Judge Playing to Media?

Judge Larry Seidlin is currently hearing from attorneys for all parties, eg, Larry Birkhead, Howard K Stern and Vergie Arthur involved in the case of Anna Nicole Smith's body. This circus like hearing has now been going on in Broward County,FL since 9:30am ET this morning. The whole thing is unbelievable to me. Judge Seidlin has an almost cliched Brooklyn accent, and doesn't seem in the lest bit concerned in moving the proceedings along at all. And he seems overly concerned who Dannielynn's father is before he makes any decisions, even though he has no need to be dealing with that matter, he is just deciding who the body should be released to.

After asking the Medical Examiner, Dr Perper, numerous times about how long the body can remain in the Medical Examiners office and how much DNA has been collected from the body, Judge Seidlin finally ordered that another DNA sample be taken from the body and preserved for use if ordered in all the paternity hearings that are pending.

So basically, the extra DNA has been taken, so what's the hold up? Anna Nicole's body can be released to someone, so they can have a proper funeral for her. I'm starting to feel very, very bad for Anna Nicole and the life that she led. This is all turning into an even bigger mess than it was last week.

Some of the highlights of the proceedings :

Judge Seidlin asking Ron Rale (Anna Nicole's Attorney) if he lived in Santa Monica and played paddle tennis.
Howard K Stern's Bahamian phone number not working
Judge Seidlin's phone ringing and him saying it was his wife telling him what to do.
Judge Seidlin repeatedly saying that they needed to show respect for the situation and Anna Nicole, but treating the whole proceedings like he's a stand up comedian. Yes Judge, you are hilarious.
Wild gestures from Howard K Stern's attorney Krista Bath, while Larry Birkhead's attorney, Debra Opri was speaking on the phone from CA.
Mr Tunstall, Vergie Arthur's attorney, stating that Howard K Stern was "ENRONing around the law"

Basically, nothing is going to be decided today and tomorrow morning at 9:00am an order will be signed.

I'm just stunned at the very casual manner that the whole proceeding has been taking and I really feel that Judge Seidlin is contributing to the media circus surrounding Anna Nicole's death by his cavalier attitude to the whole thing.