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Judge Denies HOA Plea To Move Protesters From Anthony Home

Wednesday a judge denied the Homeowner's Associations request for an injunction to move protesters down the street.


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Commissioner Mildred Fernandez wanted the county to pay for off-duty officers to help keep the peace in the neighborhood. Fernandez wanted them to would work from 5:00 pm to 9:00 pm on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays.

Casey will be allowed to leave her parent's home today between 3:00pm Wednesday afternoon and 8:00pm for a visit with her attorney Jose Baez.


600 PAGES OF DOCUMENTS RELEASED IN CASEY ANTHONY CASE

"What have you done?" That's the question Cindy Anthony asked her daughter Casey after she smelled the stench of a dead body in Casey's car, according to new documents released Tuesday.

Eyewitness News sorted through 600 pages of legal documents just released in the Caylee Anthony case and found even more damaging evidence against Casey, evidence that came from interviews with Casey's own friends and family.

Caylee Anthony was first reported missing 69 days ago. Deputies believe she is dead. The documents released Tuesday reveal why her mother, Casey Anthony, is the prime suspect.

Most of the papers are transcripts of deputy interviews with key people in the case. The two most telling are investigators' interviews with Casey's brother Lee and with her most recent ex-boyfriend, Tony Lazaro.


LEE ANTHONY TOLD INVESTIGATORS SMELL WAS HORRIBLE

Lee told investigators that a smell in Casey's trunk was atrocious. The smell is critical to the case because deputies theorize it came from the decomposing body of Caylee. Lee says Casey claimed it was caused by dead squirrels (read full interview with Lee).

Lee told investigators that the first thing he noticed when he got to his parents' house, the day Casey's car was brought back, was the horrible smell.

"The trunk was open. The windows were rolled down to what I assume ventilate the horrible smell," Lee told investigators. "It hit you like a, a wave. I mean it was, it was, whatever it was it was very potent."

Lee told investigators Casey claimed she first noticed the smell on June 5, their mother's birthday, after she told Lee "two dead squirrels crawled up under the hood of the car, uhm, you know, and they died in there."

Lee told investigators he didn't believe it and said their father George was meticulous about keeping their cars clean and he would have noticed it right away.

Lee relayed to investigators how Casey started pouring her heart out about the tension between her and their mother over Caylee.

"'Mom has, uhm, thrown it in my face many times before that I'm an unfit mother and you know, maybe she's right and maybe I am,'" Lee quoted Casey to the investigators. "She offered up to me that even though Caylee's been the best thing and the best mistake that she indeed was a mistake. That she was Casey's mistake."

Lee said partly because of that atrocious smell in the car, their mother angrily confronted Casey about her claim that the nanny took Caylee.

"'We could have found her a month ago. Why did you wait? What have you done?'" Lee quoted Cindy saying to Casey.

In fact, despite all the bizarre claims that Casey's mother Cindy has made lately, she did admit to Eyewitness News long ago that her daughter obviously must have done something.


CASEY'S EX-BOYFRIEND REVEALED DETAILS ABOUT NIGHTMARES

Eyewitness News has learned that Casey wouldn't let her boyfriend, Anthony Lazaro, near the car when he picked her up at the Amscot after she said she ran out of gas and he told investigators Casey has had nightmares.

Minutes after Casey Anthony's first arrest, she looked as though she were "ready for her closeup," but her most recent ex-boyfriend told investigators at night when they were alone together in his apartment weeks after Caylee secretly disappeared, Casey woke them both with her cold sweats and nightmares (read full interview with Lazaro).

"I would just wake up in the middle of the night and see that she was sweaty in bed. And I would ask her, uh, why and she said that she would have nightmare. She was having a nightmare or something and then would bring up the nightmare pertaining to our relationship," Lazaro told investigators.

After June 16, still before anyone knew Caylee was gone, Casey started to live with Anthony Lazaro pretty much full time. He gave her a ride home from the Amscot where she claimed to have run out of gas. He wanted to try to start it, but she kept him from the car.

Days later, Lazaro told investigators, "She said that her father picked up the car and to take it either to a mechanic or to a dealership to get it fixed."

But George Anthony hadn't. Weeks later, when her parents realized the car had been abandoned and towed and smelled like death, Cindy Anthony tracked Casey down at Lazaro's apartment and told Lazaro, "I hope you're rich because Casey's going to take all your money and leave you high and dry."


CASEY'S FRIEND TOLD INVESTIGATORS OF SMELL

Amy Huizenga, who was with Casey Anthony around the time she was arrested, told investigators Casey even told her it smelled like something died in her car. The interview with Huizenga played out like a timeline, outlining Casey's movements and her demeanor around the time Caylee disappeared.

On May 25, at a "no clothing party" where Casey wore only an American flag, Huizenga told investigators Casey had an emotional run in with a man that she "claimed she had a miscarriage with."

