Caylee/Casey Anthony Case: Baez Motion Defeated- Amy Huiezenga Gets Her Day In Court
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Orlando, FL– Judge Stan Strickland has denied the defense motion to delay the check fraud case and will be on the docket in the near future.
ALthough the defense argued that the trial should occur following the murder trial, they have lost their bid. This is a MAJOR blow to the defense.
If convicted, she walks into the murder trial next year a convicted felon. It is possible that under the “prior bad acts” rules within the Supreme Court of Florida, that information will likely be admissable to the jury.
One can assume that George and Cindy Anthony are none to pleased at this decision; it will undoubtedly insure their compliance in testifying in the civil case against their daughter, Casey, brought by Zenaida Gonzalez through her attorney John Morgan.
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OMG, this is huge!!
I do believe Justice is knocking! Thank you Blink for posting this for us…the day seems brighter to me already!
Blink…did you get my email to you about the gremlins?
did, thanks, I am about 100 behind
B
Now THAT is great news!!
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Well, this is the BEST NEWS I’ve heard all day………THANKS
I have never posted here but always read. Just wanted to say you all are brilliant.
I am very pleased that the check fraud case will go on first for no other reason then I cannot wait till next June for the main event. I’m thinking of the check fraud case is the warm up act and they are always good too.
Can’t wait to see the A’s when their darling becomes a convicted felon. Would it be that she wrote the checks to “Protect” her family???
“If convicted, she walks into the murder trial next year a convicted felon. It is possible that under the “prior bad acts” rules within the Supreme Court of Florida, that information will likely be admissable to the jury.”
Defense, let me introduce you to a rock and a hard place. You tried to pay the money back to the bank, you can’t really plead innocent with video tapes of the act and restitution attempts. You can plead guilty or be found guilty….
O westside, that is just enough for me to put the news out, I am going to have a field day with how major this is. She will have to plead guilty, no other option.
B
Yipppppeeee!!! Stan’s the Man!
Thank you Blink!
Just caught this and read (the last couple pages) of the order!! (couldn’t wait to see yes or no, but I had a feeling the judge was taking his time and also, neither side argued that it would help or hinder their position if the accused was convicted, before trial, so he did not have to consider that.
Amy, you go girl!!! This will be a great help to Amy to move on. I don’t see how they can lose with seeing Casey and her smOOOOth technique with the Target clerk, and then there’s Lee’s statements to Tony about Casey’s check frauds, and to Tony’s roommate about how he (Lee) would have warned the boys about Casey, including her getting good at writing bad checks etc.
Why would Lyon have anything to do with this trial? Would her expertise really be necessary? I think this case is about as cut and dry as it gets! IMO
WOOHOO…..HAPPY DANCE…I’M DOING THE HAPPY DANCE!
Blink you rock!
Defense, let me introduce you to a rock and a hard place. You tried to pay the money back to the bank, you can’t really plead innocent with video tapes of the act and restitution attempts. You can plead guilty or be found guilty….
WSH…..that’s about as plain as it gets……..LOVE LOVE LOVE IT!!!
Nobody will be able to slap the smile off my face today! I’m just so excited. I was disappointed that Bozo always seemed to be getting his way, however, I think Judge Strickland is being very very careful and SMART with the way he is ruling on things. THIS RULING IS HUGE!!!!
And let’s see George say ‘I don’t see how it’s relevant’ again in Judge Strickland’s court! I wonder if the state will call the parents and risk them becoming hostile? Can they present their case without any flaws without calling the parents about ‘prior acts’?
I hope that they do not have to call Shirley. Or maybe she wants to do it, as this might help Casey face facts, at least, it was a tactic that Casey’s parents never tried to do.
Hot DAMN!!! This is HUGE and it is right!! I am so glad to see the victim’s rights being put before the criminal’s rights for a change!!
Blink, do you think we may now hear more about the shovel that she was supposedly buying from Home Depot that was caught on tape? There’s a few things regarding the fraud charges that I think is going to be VERY BIG when it comes to the murder trial! JMO
Sadly, no. I could be wrong, but there is no way I think the defense will want to go to trial in the economic charges. This is her first offense. No way will they want to open the door to relative testamony for the murder trial. Screws up their whole strategy, imo.
B
Good question, Granmomma, it was to puff up their motion to delay at least in part– they tried their very best.
Well, there is one rainbow in all the clouds for Casey, she probably served a good bit of what the sentence might be. I’m sure that Maura or Silver will come up with the respective sentences for the charges.
Here come the motions for delay-delay-delay…
nope, he has covered that.
B
#10 & # 12
Are we going to see mitigating factors such as mental illness in the fraud case? Are they going to try to assert that this had something to do with rescuing Caylee or following a script? Egads!
Oops, the numbers changed after my post. It was to Kleat & Granmomma in re Lyon on the fraud case.
Wow, I bet they are reeling from this one!
I’m still shocked that Florida lets you prejudice the jury by bringing in unrelated charges, though. What a weird place.
