Status Hearing 11/29/2010

Status Hearing (1:30 PM) (Judicial Officer Perry, Belvin, JR)

http://www.cfnews13.com/uploadedFiles/Stories/Local/050710%20Amended%20Order%20Setting%20Discovery,%20Motions%20&%20Hearing%20Deadlines%20&%20Trial%20Date.pdf

New Link to Judge Perry's Amended Order Setting Discovery,
Motion and Hearing Deadlines and Trial Date :

http://wdbo.com/common/pdf/orlando/ame_or_set_discov_moti_hear_dead_trial_date.pdf

wesh will stream live - will post links as soon as they are available

I will verify links as they come online . . . (Bolded if valid link)

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http://www.clickorlando.com/video/19046963/index.html

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http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/caylee-anthony/orl-casey-anthony-hearing-video,0,3860178.htmlstory

http://www.cayleedaily.com/2010/06/casey-anthony-to-appear-in-court-tomorrow/

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http://www.ustream.tv/channel/state-vs-casey-anthony-hearing


Live on TruTV

Changed time in thread title. Media reporting 1:00 PM hearing.

Agenda for today's hearing (according to Valhall):

* Prosecutors want the defense to disclose all financial arrangements and payments made to and with their experts (whether still their experts or not, I would assume). The state also wants to see communications and notes from those experts.
http://www.wesh.com/pdf/25878653/detail.html

* The defense team wants to bark up the Taphonomy tree again. They’ve already been denied their request for a Taphonomy expert once, but that’s never stopped them in trying again. Today they will try again.

* And a status check will be made to ensure both defense and the state are staying on schedule for the trial date in May 2011.

Casey Attends Hearing On Finances, Information

Posted: 4:32 pm EST November 25, 2010Updated: 1:55 pm EST November 29, 2010
ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. -- Casey Anthony was in court Monday afternoon for a hearing on finances and information the state wants the defense to provide. Prosecutors had to call for the hearing to get important information regarding defense experts; the information includes how much the experts were paid.

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Casey Anthony entered the courtroom exactly at 1:00pm wearing an orange, short-sleeve blouse and a pair of grey slacks (See Images | Watch Video). There was little to no exchange between her attorneys before the hearing immediately got underway.

Prosecutors started by asking Chief Judge Belvin Perry to compel Casey Anthony's defense team to hand over their contracts with their experts, bills and payments, travel, meal and entertainment records, and photographs, communications, and notes pertaining to the experts and their work on the case; the records go back before the defense ran out of money, after spending about $300,000.

"My first response to Mr. Ashton's motion ... there's nowhere in the rules that outline this particular type of discovery, at least some of it," Baez argued to Judge Belvin Perry on Monday afternoon. "There's nothing that entitles the state to this."

Soon after prosecutors filed their motion, the defense filed the exact same motion asking the exact same information pertaining to the state's experts and listed 34 prosecution experts.

"It should work both ways. It hasn't been working both ways," Baez argued about the information the state is seeking.

Judge Perry then pressed Baez on some of the areas of information the state is requesting, specifically records for travel, notes taken by experts, and photographs taken by experts.

"Other than work product, we'd be more than happy to turn it over to them," Baez said.

Judge Perry then pressed the prosecution on what qualifies the state to receive the information they have requested. While the prosecution argued their point, Judge Perry said they have other means for obtaining much of the information they are seeking.

"The discovery rules were never designed to eliminate attorneys doing things on their own they can obtain," Judge Perry instructed the prosecution. "As to the request dealing with one, two, three, and four, I would deny those without prejudice unless they cannot be obtained through their vehicle of deposition. As to five, six, I will grant that request."

Five and six refer to photographs and notes pertaining to the experts and their work. Judge Perry also ordered the defense to provide information to the state by Friday at 2:00pm on what experts will be testifying about, as well as the aforementioned photos and notes.

Judge Perry also ordered that the defense review of DNA evidence be completed within 45 days. The defense will also be required to give the state a list of witnesses as a result of the EquuSearch document review by December 31 and any depositions of those witnesses must be completed by March 2011.

