Baez and Baden Bungle

by mom_from_STL Fri Mar 13, 2009 12:57 pm

Casey Anthony Back in Court: Baez and Baden Bungle Badly

Posted by Blink | Casey Anthony, Caylee Anthony Case, Jose Baez | Thursday 12 March 2009 1:52 pm

Orlando, FL– Casey Anthony appeared in court alongside Jose Baez and Linda Kenney Baden today to hear the most recent motions brought forth by her attorneys.

Linda Baden came out of the defense corner swinging. When she was told their motion for benchnotes was moot as she did not cite a Florida case to support her request, she became openly argumentative with his Honor Stan Strickland. Strickland in essence told the defense he is not their lackey, and the state has no burden to chase down documents for them.

Baez was next at bat with a heavy swing and miss. He brought the motion for sanctions and in effect tried to say “nevermind”, I’ll get them in the witness chair. Prosecutor Linda Drubnick objected heavily and reminded Baez that she gave him several options to rescind the motion and ample notice of same. She stated he made specific allegations and they in fact should be heard, by way of his own testimony subject to cross examination. She got her way.

A lengthy bench conference ensued with the microphones turned off. Baez first called Gerardo Bloise, CSI employee for OCSO to question his processing of Casey’s car on July 16^th. The State objected twice to his questioning as the scope of the motion limited to the date of November 14. The objection was sustained. Judge Strickland reminded Baez they were short on time. Baez line of questioning seemed to be disorganized and unprepared. He repeated questions that were not appropriate to the witness as it concerned the work of Mr. Bloise’s supervisor, Michael Vincent. At one point, Bloise requested Baez actually call Vincent as he felt uncomfortable answering questions that did not relate to his work product. Judge Strickland remanded Baez to allow the witness to finish his answers when prompted by the State’s objection. On 4 seperate occasions Judge Strickland reminded by Baez that he was there on his sanction motion, not to get into discovery and disallowed the question, to which Baez had no further questions for the witness. After changing his mind twice about calling another witness, Baez elected not to and began his argument for sanctions.
In short Jose Baez made the case for sanactions because they were not told that the Prosecution has A ROD on their roster, or in this case the Entomologist equivalent, Dr. Neil Haskell.
Baez did not so much as recommend an intended sanction, however he did say he thought that the State should foot the bill for Dr. Lee, apparently as they are at their roster salary cap and feel it is an unlevel playing field.
The State hit back hard that in no way did Baez lay out a case for improprietary requiring sanctions in any way. The Judge agreed.
Motions for Sanctions D E N I E D.
Lastly, Baden is out of the dug out to argue the motion that they want more examinations notes from Ricardo Morales’s computer, of which they are currently in posession of the hard drive. It would seem the theme today is “penny pinching”. The State argued that they are not certain what they mean by screenshots.
George Anthony appeared to weep when discussion of his suicide note ensued, and the decision was made that there are no public information requests on grounds of irrelevance to the case, and the media is free to bring motion to challenge that if they choose.
3 Motions, 3 strikes and the Defense was O U T .
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