Looking serious and with longer hair, Casey Anthony appeared in court this morning, the first time in several months. But, the news was not good for her defense team and their client.
Orange County Judge Stan Strickland ruled on Friday that the defense motion to dismiss first-degree murder and aggravated child abuse charges against Casey Anthony, did not meet the requirements for dismissal.
Casey’s attorneys had charged in an earlier filing that the state’s case is based “circumstantial and speculative” evidence.
State prosecutor, Linda Drane-Burdick argued this morning that the defense motion is full of errors. “It’s a farce. It doesn’t even come close to the legal requirements necessary for the court to even entertain a motion to dismiss,” she said.
“The entire motion, from top to bottom, it is replete with errors, it’s insufficient as a matter of law,” Drane-Burdick said Friday in court.
Meanwhile Judge Strickland set a date for Casey’s check fraud trial which will commence in January 2010.
Much more serious for Anthony is the first degree murder charge which she faces in the death of her two-year old daughter, Caylee Anthony. If convicted, Anthony could face the death penalty.
