Defense Depositions

Casey's defense questions dozens of officers

Last Updated: Friday, September 03, 2010 5:34 PM

ORLANDO -- It was one law enforcement after another in the Case Against Casey.

Anthony's defense lawyers spent all day Friday questioning law enforcement officers from the state and county. But her attorneys said it was a waste.

The lawyers got through a lot of deputies Friday. Thirty-five had originally been subpoenaed.

Anthony's defense said they shouldn't have had to question all of these law enforcement officers.

"It's the policy of this office to list every single person who drove by and waived," said Cheney Mason, one of Anthony's lawyers. "We're going to wind up taking well in excess of 100 depositions that should never have been taken."

The defense by law has to question under oath every witness the state has labeled category "A", meaning they may have material evidence likely used in trial. Anthony's attorneys said these officers aren't important and won't likely be called at trial.

Read more: http://www.cfnews13.com/article/news/2010/september/146607/Caseys-defense-questions-dozens-of-officers

So does this mean they need more time??? Serves them right...Watch them say that the state has overloaded them with too much work...Oh, well...that's the name of the game...tit for tat...

Estee wrote:So does this mean they need more time??? Serves them right...Watch them say that the state has overloaded them with too much work...Oh, well...that's the name of the game...tit for tat...

Hi, Estee!

They are not happy unless they are whining about something . . . so it seems. I think what they are trying to say is it is a waste of time to depo these officers. They feel they won't be called as witnesses although the State has them listed.

You know when my daughter was murdered, the DA came and questioned me, and my two daughters, but the defense atty never depo'd us.

Then the DA only put one of my daughter's, Kelli, on the stand, Karen and I did not have to testify. He told me in the beginning of the trial I was not going to testify, so I was able to sit in the courtroom during the entire trial. After Kelli testified, she was able to stay in the courtroom. Since Karen was never called to testify, she had to stay in one of the jury rooms until the state rested it's case and the defense started their bullshit.

However, we were told to sit directly behind the accused, so he could not look at us without turning around, and his atty was instructed not to let him turn around.

I don't know if the defense just doesn't question the victims family or if it was just in our case.

Ann - Tx wrote:http://www.wftv.com/video/24875405/index.html
WFTV Orlando, FL 9-3-10 Video

"Law Enforcement Wait Around For Casey Questioning"

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Kathi Belich is great in this video! Note the watch she is holding. She asked Baez about having 2 years to depo these officers. Aahhh . . . another Kathi Belich moment.
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Snaz, I think this needs your magic touch!

Thanks for posting the link to the video Ann. I love it when Kathi Belich asks questions that point out the buffoonery of the defense.

Casey's Attorneys Question Dozens Of Officers

Posted: 6:59 am EDT September 3, 2010
Updated: 6:09 pm EDT September 3, 2010

ORLANDO, Fla. -- Casey Anthony's defense team lined up 35 witnesses to question Friday. They were all law enforcement officers.

JUDGE'S ORDERS: Status Hearing | Set Schedules
VIDEO REPORT: Officers Questioned By Lawyers

That means dozens of cops were off the street Friday, sitting in an office away from their duties. Some of the officers spent hours just sitting and waiting.

The 35 law enforcement officers had no choice; they were subpoenaed. Some sat here for hours, not knowing when they'd be called for their depositions. Most were on duty and had other work they needed to be doing Friday.

There were homicide detectives, sex crimes detectives, a U.S. Secret Service officer and a crime scene tech, among others, all of whom had minimal roles in the first-degree murder case against Casey Anthony.

One detective told WFTV he was frustrated that he couldn't work his cases while he was waiting and said he'd never been to this kind of deposition before, where he did not have a specific appointment time. Homicide Detective Chris Dillon was one of the 17 officers who were scheduled for 1:00pm depositions.

Read more: http://www.wftv.com/news/24867547/detail.html

Updated Defense Deposition Schedule: (Not including LE deposed on Sept. 3 at this time)

July 30, 2010

Roy Kronk

August 6, 2010

Gerardo Bloise - Orange County Sheriff's Office
Dawn Murray - Dept Children & Families
Michael Vincent - CSI (searched Anthony backyard with cadaver dogs)
Jennifer Welch - OCSO

August 11, 2010

Jesse Grund - Rescheduled for ??
Richard Grund - Rescheduled for ??

