HB 301 and SB 730 sought to require the Florida High School Athletic Association to remove student athletes who showed signs of a concussion from a game or practice until they received clearance from a physician. Unfortunately, they were stopped in their tracks and did not pass.

Although Judge Belvin Perry appears hopeful that a jury will be impaneled by the end of this week, the media-fueled notoriety of this case since the disappearance of Caylee Anthony in 2008 and the focus on the two-year-old’s mother, defendant Casey Anthony, as a primary suspect in her homicide, has raised significant concerns over the ability to find 20 unbiased jurors and alternates.