Casey Anthony's lawyers argue she was wrongly convicted of lying

Joe Burbank / Pool via Orlando Sentinel

Casey Anthony smiles before the start of her sentencing hearing in Orlando, Fla., on July 7, 2011.

Lawyers for Casey Anthony -- the Florida mother found not guilty in the murder of her 2-year-old daughter -- argued to a state appeals court on Tuesday that Anthony should not have been convicted of lying to police because she had not been advised of her right to remain silent.

Anthony, 26, was acquitted of major charges in 2011 in the death of her 2-year-old daughter, Caylee Marie Anthony, who disappeared in 2008 and whose body was found months later in the woods near the Anthony home in the Orlando area. 

Though she was acquitted of the murder charge, Casey Anthony was convicted of four counts of lying to police and had been sentenced to a maximum of four years in prison.


Anthony was convicted of lying to a detective when she said she left Caylee on or about June 9, 2008, with a nanny named Zenaida Fernandez-Gonzalez at the Sawgrass Apartments in Orlando. She was also convicted of lying when she claimed she was employed at Universal Studios, had told Universal co-workers that Caylee was missing, and later received a phone call from Caylee.

Anthony was nowhere to be seen Tuesday, when her lawyers entered a Daytona Beach, Fla. court for the afternoon hearing before the Fifth District Court of Appeal, NBC affiliate WESH of Orlando reported.

A three-judge appellate panel did not rule Tuesday and didn't specify when a decision would come down, the Orlando Sentinel reported.


Lawyers for Anthony argue the four lies should be considered one offense, since the statements were made during extended interrogation by detectives, Reuters reported. They also argue that jurors shouldn't have heard Anthony's statements to detectives during the initial investigation, according to Reuters. Her lawyers say that's because her lawyers had not been advised of her right to remain silent.

In August, Anthony completed one year of probation at a secret location for a check fraud charge.

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She needs to just shut up and keep herself out of the public eye. She should be glad that's all she was convicted of.

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#1 - Tue Jan 8, 2013 10:37 AM EST

guilty as sin. of lying and also murder. she should just be thankful she got off with the latter. this is probably just a stunt to keep herself in the public eye. she loves the attention - negative or not.

  • 101 votes
#1.1 - Tue Jan 8, 2013 10:41 AM EST

I agree Terelyn. She just shows her stupidity now. She would be far better off keeping her mouth shut and staying low profile.

  • 55 votes
#1.2 - Tue Jan 8, 2013 10:48 AM EST

Seeing her smile makes me want to smack the shi+ out of her.

  • 129 votes
#1.3 - Tue Jan 8, 2013 10:55 AM EST

I still cannot believe she wasn't found guilty. What a sham our judicial system is.

  • 100 votes
#1.4 - Tue Jan 8, 2013 10:55 AM EST

This vile "thing" that passes itself off as a woman is creepier than Charles Manson.

  • 92 votes
#1.5 - Tue Jan 8, 2013 11:00 AM EST

I doubt she was trying to get into the public eye. The woman lives under perpetual scrutiny. If she gets a traffic ticket, we're likely to hear about it. Lawyers just doing their job, it becomes part of the court record, and the Casey-watchers pick it up and we read about it. Also, public defense lawyers are not only working on her behalf, they probably see some significant legal issues in the multiple charges, issues which would affect other clients. Multiple charges for statements made during ongoing investigation--or the threat of multiple charges--that's something that could easily be used to abuse and curtail 5th amendment rights of anyone in connection with investigations. Including, yes, innocent people.

  • 20 votes
#1.6 - Tue Jan 8, 2013 11:01 AM EST

She got away with murder and now wants to appeal about her lying conviction? It's a sad, sad world we live in.

  • 70 votes
#1.7 - Tue Jan 8, 2013 11:13 AM EST

It took 12 years for OJ to get his just do, we will have to wait for Casey Anthony to get hers. I don't think many people like her and OJ ever change.

  • 74 votes
#1.8 - Tue Jan 8, 2013 11:14 AM EST

She needs to have her head examined by a stone cutter, then deported....

  • 26 votes
#1.9 - Tue Jan 8, 2013 11:19 AM EST

After watching the trail (Big joke) the term Bottom Feeder really fits for her attorney... And she is definitely the lowest of the low...

I doubt she even thinks about what she did... She cares only about herself... I feel sorry for the child that's gone and the grandparents and uncle left behind...

  • 37 votes
#1.10 - Tue Jan 8, 2013 11:21 AM EST

I only wish for her that every time she closes her eyes.... she sees that precious baby over and over again.

  • 40 votes
#1.11 - Tue Jan 8, 2013 11:23 AM EST

Too bad her acquittal cannot be appealed

  • 60 votes
#1.12 - Tue Jan 8, 2013 11:24 AM EST

she's not legally guilty...a jury of 12 said so...i think casey is a little crazy...and the jury was totally nuts...

  • 26 votes
#1.13 - Tue Jan 8, 2013 11:24 AM EST

This human piece of garbage is the same as the piece of manure that killed Natalee Holloway. She got away with it and I put money that she will do it again. Anyone that kills a defenseless child will have no problem doing it again.

  • 48 votes
#1.14 - Tue Jan 8, 2013 11:26 AM EST

This murderer needs to just disappear.

  • 26 votes
#1.15 - Tue Jan 8, 2013 11:29 AM EST

I still think a "crazy" will take her out, just a matter of time. She got away with murder, but karma's a bitch.

  • 30 votes
#1.16 - Tue Jan 8, 2013 11:32 AM EST
Comment author avatarBundgaard-1210892Expand Comment Comment collapsed by the community

You people are funny, 99.9 % of you were never in that courtroom, and all she and her mom did was accidentally drown the kid in a pool, like NINE OTHERS DO EVERY DAY.--And they were embarrassed, it is that simple. But they should have called the ambulance when the kid was dead, but for what? to satisfy you, the ambulance could do nothing anyway, you people live in a totally unreal world, created by too many TV shows.

