Casey Anthony Trial And Verdict
On June 30, 2010, Andrea Lyon filed a motion to withdraw as counsel representing Casey Anthony. Linda Kenney-Baden was withdrawn in October 2010. Both cited travel costs as a barrier to continue to represent Anthony. In mid-August 2010, Brad Conway, the lawyer representing the parents of Casey Anthony, withdrew, saying the charges in a defense motion that he received special treatment in the review of records, but false now I became a witness in the case, forcing him to retire.
Jury selection began on May 9, 2011 in Pinellas County Criminal Justice Center in Clearwater, Florida, because the case had been so widely reported in the Orlando area. The jurors were brought from Pinellas County to Orlando. Jury selection took longer than expected and ended on May 20, 2011, with twelve jurors and five alternates was sworn in.59] The panel included nine women and eight men. It was estimated that the trial will last about two months, during which the jury would be sequestered to avoid the influence of information available outside the room.
The trial began on May 24, 2011, in Orange County Court, Judge Belvin Perry to the president. In opening statements, prosecutor Linda Drane Burdick principal described the story of the disappearance of Caylee Anthony by the day. The defense, led by Jose Baez, filed its request that Caylee accidentally drowned in the family pool on June 16, 2008, and was found by George Anthony, who covered the death of Caylee and he did so it would be a secret between him and Casey to protect her from accusations of neglect. Baez said it was the habit of a lifetime of Casey to hide his pain and pretend that nothing happened, George Anthony had sexually abused her since she was eight years old, and his brother Lee had made advances toward her and had a paternity test to see if he was the father of Caylee.
The prosecution, which included Jeffrey Ashton, an alleged murder and the death penalty sought against Casey Anthony. Prosecutors alleged that Anthony used chloroform to give her daughter unconscious before putting tape over the nose and mouth to suffocate her, and left the body of Caylee in the trunk of his car for a few days before disposing of it. Anthony Prosecutors painted as a party girl who killed her daughter to escape parental responsibility and enjoy your personal life.
Cindy Anthony told the jury that she was the one who used his family computer to search the Internet for "chloroform" in March 2008, not Casey Anthony. When asked by prosecutors that she could have done Internet searches on the employment records showed that he was at work, Cindy Anthony said she was home from work early in the day in question.
On June 30, the team of Casey Anthony's defense rested with Anthony not to testify in his own defense.
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