Report: Casey Anthony Defense Team To File For Change of Venue

The defense team for Casey Anthony will file for a change of venue, hoping to get the high-profile case moved out of Central Florida, according to a broadcast report Sunday evening.

The legal team, headed by Jose Baez, will file the motion today in Orange County Circuit Court, WKMG-Channel 6 is reporting.

Prosecutors have been anticipating such a filing but did not know when it would come and don't know if it will come Monday, said Randy Means, a spokesman for the State Attorney's office.

Anthony is in the Orange County Jail awaiting trial. She is charged with first-degree murder in the death of her daughter, 2-year-old Caylee Marie Anthony, whose remains were discovered in December, five months after Casey reported the girl missing.

The search for a missing Caylee quickly gained the attention of the national media, and the frenzy over the case has not subsided much since.

Attention was brought back to the case when the toddler's remains were found in a wooded area less than a mile from the house where she lived with her mother and grandparents in east Orange County. Even that discovery, like many developments in the case, was not routine.

Her body was found by a local meter reader, Roy Kronk, who said later than he had called in a tip four months earlier about a body in the woods in that area. A Orange County Sheriff's deputy, Richard Cain, failed to follow up on the tip sufficiently, according to an internal investigation, and he is in the process of being terminated. He is appealing that termination.

Baez is the subject of a two-part series by the Orlando Sentinel. The first story can be read here.