Aedrey, your instincts are correct. The defense needed something to get Cheney Mason is a jerk news cycle bumped. So they come up with this evasive silly claim. You know b s when you hear it. They want Nancy Grace, et al to lead with Defense finds something new rather than Defense Lawyer Cheney Mason called a reporter a jackass.
The only reason anything could be new to them, which oddly they do not realize everyone is aware of, is because for two years the evidence has sat there, and the defense while squandering two hundred , seventy five thousand dollars, never brought the experts to inspect it.
Mrs. Drane-Burdick let Judge Perry know in the last hearing that
a) The State had offered, many times to send the evidence to the defense experts they would designate and
b) The State had offered , many times to allow for the defense experts to come to look at the evidence
In the words of Mrs. Drane-Burdick, "The court should deny the motion without even entertaining arguments on it." That is what I fully expect the judge to do.
EMERGENCY MOTIONS HEARING
PART 1
24 minute mark Mrs. Drane Burdick lets the court know that they have offered to send or have defense experts come to view the evidence
http://www.wftv.com/video/24124701/in...
For part of 2008 all of 2009 and six months into 2010 the defense has turned down these offers.
I'll say they found something new. All of it is new to them. You just can't make this stuff up!!!!!