Casey Anthony’s Attorney Jose Baez Being Investigated By Florida State Bar
Aug. 18 2011, Published 12:00 p.m. ET
By Alexis Tereszcuk - Breaking Celebrity News Senior Reporter
Casey Anthony might be out of jail, but her lawyer Jose Baez is fighting his own legal battle over the handling of his famous client’s case.
“We are investigating an open complaint regarding Jose Baez,” the Florida State Bar spokesperson confirmed to Breaking Celebrity News on Thursday.
The investigation into Jose Baez is related to Casey’s probation issue, according to the Orlando Sentinel, after Judge Belvin Perry held an emergency hearing on August 5 to determine if Casey should serve probation that her attorneys claimed she served while behind bars.
The confusion over her probation occurred because the judge in the check fraud case, Stan Strickland, verbally ordered Casey to serve her probation AFTER her release from jail, but a clerk mistakenly wrote that she could serve WHILE IN JAIL, as she waited to go on trial for the death of her 2-year-old daughter Caylee.
After taking the matter under advisement, on August 12, Judge Perry ordered Casey to return to Orlando by August 26 to serve her one year, supervised probation for her check fraud conviction and admonished her attorneys during the hearing after asking if they knew she was improperly serving her probation in jail; one admitted they did in fact know, but said they did not believe it was their responsi