Today’s hearing will be over four defense motions. The first is a motion requesting the court strike the prosecutors’ response to the court’s order that they produce the aggravating circumstances that would justify seeking the death penalty in the Casey Anthony murder trial. The prosecution responded to this order by simply listing the Florida statutes for the specific aggravating circumstances they believe apply in this case. The defense had hoped to get specificity in the response (i.e. insight into the prosecution’s case). Mr. Richard Hornsby has stated in an interview with WESH that the prosecution is not required to give further justification as to why they believe the listed aggravating circumstances apply in this case. Since the defense has repeatedly refused to produce discovery, or publicly produce names of certain experts they plan to use based on their own argument that they are not required to divulge their strategy, the defense’s request that the state produce what would amount to “work product” is a case of the defense wanting to save the cake and eat it too.
Also up before the court today will be a motion for reconsideration of several motions previously heard by Judge Strickland. Included in these motions are the defense’s request to be provided a copy of the illegally-obtained recording of the conversation between Joseph Jordan and the defense’s investigator, Mort Smith; to be provided a copy of the same portion of the grand jury testimony of George Anthony that the State has been provided via ruling by Strickland; as well as other defense motions concerning tips and the TES records.
The third motion has to do with Linda Kenney Baden’s motion to compel certain forensic discovery the defense states they have previously requested but have yet to obtain. A large amount of this evidence is attached with the work at ORNL and as the state has previously argued, it is not the state of Florida’s obligation to produce this evidence, but the defense’s responsibility to subpoena whatever they want from either the FBI laboratory or ORNL. In other words, the state feels they have produced all evidence they have and intend to use from these entities and if the defense wants more that the state is not interested in, they need to be attempting to force the individual laboratories, who fall outside the jurisdiction of the State of Florida, to produce whatever it is they want.
And then lastly, the defense is requesting that Casey’s visitation log at the OCSO jail be sealed. Here’s “the cake and eat it too” syndrome rearing it’s ugly head again. The defense’s hypocrisy knows no bounds – while in the same hearing they are attempting to force the state to reveal the prosecution’s strategy, they are making yet another attempt to hide their defense strategy behind a veil of secrecy by trying to prevent others from seeing what type of experts will be spending time with Casey leading up to her trial.
Valhall.
(P.S. And for those who noticed the title and wondered…yes, I’m a HUGE Eddie Izzard fan!)
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