I’m so glad that Amy will get her day in court. Will this trial be strictly for her case or will the prosecution bring up the money that Shirley & Cindy lost. As Cindy said to Jesse once, ‘it’s only the one time”
Will Cindy & George have to testify. Oh, my! Cindy must be climbing walls and George must be breaking them down.
Hope that we hear soon when it will take place. Also heard we will be getting LP info out on Friday. Anyone else hearing this or am I having wishful dreams.
yep, njsleuth, she was protecting her family!!!
And MAYBE too, get some quick cash to pay ZG’s traffic violation at the bank nearest the OSCO clerk’s office? Now that idea comes closest to meeting the demands on the list– ‘go pay my traffic ticket and I’ll return your baby… oh, and buy yourself some new skivies and skimpies for sleeping with your boys and don’t forget the groceries and beer because I know you don’t drink pop and your parents have a year’s supply of ‘freezie pops’ for you to raid.” Now that will teach you a lesson you’ll never forget, Casey!!
I’m definitely happy that Casey will soon have to face some accountability for her actions but…I thought the reason the fraud trial should come after the murder trial was because part of Casey’s (ridiculous) defense to say that she stole from Amy in a ‘time of desperation’ while looking for her missing daughter. While this is beyond the scope of any thinking person, I thought this would be a potential conflict for the murder trial. Is there any way that this could possibly jeopardize the murder trial in any way? Maybe I’m just a worry wart…I hope so.
Anyone?
Blink….I understand what you are saying. It’s definitely going to be in her best interest to just plead this one out. DARN!!
Hey Bozo….take the fraud charges to trial….it’d make for a better book! And, that means more money!
Okay, and I’m not a member of the SL, but I sure hope ya’ll are all doing the HAPPY DANCE around the campfire and in the cornfields and on top of the ROOF TOPS!!!!!
Anyone want to take bets on how many fake I.D.’s were in Casey’s purse? And more important, what names were on them?
I do I do!!
B
What plea options does Casey have if they don’t want it to go to trial? Does the state have to comply to a plea? Why would the state comply? It’s really no risk to losing this with the evidence of videos, details of purchases on video, the cheques themselves, the circumstances of Casey getting the cheques from Amy without her knowledge, the clerk’s at Target, the bank video and clerk witness.
Why take a plea? That could be a mistake, because Amy has been affected by the publicity in a negative manner, so the trial should not be swept under the rug with a plea no more than someone paying Casey’s money back to the bank who paid Amy back.
This is not a chancy thing for Amy or the state– Amy should be able to take the stand publicly, and put a clear view on what she’s been through in public, to clear her image in public.
They dont have to offer a plea, that is not what I meant, I mean she will change her plea to guilty. Yes, barring anything hinky, they will accept her plea and then sentencing guidelines apply.
B
I am personally glad to hear this, Casey will now learn it is bad to steal something she NEVER learned at home!!!
One more question on the Home Depot video…..since the fraud case will probably not go to court….do you think maybe we will be getting that little tid bit in some discovery released in the future for the murder trial? I’m a little confused, can evidence for one investigation be used in another investigation or is that in a “backwards kind of way” double jeopardy? And, if that’s a really stupid question, sorry! I’m just glad I’m not too familiar with the law!
No plea– that would take more of the state’s resources, just because the defense has done, as Mr. George stated, NOTHING to move the case forward, nothing at all in the past year. So a plea will just mean the defense is getting what they wanted ‘second’– not to bother with this cheque fraud at all and if forced to, they can make the state waste their efforts by saying we will plead, and btw, make it a lower charge, low penalties for time served already, and money paid back. Same thing, but for the ‘conviction’.
Amy will not get any more than she has at the moment, for moving on, if they make a plea deal. The state can’t be worried about getting a conviction.
laura, sadly, I don’t think any of this phases on Casey. A sociopath does not learn from their mistakes and a plea will just be another neat little coverup for Casey– nothing learned.
ahh… thanks, Blink– got it straight now, duh. So it will still go to court– but if there is a guilty plea, does the accused have to speak anything but that one word? Will she face her accusor, including the bank and Amy and can the court inquire for itself, whether the accused feels remorse?
LOL BLINK!!! I can see you justa jumpin’ up and down in your seat at the head of this class, and waving hard, propping the waving hand with the other hand, because you know stuff the rest of the class doesn’t yet know and you are justa burstin’ at the seams with your ‘I do I do!!’
I’m assuming more than one… wonder how Casey used her mother’s credit cards after the huge wipe out of her accounts, would she have created a ‘Cindy ID for herself too possibly’, another work ID besides the Shamrock (oops, I almost said the ‘Lan…’ word), ZG maybe too.
If Casey was getting good at ‘passing bad checks’ as Lee said, she could have had a few options at her fingertips. And maybe the reason she left her ID and wallet at Tony’s, so her mom wouldn’t go through her wallet on the 15th.
