{"id":460,"date":"2010-04-03T08:31:48","date_gmt":"2010-04-03T12:31:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richardhornsby.com\/?p=460"},"modified":"2010-04-03T08:31:48","modified_gmt":"2010-04-03T12:31:48","slug":"deadline-to-object-to-release-of-jailhouse-letters-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hornsby.com\/blog\/deadline-to-object-to-release-of-jailhouse-letters-is\/","title":{"rendered":"Deadline to Object to Release of Jailhouse Letters is…"},"content":{"rendered":"

I just saw the Orlando Sentinel TV Guy’s post about the disagreement between WESH and WTF<\/a>V, I mean WFTV (sorry, Freudian\u00a0slip) \u00a0regarding when the deadline is for Casey Anthony’s defense team to file an objection to \u00a0the State\u00a0releasing\u00a0Casey Anthony’s \u00a0jailhouse letters and thought I would step in and clear this up before everyone gets their suspenders in a knot…<\/p>\n

The deadline for filing an objection to Casey Anthony’s jailhouse letters is Monday at 5:00 p.m. – meaning the earliest the State could release them is Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n

This is because all legal deadlines in criminal cases are controlled by Florida Rule of Criminal Procedure 3.040. (The rule is the same in civil cases as well, but defined under a separate number in the civil rules.)<\/p>\n

Florida Rule of Criminal Procedure 3.040 –\u00a0Computation of Time<\/p>\n

In computing any period of time prescribed or allowed by these rules, by order of court, or by anyapplicable statute, the day of the act or event from which the designated period of time begins to run is not to be included.<\/p>\n

The last day of the period so computed shall be counted, unless it is a Saturday, Sunday, or legal holiday, in which event the period shall run until the end of the next day that is neither a Saturday, Sunday, nor legal holiday.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Under this rule, the day that Judge Strickland imposed the fifteen day limit (March 18, 2010) \u00a0is not counted and the following day (March 19, 2010)\u00a0is considered Day 1 \u00a0in the computation.<\/p>\n

So if March 19 was day 1, then according to my calendar Friday, April 2, 2010 is Day 15 – meaning he would have until the close of the business day to file an objection to the release.<\/p>\n

But egads! the Orange County Clerk of Court was closed to the public for Good Friday! And the following two days, Saturday and Sunday, are the “weekend.”<\/p>\n

Well since Friday was a legal holiday (See\u00a0Ninth Circuit Legal Holidays<\/a>), by operation of rule 3.040, when such time and space continuum\u00a0problems arise; the deadline is “magically” extended until the next full business day.<\/p>\n

So the answer to that WESH and WTF<\/a>V “disagreement” is that they (and CF13 News as well) are incorrect (nothing new for WTF<\/a>V, not a big deal for CF13, and WESH wins the award for being the closest).<\/p>\n

Anyway, the answer is that Casey Anthony’s defense team has until the close of business on Monday to file an objection to the release of the jailhouse letters. Meaning the earliest the State is legally allowed to release them is Tuesday morning (or maybe Monday at 5:01 p.m. – I’m not really sure on that).<\/p>\n

Peace out my\u00a0unfaithful\u00a0and catch me this Sunday at 8.p.m. on “Watts up With This!<\/a>” on BlogTalkRadio<\/a>, while we discuss the latest Casey Anthony nonsense.<\/p>\n

p.s. I spoke\u00a0to someone at the State Attorney’s Office who has read the letters and the only thing he would tell me is that they are “drivel<\/a>.” MY ASS! Chloroform is a big deal as is no more Zenaida.<\/span>.<\/p>\n

p.s.s. What makes you think they will file an objection anyway? With the “Game Changer” on board, maybe they have figured out when to “hold ’em and when to fold ’em.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An explanation of why Casey Anthony defense team’s deadline to object to the release of the jailhouse letters was extended by three whole days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-criminal-law","category-popular-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hornsby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hornsby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hornsby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hornsby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hornsby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hornsby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hornsby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hornsby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hornsby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}