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Fla. wants Anthony to pay for investigation
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Date: July 07, 2011 06:20AM
Whatever happens at sentencing, some still want Casey Anthony to paySee show times »By Lateef Mungin, CNN
July 7, 2011 5:52 a.m. EDT
http://www.cnn.com/2011/CRIME/07/07/florida.casey.anthony.next/index.html?iref=NS1
Don't miss a special two-hour event, starting at 9 p.m. Saturday on HLN. "Justice for Caylee: A Nancy Grace Special." HLN looks back at the evidence and the emotional testimony in the Casey Anthony murder trial.
(CNN) -- Whether or not Casey Anthony goes free after her sentencing Thursday, the saga of the 25-year-old Orlando woman acquitted of killing her 2-year-old daughter is far from over.
The state of Florida and a woman named Zenaida Gonzalez want Anthony back in a courtroom soon, along with a firm that helped search for Anthony's daughter when she was reported missing.
Anthony is due in court Thursday for a sentencing hearing on four misdemeanor counts of lying to police regarding a missing person case -- the only charges she was convicted of during her seven-week long murder trial.
She avoided the most serious charges when a jury acquitted her of first degree murder, aggravated child abuse and aggravated manslaughter in the 2008 death of her daughter Caylee.
Tears, jeers over Casey Anthony verdict Each misdemeanor count carries a maximum sentence of one year in county jail, for which Judge Belvin Perry has the option of sentencing her consecutively or concurrently.
Many legal experts believe Anthony will be freed on time-served because she has already been jailed for about three years.
Now, Florida officials are asking that Anthony repay the state for the enormous cost of investigating the case.
In a motion filed Wednesday, the state is urging a judge to set a hearing so it can tally up costs and slap Anthony with the bill.
"The efforts and costs of the investigation were extensive and not immediately available and accordingly, the State of Florida respectfully requests this Court to set a hearing within 60 days to determine total costs," the motion says.
The motion cites a Florida law that allows the state to fine defendants in criminal cases to recoup money spent.
"I think that is such a bogus move by the state," CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin said on CNN's "John King USA."
"Casey Anthony won and the state lost," he said. "The state's got to deal with that fact. Maybe they should be better at their jobs, not trying to sue the winner of this case. I just think that this is silly, trivial, demeaning to all concerned."
Marcia Clark, the former Los Angeles prosecutor in the 1995 O.J. Simpson murder trial, said California has a similar law that allows defendants to be fined.
"Look, we're all in dire straits financially and when a case costs undue amount of money and there's extra costs, really should the taxpayer bear that cost?" Clark said. "Why shouldn't the defendant bear the cost? She was convicted, after all. She wasn't completely acquitted."
Texas Equusearch, a firm that helped search for Anthony's daughter, also wants its money back..
The company said it used 4,200 searchers and spent $112,000 looking for Caylee in Florida after the girl was reported missing n July 2008, CNN affiliate KTRK reported.
Tim Miller, the head of company, told the affiliate he now believes Caylee was never missing -- and he is contemplating a lawsuit.
"This is the money that really needed to go to families that need us," Miller told the television station.
Additionally, Anthony will also have to deal with a defamation lawsuit from the real Zenaida Gonzalez.
At the time of Caylee's disappearance, Anthony told family members and police that a nanny named Zenaida Fernandez Gonzalez had kidnapped the toddler.
Authorities never found a nanny by that name who cared for Caylee. They did, however, find a woman named Zenaida Fernandez Gonzalez, who denied ever meeting Anthony.
Gonzalez filed a defamation defamation lawsuit that has yet to be settled in court.
July 7, 2011 5:52 a.m. EDT
http://www.cnn.com/2011/CRIME/07/07/florida.casey.anthony.next/index.html?iref=NS1
Don't miss a special two-hour event, starting at 9 p.m. Saturday on HLN. "Justice for Caylee: A Nancy Grace Special." HLN looks back at the evidence and the emotional testimony in the Casey Anthony murder trial.
(CNN) -- Whether or not Casey Anthony goes free after her sentencing Thursday, the saga of the 25-year-old Orlando woman acquitted of killing her 2-year-old daughter is far from over.
The state of Florida and a woman named Zenaida Gonzalez want Anthony back in a courtroom soon, along with a firm that helped search for Anthony's daughter when she was reported missing.
Anthony is due in court Thursday for a sentencing hearing on four misdemeanor counts of lying to police regarding a missing person case -- the only charges she was convicted of during her seven-week long murder trial.
She avoided the most serious charges when a jury acquitted her of first degree murder, aggravated child abuse and aggravated manslaughter in the 2008 death of her daughter Caylee.
Tears, jeers over Casey Anthony verdict Each misdemeanor count carries a maximum sentence of one year in county jail, for which Judge Belvin Perry has the option of sentencing her consecutively or concurrently.
Many legal experts believe Anthony will be freed on time-served because she has already been jailed for about three years.
Now, Florida officials are asking that Anthony repay the state for the enormous cost of investigating the case.
In a motion filed Wednesday, the state is urging a judge to set a hearing so it can tally up costs and slap Anthony with the bill.
"The efforts and costs of the investigation were extensive and not immediately available and accordingly, the State of Florida respectfully requests this Court to set a hearing within 60 days to determine total costs," the motion says.
The motion cites a Florida law that allows the state to fine defendants in criminal cases to recoup money spent.
"I think that is such a bogus move by the state," CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin said on CNN's "John King USA."
"Casey Anthony won and the state lost," he said. "The state's got to deal with that fact. Maybe they should be better at their jobs, not trying to sue the winner of this case. I just think that this is silly, trivial, demeaning to all concerned."
Marcia Clark, the former Los Angeles prosecutor in the 1995 O.J. Simpson murder trial, said California has a similar law that allows defendants to be fined.
"Look, we're all in dire straits financially and when a case costs undue amount of money and there's extra costs, really should the taxpayer bear that cost?" Clark said. "Why shouldn't the defendant bear the cost? She was convicted, after all. She wasn't completely acquitted."
Texas Equusearch, a firm that helped search for Anthony's daughter, also wants its money back..
The company said it used 4,200 searchers and spent $112,000 looking for Caylee in Florida after the girl was reported missing n July 2008, CNN affiliate KTRK reported.
Tim Miller, the head of company, told the affiliate he now believes Caylee was never missing -- and he is contemplating a lawsuit.
"This is the money that really needed to go to families that need us," Miller told the television station.
Additionally, Anthony will also have to deal with a defamation lawsuit from the real Zenaida Gonzalez.
At the time of Caylee's disappearance, Anthony told family members and police that a nanny named Zenaida Fernandez Gonzalez had kidnapped the toddler.
Authorities never found a nanny by that name who cared for Caylee. They did, however, find a woman named Zenaida Fernandez Gonzalez, who denied ever meeting Anthony.
Gonzalez filed a defamation defamation lawsuit that has yet to be settled in court.