Here, she's seen reacting to a photo of Caylee on a monitor during her testimony on June 14, , day 18 of the trial. June Judge Belvin Perry looks at evidence as it's presented during the trial. June Jennifer Welch, a crime scene investigator with the Orange County Sheriff's Office, shows letters from Caylee's T-shirt that were entered into evidence. June Assistant State Attorney Jeff Ashton holds crime scene evidence during a cross-examination of entomologist Dr. Tim Huntington.
The country's interest in every update on the case was voracious; by the time it concluded, it had yielded record ratings for some networks. June 30, By the end of June , both the prosecution and the defense had rested their cases.
Casey Anthony never testified. July 5, : The trial's jury deliberated for 10 hours and 40 minutes before reaching a verdict. Casey was found not guilty of first-degree murder, aggravated child abuse and aggravated manslaughter of a child. She was found guilty of four misdemeanor counts of providing false information to law enforcement. July 5, Casey Anthony's defense team surrounded her in a group hug after the thenyear-old was acquitted. July The not-guilty charge divided many people who followed the case.
July Others, such as Tim Allen, right, and David Antolic, held signs of a different tone in front of a jail in Orlando on July 16, , the day before Anthony was released. July 17, Casey was sentenced to four years in jail with credit for time served. Aftermath: Seven years after being acquitted of the death of her daughter, Casey Anthony, pictured here with her attorney Cheney Mason in , resides in West Palm Beach, Florida. In , Anthony told the Associated Press she's still not "certain Ultimately, the jury acquitted the young mother of the most serious charges against her.
Now 32 years old, Anthony is living not-quite-out-of-sight in her home state of Florida; just last year, she gave a widely covered interview with the Associated Press. But the Casey Anthony case involved many other players. Ten years later, we spoke to some of those who were involved, to get their thoughts on how it played out and their perspective on why it struck such a chord with the public.
Here's what they had to say:. These statements have been edited for length and clarity. The Judge: 'What really happened? I thought the state had proved its case. I thought, while they may have had some flaws in their case, that there was a high probability that Casey would be found guilty of some form of homicide, and that did not occur. A number of jurors said the reason that they came back with "not guilty" was because the state could not prove how Caylee died.
The defense threw out a lot of theories. They threw out that she drowned. They tried to build on the inference that the gate was open, and that the ladder was down and that she was known to go out of the door and go up to the pool because she liked water.
I mean, there was no evidence that that happened. Those were inferences. But they were logical inferences that they were permitted based upon those slim factors to argue Justice is always served in a case where the facts are litigated before a jury, the jury looks at the law through their lens and they render a decision.
People may not agree with that decision, but when a case goes through the process that we have all agreed to live by, then justice is served. Here we are, 10 years away from her death, and people still think about it. And there's one question that is on everyone's mind: What really happened?
Until that question is answered, there will always be someone searching and someone wondering what that answer is. The Medical Examiner: 'Science took a backseat on the truth'. Jan Garavaglia, retired chief medical officer for Orange and Osceola counties.
Looking back 10 years, what I was most appalled with was this lack of the truth and the lack of substantiated information. You could just say lies and not back it up by any kind of evidence and it was allowed. That was a turning point for me. I'm not making gazillions of dollars at the hands of other people, or trying to sell myself to anyone willing to throw a couple of dollars at me.
The caricature of me that is out there, it couldn't be further from the truth. Belvin Perry, the judge who presided over the murder trial, said on Today in , "There were two sides to Casey Anthony. There was the side that was before the jury, where she portrayed the role of a mother who had lost a child, someone who was wrongfully accused, and then you could notice the change and transformation in her when the jury went out.
She was very commanding, she took charge of different things, and you could see her sometimes scolding her attorneys. Perry recalled her reaction when Baez discussed a plea deal for aggravated manslaughter with his client. So upset that one counselor suggested that she was incompetent to proceed. In his best-selling book Presumed Guilty — Casey Anthony: The Inside Story , Baez questioned why authorities weren't more suspicious of Casey's father, alleging there was "always something hard to understand about George's behavior.
Rob Lowe played Florida State Attorney Jeff Ashton who would make headlines in when his name was found on the leaked list of Ashley Madison users after the affair facilitator was hacked—Ashton publicly apologized , maintaining that he was curious and signed up but never used it to have an affair in the Lifetime movie Prosecuting Casey Anthony.
Days later, the onetime New England Patriot was found dead in his prison cell , where he was serving a life sentence for another murder, and his death was ruled a suicide—all covered in Baez's book, Unnecessary Roughness: Inside the Trial and Final Days of Aaron Hernandez. Casey was sentenced to a year of probation in for check fraud. Her life went on , relatively quietly in the face of all the notoriety. She's recognizable in public, such as when she attended an anti-Trump rally in West Palm Beach in February , but she has remained one of those infamous characters whom people will claim they wish they could forget and yet want to know more about at the same time.
In November she filed to register a company called Case Photography. Since at least , the now year-old Casey has been living with Patrick McKenna , 72, a private investigator who worked for the defense on her case and for the O. Simpson defense team back in the s. She was said to be working for him, doing online research and social media searches. On May 23 she caught the attention of TMZ when she called to report that she'd been assaulted by another woman at a bar in West Palm Beach.
I would like to make an official report. No one was arrested, but the incident report stated that she and a woman were fighting over a guy they'd both dated in the past. The other woman told Fox News in June that the altercation had "zero to do with an ex-boyfriend. There's more to it I wish to not say. In a series of exclusive interviews with the Associated Press in March , her first time speaking directly to a news organization since the trial, Casey presented herself as the victim of the public's rush to judgment.
My sentence was doled out long before there was a verdict. Sentence first, verdict afterward. People found me guilty long before I had my day in court. As to what really happened to Caylee, she said, "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. But at the end of the day, "I don't give a s--t about what anyone thinks about me, I never will. I'm OK with myself, I sleep pretty good at night. To the newspaper, he said, "There was a possibility that she may have utilized [chloroform] to keep the baby quiet…and just used too much of it, and the baby died.
That's just one of the many theories as to how this beautiful young lady tragically met her death. If Caylee were alive, she "would be a total badass," Casey told the AP in , when her daughter would have been Trending Stories.
I see why I was treated the way I was even had I been completely truthful. She added: "Cops lie to people every day. I'm just one of the unfortunate idiots who admitted they lied. At the trial, lead defense attorney Jose Baez suggested that the little girl drowned and that Casey Anthony's father, George, helped cover that up — and sexually abused his daughter. Her father has vehemently denied the accusations.
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. Actions Facebook Tweet Email. Copyright The Associated Press. All rights reserved.
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