Meanwhile, the defense wants permission to hire another forensic scientist at taxpayers' expense. Casey Anthony's defense team said the state has two forensic experts that are analyzing the decomposition process to pinpoint Caylee Anthony's time of death and explain the placement of her remains in the woods near her home, so it wants two experts.

The defense is asking permission to hire a taphonomist, which is an expert in decomposition.

Monday's hearing was the second in two months that switched from a simple status conference to a motion hearing that required Casey's attendance.

http://www.wftv.com/news/25921057/detail.html

CASEY HEARING: Part 1 | Part 2

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POSTED: Monday, November 29, 2010
UPDATED: 3:21 pm EST November 29, 2010

Excerpt:

Perry denied all of the requests, saying that prosecutors could obtain the information by either asking the witnesses or getting a subpoena.

Perry approved, however, the state's request for the defense expert witnesses to turn over notes, photos and videos generated during their work. Anthony's lead attorney, Jose Baez, agreed to provide the information to the state by the end of the week.

READ MORE: http://www.clickorlando.com/news/25946000/detail.html

Casey Anthony's defense to hand over notes and video

By Jacqueline Fell, Reporter
Last Updated: Monday, November 29, 2010 5:04 PM

Excerpt:

ORLANDO -- Casey Anthony's lawyers are doing all they can to keep its defense strategy under wraps.

In court Monday, Chief Judge Belvin Perry ruled the defense won't have to tell the state anything and everything about its expert witnesses.

Out of six requests made by the state looking for more information about the defense's expert witnesses, the judge granted two.

By this time next week, the defense will have to hand over notes photos and video from when the experts were in town examining evidence.

“We need some type of information that will help us know who we need to depose, how long and what subject," said Chief Assistant State Attorney Jeff Ashton.

READ MORE: http://www.cfnews13.com/article/news/2010/november/177891/Casey-Anthonys-defense-to-hand-over-notes-and-video

Casey Anthony's team told to turn over notes, photos

By Anthony Colarossi, Orlando Sentinel
3:26 p.m. EST, November 29, 2010

Excerpt:

Casey Anthony's defense team will have to turn over notes, photos and any video taken by expert witnesses and provide them to prosecutors following a ruling in Orange Circuit Court today.

Chief Judge Belvin Perry also denied several requests from the prosecution to get copies of contracts or agreements with Casey Anthony's expert witnesses; communications between defense attorneys and those witnesses; bills or payments made to the experts; and records of travel or entertainment for those witnesses.

READ MORE: http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/caylee-anthony/os-casey-anthony-court-hearing-20101129,0,7742313.story

Casey Anthony returns to court

Updated: Monday, 29 Nov 2010, 4:32 PM EST
Published : Monday, 29 Nov 2010, 1:54 PM EST

Excerpt:

Casey Anthony and her defense team were back in court Monday for a status hearing on the case. Anthony was dressed in an orange top with her hair pulled up.

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The state filed six motions and was granted two of them by Judge Perry.

The judge approved the state’s request for any notes taken by the expert or for the expert while they examined any evidence in this case be turned over to the prosecution. He also ruled in favor of their request for any photographs or video taken by the experts be turned over to prosecutors.

The judge denied the state’s request for
-Any contracts or agreements, in any manner or form, setting for the scope of work or expected compensation.
-Any communications between the expert and any member of the defense team, either past or present, or any member of their staff, or any one working on behalf of the Defendant.
-All records of bills submitted by or payments made to the expert.
-All records pertaining to payments for travel, meals or entertainment paid to or for the benefit of the expert or anyone traveling with the expert, by any member of the defense team, either past or present, or any member of their staff, or any one working on behalf of the Defendant.

READ MORE: http://www.myfoxorlando.com/dpp/news/anthony_case/112910-Casey-Anthony-returns-to-court

11/29/2010 Hearing - Minutes

http://www.docstoc.com/docs/64624375/11292010-Court-Minutes

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