Defense wants more detail from state about death penalty

Casey Anthony: Defense wants more detail from state about death penalty

posted by halboedeker on May, 20 2010 1:37 PM

The state has listed five aggravating factors for seeking the death penalty in the Casey Anthony case.

“Today, the defense says that’s not good enough,” WESH-Channel 2’s Bob Kealing said.

Or as WFTV-Channel 9 anchor Vanessa Echols put it: “A defense motion filed today also claims that prosecutors were not definitive about using all five of the death-penalty aggravators and that they failed to indicate which evidence they planned to use to prove the aggravators.”

Anthony is charged with first-degree murder in the death of her daughter, Caylee.

Those five aggravating factors are cold, calculated premeditation; the victim’s being younger than 12; the victim’s being in her mother’s care; that the murder was committed during aggravated child abuse; and that it was a particularly atrocious, heinous or cruel crime.

The defense also wants more discovery evidence from a sniff test performed on the air in Anthony’s car, and the state could release 500 pages of evidence as early as tomorrow, Kealing reported.


http://blogs.orlandosentinel.com/entertainment_tv_tvblog/2010/05/casey-anthony-defense-wants-more-detail-from-state-about-death-penalty.html