Jose Baez suggested turning off the courtroom cameras for jury selection in the Casey Anthony trial.

Chief Judge Belvin Perry Jr. in court today. Photo credit: Red Huber/Orlando SentinelA day before he will appear in a national television interview, Jose Baez suggested turning off the courtroom cameras for jury selection in the Casey Anthony trial.

“I do not know how I could legally tell the broadcast media they can’t cover or report this,” Chief Judge Belvin Perry Jr. said, smiling broadly.

When Baez suggested the option of switching off cameras, Perry offered a lecture on the Florida Supreme Court’s keeping the cameras on. “I haven’t heard any reported case that they have turned them off,” Perry said.

That was an intriguing number, because Baez will appear on “48 Hours Mystery” at 10 p.m. Saturday on CBS. Baez and other defense team members will discuss the case, and the CBS program has set up a focus group — or mock jury, if you will — to weigh Anthony’s guilt. She is charged with first-degree murder in the death of her daughter, Caylee.

“I’m doing everything I can, including to the disdain of some media outlets, not letting them know unless they sign a confidentiality agreement of the location,” Perry said. “Those who do not sign it will find out at 8 a.m., an hour before jury selection.”

On “In Session,” Vinnie Politan summed up, “There it is Jose Baez trying to turn off the cameras inside the courtroom and Judge Perry not necessarily believing that you can do that.”