ORLANDO, Fla., March 3 (UPI) -- Casey Anthony's lawyers resumed their effort Thursday to bar damaging evidence from her Florida trial on charges she killed her toddler daughter.
Anthony is expected to go on trial in May, almost three years after her daughter, Caylee, disappeared from the home she and her mother shared with her grandparents. Caylee's bones were found in December 2008 in a swampy area near her home.
Defense lawyers say statements Anthony made to the police should be excluded, ABC News reported. These include her story after her mother reported Caylee missing in July 2008 that she had left her with a babysitter who disappeared.
Lawyer Justin Baez says Anthony should have been treated as a suspect during early interviews with police and read the Miranda warnings, The Orlando Sentinel reported. A police officer testified Wednesday that in July Anthony was "the mother of a missing child."
Prosecutors plan to seek the death penalty if Anthony is convicted of first-degree murder. The trial is scheduled to begin May 9 in Orlando.
