]

We have done quite a few concrete projects around here over the years.  That's a hella lot of concrete....When are the A's finally going to be arrested, for obstruction if nothing else....

I still hold fast to my theory that there was weed barrier found near Caylee, and it is a MATCH to what is(was) in the Anthony back yard.

I think the pavers from their back yard will be matched to the ones they found where Caylee was found.

[trimmonthelake]

http://blogs.orlandosentinel.com/entertainment_tv_tvblog/2010/12/casey-anthony-bones-and-skepticism-for-the-anthony-defense-team.html
Casey Anthony: ‘Bones’ and skepticism for the Anthony defense team
Bones, Caylee and Casey Anthony, Fox, WESH — posted by halboedeker on December, 1 2010 6:22 PM
Now we have a “Bones” connection in the Casey Anthony case.

Best-selling writer and forensic anthropologist Kathy Reichs, whose novels inspired the Fox drama, is among the expert witnesses listed by the Anthony defense team. Reichs is also a producer on “Bones.”

Anthony is charged with first-degree murder in the death of her daughter, Caylee. The trial is scheduled to begin in May.

Anthony attorney Cheney Mason made a surprising claim earlier this week, to WESH-Channel 2, that the defense had found 15 to 20 volunteer searchers who say they didn’t see the toddler’s remains “exactly on the spot” where they later were found. The claim would seem to back up the defense contention that someone else dumped the child’s remains in the woods after Anthony was jailed.

Mason said he present the list of witnesses to the court Friday.

Yet WESH’s Bob Kealing tonight explained skepticism about Mason’s claim. “If those people were not exactly sure where they searched along that long, densely wooded stretch of Suburban Drive, their claims  may be easily discounted,” Kealing said.

Orlando attorney Richard Hornsby, who provides analysis for WESH, said, “I highly doubt he found anybody that said they were in that exact spot, and until he presents a witness list and those people are actually under oath and say that, I would be very questionable with anything he claims.”

What do you think?

[SunnyinTX]

http://myclerk.myorangeclerk.com/CaseDetail.aspx?CaseID=6236234
11/29/2010     Motion to Compel
Additional Discovery
11/29/2010     Motion
Defendant's; to Seal Penalty Phase Discovery Response
11/29/2010     Court Minutes
11/30/2010     Motion
to Approve Prior Travel of Out of State Experts

12/01/2010Motion Defendant's; to Seal Penalty Phase Discovery Response
12/01/2010Amended Notice of Hearing 12/20/10 1:30 pm

12/01/2010 Motion
for Additional Hours of Investigation

Good Morning Monks.   Will they get more?  I'll guess YES!

[SunnyinTX]

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/os-casey-anthony-expert-witness-list-20101201,0,2530773.story
Casey Anthony defense team files expert witness list
By Anthony Colarossi
The Casey Anthony defense team has filed a new, amended expert witness list in court with a full-roster of big-name scientists expected to testify at Anthony's upcoming murder trial.

Among those on the list:

•Dr. Henry Lee, the well-known criminalist and forensic pathologist often associated with the O.J. Simpson case. According to his website, Lee is founder and professor of the Forensic Science Program at the University of New Haven. During a 40-year period, Lee assisted with the investigations of some 6,000 cases.

Casey Anthony defense attorney Jose Baez called Lee "probably the world's foremost crime scene detective." He will testify about evidence from the recovery scene where Caylee Marie Anthony's remains were found, Casey Anthony's car and other areas.

• Dr. Tim Huntington, an assistant professor at Concordia University, Nebraska, and a board-certified entomologist. Forensic entomology applies the study of insects to a legal context to help
establish times of death and postmortem movement of bodies
Richard Eikelenboom, a renowned Dutch forensic expert who, along with his wife Selma, is a partner at Independent Forensic Services, a Netherlands lab specializing in trace evidence recovery and Touch DNA testing. They are considered pioneers in the field of "Touch DNA." Richard Eikelenboom is a DNA expert who handles blood-pattern analysis.

Other experts listed by the defense are:

•Dr. Werner Spitz, from Michigan. Baez called Spitz "the grandfather of forensic pathology." Spitz, too, has been involved in other high-profile criminal cases. He also conducted Caylee's second autopsy, Baez reminded.

•Dr. Kathy Reichs, of North Carolina; Baez said Reichs is "the inspiration for the television show Bones." She is a well-known forensic pathologist and author.

•Dr. Jane H. Bock, of the University of Colorado Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Department; Baez said Bock is a "forensic botanist," one of the most qualified in that field. Bock often works for the prosecution, Baez noted.

•Dr. Scott Fairgrieve, chair of the Department of Forensic Science at Laurentian University in Ontario; He is a forensic anthropologist.

•Dr. Kenneth Furton, of University Medical & Forensic Consultants, Inc., in West Palm Beach. Furton is a forensic chemist;

•Dr. Barry Logan of National Medical Services, Inc., in Willow Grove, Pennsylvania, also a forensic chemist;

•Dr. John Leeson, of Winter Springs, a digital forensics expert;

•Dr. William C. Rodriguez, of Maryland, another well-known forensic anthropologist and co-founder of the so-called "Body Farm" or the University of Tennessee Anthropological Research Facility, which studies the decomposition of human remains. He is an unpaid consultant.

•Dr. Michael Freeman, forensic epidemiologist;

•Michael O'Kelly, an expert witness out of Nebraska, who specializes in cell phone tower operations.

Anthony, 24, is charged with first-degree murder in the killing of her 2-year-old daughter, Caylee Marie, in the summer of 2008. She faces the death penalty if convicted. Her trial is expected to start in May.

The defense experts are expected to testify about the various pieces of scientific evidence developed during the investigation of this case, including DNA evidence from the scene where the child's body was recovered in late 2008 and evidence collected from Casey Anthony's car.

"You will not find a better group anywhere," Baez said, noting that the experts are recognized as the leaders and authorities in their particular areas of specialization. "We searched long and hard to be able to give Casey the best defense possible. A lot of work went into compiling this group."

He said it has been "a tremendous pleasure working with each and every one of them."

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thanks trim......and no written reports?????

[SunnyinTX]

For me and anyone else who might be scratching your head about no reports written by experts.  Hornsby posted this http://www.websleuths.com/forums/showthread.php?t=93317&page=56

Generally speaking, if an expert is hired by either side AFTER formal charges are filed, the expert rarely prepares a written report specifically because the report can be used to cross-examine them in trial (or deposition) and can be given to the other-side's expert to pick apart.

On the other hand, when an expert is hired by either side BEFORE formal charges are filed, it is common for them to prepare a report specifically because the State must have some documented evidence to support filing whatever charge they file; and from the defense side, a positive report from a defense expert can be turned over to the State specifically to try and persuade them not to file charges.

And to put this in perspective, I had an Aggravated Manslaughter trial last month and the State hired an mental health expert at the last minute and specifically instructed her not to prepare a report. As a result I had to wait until I deposed her to determine her specific findings, what she reviewed, her qualifications, etc. I then had to have the deposition transcribed so I could provide the information to my experts to help me try and discredit her.

So the expert report issues works both ways, and there is nothing particularly shady about instructing an expert not to prepare a report - especially considering the report itself is inadmissible as evidence; rather only the expert's testimony is admissible.

And since the State is free to depose the expert, they are not prejudiced by a report not being prepared.