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Judge Asked To Unseal Documents In Casey Anthony Case

ORLANDO (CBS4) - A Florida judge has been petitioned by an Orlando newspaper to unseal documents from the Casey Anthony trial, including a list of how her defense attorneys spent $200,000 before she was declared indigent and had to rely on taxpayers to foot her legal bills.

The Orlando Sentinel filed a motion Tuesday to release all sealed documents in the case, except for the list of juror names.

Anthony left prison last month after a jury acquitted her of murdering her 2-year-old daughter, Caylee.

Anthony has disappeared from public view, but she may have to return to Orlando this week after Judge Stan Strickland corrected a probation order from an unrelated case. Strickland said Anthony must serve a year of probation from check fraud charges now that she is out of jail. The state Department of Corrections interpreted Strickland's sentence so that Anthony could serve the probation while she was in jail awaiting her murder trial, but the Strickland said he intended the probation to be served after her release.

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