Casey Anthony: WESH analyst asks, ‘Why should Casey Anthony be treated differently?’

Casey Anthony: WESH analyst asks, ‘Why should Casey Anthony be treated differently?’

posted by halboedeker on October, 26 2010 6:34 PM

In reporting on the Casey Anthony case tonight, stations focused on money for the indigent client.

***WESH-Ch. 2’s Bob Kealing explained a new motion by defense attorney Jose Baez that seeks 300 additional hours for an investigator to be paid for by taxpayers. “He says his investigator needs to look into all of this evidence being released by the state,” Kealing reported. “Baez says the 300 hours already budgeted by Judge Belvin Perry to fund the defense investigator has been exhausted.” The cost for those additional 300 hours would be $12,000.

Orlando defense attorney Richard Hornsby, who offers analysis for WESH, asked: “Why should Casey Anthony be treated differently? … Most attorneys don’t need a full-time investigator.”

Anthony is charged with first-degree murder in the death of her daughter, 2-year-old Caylee Marie Anthony. The murder trial is scheduled to start in May.

Kealing predicted that money would be the main issue at a status hearing on Friday. Anthony will attend.

***WFTV-Ch. 9 looked at travel expenses for the defense’s out-of-state experts. “Casey’s attorneys want their experts to be able stay at $150-a-night hotels at the expense of taxpayers,” anchor Martie Salt said. “They also want the experts to be reimbursed for business calls and mileage.”


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