Casey Anthony's defense says murder trial will start June 2010

Casey Anthony's defense says murder trial will start June 2010

Drew Petrimoulx By @ August 25, 2009 1:58 PM

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Casey Anthony's defense says her murder trial will begin in June 2010.



The news comes in a new motion(read) filed by the defense asking judge Stan Strickland to set a date for Casey's fraud trial.

"Miss Anthony respectfully requests a trial date in November 2010," the document reads. A subsequent motion changes to request to October 2010.

The defense says that date would give them time to try Casey's capital murder case before having to divert their resources to fighting the fraud charges.

Read more: http://wdbo.com/localnews/2009/08/casey-anthonys-defense-says-mu.html

She weighs in on start of check-forgery trial -- WESH reports that murder trial could cost $4 million

posted by halboedeker on Aug 25, 2009 5:18:01 PM

When might Casey Anthony's check-forgery trial start?

Jose Baez, her attorney, has asked for a November 2010 date, "presumably after the murder trial," WESH-Channel 2's Bob Kealing reported.

Anthony is charged with murder of her child, Caylee.

Prosecutors want the forgery trial to start within three months, WKMG-Channel 6's Mike DeForest said. "Anthony has offered up her own suggestion when the trial should take place," he added. "Casey Anthony has suggested holding the forgery trial in November of next year, about five months after murder trial begins. The judge's decision about the check-forgery trial could come down at any moment."

The stations also explored the latest photos and documents released by the state. The state last week photographed the "la bella vita" tattoo that Anthony received shortly after her daughter disappeared.

"It's a fairly common tattoo," Kealing said. "Prosecutors will argue that Casey got it during the first week of July while Caylee was still believed to be missing. They will use it as evidence that Casey was not really looking for her daughter -- quite the opposite appeared to be enjoying her new life without a child to care for."

Or as WESH legal analyst Richard Hornsby succinctly put it: "She was so detached from her daughter that she didn't care."

In a later newscast, Kealing noted that the case has produced 10,000 pages of documents and repeated Orlando attorney Cheney Mason's prediction that the case could cost $4 million.

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