So if they drop everything, I hope she gets a few million from the police pension fund for harassment by them and especially by you who really have no idea of what happened.

  • 10 votes
#1.18 - Tue Jan 8, 2013 11:36 AM EST

Oh but one can only hope...

  • 3 votes
#1.19 - Tue Jan 8, 2013 11:36 AM EST
Comment author avatarBundgaard-1210892Expand Comment Comment collapsed by the community

You people are funny, 99.9 % of you were never in that courtroom, and all she and her mom did was accidentally drown the kid in a pool, like NINE OTHERS DO EVERY DAY.--And they were embarrassed, it is that simple. But they should have called the ambulance when the kid was dead, but for what? to satisfy you, the ambulance could do nothing anyway, you people live in a totally unreal world, created by too many TV shows.

So if they drop everything, I hope she gets a few million from the police pension fund for harassment by them and especially by you who really have no idea of what happened.

  • 3 votes
#1.20 - Tue Jan 8, 2013 11:37 AM EST

Do they go out partying after?

  • 11 votes
#1.21 - Tue Jan 8, 2013 11:41 AM EST

I truly hope you are not serious Bundgaard-1210892 -- if so you are a sick individual. have kids?

  • 35 votes
#1.22 - Tue Jan 8, 2013 11:41 AM EST

Oh so its okay to drown a baby in a pool....not be scared and upset....just be embarrassed? "the kid" wow ...youre an @!$%#. I hope you do not have kids. wlpos

  • 34 votes
#1.23 - Tue Jan 8, 2013 11:43 AM EST

So Bundgaard-1210892 do you have children? If you do, you should really considering putting your children up for adoption. If you think its is okay to "accidentally" drown your kid then you sit in a jail cell with bunch of immates that would take advantage of you and make you their b@#*tch.

  • 18 votes
#1.24 - Tue Jan 8, 2013 11:48 AM EST

BUNDGAARD ---are u out of your mind!!!! SHe downed her baby and accident...OK ...BUT to throw her body in a field ...she should receive $ for that . U must be the devil himself!!

  • 29 votes
#1.25 - Tue Jan 8, 2013 11:49 AM EST

Caycee should be blugeoned to death to wipe that smirk off her face. I predict she will end life abruptly someday well before her natural time. What a POS to think about this legal piece.......

  • 18 votes
#1.27 - Tue Jan 8, 2013 11:52 AM EST

One thing I learned is that the most important part of any jury trial, isn't the evidence, witnesses, procedures or testimony but choosing the right Jurors.

  • 18 votes
#1.28 - Tue Jan 8, 2013 11:54 AM EST

hope i never see her walking down the sidewalk while im driving by. just sayin!

  • 20 votes
#1.29 - Tue Jan 8, 2013 11:56 AM EST

Apparently, Bundgaard has the inside scoop. Crime solved. Just a little case of accidental drowning, no big deal. Happens every day. That's one of the dumbest posts I've read. Several TV shows detail actual crimes that are more bizarre and unbelievable than the idea of Casey Anthony killing her child so she no longer has responsibility for her. I'd rather be "funny" than nuts.

  • 18 votes
#1.31 - Tue Jan 8, 2013 12:02 PM EST

It's disgraceful that she got away with murder of this innocent child as a result of a broken justice system. Her lawyers are now attempting to use the system again in hopes of benefiting financially from any deals she will get from a book deal, TV appearances, etc.

Sadly, the judge will also want some publicity to, so he will allow it to happen.

What a world we live in today. God help us.

  • 17 votes
#1.32 - Tue Jan 8, 2013 12:02 PM EST

She needs to slither back under her rock.

  • 32 votes
#1.33 - Tue Jan 8, 2013 12:04 PM EST

Yeah Dumgaard,

First go on your computer and look up ways to break your kids neck and ways to make home-made chloroform. Then when your kid accidentally drowns in the swimming pool don't call for help since it might embarrass you. Instead wrap duct tape around their head and mouth and throw them into the trunk of your car to rot for a few days. When you can no longer stand the stench throw them into a ditch somewhere where they won't be found and go party with your friends for a month until people notice your child is missing. We should name you mother of the year and give you lots of money.

  • 43 votes
#1.34 - Tue Jan 8, 2013 12:09 PM EST

Who is paying the lawyers for this latest round of crap ? If it is the state of Florida taxpayers , you just got screwed again.

  • 14 votes
#1.35 - Tue Jan 8, 2013 12:10 PM EST

God look at her smile...pisses me off. The only attention she is going to get is more hate towards her and she better watch her back. I think we all just need to be patiant and wait for karma to come biting her in the a#$

  • 21 votes
#1.36 - Tue Jan 8, 2013 12:10 PM EST

Many of you feel she is only looking for attention, when what she is doing is a smart move. If in fact her lies were made before she was read her rights, and, or the lies were told in the same session she might get the conviction overturned.

If she gets the conviction overturned then she can legally say she has never been convicted of a crime, on job applications etc... That is why it is a smart move.

I don't think she's innocent of everything she was charged with, and I do think she lied to police, but the "justice" system may overturn the verdict.

I just think the verdict will be overturned, it doesn't mean I support it.

  • 4 votes
#1.37 - Tue Jan 8, 2013 12:13 PM EST

Agreed, Terelyn. Better to keep quiet and have others consider you a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.

  • 7 votes
#1.38 - Tue Jan 8, 2013 12:13 PM EST

To Bundgaard 1210892:

You must not have any children, but I do. And if god for bid I did find my child drowned in the pool or dead because of anything, I would still call 911 because that is your instinct. You never give up on your children, you would walk on glass to bring them back, and you sure as hell don't disgard them like trash in the woods! You would wait for help, give cpr, and if your child was lost you would have a beautiful funeral with family and friends to celebrate thier little life. You don't leave your baby to be eaten by wild animals and insects, unless you are a cut throat bitch who only cares about herself. You my friend are a blind idoit along with the other 12 jurors.

