In a press conference after the verdict, defense attorney Cheney Mason railed at the media for their wall-to-wall coverage of the trial, remarking that it was "media assassination" filled with "bias and prejudice and incompetent talking heads. In a more tempered statement, Baez said, "While we're happy for Casey, there are no winners in this case.
Caylee has passed on far, far too soon. It's that simple," said Baez. Prosecutor Jeff Ashton, who had entered the courtroom to roaring applause, sat shaking his head after the verdict. Ashton declined to speak after the trial, but the state attorney's office announced that Ashton had promptly retired. Outside the courtroom, spectators screamed "Lord! People comforted each other and cried, one man remarking that Casey Anthony should leave town because she's not welcome in Orlando.
One woman said, "[The verdict] is going to make millions of people think they can get away with killing their child That isn't a good depiction of what our justice system is like or should be. Another woman: "I just think it's going to make millions of people think they can get away with killing their child or committing major crimes and getting away with it.
This isn't a good depiction of what our justice system is like or should be. Law enforcement officials roped off a door where Cindy and George Anthony were expected to exit out of, and bystanders chanted "Appeal! At the heart of the case was Casey Anthony's fantastic lie that a babysitter named Zenaida, referred to in court as "Zanny the nanny," had stolen Caylee Anthony. Prosecutors claimed that Casey Anthony killed her daughter by drugging Caylee with chloroform and suffocating her with duct tape over her mouth and nose.
She killed Caylee, prosecutor Jeff Ashton claimed in his closing argument, because Casey Anthony had to choose between her child and "the life she wanted. Lawyers for Casey Anthony, who never took the stand, admitted on the first day of the trial that the year-old single mother had made up a complex web of lies.
Defense attorney Jose Baez said that the truth was that Caylee had accidentally drowned in the family pool and instead of reporting her death, Casey "went into a dark corner, to pretend as if nothing was wrong. Baez said Casey Anthony behaved that way because she had been "trained to lie" through years of sexual abuse by her father. Judge Belvin Perry ruled, however, that there was no evidence that Casey Anthony was abused by her father and ordered that it not be mentioned in closing arguments.
The prosecution was hampered in its case by the fact that Caylee's body, found in a swamp six months after she disappeared, was so badly deteriorated that the medical examiner could not determine exactly how she died.
Caylee's cause of death was listed as a "homicide of undetermined means. Intent on proving duct tape could have killed the toddler, the defense showed the jury a controversial video that showed a smiling Caylee morphing into a skull with duct tape on it. Anthony doesn't talk about her parents much, other than to say she was disappointed when they took money from television's Dr. Phil and appeared on his show. At the time, he said George and Cindy Anthony would derive no income from the money.
The nonprofit was later dissolved. Asked about the drowning defense, Casey Anthony hesitated: "Everyone has their theories, I don't know. As I stand here today I can't tell you one way or another. The last time I saw my daughter I believed she was alive and was going to be OK, and that's what was told to me. Anthony lives in the South Florida home of Patrick McKenna, a private detective who was the lead investigator on her defense team.
She also works for him, doing online social media searches and other investigative work. McKenna was also the lead investigator for OJ Simpson, when he was accused of killing his wife and acquitted; Anthony said she's become fascinated with the case, and there are "a lot of parallels" to her own circumstances.
She still dreads the supermarket checkout line for fear she'll see photos of her daughter on the cover of tabloid papers.
Her bedroom walls are decorated with photos of Caylee and she weeps when she shows off her daughter's colorful, finger-painted artwork. Still, she asserts she is happy. For her 31st birthday she plans to go skydiving. She enjoys taking photos, mostly of squirrels and other wildlife.
And she loves her investigative work. IE 11 is not supported. 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.
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