Report: Anthonys too broke to pay for defense?

ORLANDO, Fla. -- Casey Anthony’s team is made up of some of the most high-profile lawyers in the country and it’s not a cheap case to fight.
Tuesday, Eyewitness News reported another member of the defense team dropped out of the case, but former spokesperson Marti Mackenzie didn't say why she was leaving. Wednesday, WFTV reporter Kathi Belich heard from another lawyer who was told Casey and her family were too broke to pay anyone.

Eyewitness News was told the Anthonys and their lawyer, Brad Conway, were looking for a lawyer to represent Casey who was willing to forego getting money upfront. Longtime Orlando attorney Robert Buonauro told Eyewitness News on Wednesday the Anthonys and Conway wanted to replace Casey's defense attorney, Jose Baez, early on in the case.

Buonauro says Conway said Casey and her family were broke and, if he were willing to do without money upfront, there was the possibility of some sort of defense fund or book or movie rights down the road. Buonauro said no.

The defense team has just lost its second spokesperson, longtime public relations expert Marti Mackenzie. Some speculate it's because the defense is out of money. All she would tell Eyewitness News was she was being paid for her year of work, she was not under contract and that she quit for confidential, professional reasons.

WFTV legal analyst Bill Sheaffer says a stronger indication that defense finances are in trouble is the fact that the defense has not really even begun to depose major witnesses in the death penalty case. He says depositions are labor intensive and expensive.

“There's too much on the line to pick and choose which depositions of the individuals you want to take,” Sheaffer said (watch full interview).

Sheaffer also said the fact that Mackenzie and two nationally-known members of the defense, Linda Kenney Baden and Andrea Lyon, have written books could indicate an expectation that at least some compensation for work on the case would come from possible book or movie deals down the road about the case against Casey.

Eyewitness News was first to report that the ABC network paid Casey Anthony about $200,000 for all her photos and videos of Caylee about a year and a half ago. But Sheaffer said an experienced defense lawyer might charge almost that much to take on a case like this.

source: wftv.com

Wow! Ok, so if Casey goes along with her parents and BC and agrees to get new Counsel, does the new Attorney get more time to get ready for trial and have the right to ask for the trial to be moved back farther then it already has been pushed back?

Any thoughts on if this will and can actually happen???

MommyOf3
This case has so many twists and turns, I sometimes feel Casey will die of old age before there is ever a trial.