  • 27 votes
#1.39 - Tue Jan 8, 2013 12:14 PM EST

Wow, what balls. She should stay away from pools, though. Especially public ones, lest she have an "accident."

  • 9 votes
#1.41 - Tue Jan 8, 2013 12:21 PM EST

I want her to go to jail. Be put in the public population. Those women would take good care of her.

  • 12 votes
#1.42 - Tue Jan 8, 2013 12:25 PM EST

Maybe Bundgaard and Casey are one in the same. Just sayin.......

  • 16 votes
#1.43 - Tue Jan 8, 2013 12:31 PM EST

@SRMcMahon

You are absolutely right!! There are bigger issues here than Casey Anthony. People need to "put down the outrage" and see what's going on here and how it will effect people in the future. I actually watched the casey anthony trial everyday...and was as shocked and dismayed as ANYBODY that she was found not guilty...that being said...I feel that the not guilty verdict was a proof of the STRENGTH our judicial system is SUPPOSED to have...it's SUPPOSED to be HARD to convict somebody...the prosecution is supposed to PROVE guilt...if the prosecution team in the anthony/simpson trials did not get guilty verdicts...THEY CAN ONLY BLAME THEMSELVES...not "the system" don't blame the jury because they followed the letter and the spirit of the law. In my opinion the weakest link in the "system" is where and how the prosecution is allowed to file charges...yeah we all know that casey anthony never said anything that wasn't a lie...but charging her with four counts for one crime is only going to hurt everyone who comes AFTER her...making it easier for the prosecution to "win" before the trial even starts is going to hurt EVERYBODY...as SRMcMahon reminds us...especially the INNOCENT...the innocent do exist people. It is a far far worse thing to send an innocent person to prison(or worse) than to see a guilty person go free.

  • 1 vote
#1.44 - Tue Jan 8, 2013 12:41 PM EST

To Bundgaard

I hope she gets a few million from the police pension fund for harassment

Are you really serious? First of all, it was her Mother who called Police to report a missing child. Police and investigators responded to THAT call. Casey Anthony was not being harassed or interrogated therefore, there would have been no reason to read her Miranda rights or her mother at that point. She gave willingly, information to the police about the "reported missing child" on her own to lead detectives on an investigation that was false. Places she worked, a baby-sitter's name and location, all information she voluntarily gave to responding officers the day her mother made a 911 call to police. If you are pulled over or contacted by Police and are asked your name and you lie and give a fictitious name, you don't need your rights read to you, but if you lie to police and give even a false name, you can and probably will be convicted of the same misdemeanor Casey Anthony was.

In the further investigations after finding out that Ms. Anthony lied when filing a "false police report" which is what she did by lying to police, she continued at that time to give the same story about a babysitter, the woman's name, her workplace, the babysitters address as a followup to being caught lying in the initial call to Police and report. So to insinuate that this was harassment by the police is just ridiculous.

And then to say you hope she gets millions from their police pension fund. What job do you have? I bet you don't spend your life dealing with drug addicts, drunks, family fights, dead bodies, and telling a loved one their son or mother hung themselves on christmas morning. Until you are ready to shape up, go through a rigourous academy, have every aspect of your financial and personal life investigated, and put on a uniform and take fire from some fool, who's only purpose that day is to kill you or someone else, shut up about police pensions and give up your life and family time to work 12-18 hr shifts, weekends, holidays, kids birthdays, and work with the worst of society to burn out your body by age 50 and hopefully live long enough to collect that pension for what you've sacrificed for society.....Yeah, people like you.

  • 22 votes
#1.45 - Tue Jan 8, 2013 12:46 PM EST

the judicial system is not perfect, a jury of citizens heard all the evidence in a long trial, they found the State did not prove their case( every juror probably felt she was responsible, but MURDER was not proved); now for the appeal, she was a suspect from day one, the detectives said so on the stand; the appeal is based on her right to remain silent , once she was a target suspect; the court will have to do some good foot work , in order not to overturn her convictions, the lawyers have a good argument on their appeal; Florida has one of the best IDO office in the nation, some very good lawyers, who are many career IDO lawyers!

  • 2 votes
#1.46 - Tue Jan 8, 2013 12:50 PM EST

Casey has admitted herself that she loves to watch the news to see what people are saying about her. Just four words for you Casey - you are a murderer. And you know it (four more.)

  • 12 votes
#1.47 - Tue Jan 8, 2013 12:53 PM EST

Is anyone really that surprised that she feels entitled to get away with ALL charges, not just the ones that would have put her away for life?

She realizes that no one is going to pay her for her story and no one is interested in her fame other than when she is in court. So the only solution to her need for attention and money is to go back to court and then sue the Police Dept.

BTW - Bundgaard-1210892 is clearly a troll. No parent would simply dump their kid's body like trash (embarrassed or not) even if paramedics couldn't save them. And since every news station broadcast the trial live on TV and the internet, we didn't really NEED to physically be in the courtroom to know what happened. I still cling to the hope that no one is as stupid as this troll would like you to believe...

Trolls are much more pathetic than armchair detectives because they think negative attention from a display of stupidity is better than none at all.

  • 5 votes
#1.48 - Tue Jan 8, 2013 1:00 PM EST

According to an appellate brief, Anthony's lawyers will argue that the four lies should have been considered one offense, because the statements were made during an extended interrogation by detectives.

"Extended", meaning that they went back to her several times when the previous leads didn't pan out. Therefore she had time between each round of questions to do the right thing and tell the truth and instead just lied some more.

