Anthony Defense To Review Search Docs Defense Team May Look For New Witness
ORLANDO, Fla. -- Casey Anthony's defense team will be reviewing Texas Equusearch documents at the Orange County courthouse on Monday morning.
Defense attorneys will immerse themselves in thousands of pages of evidence.
Anthonys lawyers are hoping to find a credible volunteer who will say that he or she searched in an area where Caylee Anthonys remains were later found but nothing was discovered at the time.
Casey Anthony's lawyers were looking over all of Texas EquuSearch's records Monday. The defense says some volunteers claim to have searched the area where Caylee Anthony's body was found months earlier and found nothing, which could prove someone else is the murderer.
It took the defense two hours to go over EquuSearch records. They are trying to find volunteers who said they searched the area where Caylee's body was found. The volunteers searched in August and September of 2008, which was months before Caylee was found.
Casey Anthony's defense attorneys say they have new witnesses who may have searched the area where Caylee's remains were eventually found. They say it could prove someone other than Casey killed Caylee.
They're sorting through thousands of pages of documents belonging to the search group Texas EquuSearch.
"In about 2.5 hours, we discovered over 50 new witnesses who all the records said had not been on Suburban Drive. [And they] have just told us over the phone that they were," said Cheney Mason, Anthony attorney.
One of those witnesses could be key to proving the defense’s theory that Caylee's body was dumped a quarter of a mile from her home after her mother was arrested -- meaning someone else killed the toddler.
But Tennis added that the approach could backfire on the defense. “If I were the prosecution … I’d sit back and let them go through the boxes, let them find the people that were in the area, and then send out my own investigators, and it’s just as likely they’re going to say the water was hip-deep, there’s no way way we could have gone back there,” Tennis said.
Belich said the defense had questioned volunteers today about whether they searched the area. The defense “will have to convince the judge some of these witnesses are relevant to the case,” she added.
WFTV noted that another Texas EquuSearch volunteer deposition will be Oct. 13, there will be more depositions on Oct. 20 and a status hearing is set for Oct. 29.
Casey Anthony's lawyers reviewed thousands of Texas EquuSearch records at the Orange County courthouse today and said they found 100 names of people who searched in and around Suburban Drive soon after Caylee Marie Anthony went missing in mid-2008.
These are names, they say, that were not previously provided to the defense.
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