Judge Shoots Down Anthony Defense Team Motions - Raw Video! 12/16/2008

Judge Shoots Down Anthony Defense Team Motions

Tuesday, December 16, 2008 – updated: 3:41 pm EST December 16, 2008

ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. -- Casey Anthony's defense team lost another round of legal battles Tuesday afternoon when a judge rejected its request to quickly examine material
gathered from a scene where a child's remains were found last week.

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Anthony's defense team had asked for an emergency court hearing Tuesday afternoon to force investigators to turn over photographs, video and sketches of the scene. The lawyers also requested a second autopsy be performed on the remains.

Judge Stan Strickland denied all the motions put before him.

"Part of this is just pure folly," said Strickland. "I just can't do some of what you're asking for.

"Baez had wanted to get his hands on evidence investigators continue to dig up at the scene, which is not far from the home where Casey Anthony, her daughter Caylee, and her parents, George and Cindy, live. Casey Anthony has been charged with murder in connection with her two-year-old daughter's death. Her trial is tentatively scheduled to begin in March.

"They're not sure when they're gonna be done," Baez said of the investigators. "It's no longer a crime scene, it's more of an excavation scene.

"But Strickland quickly shot down that argument, ruling the defense team has no right to interfere with detectives as they process the crime scene.

There's no time clock on an investigation and if law enforcement doesn't do an exhaustive job, defense will argue it was shoddy and inadequate," said Strickland.

Strickland also said there was no need to appoint someone to oversee the work of the Orange County medical examiner and said the motion on a second autopsy was a moot point since the body hadn't even been identified yet.

WFTV legal analyst William Sheaffer called the motions "ludicrous." Sheaffer said it was unheard of for a defense team to ask to be part of a murder investigation. He also pointed out that the request for a second autopsy was a moot point because either Casey Anthony, or her parents, George and Cindy, would have the right to have that done once the remains are turned over to them, if the remains do indeed belong to missing 2-year-old Caylee Anthony.

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