Posted on 07/12/2011 7:49:20 AM PDT by Red Badger
A Florida judge is considering whether to unseal a jailhouse video of acquitted murder suspect Casey Anthony that was considered so "highly inflammatory" that it would have made it difficult to give her a fair trial.
The video shows Anthony reacting to news reports that a child's body had been found in a swampy area near the Anthony home.
The tape reportedly shows Anthony double over and start to hyperventilate when Orange County jail officials told her a meter reader had stumbled upon the remains near Suburban Drive, according to an Orlando Sentinel article from 2009.
At the time of the Dec. 11, 2008 video, the body was not identiifed to be the remains of her 2-year-od daughter Caylee. Positive identification came eight days later.
The court took what is called an "unusual step" and sealed the video on June 17, 2009 claiming that allowing the public to see it would be "highly inflammatory," and that the court "could not absolutely protect the defendant's right to a fair trial," according to the order to seal document.
Casey Anthony, 25, was acquitted last week of charges of killing her daughter Caylee and is scheduled to be released from jail this Sunday after serving out the remaining sentence for lying to law enforcement officers about Caylee's disappearance.
Orlando television station WKMG-TV Local 6 filed the request to unseal the video last week on July 6 just before the verdict came down. The station argued in its filing that "Now that the trial has started and the jury is sequestered, no prejudice to the defendant's right to a fair trial could incur."
While other pieces of evidence could be seen as damaging, the court said that "no other item comes to mind that would carry a similar inflammatory impact."
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Ping..........
I remember hearing about this.
It may spell doom for her ability to cash in.
Cash in? I suspect she’s going to have her hands full to keep from cashing out at the hands of angry neighbors. I cant imagine a place in this country she’ll be able to live in peace.
wonder what her boyfriend is thinking...
He’s looking for the chloroform stash
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Of course a mother is going to be upset when they tell her that her child’s body has been found. I don’t see what the issue is here.
She’ll probably commit another crime to get sent to prison where she can be with her own kind.
I think Casey Anthony did in fact kill her daughter, but I’m curious as to why the fact she doubled over and hyperventilated over the notification would be “inflammatory.” I guess I’ll just have to see the video as to why.
We don’t know until we can see the video.
Maybe it was such a put on it seemed to be rehearsed?..................
He’s thinking, “Boy am I glad to be back in NYC.”..............
Maybe she didn’t think they’d find the body. She got all emotional thinking that with modern science they’d pin the murder on her. If they never found the body then they couldn’t come after her.
“Of course a mother is going to be upset when they tell her that her child’s body has been found. I don’t see what the issue is here.”
Without seeing the video, my guess would be lack of tears. Sorrow and “oh crap they found her” would probably produce two different reactions.
Even there she’d have to be kept isolated. Child molesters/killers don’t fair well in prison. I was thinking 3rd world country as the trail et al would have been much publicized there.
Perhaps it shows her saying: “That’s impossible - I got rid, I mean, uh,...” or something to that effect.
Two teen aged girls who were in a street fight with another girl.
The two teens were charged, and so was the mother of the 2. Mom was charged for instigating and encouraging the girls to fight.
During the course of the trial, we, the jury, were removed from the courtroom while the judge and lawyers talked.
To make a long story short, we eventually found the mother guilty of two of the three charges against her, finding her “not guilty” of the one felony charge.
Some time after to trial, I found out that when we were out of the courtroom, the judge and lawyer were debating whether or not to allow evidence that incriminated the mom.
These girls and their mom had regularly posted videos on YouTube, and they were all of street fights that mom and her girls had instigated and participated in.
Of course the defense attorney got the evidence silenced. The judge ruled it had no bearing on the trial at hand.
I will always remember this. It will affect any future juries I sit on in the future.
I believe it was because she had no response whatsoever to other bodies found around Orlando, it seems one of those was a child, but when the news broke on tv in her presence, about this particular find, that she knew that these remains would be identified as Caylee. Something like that, and related to the location.
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