Defense Wants Casey's Reaction To Remains Suppressed

ORLANDO, Fla. -- Casey Anthony's defense team doesn't want a jury
to hear about or see Anthony's reaction to news reports when her
daughter's remains were found.Anthony's lawyers filed new paperwork asking that any such evidence be suppressed when the murder trial begins in May.

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On Dec. 11, 2008, former meter reader Roy Kronk discovered remains off
of Suburban Drive. The medical examiner did not positively identify the
remains as Caylee Anthony's until Dec. 19.At the time the
remains were found, Anthony was in the Orange County Jail. She was
indicted in October of that year in connection with her daughter's
disappearance.Anthony's attorneys contend that once the news
broke that remains were discovered, authorities set up a situation at
the jail to record and monitor her response to the news.That day, Anthony was taken out of her cell and into the jail's medical area to watch the events unfold on television.Defense
attorneys claim that the Orange County Sheriff's Office made
arrangements with the jail to place Anthony in a location monitored by
cameras. Lawyers say Anthony was told she was being taken there for
medical purposes, but in fact never received treatment.Anthony attorney Jose Baez said that he arrived at the jail that day but was denied access to his client.
The new court filing claims that the situation was set up in order to "circumvent Anthony's Sixth Amendment right to council."Defense attorneys contend that authorities hoped the situation would illicit a response that would incriminate herself.The filing also asks that accounts of her response be suppressed, as well as the video.Lt.
Tammi Unser noted in a previously released account that she took
Anthony to the female medical area to watch the events unfold on
television.Upon entering the office, Unser wrote that Anthony
looked at the television and immediately fell into the chair, doubled
over and began breathing rapidly.Several minutes later, Unser
said that she lifted her head up with her eyes still closed and
muttered, "Oh no," upon hearing the location of the remains."She
was set up and this is the exact kind of activity the courts frown
upon," Orlando defense attorney Richard Hornsby recently told WESH 2
News. Hornsby is not affiliated with the Anthony case.Hornsby
compares the account to fruit from a poison tree, saying that Anthony
should not have been placed in a position to potentially incriminate
herself.

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