Also the line about her miranda rights is laughable. They never informed her of her rights because she wasn't in police custody at the time. And they were questioning her at that point. If cops needed to read miranda rights to every person they question during an investigation then witness testimony from anyone that wasn't a suspect would also be inadmissible by law, by that same standard. That would even hurt defense witnesses.

I hope the judge sees through these silly claims.

  • 6 votes
#1.49 - Tue Jan 8, 2013 1:07 PM EST

She should run for a high public office in the Federal Gov. She would be voted in without a doubt. This slime would fit in perfectly with the rest of the scum in Washington.

    #1.50 - Tue Jan 8, 2013 1:10 PM EST

    She skated on the murder charge and threw her family under a train in the process. Now this narcissistic little hoebag is nitpicking what little in the way of charges was dumped in her lap. I don't get it. Just go away, casey...just go away.

    • 3 votes
    #1.52 - Tue Jan 8, 2013 1:20 PM EST

    Race2three

    charging her 4 times for one crime is only going to hurt everyone

    While you are absolutely correct that the prosecution has the ultimate duty of proof for guilt and while I believe that Anthony did know Caylee was dead, where her body was, and perhaps it was neglectful supervision which lead to her death, the prosecution only proved she was a liar and a poor excuse for a mother of a child and human being for that matter. The child endangerment charge should never have been dropped. The prosecutors in this case made a huge mistake by going for First Degree Murder. They knew they had a missing child, then a dead child, a mother who filed a false police report giving misleading information on numerous interviews. They had evidence that she never reported a missing child (which at the time was not a crime in Florida) but not knowing if your child is fed, clothed, who is caring for your child, and having no information of the well-being of your child is Felony Child Endangerment, and a jury would have most certainly convicted her on that charge.

    But to your statement of being charged 4 times on 1 crime. You are incorrect. And lets remember that the Grand Jury handed down these charges. Count 4 was lying initially on the day she filed a false police report about working at Universal Studios. Count 5 was giving information to police about a possible suspect by name and location as the "baby-sitter". Count 6 was in a separate interview telling police the names of 2 supposed co-workers at Universal Studio's who also were informed of her daughter's disappearance. And count 7 was on July 15th, a week later from the July 8th information that she had received a phone call and spoken personally to Caylee, which then led investigators on a massive expansion to find the missing child with information from her mother she spoke to her. These were 4 separate and individual indictments from the Grand Jury. Each count carried a max. in Florida of 1 yr in jail as a 1st degree Misdemeanor and a $1,000 fine.

    This in no way weakens the justice system and places any other citizen at risk. The Grand Jury did the right thing here on these 4 counts of indictment. And also, remember....Ms. Anthony was offered immunity on those 4 counts to just tell investigators what really happened and she refused twice.

    • 7 votes
    #1.53 - Tue Jan 8, 2013 1:22 PM EST

    Im just surprised that she's still alive.

    • 5 votes
    #1.54 - Tue Jan 8, 2013 1:28 PM EST

    She has no respect for the law at all. Same way I would stop having respect for it if she walks out of this winning a lawsuit for several million dollars.

    That woman is guilty as they come!

    • 4 votes
    #1.55 - Tue Jan 8, 2013 1:40 PM EST

    I'm sure it was just a coincidence that she googled how to suffocate a child just prior to her daughter's "accidental" death.

    • 5 votes
    #1.57 - Tue Jan 8, 2013 2:04 PM EST

    Steve Wilson3

    @Bell1234

    I hope someday you have a child accidentally drown.

    What I find absolutely amazing is that some of the posters here actually believe they are in any way better than Casey Anthony when it is painfully obvious that they are cut from the same cloth.

    • 1 vote
    #1.58 - Tue Jan 8, 2013 2:05 PM EST

    @Steve Wilson 3

    I hope you accidentally drown. maybe the immates would like you too? dick.

    • 2 votes
    #1.59 - Tue Jan 8, 2013 2:12 PM EST

    This crazy b**ch needs to disappear before some eccentric nut takes her @ss out!!!! Don't think even her family would miss this lying, murderess, piece of sh*t!!!........Thoughts and prayers are always with you Caylee!! God Bless your beautiful soul.

    • 5 votes
    #1.60 - Tue Jan 8, 2013 2:22 PM EST

    Overturning her conviction does not alleviate her from further prosecutions as well as longer sentences should she be retried and found guilty.

    • 2 votes
    #1.62 - Tue Jan 8, 2013 2:23 PM EST

    If anyone is to blame for her Not guilty verdict it is one sheriffs deputy who did not retrieve Caylee's body from the swamp it was moved to when it was first reported in august. Instead it was december before the retrived it. The whole case was screwed over by bad police work and lazy cops.

    • 1 vote
    #1.63 - Tue Jan 8, 2013 2:26 PM EST

    joe s-1610165

    hope i never see her walking down the sidewalk while im driving by. just sayin!

    You'd better hope she never even gets brushed by a car after typing that stupid comment.

      #1.64 - Tue Jan 8, 2013 3:01 PM EST

      BUT - she hasn't killed anyone recently.

      • 1 vote
      #1.65 - Tue Jan 8, 2013 3:09 PM EST

      In reading these painful posts.....my thoughts go to the basics. What is she using for money to pay her attnys to file this motion? Her parents, or maybe she got a small stipend from the Redneck of all stupid lawyers, Cheney Mason, who treated her like a daughter???Gag Gag and Gag. They feed off of each other. He gets to provide a focused channel of attention on himself, she is the sidebar to his circus act.

      Surely this motion is not funded by the the fundemental process of being her pubic defender? I cannot believe a court in the land would entertain this BS. Is this woman real, or a figment of some really bad dream. Narcissitic personality....don't need to go further into the text book for either her attorney or herself.