Love to know what the Mn’M banter will be about at the next hallway coffee meeting in their offices… this is huge for them… goes to cheque fraud and possible ID issues… I think they will have a nice smile on their faces. Now, their date is coming up fast, for client Ms. Gonzalez, and this hopefully will shed light on that and stop the Anthony barakades on Judge Rodriguez’s courtroom.
Kleat good point! Hopefully it may be a lesson for other parents it is not always best to baby your children. They enabled her so much and trust when I say this Cindy sees nothing wrong with Casey stealing from Amy!! I would love to go into detail but trust me, she does not see any wrong in it!!!!!!
I think that due to this felony case, the state might be able to find out who’s paying for the defense, am I wrong?
The state knows who is paying for the defense.
B
Would they have to go to trial for her to argue no criminal intent, it was all a misunderstanding (which is why she paid it back), etc.?
Well, if the state and the defense knows who is paying….then when will we find out, if ever?
Why is it such a huge secret if there is nothing wrong with who’s paying for it? Is it Harris Rosen?
If the state knows who is paying for the defense why haven’t they disclosed that?
They have no standing to. Who is paying for Casey’s defense, as long as it is not a conflict ( which Strickland did not feel it was) is nobody’s business.
Blink,
When KC is convicted for ther fraud charges, will she be sent to general population in prison? Or will she stay in jail?
This is such a good day in the neighborhood!!
no
B
Holy crapola! This takes my mind back to a million comments on Blink’s site waaaay back in the beginning about this very subject. Talk about a million variables if it goes to court. I can see this thread getting very, very long
. Congratulations to Amy and her legal team….it is how it should be. I will be VERY surprised if this goes to court. You just won’t be able to put a tight enough cover on the worms that will come crawling out of this can! Guilty and move on, I say. This statement interested me (from the link in Blink’s article):
“All our resources need to be focused on defending Casey Anthony from the State’s determination to seek the death penalty,” spokeswoman Marti Mackenzie said in an e-mail to the Orlando Sentinel.
This statement pretty much says it all. The words “innocent” or “not guilty” do not appear in their statement at all. I rest my case. Have fun with Blink’s new article everyone….I am thrilled!!!!
Re: 41 – not “court”…I meant goes to “trial”. Got so excited I was tripping over myself.
This is great news! The first step in that long walk down the plank!
Blink, wouldn’t you like to know who’s paying for the defense and more importantly, why?
I know who is paying for the defense, and it is possible with the release of the padilla tapes tomorrow, perhaps everyone will hear what I have been saying from day one.
B
Im actually damcing in my chair……….High 5 to the judge for seeing through Baez’s ime to cop a deal deal CASEY! I can smell what the trial is cooking…..HAPPY DAY……HAPPY HAPPY JOY JOY !!!!!
I’m not sure I understand. Why wouldn’t she go into general population? They can’t keep her inprotective custody forever. Besides, if they were to put her in general population and she got a taste of what REAL prison is like – she may think differently about all the lies.
#29
“One more question on the Home Depot video…..since the fraud case will probably not go to court….do you think maybe we will be getting that little tid bit in some discovery released in the future for the murder trial? I’m a little confused, can evidence for one investigation be used in another investigation or is that in a “backwards kind of way” double jeopardy? And, if that’s a really stup”id question, sorry! I’m just glad I’m not too familiar with the law!
Granmomma
If it illustrates what Casey was doing while Caylee was missing, I would imagine that it COULD come into the murder trial; if it was within the time line of the month after Caylee’s disappearance (or shortly before).
I guess it depends on how the judge will rule on it. I’m sure the legal eagles will weigh in.
I will slow down my typing…I spell better that way…sorry fellow Blink readers
Casey Anthony: Could she be a felon by time of murder trial?
EXCERPT:
What does it mean? “Casey Anthony could be a convicted felon by the time she faces trial next summer for her life in the murder of her daughter, Caylee,” WKMG’s Tony Pipitone said.
Anthony’s defense team had asked for the check-fraud case to be delayed after the murder trial. Pipitone said the defense team told him today that it was disappointed in Judge Stan Strickland’s ruling and that it needs to focus on the murder trial.
Pipitone speculated that the check-fraud trial could start this month or next. Anthony faces 13 felony counts in the forgery case, and each is punishable by up to five years in prison, Pipitone explained.
Strickland said that Amy Huizenga, the check-forgery victim, made a compelling argument to get the case over, Pipitone explained. Huizenga is Anthony’s former best friend.
http://blogs.orlandosentinel.com/ent…der-trial.html
http://blogs.orlandosentinel.com/entertainment_tv_tvblog/2009/09/casey-anthony-could-she-be-a-felon-by-time-of-murder-trial.html
Sorry for the bad link, can you edit it?
Lady Justice finally on Caylee’s side this is a sign of things to come…thanks Blink for keeping up!
Folks finally some justice!
get the popcorn and a soda and lets watch the show! I am buying!