September 8, 2010

Dr. David W. Hall, PhD University of Florida
James W. Jawitz, PhD PE (water levels)
Michael Warren, PhD - C.A. Pound Human ID Lab
Dr. Bruce Goldberger - University of Florida College of Medicine, Toxicology

September 10, 2010

Yuri Melich - OCSO

September 15, 2010

John Allen - OSCO

September 21, 2010

Michael N. Burnett - Oak Ridge Lab
David C. Glasgow - Oak Ridge Lab
Madhavi Z. Martin - Oak Ridge Lab
Mark Wise - Oak Ridge Lab

September 22, 2010

Arpad Alexander Vass - Oak Ridge Lab

September 24, 2010

Cpl. William Edwards - OSCO

September 28, 2010

Gary Utz - Medical Examiner's Office
Jan Garavaglia - Medical Examiner

Key detective set for deposition today

By Anthony Colarossi, Orlando Sentinel
8:55 a.m. EDT, September 10, 2010

A key investigator in the Casey Anthony murder case is scheduled to be deposed today.

The deposition of Detective Yuri Melich is scheduled for this morning.

Read more: http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/breakingnews/os-casey-anthony-yuri-melich-20100910,0,3521710.story

Detective testifies in Casey case

By Jacqueline Fell, Reporter
Last Updated: Friday, September 10, 2010 6:36 PM

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Friday was a big day for Casey Anthony's defense. They were questioning detective Yuri Melich, the lead detective on the case. The defense says they talked about newly released evidence concerning Melich.

"Discovery that was given to us last week has substantially important things in it from Melich that they've held back from us since August 2008," said Cheney Mason, with Casey Anthony's defense.

Mason said the discovery concerns cell phone pings and new witnesses they want to talk with but he stopped short of calling them suspects.

This new evidence makes Anthony's defense team ask "what else is there to know?"

Read more: http://www.cfnews13.com/article/news/2010/september/149660/Detective-testifies-in-Casey-case

Happy Weekend!!!

Dr. G To Be Deposed By Casey's Attorneys

Posted: 11:51 am EDT September 17, 2010

ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. -- Attorneys plan to depose several key medical witnesses in the case against Casey Anthony.

Attorneys will depose three people from the Orange County Medical Examiner's Office, including medical examiner Jan "Dr. G" Garavalia, on September 28.

Dr. G's testimony is key because she said Caylee's death was a homicide, but couldn't determine a cause of death.

Casey's lawyers have also recently picked up another 700 pages of discovery documents, which will eventually be made public.

http://www.wftv.com/news/25051329/detail.html

Filed September 13, 2010

Casey Anthony team to interview 'Body Farm' scientists

Last Updated: Sunday, September 19, 2010 1:01 PM

ORLANDO -- The Case Against Casey heads to Tennessee this week.

Casey Anthony's team of lawyers is set to interview four scientists who work at the Body Farm.

Anthony’s lawyers want to know more about tests done at the body farm for the Orange County Sheriff's Office.

Local investigators sent samples from the trunk of Anthony’s car to Tennessee to see if the scientists could detect indications of human decomposition.

The results were included in a 41-page report handed over to Orange County investigators last April.

Starting at 6 p.m. Monday, News 13’s Adam Longo takes us inside the secret facility and shows us more of the work that goes on there.

http://www.cfnews13.com/article/news/2010/september/152561/Casey-Anthony-team-to-interview-Body-Farm-scientists

Casey Anthony team travels to Tennessee to question ‘body farm’ scientists

By Mark Jenkins, Reporter
Last Updated: Monday, September 20, 2010 8:03 AM

ORLANDO -- The case against Casey Anthony heads to Tennessee this week.

Casey’s team of defense lawyers were set to fly from Orlando International Airport to Knoxville, Tenn., Monday morning to take on some of the nation’s top scientists.

Four scientists at a so-called “Body Farm” in Knoxville claimed there could have been a decomposed body in Casey’s car in 2008, shortly after her daughter, Caylee, went missing.

The 2-year-old was found dead months later.

Anthony’s attorneys hope to find ways to prevent the Body Farm’s 41-page report from entering the court room.

