586 Pages Of Evidence Released In Casey Case

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Posted: 9:50 am EDT May
21, 2010Updated: 12:13 pm EDT May 21, 2010ORLANDO,
Fla. -- Prosecutors in the case against Casey released 586
pages Friday morning that contain FBI evidence and emails. The documents
also contain information about evidence found in the trunk of Casey’s
car.DOCUMENTS: Read All 586 Pages Of Evidence
The defense team may try to use
the FBI emails to raise some important questions. Casey’s lawyers had
asked for the communications between investigators, obviously looking
for breakdowns in the chain of command protecting the integrity of the
evidence or anything else that could help them attack or eliminate some
of the massive evidence against Casey.Photos of evidence in
sealed packages show a breach of the packaging. It's unclear whether the
breach goes through and through, but if it does the defense may try to
get the evidence thrown out of the case, attempting to argue it has been
contaminated, even if there's no evidence to confirm that. It's unclear
what's in that package.FBI documents showing the chain of
command of evidence, which was requested by the defense was also
released Friday. One set of communications between investigators shows
they were working to retrieve evidence from Casey Anthony’s car trunk
that apparently had been sent to the Florida Department of Law
Enforcement lab and then to the Wuestoff lab, which is a private lab for
testing. The evidence included soil, trunk liner and carpeting. The FBI
wanted to handle all testing of physical evidence and said certain
testing could not be done if the private lab or FDLE had started testing
the evidence.In the end, they figured out that testing had not
been done by any other lab. But WFTV legal analyst Bill Sheaffer says
the defense could raise questions about how many people had access to
that evidence before it came back to the FBI and whether it had been
contaminated.Also, a hearing has been scheduled for June 1
concerning the defense team's fight to keep public records about Casey's
visitors at the jail private and its request for Judge Perry to review
some previous rulings made by Judge Stan Strickland before he recused
himself over questions about his conversations with a blogger.Meanwhile,
the foreclosure case involving Casey Anthony's parents, George and
Cindy, is headed toward mediation.An Orange County judge signed
paperwork Thursday, ordering the Anthony’s into mediation with Bank of
America for their home on Hope Spring Drive.