Casey Anthony: From "Anything But Clothes" to "Anything But County Issued Clothes" Casey Opts For Business Attire For Friday's Hearing

Casey Anthony, sans makeup
and "night club" attire; trades
county issued blues for
business jacket for hearing.

Casey Anthony Transformed; Body Language Expert Comments; Baez Says Media "Is Making Too Much of It."

Casey Anthony has morphed from party girl, to the matronly librarian look. Friday, she wore an ill-fitted gray suit jacket, along with her jail issued pants. She wore her hair curled into a matronly bun and there was no makeup covering the circles under her eyes or the jail pallor showing through in her complexion.
"What you saw today is Casey. I don't know what you mean by different. Maybe the clothing is different, but she's the same person and that's Casey," Baez said after the hearing (full interview). "I think you guys are paying so much attention to it, it really goes back to my objections. It's irrelevant about what she's wearing, what her nails look like, and it has nothing to do with her guilt or innocence."
But a body language expert was watching Casey closely, interpreting her outward appearance and what was underneath.
"Facial expressions were consistent, though, with sadness, with depression," body language expert Susan Constantine commented.

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The defense did win the judge's help in getting onto the private property where Caylee's remains were found in December (read search scene motion), but it lost its attempt at getting prosecutors kicked off the case (read Baez motion to recuse).
The defense team had argued that a State Attorney's Office complaint to the Florida Bar, against Baez's public relations firm, disqualified the prosecutors.
"Why was it being filed? What was discussed? Was there any motivation?" questioned defense attorney Linda Kenny-Baden.
"If they are suggesting that a Bar complaint is embarrassing to Mr. Baez or time consuming or requires him to hire a lawyer or to take other action, that inures to him not to Miss Anthony," prosecutor Linda Drain argued.
Baez's public relations firm, Press Corps Media, had accused State Attorney Lawson Lamar of playing politics with the case by getting a murder indictment against Casey during his reelection bid (read Press Corps release). Circuit Judge Stan Strickland dismissed the defense's argument in minutes.
"These three aren't involved. I don't know that this affects us. And that's it for that," Judge Strickland said.
Friday afternoon, hours after the 35-minute hearing ended, Judge Stan Strickland denied Baez's motion (read judge's denial) that would force EquuSearch to hand over its records concerning its Caylee searches (read State's response to Baez EquuSearch motion).
An attorney for the search group, Mark NeJame, called the request a "fishing expedition" and told the judge he didn't have jurisdiction to issue a subpoena for the records because the search group was based in Texas, not Florida. None of the volunteer searchers were in the exact spot where Caylee's remains were found, NeJame said (NeJame interview after hearing).
In the judge's denial, he agreed with NeJame in stating that "this Court does not have jurisdiction."
It was also learned it could be a year or more before the case even goes before a jury, but that may be more clear when a status hearing is held in February or March.
"I don't expect this to be ready for trial until later this year, hopefully," prosecutor Linda Drain said.
Cindy Anthony was not in court Friday. Her attorney said she did not want to face the media scrutiny. But lately, the Anthony's' attorney has been backing away from insisting Casey is innocent, instead saying the Anthony's don't know and that a jury will determine that.