Sniff Test, FaceBook and Another Lawsuit: The Casey Anthony Trial - Fanning

Saturday, May 14, 2011
Sniff Test, FaceBook and Another Lawsuit: The Casey Anthony Trial
Caylee Anthony, still waiting for justice

Excerpt:

After jury questioning, on Thursday evening, Judge Belvin Perry asked prosecutors why they kept asking prospective jurors about their sense of smell. The state said they had three preserved tins of air taken from the trunk of Casey Anthony's car--leftover from the air tests done in Tennessee. They want the jurors to open one and take a whiff. The judge will have to decide whether it would be allowed or if it went beyond the jurors' role in court. If he decides to allow it, it certainly will break new legal ground but it could also create an opening for a successful appeal.

Spicing up the questioning of the prospective jurors, the prosecutor pulled up one man's FaceBook profile and there he was chattering away about jury service. Judge Perry specifically told every one of those people that they could not mention it on any social media platform. To make matters worse, the state found this little tidbit in his comments: "Book coming soon!" If those were his plans, he sure blew it. He's outta there.

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