ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Casey Anthony would be in danger and require county-funded security if she has to come back to Florida from an undisclosed location to serve probation, as ordered by a judge in a check fraud case, Anthony’s lawyer said Wednesday.

Attorney Jose Baez told NBC’s “Today” he hopes that Anthony will not have to return to Orlando this week and that his team was seeking an immediate hearing for their motions to quash the judge’s probation order.

Anthony has vanished from public view since her acquittal last month on charges of murdering her 2-year-old daughter. Baez said bringing Anthony back to Orlando would only add to what he called the “circus-like atmosphere” around her case.

A judge this week ordered Anthony back to Orange County to serve probation for check fraud that she pleaded guilty to in an earlier case.

In a motion filed Tuesday, Baez and his team said Anthony already served her probation while in jail awaiting her murder trial and to have her do so again would be double jeopardy. They also said Florida law stipulates the judge cannot amend his sentence more than 60 days after it was signed, which was in January 2010.

Her attorneys also argued that Circuit Judge Stan Strickland, who presided in the check fraud case but not the murder trial, has revealed a prejudice against Anthony in two television interviews he gave after her acquittal last month. They said he is no longer qualified to issue the amended order since he recused himself from Anthony’s criminal case and that the amended order was fraudulently filed since there was no court proceeding attended by Anthony or her attorneys.

“This thing is over and done. And for some reason things seem to keep coming up again for no apparent reason, for absolutely no apparent reason, other than let’s just keep this thing going, let’s just keep this madness going and engage in the circus-like atmosphere that is called the Casey Anthony case,” Baez said.

Strickland sentenced Anthony in January 2010 to probation for using checks that Anthony had stolen from a friend. The state Department of Corrections had interpreted the sentence to mean that Anthony could serve the probation while she was in jail for her murder trial, but the judge said last week that he intended the probation to be served after her release.

On Monday, Strickland signed a “corrected” version of Anthony’s probation order to make clear she was supposed to start the one-year term after her release from jail.

Anthony left prison last month after a jury acquitted her of murdering her daughter, Caylee. She was convicted of lying to detectives but released from jail because of time served.

The court order said Anthony must report to a probation officer in Orange County, where Orlando is located, unless otherwise instructed by her probation officer.

Baez said there were threats against Anthony because of her acquittal and Orange County would have to provide security if she was forced to return. To back up that claim, Anthony’s attorneys included a flyer in their motion that showed a doctored photo of Anthony with a bullet mark on her forehead. Text underneath the photo reads, “Keep Smiling Bitch. With a forehead that big, the headshot will be easier.”

Baez did not say where she was located, only that she was not in Florida when the judge’s order was signed Monday.

An inmate can’t serve probation while in jail, said Karin Moore, a law professor at Florida A&M College of Law, so Strickland has the ability to correct what he may consider an illegal sentence.

“He can correct an illegal sentence anytime, which he thinks he is doing now,” Moore said.

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