<snipped> Which is bad news for Casey,” Kealing added. “Haskell estimated that Caylee’s remains were dumped in late June to early July — while Casey was still free, a scientific opinion that could blow up her defense team’s attempts to create reasonable doubt by suggesting the remains were placed in the woods in October, after Casey was locked up for good.”
<snipped> A hearing is set for 1:30 p.m. on Thursday during which Casey Anthony's defense team is expected to ask to spend an additional $2,000 in public funds.
Neither Casey Anthony nor her attorneys will appear at the hearing in person. Casey's defense team will call into the hearing by telephone.
During the hearing, Baez claimed that none of the state labs were certified The American Society of Crime Lab Directors. Brad Bischoff, representative for the JAC, could not confirm that any of the labs JAC lists as vendors are confirmed by ASCLAD.
Judge Belvin Perry said since the court had agreed that the items needed to be tested by an ASCLAD lab, he granted Baez's request to send the items to a lab in Pennsylvania called National Medical Services and spend the money on the testing.
WFTV-Channel 9 anchor Martie Salt summed up the developments this way in the case of indigent client Anthony: “The agency that manages state money had argued that the tests could be done in a Florida lab. Judge Perry said the Florida lab didn’t have the correct certification to conduct the DNA testing.”
WOFL-Channel 35’s Holly Bristow explained that the only labs with the certification are owned by the state. “Casey’s defense team did not feel comfortable with that,” she said.
Anthony defense attorney Cheney Mason said the defense disagrees with the finding. Mason said defense experts claim there were no coffin flies in the trunk at all.
Haskell has studied entomology for more than 50 years and teaches students at Saint Joseph's College in Indiana. He teaches a formula that uses temperature and environment to predict a window of time when someone died.
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