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Casey Anthony, who was found not guilty of the 2008 murder of her younger daughter Caylee Anthony on Tuesday (July 5), was sentence Thursday (July 7) in the Orlando courthouse where the trial has taken place. What Anthony was found guilty of were four counts of giving false statements to police, which can each carry a sentence of up to a year. In the sentencing trial, the defense argued that since the four statements were given in the same interview and within a short time of one another, sentencing her for each of the counts would constitute Double Jeopardy, which is the legal term that means you cannot be found guilty or serve time for the same crime multiple times. The defense argued that there was no time to think and reflect on her actions and premeditate each false statement. They had a 2006 ruling from Florida where a judge ruled that convicting someone for each statement was, in fact, Double Jeopardy.
However, Judge Belvin Perry did not agree with the defense and handed down four one-year sentences for each of Anthony's false statements to the police, which is the maximum sentence Anthony could have received. But the judge also said Anthony would get credit for time served and over the course of the investigation, she has spent over 1000 days in jail, so Anthony will most likely only spend a few more months in jail.
There is no exact number of days for how long Anthony will be in jail because Judge Perry says he has to confer with her lawyers and the authorities to find out how much time served she will be credited.
In addition to the jail time, Judge Perry also ruled that Anthony would pay a fine for each count and would also have to pay for some of the costs of the trial.
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Instead of sitting in a nice comfortable jail cell at "taxpayers expense" she should be strapped into the electric chair, receiving four separate electrifying jolts, every four minutes, every four hours, for each of the four lies she committed. In addition, she should be held accountable for every dollar spent of TAXPAYERS money, search teams which included police personnel, FBI personnel, and voluntary citizens of Orange County Florida. Each and every person should be compensated, notwithstanding Judge Belvin Perry, the State's team, forensics, and every person mentioned in her "wild goose chase lies!" I rest my case.
Has she, or any of her defense teams, actually said what (they think) happened to Caylee from the time of her supposed drowning to her body going missing to the subsequent discovery many months later?
Look at it this way, the world is not gonna let her live. Everywhere she goes she will be taunted. She'll have objects thrown at her. Her home will be vandalized. And it will happen every week for the remainder of her life. No, it's not the penalty most were hoping for, but no matter where she goes, the public will remind her of her place on the food chain. And once those jurors names are leaked, I can't imagine they are gonna get much sleep either. Kharma is a you know what.
I don't respond to the supporters of this case decision, so don't bother.
she is free next week. im sure most of you will be reading her book and watching her movie.
@Jersey scum - I couldn't have said it better myself. You hit the nail on the head!
Here's hoping to vigilante justice.....
I figure that Casey Anthony participated in her daughter's death. BUT, our system doesn't function on opinion, or my figuring. It functions on the requirement that the prosecution prove a person's guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.
Sometimes a guilty person will escape punishment because the state is unable to prove the person's guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. That same protection hopefully prevents you or me from being imprisoned or executed for a crime which we did not commit. Do we really want to start awarding prison sentences based on popular opinion?
I did not watch the gavel-to-gavel coverage of this trial. Based on the recaps I saw each morning on the Today Show I did not see the state meeting their burden of proof. The prosecution should always honestly evaluate the quality of their evidence; if it is lacking they should settle for a plea bargain.
Juries are sequestered for a reason. They need to base their decision on the information presented in the courtroom not on the opinions of talking heads on a TV program.
Several other posts suggest vigilante justice. Keep in mind that anyone who harms or threatens Ms. Anthony will be guilty of a crime. They may be found, prosecuted and given a lengthy sentence. God knows whether Casey is guilty and she will one day answer to Him.
What is with this Lynch Mob mentality?
Some of you people are bat s*hit crazy. Casey Anthony was tried for murder and found not guilty. End of story. Move on.
The evidence presented did not support the prosecutions assertion that Casey killed her daughter. A majority of the public cannot accept the verdict because for the last 2+ years crackpots like Nancy Grace have been on their soapbox daily screaming that Casey Anthony is guilty and should be sentenced to death without a shred of proof.
One thing that has become distinctly clear to me as a result of this trial is that the American public loves to hate, condemn and judge.
I am absolutely heartsick over this whole thing. I believe %100 that Casey was completely responsible for her daughter's death. Unfortunately, the prosecution just went overboard with the charges. The jury believes she is responsible but they had to follow the law. The prosecution screwed the pooch on this one and they know it. Also, I'm Canadian and I did not follow any of the media reports, I did not watch Nancy Grace nor did I read any of the tabloid journalism. I watched the trial and only the trial. I'm also a mom and I feel completely disgusted by this whole thing. To see her smug face this morning with her hair down figuring she was getting out today. I wanted to vomit. The only thing left to say is "what goes around comes around".
Nobody really knows what happened, that's the problem with this case. There's really not a lot of solid evidence that would prove this or that person did it so that's why they had to find her 'Not guilty'. Quite often some people are convicted with hardly any evidence so I am surprised it turned out that way actually, I was expecting another guilty verdict despite the lack of evidence.