Remove as needed MODS- relates to MC taking on another client immediately after AL departs though IMO.
From the Courthouse News Service July 01, 2010 Man Wants Attorney to Cough Up the $1M
By JACQUELINE J. HOLNESS
ATLANTA (CN) - A lawyer who told NBC's "Dateline" he would pay $1 million to anyone who could make it from the Atlanta airport to a La Quinta Inn in 28 minutes - as his client was accused of doing in a capital murder case - refused to pay a man who took him up on it, the man claims in Federal Court. Dustin S. Kolodziej claims he accepted attorney James Cheney Mason's challenge, made his deadline, and now he wants the $1 million.
Casey Anthony's "Angel" is leaving her defense team. Andrea Lyon, an attorney for the Florida mother accused of murdering her 2-year-old daughter Caylee cited a lack of funding for travel costs and other expenses as the reason.
The reason, they said, is that they don't want deputies from the sheriff's department to hear what they are talking about. However, the state wants the Orange County Sheriff's Office present while the defense inspects the evidence.
This is a very unusual, if not unprecedented, request by the defense to make the sheriff's office leave its own building, where the evidence is kept, so the defense experts can have privacy in examining the evidence. The defense has lost in its bid to win privacy at the Orange County jail, which is also a public facility.
Casey Anthony: Whine to this judge? Not a good plan
Caylee and Casey Anthony, Central Florida News 13, George and Cindy Anthony — posted by halboedeker on July, 2 2010 4:28 PM
snipped: Judge Belvin Perry ruled Friday that Sheriff's Office officials and the prosecution can be present for the inspection of evidence. In addition, cameras will be present.
Perry said the videos will be released to the public after they are reviewed.
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The defense will have to provide a list of the evidence they want to see.
If the experts want to talk about something, they will have to move to a private room. Anthony's lead attorney, Jose Baez, isn't happy but he said there isn't anything they can do.Baez was also not happy about the 5,000 pages of mostly letters written to Casey in jail were released on June 25.
Baez said he is considering filing a motion for sanctions against the state. He said there was no reason to release the letters and if it does in some way help the state’s case, it's their obligation to tell the defense.
At the conclusion of an emergency hearing over a motion filed by attorneys for Casey Anthony, Jose Baez questioned the State's motive in releasing 5,000 pages of jail letters as evidence. He said the release of the documents came as a surprise to the defense, as the media has received and published them before he was even notified.
Judge Perry considered the reasonableness of the defense’s argument but, in the end, denied the request. He ordered the State, however, to make available a room adjacent to the area where the evidence will be viewed so that the attorneys and experts can have private discussions throughout the day. The State is allowed to be present during the inspection which will occur on July 13 and 14.
Posted on Friday, 07.02.10
A jail guard has been fired for allowing Casey Anthony and another inmate to pass notes to each other. Correctional Officer Silvia Hernandez was fired Friday in Orlando for violating policies at the Orange County Jail.
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