July 5, — The seven women and five men of the jury deliberate for 10 hours and 40 minutes before coming back with a verdict of not guilty of first-degree murder, aggravated child abuse and aggravated manslaughter of a child. Anthony is found guilty of four misdemeanor counts of providing false information to law enforcement.
July 7, — Anthony is sentenced to four years in jail with credit for time served. July 17, — Anthony is released from jail. The same day as the ruling, Anthony files for Chapter 7 bankruptcy protection. You must be logged in to post a comment. I didn't know what the hell I was doing, and I didn't stand up for what I believed in at the time.
But she was found guilty on four counts of providing false information to a law enforcement officer. The panel of seven women and five men was sequestered in a hotel during the trial, which lasted from May to July and when 91 people were called to testify, according to People.
The anonymous juror told People he thinks about the case "at least once, every single day. I think about those pictures of the baby's remains that they showed us in court. A software designer testifies that someone had searched for "chloroform" a whopping 84 times and also looked up such terms as "head injuries," "ruptured spleen," "chest trauma" and "internal bleeding" on the Anthonys' home computer in March , during the regular work hours of George and Cindy.
The designer later reports an error in his detecting software and determines that the user visited a site related to chloroform only once. In a crucial day for the defense, Cindy claims that she was the one who researched chloroform on her computer.
She also testifies that a stain found in the trunk, allegedly caused by Caylee's decomposing body, was there when the family purchased the car eight years earlier. Continuing with the narrative that Casey was overly burdened by Caylee, lead prosecutor Jeff Ashton emphasizes to the jury how the young mother was motivated enough to go to extremes to achieve her freedom.
While forbidden from revisiting the unsupported molestation claims, Baez nevertheless delivers an effective closing argument by pointing out the lack of evidence that could definitively place Caylee's body in the car trunk or tie Casey to her daughter's death.
Protesters outside the Orange County Courthouse on July 7, After almost six weeks of testimony and pieces of evidence presented in court, the jury of seven women and five men takes less than 11 hours to reach a verdict of not guilty.
Casey exits the Orange County Jail shortly after midnight, passing the approximately protesters who showed up to demand justice for Caylee. The world was riveted to the long-running saga of the American exchange student who was accused of killing her roommate.
Though authorities never put the pieces together to find the missing Alabama teen, Joran van der Sloot remains a prime suspect. Peterson was declared guilty of the crimes in , but in , his death sentence was overturned, setting the stage for a never-ending legal saga. The Utah teen endured rape and other atrocities by a husband-wife team that held her captive for nine months. It has been put in two plastic bags, then put in a canvas bag and then thrown behind a rotting log a couple of blocks from her house.
And then we have the duct tape that's still present on the face. Those three things together clearly made this a homicide. It's not changed in my mind. It's not changed in the police's mind. It's not changed in the prosecutor's mind. There is absolutely no proof this is an accidental death. Sometimes I think science took a backseat on the truth with the Caylee Anthony case. The Detective: 'She never seemed to have any remorse'.
I supervised the investigation into the death of Caylee Anthony. Detective Yuri Melich's initial beliefs were that, because there was a lot of consternation between Cindy and Casey, that Caylee was probably being hidden somewhere from her grandparents.
But we only believed that for a real short period of time. Once we towed Casey's car to the forensics bay -- it clearly smelled of a dead body -- and we listened to the tape, at that point, it seemed very unlikely that we were looking for a live child. Having dealt with parents who have lost children, or parents with missing children, Casey Anthony was clearly different. When Detective Melich was doing the arrest paper, I sat with her while he was filling out the paperwork.
And essentially, we talked about her life -- I would say the majority of the conversation was about her wishes to be a personal trainer. Normally, when a parent is missing a child, they're pretty frantic and it's all about the child.
This conversation was all about Casey. You know, in any interrogation, you try to find what motivates a person to tell the truth, or you try to give them a reason to tell the truth, and I don't know that anything we would have done with her would have made a difference.
I mean, some people, you may appeal to their sense of guilt or remorse. And that certainly wasn't going to motivate her because she's never, at least at any time that I have ever seen her, seemed to have any remorse at all. So, I don't know -- I am not really sure how we would have approached it with her, that would have motivated her to tell the truth. The Defense: 'I don't think it's true'. Cheney Mason, senior counsel for the defense of Casey Anthony.
I can envision exactly what she looked like at first. She did not look like any kind of monster. She looked like a scared little young girl -- a young woman I should say, but at my age, she's a girl. Casey was tiny. Her wrists were about as small as my two fingers.
She was very polite and very respectful. There wasn't anything smart aleck-y about her. No assumptions or anything.
I, of course, did not absolutely know, but my intuitive feelings were that she was not guilty of doing it. My belief is that Casey's primary focus of intelligence shut down in disbelief that her child was missing or gone, and just fabricated whatever. If you saw the photographs, videos, history, of Casey and Caylee you wouldn't find a more attentive, closer, loving relationship than that.
So, how do you take that loving relationship and this great motherly care and, all of a sudden, change that into some monstrous killing? All I know is that Casey did not deserve to face the death penalty in that case and I was not gonna let her get it if I could stop it. I do not believe she was guilty of killing that child. I'm never going to believe that. In fact, she can come up and say, "Cheney, it's time for me to confess," and I'd want to know who put her up to it.
I wouldn't believe it; I don't think it's true. The Friend: 'We had absolutely no idea'. Toward the end of October is when I moved in with Tony.
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