      • 1 vote
      #1.66 - Tue Jan 8, 2013 3:19 PM EST

      You fu@king hypocrites make me want to puke! Here you get all in a self-righteous uproar over what this idiot did to her baby. Then you turn right around and shoot off your mouth about what you would do to her if you ever saw her on the street. In the first place, 99.9999% of you are to big of a coward to do anything at all beyond telling her how you think she is slime. Secondly, you are exposing yourselves as what you really are. You're no better than her making threats of revenge against her. "Judge not lest you be judged". "Vengeance is mine sayeth the Lord". Are you willing to face Him after putting yourself in His place and extracting revenge on this person? You all need to examine how you are living your life and make some changes before you find yourselves on the other side of a sudden death. At that point it'll be just a little to late and you'll find yourselves as room mates to Casey Anthony for all Eternity.

      • 2 votes
      #1.67 - Tue Jan 8, 2013 3:31 PM EST

      This will go down in history as "THE DUMB TWELVE" ..................

      It's when you have more evidence than you can comprehend ... so you acquit!!!!!!

      • 3 votes
      #1.68 - Tue Jan 8, 2013 4:38 PM EST
      Reply

      This woman, innocent or not, will have to live with what little conscience she may have left for the rest of her life. Let us only hope she is constantly tormented by the things she has done and the lies she has told.

      • 17 votes
      Reply#2 - Tue Jan 8, 2013 10:38 AM EST

      Well... Guaranteed she is not 'tortured'. Those without a conscience have no problem living without one. It's the rest of us that have the problem of our neighbor not having one.

      • 24 votes
      #2.1 - Tue Jan 8, 2013 10:53 AM EST

      The sad thing is that more then likely she won't be constantly tormented by the fact that she killed her daughter and lied about it. She is a very mentally sick person who has more then likely made herself believe that somebody else did it - you tell yourself a lie long enough - you start to believe it and it becomes your truth. Her conscience probably died a long time ago. I mean who goes out to party while your daughter is missing.

      • 8 votes
      #2.2 - Tue Jan 8, 2013 11:28 AM EST

      I agree. And not only that, but I thought a person only had to be advised of his/her rights if under arrest, and if I remember correctly, she was only being questioned about the circumstances surrounding her daughter's disappearance. Also, every lie had to be investigated, costing taxpayers for lost time in investigating. Ah, well -- the law isn't always logical, and lawyers use that to their advantage.

      • 4 votes
      #2.3 - Tue Jan 8, 2013 11:29 AM EST

      She's not tormented at all. She was partying and living it up after she murdered her child. I hope she died a violent death.

      • 8 votes
      #2.4 - Tue Jan 8, 2013 11:31 AM EST

      she has no care other than for herself. like most people.

      • 3 votes
      #2.5 - Tue Jan 8, 2013 11:33 AM EST

      Jan-772812

      Ah, well -- the law isn't always logical, and lawyers use that to their advantage.

      Our legal system is designed to insure that innocents don't get punished. That is entirely "logical". But there is a price we pay for that, sometimes guilty people will get away with their crimes. No system is perfect but the alternative would be much worse.

      • 2 votes
      #2.6 - Tue Jan 8, 2013 11:46 AM EST

      Casey Anthony has gotten away with nothing, folks! She will stand face to face with the God who created her, and this earth, and everything in it. SHE will answer for EVERY sin that she has hidden from mankind! Also, her lawyers will answer for their aggregious coverup of her sins and their lies. They all will pay the ultimate price for living lies on this earth- an eternity in hell! God help them!!

      • 4 votes
      #2.7 - Tue Jan 8, 2013 12:43 PM EST

      All the commentors and me are just as bad and keeping her in the public eye by what we are doing. Someone said that it is a sham of American justice, but the prosecutor had his chance and couldn't prove a case to a jury of 12. Why is it when we want someone guilty we do this? It's our system and if they can't prove the case without a reasonable doubt then we have to go with it. so blame the media and the responders on message boards because we keep her in the limelight. When u don't care then they will go away. when u respond and the media carries the stories then it shows she is getting her wish.

      • 1 vote
      #2.8 - Tue Jan 8, 2013 12:44 PM EST

      Thats not the point. She escaped justice because of a jury full of weak minded people that failed to see the truth and apply the appropriate sentence. Death.

      • 2 votes
      #2.9 - Tue Jan 8, 2013 1:30 PM EST

      If she isn't tormented by what she has done in this life, she surely will be in the next one and there's no getting away from IT by dying. That life will be insanely horrible and will last for all Eternity.

        #2.10 - Tue Jan 8, 2013 3:35 PM EST
        Reply

        I think it's only fair that if she appeals her convictions on lying...that we can appeal her non-conviction on murdering that baby girl. She needs to hide in a hole and stay there.

        • 22 votes
        #3 - Tue Jan 8, 2013 10:40 AM EST

        That's not how it works. The Constitution forbids double jeopardy.

        • 10 votes
        #3.1 - Tue Jan 8, 2013 10:45 AM EST

        Really??? I think everyone knows that (unfortunate piece of US Law - especially in this case) - sounds like you want everyone to know you took a few law courses :)

        • 3 votes
        #3.2 - Tue Jan 8, 2013 10:51 AM EST

        Yea because the government should just be allowed to put people on trial again and again and again until they find a jury that agrees with them. Those idiots who wrote the Constitution had no idea what they were doing!

        • 20 votes
        #3.3 - Tue Jan 8, 2013 10:53 AM EST

        Yeah... a hole 6 feet under.

        • 5 votes
        #3.4 - Tue Jan 8, 2013 11:01 AM EST

        I gotta tell you guys, this idiot here called joe scatone is why we have problems in the country.

        You can't fix stupid.

