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BLOG: Live from the Casey Anthony courtroom
4:48 -
The judge says egregious misconduct has not been shown. Motion for sanction is denied.
4:45 - Linda Drane Burdick is now making an argument for the prosecution, saying Baez's presentation contains a "full-scale failure of proof" and is just a part of Baez's repeated accusations of police or prosecutorial misconduct. She further points out that Baez's own witness contradicted Baez.
4:38 - Baez is now making a summary argument in his request for sanctions against the state, saying evidence was taken out of the vehicle and purposefully kept from the defense's experts, then extensively tested by state experts without the defense's knowledge, nor did the state list those experts on their witness list, as required.
4:31 - Linda Drane Burdick briefly questioned Bloise, asking him to stress that he told Baez and Lee that the bag was in Tennessee. Baez is questioning him again now, on re-direct. He's asking Bloise about any handwritten notes he had from inspecting the car. Bloise is saying he destroys his handwritten notes after he writes a typed report. Baez is asking about the importance of the additional evidence that Dr. Henry Lee found in his inspection that CSI missed - 17 hairs and another stain. He is also trying to refute Bloise's statement that he told Lee that the bag in question was at a lab in Tennessee. Baez asked Bloise if he could show the court proof of that in his typed report, and Bloise said no. He was then excused as a witness.
4:30 - Baez asked Bloise about the day that defense expert Dr. Henry Lee arrived at the CSI garage with Baez to inspect the car. Bloise testified that he told Lee and Baez that day that the garbage bag was in Tennessee when they brought the garbage to be inspected in a box, not the bag. Baez implied that that was not the case.
4:15 - Bloise's testimony reveals that he is the CSI that discovered the hairs and the evidence of decomposition in Casey Anthony's car trunk on July 16th. Baez is asking him if he saw the garbage bag in question, and Bloise is saying he did not. The implication is that the garbage bag was removed before Bloise processed the trunk. Bloise admitted that it's possible that knowledge of the bag's prior placement in the trunk may have been helpful when he processed the trunk.
4:08 - A witness has been called by Jose Baez. He's a crime scene investigator named Geraldo Bloise.
4:00 -
The court has moved on to the motion for sanctions. Defense attorney Jose Baez wants the state sanctioned because evidence (a trash bag) was removed from the trunk of Casey Anthony's car and sent to 2 state experts not on the state's witness list. Further, Baez says his expert was unable to access the trash bag when he asked for it. Baez and two attorneys for the prosecution, Linda Drane Burdick and Jeff Ashton, are huddling with the judge at the judge's bench after the prosecution objected to Baez's presentation of the motion. They said he shouldn't be allowed to testify on his own behalf, when there's the possibility of calling witnesses, and they accused him of just that.