The site has bodies being studied in various situations, and various stages of decomposition.

Investigators in Central Florida sent the team in Tennessee carpet and odor samples from the trunk of Casey Anthony’s car.

The scientists said they believe a portion of the total odor could be human decomposition.

The “Body Farm” science is fairly new, and air samples from a car trunk have never before been introduced as evidence in a murder case.

http://www.cfnews13.com/article/news/2010/september/152561/Casey-Anthony-team-travels-to-Tennessee-to-question-%E2%80%98body-farm%E2%80%99-scientists

What’s at stake in Body Farm depositions? Central Florida News 13 explains

posted by halboedeker on September, 20 2010 6:41 PM

Casey Anthony’s attorneys arrived in Knoxville, Tenn., today for depositions with scientists at the Body Farm at the University of Tennessee.

In a report on Central Florida News 13, Anthony attorney Cheney Mason said, “These folks allegedly have some evidence to support some of the prosecution claims about the decomposition of the child.” And Mason added, “We are of the feeling that their evidence is not admissible when it’s referred to as junk science. So they can prove to us it’s not junk science. OK, but we call it junk science.”

The interview was a prelude to Central Florida News 13’s Adam Longo’s look at the Body Farm. Longo visited the Body Form four years ago and explained that then 155 bodies were spread across the farm for one-of-a-kind decomposition research.

The scientists there started testing in the Anthony case before Caylee’s remains were found, Longo explained. Casey Anthony is charged with first-degree murder in the death of her daughter, Caylee.

The scientists assembled a 41-page report on the case and concluded that part of an odor in Anthony’s car trunk was consistent with decomposition that “could be of human origin,” Longo explained.

What is at stake for the defense? To make sure the report and the four scientists who wrote it aren’t part of the trial, Longo said. Air samples from a car trunk have never been introduced in a murder case, Longo added.

Anthony’s attorneys will depose the scientiests Tuesday and Wednesday.

Read more: http://blogs.orlandosentinel.com/entertainment_tv_tvblog/2010/09/casey-anthony-whats-at-stake-in-body-farm-depositions-central-florida-news-13-explains.html

Casey's Lawyers Question Scientists In TN

Posted: 3:50 pm EDT September 21, 2010
Updated: 3:58 pm EDT September 21, 2010

KNOXVILLE, TN. -- Casey Anthony's attorneys were in Tennessee Tuesday where they began questioning scientists from the Oak Ridge Laboratory.

RAW INTERVIEW:Attorneys Jose Baez, Cheney Mason In TN

The lab's experts said they tested air from Casey's car, which indicated there was a decomposing body in it. But Casey's lawyers are calling the findings "junk science" and don't want the evidence brought into court.

"The bottom line is their science has never been admitted in court before, anywhere. They're trying to experiment in a death penalty case in Florida. We're just not going to do that," Cheney Mason said Tuesday.

Anthony's attorneys deposed three scientists. They plan to question one more on Wednesday.

http://www.wftv.com/news/25103499/detail.html

Casey Anthony team targets air-sample scientists in Tennessee
Testimony of these experts covers some of the most complicated evidence in the case: air samples taken from the trunk of Anthony's Pontiac.

By Anthony Colarossi, Orlando Sentinel
3:32 p.m. EDT, September 22, 2010

The Casey Anthony defense team is in Knoxville this week to depose key prosecution witnesses who intend to use new scientific evidence in the child-murder case.

The witnesses are affiliated with the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Oak Ridge, Tenn.

The testimony of these experts covers some of the most complicated evidence in the case: air samples taken from the trunk of Anthony's Pontiac.

The Oak Ridge National Laboratory scientists found particles indicating a decomposed body spent time there.

Read more: http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/breakingnews/os-casey-anthony-body-trunk-20100922,0,3652809.story

Where does the case stand?

posted by halboedeker on September, 24 2010 6:22 PM

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WFTV-Ch. 9 anchor Martie Salt said, “The defense has scheduled another 14 depositions in the case for later this month and October. Seven law enforcement officers from the Orange County Sheriff’s Office, the FBI and the MBI will be questioned.”

Read more: http://blogs.orlandosentinel.com/entertainment_tv_tvblog/2010/09/casey-anthony-where-does-the-case-stand.html