In the days that followed, there were many more parties. Huizenga remembered seeing Caylee on June 10 and then not ever seeing her again.

Then an investigator asked, "The week of the 15th through the 21st you say she kind of fell off the face?"

"Pretty much," Huizenga told the investigator.

When Casey and Huizenga finally spoke again, it was the end of June. That's when Casey told Huizenga, "It smells like something died in my car."

During many more parties, according to Huizenga, Casey always had the excuse that Caylee was with a nanny.

Finally, the day before Casey's arrest, Casey's mom Cindy also told Huizenga about the smell in the car when they hadn't seen Casey or her daughter, saying, "They were afraid that it was either Caylee or Casey stuffed in the trunk."

Then, just after Casey was arrested, Huizenga told investigators Casey's boyfriend read a text message from Casey that said, "If they never find her guess who spends eternity in jail?"

The interviews with friends also show how they came to realize Casey constantly lied to them, including when she told Huizenga she couldn't take a trip to Jacksonville with her because her dad had suffered a stroke.


DOCUMENTS INCLUDE CASEY ANTHONY'S TEXT MESSAGES

The new documents released Tuesday also contain hundreds of text messages between Casey Anthony and her friends. Many of them are about partying and who is having sex with whom.

In fact, Eyewitness News only found one message that mentioned Caylee Anthony; her mom was excited that she was becoming fully potty trained. Then, shortly after Caylee's disappearance was revealed, Casey emailed her friends and told them the nanny took Caylee and she needed help finding her.


OFF-DUTY DEPUTIES MAY PROVIDE EXTRA SECURITY

There are new details about plans to use tax dollars to cover the cost of off-duty deputies protecting the Anthony home. One county commissioner is pushing the board to make its decision quickly.

Homeowners want protestors to stay on a vacant piece of land away from the Anthony home. If that doesn't happen through the courts, then Commissioner Mildred Fernandez wants the county to pay for off-duty officers.

People who live near the Anthony home are sick and tired of protesters invading the streets and their lives. Fernandez heard from several residents and now she wants the county to pay for off-duty officers from 5:00pm to 9:00pm on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays.

Eyewitness News obtained the memo the commissioner sent to Orange County Mayor Rich Crotty.

"I want to have a discussion with the board about the prospect of requesting a sheriff assign a deputy to the Anthony house," the memo read.

Sandy Calaley lives nearby and says her HOA pays for an off-duty officer for her neighborhood.

"I do believe those people need to stay away, but it's not our responsibility. They need to come up with other means to make this happen," she said.

Homeowners are also asking the courts for help. They want a court order mandating the demonstrators be required to move to the vacant lot. So far, the courts have not made a decision about the injunction.

There was also discussion that the HOA pay for off-duty deputies, but some argue they can't afford the $34 an hour each deputy would cost. Each homeowner pays $127 a year. That's $16,000, but the HOA claims it's already budgeted for maintenance and lawyer fees.

A spokesperson from the sheriff's office said they are in favor of off-duty patrols, but it's just a matter of funding.


DEFENSE TEAM ACQUIRES FORENSIC SCIENTIST

Casey Anthony's defense team has a new member. Doctor Lawrence Kobilinsky is a forensic scientist and a frequent guest on CNN's Nancy Grace show. Monday night, Grace asked why attorney Jose Baez needs a forensic scientist since Casey is primarily charged with economic crimes like check fraud and forgery.

"To Mr. Baez I think he as a good defense attorney is entitled to know what the science says. I don't make things black white, white black but I have to give him the best that science can offer," said Dr. Kobilinsky.

Eyewitness News received a fax from Baez's PR firm accusing the Orange County Sheriff's Office of leaking false and distorted information to the media and suggesting that Caylee may be found sooner if those leaks stopped.


ANTHONY FAMILY CANCELS VIGIL

Caylee Anthony's family cancelled their standing Sunday night prayer vigil in hopes of avoiding another confrontation with protestors. The Anthonys said they want to keep their friends and neighbors out of harm's way.

Casey Anthony met Monday with her home confinement officer as a condition of her bail. She set her weekly schedule, which includes meeting with her attorney Wednesday afternoon, Thursday and Friday, with her next appointment with her home confinement officer scheduled for Monday.

Meanwhile, problems continued over the weekend at the Anthony home. A fight broke out between protesters and neighbors early Saturday morning.

George Anthony tried to give bottled water to a group of Guardian Angels, who were patrolling the neighborhood at the request of neighbors. Some residents upset with protesters started shouting profanities and screamed for the demonstrators to go home.

When a physical confrontation seemed imminent, one of the Guardian Angels stepped in and everyone went their separate ways.

The sheriff's office told Eyewitness News that protesters who cross the line and break the law will be dealt with. Two situations are already under investigation.

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