Casey Anthony team: Stop jail video

Casey Anthony team: Stop jail video

Her team is challenging jail recordings, death-penalty procedure

By Walter Pacheco and Amy L. Edwards, Orlando Sentinel
10:31 a.m. EST, December 2, 2009

Excerpt:

Casey Anthony's attorneys will get an opportunity next week to argue several motions, including one aimed at prohibiting the Orange County Jail from recording her visits with her defense team.

Jail officials said video recordings at the jail, which are routine according to corrections policies, are for the protection of the inmates and their attorneys, according to Allen Moore, a jail spokesman.

The attorney visits between Casey Anthony and her attorney, José Baez, are usually held in a classroom that is always digitally videotaped without any audio tracks, Moore said.

"Our recording system in that part of the jail does not have the ability to record audio," Moore added.


Anthony's team also wants the destruction of most existing video of their meetings.

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Next week's hearing also will allow Anthony's defense lawyers to argue another motion — one that argues that Florida's death-penalty procedure is unconstitutional.

And because the procedure is unconstitutional, the death penalty should be precluded as a potential sentence, their motion argues.

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