Casey Anthony attorney: Judge Perry has 'clear bias'
An expert also testifies about extraordinarily high levels of chloroform levels."Snip"
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By Anthony Colarossi, Orlando Sentinel
3:52 p.m. EDT, March 24, 2011
Casey Anthony's attorneys returned to court today for battles over scientific evidence that included surprising testimony about chloroform levels found in the trunk of her Pontiac Sunfire.
The defense filed a biting 9 page motion for a rehearing on its attempts to get Casey Anthony's statements to law enforcement and to her parents and brother and others inside the Orange County Jail kept out of her upcoming trial.
Today's defense motion cites "factual errors between testimony presented at hearing and the order denying [the] motion to suppress statements made to law enforcement officers."
The motion goes on to refer to a series of "inaccuracies" in Judge Perry's order regarding Casey's involvement with LE early on in the case on July 15 and July 16 2008. Also, "the court did not look at the evidence from the hearing objectively and instead displays a clear bias in explaining law enforcement conduct, factual inaccuracies in the court's order which were relied upon in reaching its conclusion, attorney Cheney Mason wrote in one part of the motion.
Chloroform levels extremely high, expert says
Arpad Vass, senior research scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory is testifying about his extensive research in buried body decomposition as well as surface decomposition.
Anthony's team is trying to stop air-sample evidence used in her murder trial.
Vass said Detective Melich contacted him about this case.
"He had some odor issues in the trunk of the car," he said.
Vass said in hundreds of such samples he'd collected through the years he'd never seen chloroform levels that high. His reaction, he said, was "surprise."
Vass says the amount of chloroform found in the air sample from the car was too high to be just from decomposition of a human body. "I don't think so," he said when asked by Assistant State Attorney Jeff Ashton. "It's much greater than that."
He estimated the levels found to be 10,000 times greater than normal human decomposition levels.
