, they were sloppy, they tried hard to prove that the defense did not play by the rules. I pray that justice will be done, in time, by the ONE they will eventually have to stand in front of and answer His questions. Because He knows all.
That beautiful child is dead, and that family knows what really happened, and they will have to live with it. I am sick, because she should have at least gotten 2nd degree murder, or aggravated manslaughter, because the time she has spent in jail is not enough. Why the tape, why the plastic bag, why the syringe, why the heart sticker. Too many questions not enough answers and the prosecution did not prove its case........
Jury finds Anthony guilty of lesser charges, including lying. Sentencing Thursday.
Jurors decline to make comments at courthouse and ask media for privacy.
Judge Perry has sealed their names until further notice.
Mark Lippman, the attorney for the Anthony family, releases a statement.
12 jurors deliberated over 10 hours — and after 33 days of testimony
Jury acquits Florida mother on charges she murdered her 2-year-old daughter Caylee
BREAKING NEWS
ORLANDO, Fla. — After a trial that riveted the nation with its twists and turns, Casey Anthony was found not guilty on Tuesday of murdering her daughter, 2-year-old Caylee Anthony.
After trying to hold back tears, Anthony cried and then hugged her chief lawyer, Jose Baez, once all counts were read. She was also found not guilty of child abuse and aggravated manslaughter.
The only counts Anthony was guilty of were for providing false information to investigators. Judge Belvin Perry said he would sentence her on those four counts on Thursday morning.
Each count carries a maximum of one year in prison. If convicted of all four counts, Anthony could receive a sentence of four years if the sentence for each count is run consecutively. She could also get credit for time served.
The jury deliberated for more than 10 hours over the last two days — and after hearing 33 days of testimony.
Afterwards, Baez and his team criticized some reporters and TV commentators who they said had protrayed Anthony as a killer. "You cannot convict someone until they've had their day in court," he said.
The 12 jurors on Monday spent about six hours dissecting the case following a rebuttal summation by the prosecution. Perry separated the main jury of seven women and five men from five alternates and sent them into the deliberation room just after noon.
Prosecutors argued Monday morning that Anthony killed her daughter in June 2008 because the toddler interrupted her carefree partying and love life.
The jury received the more than 400 pieces of evidence in the jury room that have been by both sides in the case since the trial began in late May.
In their rebuttal closing argument, the prosecution said the defense's assertion that Caylee's death was an accident made no sense.
Anthony's attorneys say the girl drowned in the family's pool. They have said Anthony panicked and that her father, a former police officer, decided to make the death look like a homicide by placing duct tape over the child's mouth and dumping the body in some nearby woods. George Anthony has denied that.
'That's absurd' Prosecutor Jeff Ashton told the jurors no one makes an innocent accident look like murder.
Defense attorney Jose Baez consults with his client Casey Anthony on the last day of her murder trial on Monday.
He also spent significant time reminding jurors about forensic evidence that he said links Anthony to her daughter's death, including the smell and chemical signature of decomposition in her car.
The jury was chosen from the Tampa Bay area because of pretrial media coverage and have been sequestered in an Orlando hotel. They listened to 33 days of testimony and another two days of closing arguments.
Lead prosecutor Linda Drane Burdick followed Ashton, telling the jurors that prosecutors presented every piece of evidence they promised in May during opening statements.
Without saying it, she was pointing out that defense attorneys never presented direct evidence backing up their contentions that the child drowned.
Video: Legal expert: Prosecution's rebuttal a ‘flop’ in Anthony case She then hammered on the lies Anthony, then 22, told from June 16, 2008, when her daughter was last seen, and a month later when sheriff's investigators were notified.
Those include the single mother telling her parents she couldn't produce Caylee because the girl was with a nanny named Zanny — a woman who doesn't exist; that she and her daughter were spending time in Jacksonville, Fla., with a rich boyfriend who doesn't exist; and that Zanny had been hospitalized after an out-of-town traffic crash and that they were spending time with her.
Video: Sanders: Anthony jury full of 'poker faces' "Responses to grief are as varied as the day is long, but responses to guilt are oh, so predictable," Drane Burdick said.
"What do guilty people do? They lie. They avoid. They run. They mislead, not just to their family, but the police. They divert attention away from themselves and they act like nothing is wrong. That's why you heard about what happened in those 31 days," she added.
Burdick concluded the state's case by showing the jury two side-by-side images. One showed Casey Anthony smiling and partying in a nightclub during the month Caylee was missing.
The other was of the tattoo — which meant "beautiful life" — she got a day before her family and law enforcement first learned of the child's disappearance.
"At the end of this case, all you have to ask yourself is, whose life was better without Caylee?" Burdick asked. "This is your answer."
'An accident that snowballed' Anthony sat stone faced during much of the prosecutors' arguments, but occasionally shook her head in disagreement and spoke under her breath.
Defense attorneys claimed Anthony's lies and erratic behavior were brought on by her grief over her dead child and the sexual abuse she suffered as a child from her father. George Anthony has denied that allegation, and the judge said no evidence has been presented to support it.
Video: Florida legal expert on Anthony case Baez said during his closing argument Sunday that the prosecutors' case was so weak they tried to portray Anthony as "a lying, no-good slut" and that their forensic evidence was based on a "fantasy."
He said Caylee's death was "an accident that snowballed out of control."
Baez began his closing argument Sunday with his biggest question: How did Caylee die? Neither prosecutors nor the defense have offered firm proof.
He attacked the prosecution's forensic evidence. He said air analysis of the trunk of Anthony's car, which allegedly showed air molecules consistent with decomposition, could not be duplicated.
No one could prove a stain found in the trunk was caused by Caylee's body decomposing there. And witnesses showed maggots found in the trunk came from a bag of trash that was found there, he said.
Baez also attacked George Anthony as unreliable. He said a suicide note George Anthony wrote in January 2009 that claimed no knowledge of what happened to Caylee was self-serving and the attempt was a fraud.
He said George Anthony claimed he was going to kill himself with a six-pack of beer and high-blood pressure medicine.
George Anthony Grandfather did he abuse Casey as a child, did he have an affair , did he cover up the death of his only grand daughter
To this...08/08/08 George Anthony angry screaming at the media: "I'm not talking to anybody. Stay off of my property! Stay away from me. Stay away right now!"
Cindy Anthony how much does she really know and why up till six weeks ago if I heard right she claims she still thought Caylee was alive. She was caught lying about the compputer searches, trying to cover for Casey?
To this...08/28/08 Cindy Anthony (with hammer): "I want him [Tim Miller] to do a search around here to satisfy all of you leaches, parasites and all of you maggots."
09/02/08 Cindy Anthony on Today Show, says "Casey is only guilty of poor judgment and lying."
Lee Anthony Casey's brother
09/10/08 Lee Anthony rips a protesters dog sign that reads, "I wouldn't let my dog go missing for one month without looking" then Lee pours the dogs water out of the dish.09/11/08 Protester claims Lee Anthony almost hit her holding a child as he arrived at his parents home to pull into in the driveway.12/15/08 Lee Anthony rips up a Caylee memorial that is on the neighbor's tree lawn
Casey Anthony The Party Girl
Caylee missing 31 days and casey was partying, getting tatoo's and dating several guys.
Does that sound like normal human mother who's daughter is missing and not reported to police
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