Prosecutors Ask For Hearing On How Baez Is Getting Paid

Prosecutors Ask For Hearing On How Baez Is Getting Paid

Posted: 4:53 pm EDT March 9, 2009
Updated: 5:29 pm EDT March 9, 2009

ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. -- Prosecutors asked for a special court hearing Monday afternoon, to find out how Casey Anthony's defense team was getting paid.

The state is worried that Casey's lawyer Jose Baez could make decisions in the case based on a book or movie deal instead of her best interests. Prosecutors believe the move could be grounds for appeal if Casey is convicted.

VIDEO REPORT: Prosecuters Ask For Hearing

Many have been asking how Casey is paying for all of her attorneys and experts.. And even if there is a hearing on this issue, it might be behind closed doors. So even if prosecutors and the judge find out, the public may not.

Home videos of Caylee Anthony fetched almost $200,000 for the young mother last summer. Based partly on that argument, prosecutors want the judge to find out what kinds of financial agreements are behind the hiring of nationally known defense experts like New York attorney Linda Kenney Baden and Connecticut pathologist Henry Lee.

In a motion filed this afternoon, prosecutors said eight different lawyers and numerous experts have been hired by Casey Anthony and that logical conclusions must be drawn.

For example, Casey did not go from pauper to princess before her arrest. She's in no position to be managing her only assets, photos and videos of Caylee, so her defense attorney Jose Baez must be doing it.

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Casey Anthony case: State wants Jose Baez to reveal deals

posted by halboedeker on Mar 9, 2009 4:37:36 PM

The state wants to know: What deals has Jose Baez made in the Casey Anthony case?

On the 4 p.m. news of WESH-Channel 2, Bob Kealing explained that the state filed a new motion Monday afternoon.

"The state is asking the judge to require Jose Baez to reveal any and all deals he made on Casey's behalf to fund a team that now includes eight lawyers and other experts," Kealing said. She is charged with the first-degree murder of her daughter, Caylee.

At 5 p.m., Kealing reported that prosecutors are concerned that "any financial misdealings could be a conflict of interest and give Casey grounds for an appeal."

Or as Kathi Belich of WFTV-Channel 9 put prosecutors' concerns: "Casey might try to argue after her first, long, expensive trial that she should get another one because Baez steered the case in a direction that was most financially lucrative for him, not in the best one for her."

So the state wants to know all details of any book or movie deals that Baez has made. Prosecutors want Anthony to acknowledge that she has no problem with what Baez might have done, Belich explained.

Baez told Kealing that the state's action was a witch hunt and that he has done nothing wrong.

In the state's motion, prosecutors described Anthony's "conversion from pauper to princess."

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