There was no shortage of surprise across the country as the verdict was read in Casey Anthony’s trial. Anthony, the much maligned mother of the tragically deceased Caylee Anthony, was found not guilty of her daughter’s murder. Supporters of Anthony who believed she was being framed for Caylee’s murder are in many ways as shocked by the verdict as detractors who believed her to be guilty. Even though jurors had been imported from nearby Tampa Bay and sequestered for the entire proceedings, there was a collective sense surrounding the trial that Casey Anthony had already been convicted of the murder in the Court of Public Opinion.
Public opinion aside, in the Florida legal system a criminal defendant is presumed to be not guilty until he or she is proven guilty in a court of law. Same goes (or is supposed to go) in any criminal court in the United States. The “not guilty” verdict means that the 12 jurors found that the prosecution had not PROVEN that Casey Anthony murdered her daughter.
Casey Anthony was found guilty by the jury of four counts of providing false information to police investigators. She will face sentencing for those convictions Thursday morning. She could be sentenced at most to four years in prison (one year for each count).
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