Casey Anthony Videos "paint an ugly picture of her"

by artgal16 Sat Dec 05, 2009 9:39 am

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ORLANDO, Fla. -- Casey Anthony's attorney said he will move forward with asking that her check fraud trial be moved and said he wants the jail not to videotape future visits.

The check fraud trial is scheduled for January. Anthony is currently in the Orange County jail awaiting a murder trial in connection with the death of her daughter, Caylee.

Prosecutors said surveillance tapes show Anthony passing bad check after check, bleeding her friend's account dry. Due to pre-trial publicity Jose Baez said he still wants the check fraud trial moved. Defense attorney Richard Hornsby said it's likely Judge Stan Strickland is waiting as long as he can in case of a possible plea deal.

But Hornsby said he doesn't expect a plea. Prosecutors want multiple fraud convictions so they can use that against Casey in her murder trial.

"They want to be able to impeach Casey Anthony on any statements attributed to her in her murder case," he said.

Baez also said he hopes the defense can persuade Strickland to limit or eliminate videos of Anthony's jail visits.

"What happened with the other visits was horrible," Baez said.

He said the state's release of those videos "is used to paint an ugly picture of her."

Hornsby said that argument won't work.

"Every court is going to say, 'No, we're not going to give special treatment just because she happens to be in a high profile case.' No chance he's going to win on this particular motion at all," he said.

Hornsby said it's not too late for Baez and his team to have the check fraud charges delayed and tried with the murder case. That would eliminate any advantage prosecutors would have in trying this fraud case earlier. END

So the videos paint an ugly picture of her? Well, you know what they say
A picture is worth a thousand words!