        • 9 votes
        #3.5 - Tue Jan 8, 2013 11:23 AM EST

        At the very least then put those 12 jury members on trial for letting a murderer loose on society. And put her on trial for violating Caylee's human rights

        • 5 votes
        #3.6 - Tue Jan 8, 2013 11:27 AM EST

        Dave-3493908,

        No respect for the Constitution and people's rights is why we have problems in this society and this whole thread is an example of that. Joe Scatone is the only person making any sense.

        • 13 votes
        #3.7 - Tue Jan 8, 2013 11:39 AM EST

        Joe started to explain something we already know as citizens...you cant do double jeopardy. the original poster was just saying what they "would like to see happen" not that it would. so stop being so "holier than thou" get over it. she murdered her babe. shes evil. why are you trying to defending her rights in the least? jee whiz

        • 6 votes
        #3.8 - Tue Jan 8, 2013 11:46 AM EST

        Dave-3493908

        I gotta tell you guys, this idiot here called joe scatone is why we have problems in the country.

        You can't fix stupid.

        I'll just assume your doctor told you that. Because if you think Joe is wrong he's obviously not the idiot here.

        • 11 votes
        #3.9 - Tue Jan 8, 2013 11:50 AM EST

        No respect for our Constitution goes all the way to the White House.

        • 8 votes
        #3.10 - Tue Jan 8, 2013 11:54 AM EST

        Amanda-4335692

        Joe started to explain something we already know as citizens...you cant do double jeopardy. the original poster was just saying what they "would like to see happen" not that it would.

        Not that it would, just that she's like to see the Constitution ignored to fulfill her personal vendetta. I'd say that attitude is a problem.

        why are you trying to defending her rights in the least?

        That's really just a pathetically sad statement. The reason we defend EVERYONE'S rights is because people are wrongly accused all of the time. Allowing the few to get away with their crimes is the price we pay to insure that the many aren't unjustly punished.

        • 9 votes
        #3.11 - Tue Jan 8, 2013 11:56 AM EST

        She needs to be retried on another charge like child abuse and give her the electric chair.

          #3.12 - Tue Jan 8, 2013 12:27 PM EST

          The reason we defend EVERYONE'S rights is because people are wrongly accused all of the time. Allowing the few to get away with their crimes is the price we pay to insure that the many aren't unjustly punished.

          Couldn't agree more with that.

          • 3 votes
          #3.13 - Tue Jan 8, 2013 12:54 PM EST

          Joe Scatone

          That's not how it works. The Constitution forbids double jeopardy.

          What about all the people that are tried again under federal laws for the same exact crime? Civil rights violations etc.

            #3.14 - Tue Jan 8, 2013 1:33 PM EST

            Absolutely sickening!!!! I can not believe she has the audacity to even make an appeal! The bitch murdered her daughter and lied about EVERYTHING while the investigation was taking place leading the authorities absolutely no where. The judge should throw the charges right back at her and make her finish her 4 years of prison instead of that crock of @!$%# getting out for "good behavior". What really needs to happen is a re-trial to get this evil out of the public and incarcerated for the rest of her life! Its not fair that poor Caylee is gone off this earth before she was even given a chance to experience life and Casey still has the opportunity to appeal 4 charges that she is CLEARLY GUILTY for. And bitch don't use these charges as an excuse that their not allowing you to move on in life cause you have no life. Every where you go you better watch your back, just about everybody in America wants you dead!!!!!! Burn in hell Casey Anthony!

            • 3 votes
            #3.15 - Tue Jan 8, 2013 1:47 PM EST

            Who killed Kaylee Anthony? Is law enforcement searching for Kaylee's killer?

              #3.16 - Tue Jan 8, 2013 3:31 PM EST

              @Lauren Alexis -- yep. she's an evil bitch and you said what a lot of people are feeling. It seems to me that more people get away with @!$%# they should be locked up for than innocents being wrongly locked up. The legal system seems to give criminals more rights than it gives the victims. That's just wrong. And as long as we have the fools on the hill that we have now, it will never change.

                #3.17 - Tue Jan 8, 2013 3:41 PM EST

                @Lauren Alexis...... With an attitude like that, you and Casey Anthony will be spending a lot of time together in Hell. You are such an idiotic hypocrite. You could really stand to do A LOT of work on your spiritual life.

                • 1 vote
                #3.18 - Tue Jan 8, 2013 3:43 PM EST
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                I smell 2 sumbags. Her and her lawyer.

                • 27 votes
                Reply#4 - Tue Jan 8, 2013 10:44 AM EST

                I would assume the taxpayers of FL are paying for all this. Otherwise who is?

                • 6 votes
                #4.1 - Tue Jan 8, 2013 11:03 AM EST

                I agree! Two major scumbags! One who is a murderer of an innocent child and the other who lied to get her off. She needs to just GO AWAY! YES! GO AWAY Casey Anthoney!!

                • 6 votes
                #4.2 - Tue Jan 8, 2013 11:19 AM EST

                that would be SCUMBAGS !

                • 3 votes
                #4.3 - Tue Jan 8, 2013 11:25 AM EST
                Reply

                Legally her argument is sound if the case can be made that it was one extended interrogation and not 4 seperate interrogations. The DA doesn't have carte blanche to charge people with anything he wants just because most of the public thinks the person is guilty.

                • 7 votes
                Reply#5 - Tue Jan 8, 2013 10:47 AM EST

                I really don't see the difference in telling four lies in one interrogation, or one lie in each of four interrogations. It's still four lies. The results are the same.

                • 12 votes
                #5.1 - Tue Jan 8, 2013 11:09 AM EST

                Joe if she said "yes Joe did it" and later said "John helped too" you and John would not care how many times she was called in for questioning. All you would care about is the two damaging statements she made. Each of her Lies cost the state a lot of money searching and investigating her claims.

                • 4 votes
                #5.2 - Tue Jan 8, 2013 11:31 AM EST

                There's a HUGE difference. If te courts agree with her that she lied during the same investigation, albeit multiple times, then the charge is ONE. However, if otherwise, then she gets charged for each separate lie.

