Status Hearing 6/21/10 (Criminal)

Casey will not be at the hearing.

Casey Anthony case back in court this afternoon
By Drew Petrimoulx @ June 21, 2010 5:00 AM

The Casey Anthony case heads back to court Monday afternoon.

The status hearing will likely focus Judge Belvin Perry Jr.'s insistence on moving the case along. One issue that remains on the table is whether 911 calls made when the story broke will be allowed in court.

"It smells like there's been a dead body in the damn car," Cindy Anthony said in a call that has become synonymous with the case.

The defense filed a motion last week reiterating their stance that the calls are hearsay. But the prosecution wants to use some of the calls to show that Casey made up the nanny kidnapping story.

The hearing is set for 1:30 pm. Casey will not be present.

http://wdbo.com/localnews/2010/06/casey-anthony-case-back-in-cou.html

Casey's Attorneys Back In Court Monday

Posted: 4:15 pm EDT June 16, 2010
Updated: 10:55 am EDT June 21, 2010

ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. -- The case against Casey Anthony will be back in an Orange County courtroom Monday afternoon.

Attorneys from both sides will meet for a status hearing with Chief Judge Belvin Perry, Jr. The judge could decide whether a jury should be allowed to hear Cindy Anthony's incriminating 911 call, when she reported Caylee missing and said it smelled like there had been a dead body in Casey's car.

Casey will not be at Monday's hearing.

http://www.wftv.com/news/23924161/detail.html

Link to live coverage:


http://www.wftv.com/video/23976236/index.html

I take it Casey has been relieved from status hearings?

Baez is not present either.......only Mason. I can't understand a word he says........

The courtroom is virtually empty...I don't see C&G, Brad or Dave for that matter...

How convenient...Now if Mr. Mason will only get his team on the ball and ante up we can get this game on!!!

And now for the review from TRU TV...

Casey's Defense Flip-Flops; Hearing Set For 911 Calls

Updated: 6:35 pm EDT June 21, 2010

RANGE COUNTY, Fla. -- The case against Casey Anthony was back in court Monday afternoon for a status hearing, but Casey did not attend. Judge Perry said she doesn't have to come to the monthly status hearings, which won't involve arguments on major issues.

In her absence, one of her lawyers argued the 911 calls made by Cindy Anthony should not be heard in her murder trial.

“There's something wrong. I found my daughter's car today and it smells like there's been a dead body in the damn car,” Cindy Anthony said in the 911 call.

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However, Judge Perry decided during the less than 30 minute hearing that the issue over 911 calls will be heard at an already-scheduled hearing July 15.

WFTV also learned Monday, there's new information about the site where Caylee's body was found. The defense has now flip-flopped on claims it has made all along, claims it made that it had evidence that EquuSearch volunteers had already looked for Caylee in the woods where she was found months earlier and found nothing.

That was the cornerstone of their argument that someone put Caylee's body there after Casey was kept behind bars. The defense argued Monday for throwing it out.

The case against Casey Anthony started with the frantic 911 call, made by her mother Cindy just minutes after finding out that Caylee had been missing for 31 days. In the call, Cindy stated that Casey’s car smelled like a dead body and that got the attention of Orange County deputies. But now Cindy claims it was all an act to get them there sooner, even though Casey's lawyers admit Cindy said the same thing to her co-workers that same day; her co-workers forced her to go home, call police and get to the bottom of it.

The defense is claiming the 911 call was not an excited utterance, but rather hearsay that should not be allowed in as evidence.

“There wasn't anything excited about it. It was contrived and planned and several hours lapsed by," defense lawyer Cheney Mason said.

The judge will hear both sides' arguments next month.

Meanwhile, the defense has completely reversed itself on whether Texas EquuSearch volunteers searched the woods late in the summer of 2008, where Caylee was found months later, but it's still trying to disprove what prosecution experts say, that Casey put her daughter Caylee's body there in June.

“What do you have that shows she was not there in June?” WFTV reporter Kathi Belich asked Mason.

“That's when Caylee was missing. We don't know when she disappeared,” Mason replied.

“The problem for the defense is that the forensics support the fact that that child's body was there in late June or early July at a time when Casey was not incarcerated,” legal analyst Bill Sheaffer said.

The defense also appears to be backing off of the claim that Orange County meter reader Roy Kronk, who found Caylee's remains, should be a suspect in Caylee's murder. It asked for more time to decide whether to list Kronk's ex-wives as witnesses after they made wild accusations against him, one of them involving duct tape like the tape that was found over Caylee's face.

Casey Anthony will have to appear at the next court hearing. Both sides will be back in court on July 15. They will once again discuss Cindy’s 911 call and records from the group Texas EquuSearch; volunteers from EquuSearch helped to look for Caylee shortly after she was reported missing.

Also, more evidence is expected to be released in the next few weeks.

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I'm so glad her tooth has been repaired and looks good, so she can continue to be the 'perfect' daughter for a 'perfect' mom and dad.

I am really afraid the judge is going to rule against the 911 tapes. After finding the car and taking it home, she goes back to work, fellow workers make her go home to get to the bottom of this, and she even washes the clothes that had been in the car, while GA washes the car. Then she goes to find KC. I think he will also say this was not spontaneous reactions. But, I sure hope not.

sitema.. i think what will make this an excited utterance is that the 3rd and now infamous 911 call where she stated it smelled like a dead body in the damn car was made admittedly RIGHT AFTER KC "broke down" and told LA and CA that she hadnt seen caylee in 31 days. up until that point, CA was under the impression that while her daughter was being a difficult little B, caylee was safe.

when KC told her she hadnt seen caylee in 31 days, that becomes a new excited event (IMHO)

i personally think the judge will allow at minimum the 3rd and final 911 call, the one with the money line.

I too think the Judge is going to allow the calls. I think the SA wants them to prove when KC started the imaginanny story.