Casey Anthony Not Guilty in Slaying of Daughter

Caylee Marie Anthony (August 9, 2005 – c. June 16, 2008) was a child from Orlando, Florida, whose disappearance in June 2008 attracted national media attention. Caylee's skeletal remains were discovered December 11, 2008, five months after she was reported missing by her grandmother, Cindy Anthony. Her mother, Casey Anthony, decided not to report her daughter missing, and was indicted on charges of felony murder, though she continued to maintain her innocence throughout her trial.

August 2008:

July 2011:

ORLANDO, Fla. — Casey Anthony, the young mother whose seeming heartlessness at the disappearance of her daughter transfixed America for three years, was found not guilty on Tuesday of killing the girl, Caylee Marie.. . .

After nearly six weeks of testimony, a panel of seven women and five men decided that Ms. Anthony did not murder Caylee by dosing her with chloroform, suffocating her with duct tape and dumping her in a wooded area, as prosecutors claimed. They also did, however, find her guilty of lesser charges, of providing false information to law enforcement officers. The jury did not ask to review any evidence./New York Times



Ingen kan vara oberörd (i vilket fall som helst) av att se de levande  bilderna på  den späda (men kanske råbarkad ändå?) fågeln före och efter tillkännagivandet av domen.

---Social media certainly played a pivotal role in bringing the case to national attention, but the case at its core may have simply appealed to people's primal instincts, said Stuart Fischoff, a senior editor at the Journal of Media Psychology.
"This is scarier than the average murder case because there's a sacredness that we assign to motherhood," he said. "The idea that a mother could kill her child flies in the face of every archetypal notion we have. It's monstrous. And we're revolted by that, but we're also fascinated. And we want revenge.---

Why does this case get such coverage?
Answer: Ratings, ratings, ratings.
Read more >> http://www.iol.co.za/tonight/tv-radio/trial-by-tv-1.1094208

Worse Than O.J.!
While the stunning Casey Anthony acquittal defied logic, O.J. Simpson prosecutor Marcia Clark details how juries often delude themselves—and why this verdict trumps even her case.
 Sick, shaken, in disbelief. As I listened to the verdicts in the Casey Anthony case, acquitting her of the homicide of her baby girl, I relived what I felt back when court clerk Deirdre Robertson read the verdicts in the Simpson case.

Marcia Clark

But this case is different. The verdict far more shocking. Why?
Read more >> http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2011/07/05/casey-anthony-trial-marcia-clark-says-the-verdict-was-worse-than-the-o-j-simpson-case.html?om_rid=Nsf68G&om_mid=_BOFFptB8cNvRVA

Casey Anthony is guilty of many things. She is an enthusiastic liar. She was an indifferent mother. She mooched off her overindulgent parents for years. Even after her daughter went missing, Anthony partied and got a tattoo. But the state of Florida did not make a good case that Anthony murdered her daughter. In acquitting Anthony, the jury made the right call.


Los Angeles Times
July 7, 2011
6:48 a.m.
Casey Anthony gets 4-year sentence

The judge in the Casey Anthony murder trial sentences Anthony to four years in prison for lying to investigators but says she may be released by late July or early August.