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Casey Anthony
Julie Bleifuss
Criminal Law
Bernie Hogancamp
Course Project 8-8-12

Courtroom trials are very interesting to me and I really enjoyed clerking for judges and being able to watch everything from beginning to end. The case I have chosen is a jury trial and that jury ends up being seven women and five men. The criminal laws that were violated were many starting with Child Neglect, making false official statements and obstructing an investigation. Forging checks, fraudulent use of identification and petty theft, first degree murder, aggravated child abuse aggravated manslaughter and four counts of lying to law enforcement. Heading the prosecution was the District Attorney of Orange County Florida with several of the Assistant District Attorney’s. The defense has Jose Baez and what they were calling a ‘team’ of defense counsel, which actually ended up only being 3. Judge Belvin Perry was on the bench and all of the witnesses that were on both the states list of witnesses to call but the defense as well. The outcome of this trial rocked the nation as the verdict was read live which were Not Guilty of Aggravated Murder, Aggravated Child Abuse and Aggravated Manslaughter. The defendant was found guilty on 4 counts of the forgery of checks and was credited for time served, then released from jail.
Casey Anthony made national news for several days and remained the top story. She had been charged and arrested with murdering her two year old daughter, Caylee Anthony. Casey denied ever knowing anything to the police of her whereabouts and told law enforcement that her nanny had taken Caylee by force and she had been looking for her in different avenues, to supposedly protect the child. Also stating she should have contacted police sooner than 31 days prior, but she was in fear for her daughter’s life was the story she stuck to. After being jailed and held without bond pictures of the young mother were posted all over "My Space" portraying Casey Anthony as nothing


Cited: Cairo, Emari Validar and Cavan. Follow the Duct Tape: Theories Behind the Death of Caylee Anthony. Orange County: Newtown Publishing, Inc., 2011. Clark, Marcia. Guilty by Association. Orlando: Mulholland Books, 2012. Helling, Steve. Outrage: The Casey Anthony Story. People Magazine, Sept Issue, 2011.Hsmsteron, Evil. The Casey Anthony Story. 14 November 2011. Jones, Aphrodite Pulilitzer, Jeff Ashton and Lisa. Imperfect Justice. William Morrow, 2011. Amazon.
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