Circuit Court Judge Stan Strickland ruled Thursday that, Texas-based, Timothy Miller, Head of Equusearch, should be deposed in Orlando, and that Casey Anthony, the defendant, should meet all the expenses, prior to the deposition.
In his ruling, Strickland also ruled that documents pertaining to the 32 searchers that searched in the proximity of where Caylee’s remains were found, are to be disclosed to both the defense and the state.
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However, Strickland denied the Anthony defense team’s request for disclosure of thousands of documents of other searchers, and instead ruled that, counsel for the defense and the state could independently review these documents at the offices of Miller’s attorney, NeJame, LaFay, Jancha, Ahmed, Barker and Joshi, P.A.
Miller’s attorney, Mark NeJame, in a court hearing on August 21st, had argued that only documents pertaining to the 32 searchers who had searched in the general area of where Caylee’s body was found, should be disclosed.
He had stressed his concern for other than the 32 searchers’ personal information being made public, particularly when considering that Equusearch relied on volunteers. In NeJame’s view, disclosure of documents other than those of the 32 searchers, would be irrelevant and amounted to a shot gun approach being taken by the Casey Anthony defense team.
Equusearch, a Texas based volunteer group, had come to Orlando to search for two-year-old Caylee Anthony, after she was reportedly abducted by a nanny her mother, Casey Anthony, had said.
Judge Strickland has still to rule on motions in relation to preventing Leonard Padilla from being a state’s witness and on the defense request to postpone Casey Anthony’s check fraud case.
Casey Anthony is charged with first degree murder of her 2-year-old daughter, Caylee Anthony. If convicted, she could face the death penalty.