                I don't think Joe Scatone is an "idiot" as another poster labeled him. He is 100% correct. This isn't an argument of whether she is guilty or not, and no one is arguing whether is wrong/right. The argument is: Can Casey Anthony be charged and prosecuted for each lie separately? Point blank.

                The justice system is a complicated one and people don't realize. For example, if I killed someone and immediately go to a lawyer and confess- unless the lawyer stops me and says he doesn't want to hear it, whatever confession I handed is "priviledged" and cannot be used to convict me. Loopholes like this one are the ones that people get twisted when commenting on the law, the judicial system, and evidence.

                • 3 votes
                #5.3 - Tue Jan 8, 2013 11:47 AM EST
                Reply

                She should have gotten the death penalty.

                • 23 votes
                Reply#6 - Tue Jan 8, 2013 10:48 AM EST

                I agree- the Death penalty is what she deserves! She will at some point have to meet her maker and no lies will get her out of that one!!

                • 8 votes
                #6.1 - Tue Jan 8, 2013 11:21 AM EST

                yes at least

                • 1 vote
                #6.2 - Tue Jan 8, 2013 12:00 PM EST
                Reply

                Haven't the courts wasted enough money on this P.O.S.? I suggest she shut up and crawl back into her hole...hopefully never to be heard or seen again. UGH!

                • 24 votes
                Reply#7 - Tue Jan 8, 2013 10:48 AM EST

                I don't have a problem with her doing this. The lies should have been considered one and not multiple since they were told in one sitting.

                • 1 vote
                Reply#8 - Tue Jan 8, 2013 10:51 AM EST

                So if your wife called and told you she had to work late, then was going to have dinner with her friend, Kathy, then go to an art gallery, and have a drink with her afterward, and would be home by midnight - when actually, she was leaving work early, meeting a man, going to a hotel, doing the nasty, and got home at 4:00am - that would be less harmful than if she delivered those lies individually in four separate phone calls?

                • 13 votes
                #8.1 - Tue Jan 8, 2013 11:16 AM EST
                Comment author avatarjack-1792739Expand Comment Comment collapsed by the community

                Really, enough already. This woman lost a child and is now being punished every time she blinks. Let her get on with her life.

                • 1 vote
                #8.2 - Tue Jan 8, 2013 11:22 AM EST

                Jon... are you kidding me? She lied and lied and lied again to Police -Who by the way were using taxpayer dollars to help find the child she knew was dead because she murdered her. I agree with WinWin4All that four or more lies will never be understood to mean only one. What do you hang out with Casy Anthony?

                • 4 votes
                #8.3 - Tue Jan 8, 2013 11:26 AM EST

                I believe each of those lies were investigated separately and she continued the story for each of them beyond the interrogation until she absolutely could not go along with the lie any longer. I mean she took the police to Universal Studios and then finally had to admit she didn't work there. So even if the lies were told all at once each needed unnecessary follow up that exhausted resources and time in a sensitive case. She lied four times to throw off the investigators from finding Caylee....maybe if they found her sooner they could have had enough evidence to convict Casey since that's what the jury said was missing....as far fetched as that sounds you just never know. She deserved each charge and conviction and much much more.

                • 7 votes
                #8.4 - Tue Jan 8, 2013 11:33 AM EST

                You should start a Casey fan club and make yourself her national spokesman. Don't forget to add your address, cell phone number, and e-mail address so all of your supporters can contact you in her behalf. That being said.......do you really believe what you just said? Really?

                • 2 votes
                #8.5 - Tue Jan 8, 2013 11:35 AM EST

                Jack, this women was getting on with her life, a day after her daughter's death. She was out partying, drinking and getting tatoos while she lied about the whereabouts of her daughter. Why should she be allowed to get on with her life without being responsible for her lies? Caylee will never have a life because of her!

                • 6 votes
                #8.6 - Tue Jan 8, 2013 11:37 AM EST

                If you watched the trial,they were not all told in one interrogation,they were told in 4 different instances which means the charges should stand as they are.If she has a public defender who gets paid by the state instead of one of the scumbags who got her off for murder, they are just trying to make a name for themselves just as Jose' Baez did. Heads up people,if you get this channel on your cable or satellite,it's called "Investigation On I.D.", they do crime programs like "48 Hrs Mystery",and Monday night crime writer Aphrodite Jones is doing a sit-down with #1 scumbag Jose' Baez and he is supposed to reveal more information that wasn't revealed in her trial !!!! better get out the hip-waders !!!!

                • 3 votes
                #8.7 - Tue Jan 8, 2013 11:40 AM EST

                i can only hope she lives next to you, jonny. hey jackie, maybe she can watch your kids? dickless trolls.

                • 5 votes
                #8.8 - Tue Jan 8, 2013 11:51 AM EST

                BULL..IT!

                  #8.9 - Tue Jan 8, 2013 12:01 PM EST

                  If someone robs a bank by going to 4 different tellers and taking the money they would only be charged with 1 robbery..............................

                    #8.10 - Tue Jan 8, 2013 1:33 PM EST

                    jack-1792739

                    Really, enough already. This woman lost a child and is now being punished every time she blinks. Let her get on with her life.

                    Jack, you honestly think that this is going to go away? The whole world saw how guilty she was. We cant retry her but we can make her life a living hell which is exactly what she deserves. Anyone who kills an innocent 2 yr old deserves nothing less.

                    • 1 vote
                    #8.11 - Tue Jan 8, 2013 1:37 PM EST

                    Why didn't we and why don't we have the same uproar for O.J. People cheered in the streets when he got away with murder.

                      #8.12 - Tue Jan 8, 2013 3:12 PM EST

                      richard-3069835

                      If someone robs a bank by going to 4 different tellers and taking the money they would only be charged with 1 robbery..............................

