Casey Anthony: A birthday present for Roy Kronk - Hal

by mom_in_il Sat Jan 22, 2011 4:57 pm

Casey Anthony: A birthday present for Roy Kronk
posted by halboedeker on January, 21 2011 5:49 PM

Roy Kronk talked to the press in 2009. Photo credit: Red Huber/Orlando Sentinel
Chief Judge Belvin Perry has delivered some good news for Roy Kronk, the discoverer of Caylee Anthony’s remains.

Perry today determined that allegations about Kronk’s past had nothing to do with the former meter reader’s finding the toddler’s body, WESH-Channel 2’s Bob Kealing reported tonight. And those allegations cannot be introduced at the trial of Casey Anthony, who is charged with first-degree murder in Caylee’s death.

David Evans, Kronk’s attorney, said in Kealing’s succinct report at 4 p.m.: “Tomorrow’s his birthday, and he said it’s a great birthday present that he would learn today that the judge has thrown out this effort, that we’ve said from the beginning, was just kind of wrong-headed.”

Attorney Jeff Deen, providing analysis for WESH, said of Kronk: “There’s nothing that that man has done that I can see makes him suspect.”

In other Anthony developments:

***WESH and WFTV-Channel 9 reported that Robyn Adams, Anthony’s pen pal at the Orange County Jail, will be moved from a penitentiary in Tallahassee to testify at a hearing here. Perry didn’t specify a date when Adams, a convicted drug dealer, will testify, Kealing reported. “Casey allegedly told Adams that she gave Caylee chloroform and that she did not want to be a mom,” WFTV anchor Martie Salt said.

***WESH reported there will be a hearing Monday on a defense request for more taxpayer money — $12,000 — for investigative costs in the case. Another Kealing report highlighted that the defense request puts Perry in a difficult spot.

The reason: In a WESH report Thursday, several supposed defense witnesses undercut a defense argument that someone other than Anthony dumped Caylee’s body after Casey was jailed.

Attorney Deen, offering more analysis for WESH, explained Perry’s problem: “The judge is in a position of trying to guard the public money, but on the other hand, he cannot thwart this defendant’s ability to move around and investigate her case.”

***WFTV also reported that Perry ruled that Texas EquuSearch founder Tim Miller cannot be asked at the trial about his statement that Anthony almost marked Caylee’s location on a map.

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