Orlando Sentinel: The October trial date for the Casey Anthony murder case has been canceled. No new date was set, but a status hearing was scheduled for Jan. 21, 2010, at 10 AM.
This was decided at a scheduling conference held this morning in Orange Circuit Court Judge Stan Strickland's chambers.
Anthony, 23, is charged with first-degree murder in the death of her 2-year-old daughter, Caylee Marie. The toddler's remains were found less than a mile from her home five months after she was reported missing.
Since the state announced it was seeking the death penalty, authorities agreed the trial date would likely not take place this fall. However, it was officially delayed today.
Andrea Lyon, the latest attorney to join Anthony's defense team, flew from Chicago to attend the meeting. She wanted the judge to know she would be filing motions related to the death penalty in the next several weeks. She requested they be heard before the court in a specific order, said court spokeswoman Karen Levey. She also asked that the hearing dates be scheduled on Thursday or Friday, days she doesn't teach class at DePaul University law school.
The judge agreed, Levey said.
The prosecutors addressed two other issues: Anthony's tattoo and her fraud case.
The state's request for a photo of Anthony's "Bella Vita," which means "Beautiful Life," tattoo was moot. She got the tattoo around July 3, which was after she says she last saw her daughter.
The defense didn't oppose a picture so authorities are scheduling one to be taken soon, Levey said.
Prosecutors want to move forward in the check fraud case against Anthony and requested a trial be scheduled in the next few months. She's charged with more than a dozen fraud counts, including fraudulent use of personal identification information and forgery of a check.
Anthony's friend, Amy Huizenga, told authorities that she lent her car to Anthony while she was on vacation last summer. When she returned, she noticed the checks she left in her car were missing and her bank account had been drained.
Strickland requested a sworn affidavit from Huizenga, saying she too is requesting a speedy trial and doesn't want to wait on the murder case.
The defense can respond before Strickland rules on the state's request for a trial.
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Anthony, 23, is charged with first-degree murder in the death of her 2-year-old daughter, Caylee Marie. The toddler's remains were found less than a mile from her home five months after she was reported missing.
Since the state announced it was seeking the death penalty, authorities agreed the trial date would likely not take place this fall. However, it was officially delayed today.
Andrea Lyon, the latest attorney to join Anthony's defense team, flew from Chicago to attend the meeting. She wanted the judge to know she would be filing motions related to the death penalty in the next several weeks. She requested they be heard before the court in a specific order, said court spokeswoman Karen Levey. She also asked that the hearing dates be scheduled on Thursday or Friday, days she doesn't teach class at DePaul University law school.
The judge agreed, Levey said.
The prosecutors addressed two other issues: Anthony's tattoo and her fraud case.
The state's request for a photo of Anthony's "Bella Vita," which means "Beautiful Life," tattoo was moot. She got the tattoo around July 3, which was after she says she last saw her daughter.
The defense didn't oppose a picture so authorities are scheduling one to be taken soon, Levey said.
Prosecutors want to move forward in the check fraud case against Anthony and requested a trial be scheduled in the next few months. She's charged with more than a dozen fraud counts, including fraudulent use of personal identification information and forgery of a check.
Anthony's friend, Amy Huizenga, told authorities that she lent her car to Anthony while she was on vacation last summer. When she returned, she noticed the checks she left in her car were missing and her bank account had been drained.
Strickland requested a sworn affidavit from Huizenga, saying she too is requesting a speedy trial and doesn't want to wait on the murder case.
The defense can respond before Strickland rules on the state's request for a trial.
Read more hot stories Moms Are Talking About.
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Why cant they hurry up and put this witch out of her misery?? shrugs* as long as she stays in jail I suppose it don’t matter.
- Dee
I bet the Florida taxpayers just love to pay for Caylee’s murderer to sit in jail, eating her bonbons or whatever she purchased with the money that those pyscho people who keep sending her money. I say pool your money for a nice shiny needle.
- Mrs. B
The defense (no doubt) is loving this because they think by January people will be less mad or this case will be more “forgetable”. Well, trust me, I will be just as mad and I will not forget wheather this case starts now or in January. Either way she is going down.
- deon
I agree with Mrs.B-Save these taxpayers $$$.Get with the DP.Have you ever wondered why they use a ‘sterile’needle for the DP injection?
- jodi-b57
ummmmmmmmmmm well you know there are 2 sides to every story…..nobody is a defense lawyer or a prosecutor here…fighting fire with fire doesn’t work and that just shows the depth of ignorance here
- tiffany pettey
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