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Evidence in Fla. Case Released

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· E-mails from Rick Pleasa, brother of Anthony's mother, Cindy, in which he calls her support of Anthony "ignorant and intolerable" and suggests she get psychiatric help.

"I would believe in the tooth fairy or ET or Santa before I trusted and believed in Casey," he also wrote.

· Interviews with more than a dozen friends and relatives of Anthony who said they never met the babysitter who was supposedly staying with the child.

Todd Black, a spokesman for Anthony's attorney Jose Baez, said the standard procedure for defense attorneys is to review discovery documents for a few days before commenting.

Later Wednesday, Circuit Judge Stan Strickland denied a prosecutor's request for a wide-ranging gag order. Strickland ruled the state did not prove that national TV appearances by Baez and other comments in the media would sufficiently prejudice the jury pool.

"Even with a gag order the publicity and media attention would continue unabated," Strickland wrote in his opinion.

Strickland said lawyers on both sides are bound to a Florida Bar statute prohibiting comments that are false or would otherwise taint the jury pool.

The gag order would have affected not only prosecutors and defense attorneys, but also Orange County sheriff's investigators and Anthony's parents.

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