Hearing Set For Anthony Case
A hearing is set Friday to discuss eight motions filed by the defense in the case against Casey Anthony — the mother of missing 3-year-old Caylee Marie.
Anthony’s attorney, Jose Baez, filed seven of the motions last Friday. Orange Circuit Court Judge Stan Strickland will hear arguments at 10:30 a.m.
To be discussed:
The motions are:
* Defense wants the state to release all records about its investigation into Zenaida Gonzalez.
* Defense wants Anthony - who is on home confinement - to be able to visit “key points of interest in the case” to help in the search for her daughter. Baez is requesting that her travels not be made public.
* Defense wants the Department of Children and Families - which did its own investigation into the child-neglect issue - to release its records.
* Defense wants to inspect the polygraph exams that have or will be given to anyone related to the case.
* Defense is asking for the flight manifest of Air Tran flight 862 that flew from Orlando to Atlanta on July 2. Someone reported seeing Caylee on the plane. (Investigators later located the child and the toddler was not Caylee.)
* Defense wants to the state to turn over results of forensic testing, including testing on traces of chloroform allegedly found in Anthony’s car and any documentation about the air sample testing done at the Body Farm at the University of Tennessee. (Authorities reported the samples showed at some point there was a decomposing body in the trunk.)
* Defense wants to be able to inspect digital forensic evidence, such as computer hard drives, cell phones, SIM cards and media cards.
* Defense wants the state to stop testing and handling forensic evidence until the court rules on how the testing will proceed.
Interesting stuff… Why is the defense interested in releasing the Zenaida Gonzalez records? Also, does Casey Anthony really think the court would allow her to take non-public travels? At this point, I think she is a flight risk. The Air Tran 862 records have nothing to do with this case and it’s a joke to mention them as if there’s a missing lead amongst them. The rest of the requests seem reasonable. On some level it’s nice to see this case doing something in the courtroom and outside of any media circus. With the O.J. case out of the way, coverage is destined to explode.
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These media events involving vicarious justice have a strong psychological appeal in the relief of subconscious guilt stemming from people’s own perceived ethical shortcomings in themselves. In fact, the worse people think of themselves, the louder they howl for punishment of the more publicly guilty.
The controllers understand this, and always try to keep some case of this nature in the public eye, to relieve guilt feelings generally, and particularly among those who commit major sins on the rulers’ behalf, like cops, politicians and mercenaries. It makes for greater job efficiency.
As a nation we have a right to feel very guilty indeed over our far greater degree of concern over our national economic well-being compared to our relative disinterest in the genocidal depopulation going on in Iraq, and the history of our country’s exploitative approach to running the puppet governments we set up throughout the third world over the last hundred years.
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