                      However, if that same person stole 100k in cash by robbing 4 banks in one afternoon, they would face 4 counts


                      • 1 vote
                      #8.13 - Tue Jan 8, 2013 4:59 PM EST
                      Reply

                      She got away with murder so beating a lying charge should be simple in her mind.

                      • 18 votes
                      Reply#9 - Tue Jan 8, 2013 10:52 AM EST

                      great point! we all have to remember we aren't dealing with a "normal" person here with "normal" thoughts. She is in her own little "i am indestructible" mindset.

                      you can't expect rational thinking from an irrational person.

                      • 4 votes
                      #9.1 - Tue Jan 8, 2013 12:15 PM EST
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                      Comment author avatarJennie Bishopvia Facebook

                      O My once again she thinks she has been done wrong, I agree she is lucky that she did not receive worse. I am so sick of her and the attorneys who defend her. I wonder how often she thinks about the murder she commited to that precious little Caylee. Second thought probably never after all that is what she wanted her freedom ,and she is still fighting for it . R.I.P. Caylee Angel

                      • 8 votes
                      Reply#10 - Tue Jan 8, 2013 10:54 AM EST

                      I wonder how those attorneys live with themselves,but you can't blame it all on them,the jurors didn't help,they wanted to go home so they voted the way did to be able to do that,they have to live with it too,that's why most of them wouldn't talk to the media after the verdict was read.I would probably want to remain anonymous too.....

                      • 3 votes
                      #10.1 - Tue Jan 8, 2013 11:48 AM EST
                      Reply

                      Get out of the news twhat!

                      • 11 votes
                      Reply#11 - Tue Jan 8, 2013 10:55 AM EST

                      Please, don't waiste our time on this type garbage coverage. She needs professional help.

                      • 3 votes
                      Reply#12 - Tue Jan 8, 2013 10:56 AM EST

                      Does an executioner qualify as "professional help" ???

                      • 14 votes
                      #12.1 - Tue Jan 8, 2013 11:24 AM EST

                      YEAH help from ''smith&wesson''

                      • 1 vote
                      #12.2 - Tue Jan 8, 2013 12:04 PM EST
                      Reply

                      Truly evil c.un.t.

                      • 9 votes
                      Reply#13 - Tue Jan 8, 2013 10:57 AM EST
                      Comment author avatarbig jonnyExpand Comment Comment collapsed by the community

                      Just more lies. She is a dumpster. Hang her. She smiles. What a c unt

                      • 9 votes
                      Reply#14 - Tue Jan 8, 2013 10:57 AM EST

                      Yeah her lawyer is bangin her

                      • 3 votes
                      #14.1 - Tue Jan 8, 2013 11:58 AM EST
                      Reply

                      Here we go again. let it go folks....and fight the charges in the first damn place when you are due to be released in 5 days? ....

                      • 5 votes
                      Reply#15 - Tue Jan 8, 2013 10:58 AM EST

                      Geez...will we never be rid of this pathetic creature?

                      • 6 votes
                      Reply#16 - Tue Jan 8, 2013 11:00 AM EST

                      Lawyers just want to make more money period.

                      • 7 votes
                      Reply#17 - Tue Jan 8, 2013 11:01 AM EST

                      She's not paying with cash, bro.

                      • 5 votes
                      #17.1 - Tue Jan 8, 2013 11:24 AM EST
                      Reply

                      Chances are she's probably working on movies and book deals. By keeping her name in the public(regardless if its negative or not)help her case. Look to see her on talk shows etc. By trying to clear her record (getting rid of the three charges) instead of the four, make her more marketable

                      • 5 votes
                      Reply#18 - Tue Jan 8, 2013 11:04 AM EST
                      Comment author avatarbartstarrwasafagExpand Comment Comment collapsed by the community

                      stoke the flames of hell with a bit more charcoal for this c u n t...and her lawyer.

                      • 9 votes
                      Reply#19 - Tue Jan 8, 2013 11:04 AM EST

                      Just who is paying for the lawyers? I hope it's not the taxpayers. Casey Anthony has cost the taxpayers enough already, even tho she was paid $200,000 by ABC in 2008! Now that she's off probation, she is free to go to Puerto Rico, so why doesn't she just go? Nobody wants to be reminded of this baby killer.

                      • 5 votes
                      Reply#20 - Tue Jan 8, 2013 11:04 AM EST

                      What a cold-hearted b..ch. If anyone deserves to be hanged is her. Get the rope!

                      • 10 votes
                      Reply#21 - Tue Jan 8, 2013 11:04 AM EST

                      My personal appeal to the appellate court in the Anthony case DENY DENY DENY DENY DENY DENY DENY DENY!!

                      • 7 votes
                      Reply#22 - Tue Jan 8, 2013 11:05 AM EST

                      If that is all they can get her for then most cops should go to jail for lying. She was found not guilty now the state should just let it go.

                        Reply#23 - Tue Jan 8, 2013 11:05 AM EST

                        I really hope they come up with something else to charge her with as a result of this and she ends up having to go through it all over again. Now that would be funny

                        • 4 votes
                        Reply#24 - Tue Jan 8, 2013 11:06 AM EST

                        Hey. Happened to OJ. Just sit tight.

                        • 4 votes
                        #24.1 - Tue Jan 8, 2013 11:36 AM EST

                        If I was a male I'd stay away from her like she has the plague ! What happens if she get's pregnant again ???? For the safety of any more offspring she may have,she should be fixed......

                        • 2 votes
                        #24.2 - Tue Jan 8, 2013 11:55 AM EST
                        Reply

                        i think she should get together with OJ and go find the real killers. worthless @!$%#ing whore (not to disparage whores)

                        • 17 votes
                        Reply#25 - Tue Jan 8, 2013 11:07 AM EST
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