2011.01.06 - Today's Current News **NO DISCUSSION HERE PLEASE**

As a result, Baez will have to pay $583.73 in prosecutor's "attorney's fees" and provide written reports for all expert witnesses.

Those reports must include "a complete statement of opinions the witnesses will express and the reasons for those opinions, and any data or other information considered by the witnesses in forming their opinions and conclusions."

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The jury will never know about the fine, but WFTV legal analyst Bill Sheaffer said Baez's actions could have backfired.

"Was there any particular reason why that was not complied with?" Perry asked Casey's attorney Cheney Mason in court Monday.

"The answer to that is I don't know," Mason replied.

Baez let Casey's other lawyer answer to accusations that Baez wasn't playing fair. He refused to provide prosecutors with defense experts' opinions, before the experts are questioned under oath, before the May murder trial and he defied the judge's order to do so.

Instead, he wisecracked that his botany expert would testify about botany and one expert would rebut any false claims made by prosecution experts.

"A lack of maturity, again a lack of experience and it just doesn't speak well of him professionally," Sheaffer said.

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WFTV legal analyst Bill Sheaffer saw “a lack of maturity, again a lack of experience” in Baez’s failure to meet the judge’s order and also in Baez’s wisecracks. “It just doesn’t speak well of him professionally,” Sheaffer said.

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