Casey Anthony "Tot Mom" - Found Not Guilty (worst than OJ Simpson)

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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/07/05/MNEV1K6L29.DTL

For those that don't know, this was the case that spanned 3 years, where the Mom, Casey Anthony, reported her 2 year old daughter, Caylee, was missing for 31 days, and her story was that she was kidnapped by a nanny from Mexico (named Zanny - seriously for reals). And the only reason she waited 31 days to tell someone was because she was "scared" and wanted to look for her daughter herself.

But while her daughter was missing, she partied, went to night clubs, went shopping, even joined a hot body contest, and also got a tattoo that said "life is beautiful".

A month afterwards she was later arrested for suspicion of murder and lying to the police after her daughter's body was found 6 months later inside a trash bag with her face duct tape, just a few blocks from the Mom's house.

She later admitted the nanny story was a lie.

But today, she was just acquitted of murder.

Orlando -- Casey Anthony's eyes welled with tears and her lips trembled as the verdict was read once, twice and then a third time: "Not guilty" of killing her 2-year-old daughter, Caylee.

Outside the courthouse, many in the crowd of 500 reacted with anger, chanting, "Justice for Caylee!" One man yelled, "Baby killer!"

In one of the most divisive verdicts since O.J. Simpson was acquitted in 1995 of murdering his wife, Anthony was cleared of murder, manslaughter and child-abuse charges after weeks of wall-to-wall TV coverage and armchair-lawyer punditry that one of her attorneys denounced as "media assassination."

Anthony, 25, was convicted only of four misdemeanor counts of lying to investigators who were looking into the child's June 2008 disappearance.

Anthony could get up to a year behind bars on each count when she is sentenced Thursday. But since she has been in jail for nearly three years already, she could walk free. Had she been convicted of murder, she could have gotten the death penalty.

After a trial of a month and a half, the Florida Ninth Judicial Circuit Court jury took less than 11 hours to reach a verdict in a case that had become a national cable TV sensation, with its CSI-style testimony about the smell of death inside a car trunk and its story line about a seemingly self-centered, hard-partying young mother.

Prosecutors contended that Anthony - a single mother living with her parents - suffocated Caylee with duct tape because she wanted to be free to hit the nightclubs and spend time with her boyfriend.

Defense attorneys argued that the little girl accidentally drowned in the family swimming pool, and that Anthony panicked and concealed the death because of the traumatic effects of sexual abuse by her father.

State's Attorney Lawson Lamar lamented the lack of hard evidence, saying, "This is a dry-bones case. Very, very difficult to prove. The delay in recovering little Caylee's remains worked to our considerable disadvantage."

Anthony failed to report Caylee's disappearance for a month. The child's decomposed body was eventually found in the woods near her grandparents' home six months after she was last seen. A medical examiner was never able to establish how she died, and prosecutors had only circumstantial evidence that Caylee had been killed.
The jurors - seven women, five men - would not talk to the media, and their identities were kept secret by the court.

Given the relative speed with which the jury came back, many court-watchers were expecting Anthony to be convicted and were stunned by the outcome.

Anthony's parents left court quickly after the verdict without hugging or saying anything to Anthony. As court broke up, she smiled broadly and hugged her lawyers.
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