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According to George Anthony, Casey Anthony’s father, Casey left the home where she, her father, mother, and Caylee all lived on June 16th 2008, and did not return for 31 days, taking her daughter with her. Cindy, Casey’s mother asked repeatedly during that month to see Caylee, but Casey deflected each time, claiming she was busy with work, or that Caylee was with a nannyby the name of Zenaida "Zanny" Fernandez-Gonzalez. On July 13 2008, Cindy and George Anthony were notified that Casey’s car was in a tow yard. When Mr Anthony picked up the car both he and the tow yard employee noted a significant odor coming from the trunk. Both would state that they believed the odor to be the result of a decomposing body. The trunk would be shown to contain …show more content…

On October 14, 2008, a grand jury indicted Casey Anthony on charges of first degree murder, child abuse and aggravated manslaughter of a child, as well as four counts of providing false information to police. She was later arrested. The Judge, John Jordan ordered that she be held without bond. The charges of child neglect were dropped against Casey, and on October 28, Anthony was arraigned and pled not guilty to all charges. Prosecutors announced that they planned to seek the death penalty in …show more content…

Trial Four hundred pieces of evidence would be displayed in court, with several articles of evidence being key to the prosecution 's case. A strand of hair was recovered from the trunk of Casey 's car which was similar to hair taken from Caylee Anthony 's hair brush. This strand showed "root-banding," which was consistent with hair from a dead body. On Friday, October 24, 2008, a forensic report by Dr. Vass of the oak ridge national laboratory stated that results from an air sampling procedure (known as LIBS) performed in the trunk of Anthony 's car showed chemical components "consistent with a decompositional event" based on the presence of five key chemical compounds out of over 400 possible chemical compounds that Dr. Vass ' research group considers typical of decomposition. Dr. Vass ' group also stated there was chloroform in the car trunk (Schneider). In October 2009, officials released 700 pages of documents related to the Anthony investigation, including records of Google searches of the terms "neck breaking" and "how to make chloroform" on a computer accessible to Casey Anthony, presented by the prosecutors as evidence of a crime. According to investigators detectives, evidence included the residue of a heart-shaped sticker found on duct tape over the mouth of Caylee 's skull. However, the laboratory was not able to record a heart-shape photographically after the duct tape was subjected to dye testing. A blanket found at the crime scene was found to match Caylee 's bedding at

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USA TODAY published an article “Casey Anthony breaks her silence: I sleep pretty good at night.” Anthony did an interview with Associated Press speaking about the case and her daughter’s death for the first time. The Associated Press said that the interview with Anthony was “revealing, bizarre and often contradictory, and ultimately raised more question than answers about the case.” In the interview with Associated Press, Anthony admitted to lying to the police about a number of things such as her employment, leaving her child with a babysitter, and receiving a call from Caylee before she went missing. During the trial, the defense stated that Caylee had drown in the pool and then Casey Anthony’s father tried to cover up the accident.

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On May 25, 2010 Casey Anthony 's lawyer states to the court and jury that Caylee was unintentionally drowned in the swimming pool of their home , and that Casey and her father had cover it up. The prosecution presented that Casey Anthony did research on chloroform at her home computer but her mother Cindy Anthony 's asserted that it was her that made the searches that implicated her daughter but the records showed that Cindy Anthony was at work when these searches were done. On July 5, the jury found Casey not guilty of first degree murder but she was found guilty on four misdemeanors because she provided false material to a law enforcement officers.

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There comes a time in the criminal justice system where a law that was written to protect us will be challenged through a court case. That case will eventually make history and will become a reference in future cases with similar dilemmas. In 1983, one particular case met the criteria (Arizona vs. Youngblood). In this case, Larry Youngblood was convicted by a jury in Arizona of child molestation, sexual assault, and kidnapping of a ten-year-old boy. Both a criminologist for the State and an expert witness for the defendant testified as to what they believed the results were from the tests that were performed on the samples shortly after they were collected, they also commented on later tests performed on the samples from the boy’s clothing

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