Casey Anthony: Judgment Day

**SPEAKER_1** (0:04)
The State of Florida vs. Casey Marie Anthony. As to the charge of first-degree murder, we the jury find the defendant not guilty.

**Louis Schlesinger** (0:14)
This is like OU, and here again.

**Frank George** (0:16)
Absolutely shocked.

**Cindy Anthony** (0:18)
They totally got it wrong.

**Frank George** (0:19)
I cannot believe the verdict today.

**Jose Baez** (0:22)
You cannot convict someone until they've had their day in court.

**SPEAKER_6** (0:28)
It began three years ago with a mystery.

**Cindy Anthony** (0:32)
My daughter has been missing for the last 31 days.

**SPEAKER_7** (0:38)
This morning, a bag of bones was found, a skull detached. They believe it to be the body of Caylee Anthony.

**SPEAKER_6** (0:47)
A community outrage. A family torn apart.

**George Anthony** (0:56)
What we've been through has been hell.

**SPEAKER_6** (1:00)
And a nation focused on one woman.

**Jeff Ashton** (1:05)
People hate her.

**Linda Drane Burdick** (1:08)
She's been portrayed as an evil person.

**SPEAKER_6** (1:10)
Tonight, on a special edition of 48 Hours, we will take you inside one of the most dramatic murder trials in recent memory.

**SPEAKER_11** (1:21)
Is the defense ready?

**Jeff Ashton** (1:22)
Casey Anthony is guilty of murder in the first degree.

**Jose Baez** (1:26)
This is not a murder case. This is a sad, tragic accident.

**Linda Kenney-Bodden** (1:31)
It's better than any soap opera. The problem is, it's real.

**SPEAKER_6** (1:35)
Ninety-one witnesses. Thirty days of testimony.

**SPEAKER_14** (1:40)
You're looking at a human skull.

**SPEAKER_15** (1:42)
It has a darkened band at the portion of the hair.

**SPEAKER_14** (1:45)
The chloroform was shockingly high.

**Richard Gabriel** (1:48)
It's junk science and it's never been tested.

**SPEAKER_6** (1:51)
Stunning revelations.

**Jeff Ashton** (1:53)
There was a dead body in the back of Casey Anthony's car.

**Linda Drane Burdick** (1:58)
It smelled like something had died in the car.

**Jose Baez** (2:00)
She threw the garbage in the trunk of her car. That's where the smell comes from.

**SPEAKER_6** (2:04)
And a family accused.

**Jose Baez** (2:06)
Casey was eight years old and her father came into her room and began to touch her inappropriately.

**Richard Gabriel** (2:12)
This whole family has been on trial.

**Jeff Ashton** (2:17)
Have you ever sexually molested your daughter? No, sir.

**SPEAKER_6** (2:23)
Disturbing evidence.

**SPEAKER_9** (2:25)
The pelvis and the lower legs more than likely was dragged to this area.

**Jose Baez** (2:29)
It's a fantasy of forensics is what it is.

**SPEAKER_6** (2:33)
And even more disturbing behavior.

**Frank George** (2:37)
Did the defendant participate in the hot body context?

**Jose Baez** (2:40)
Yes, sir.

**Linda Kenney-Bodden** (2:43)
I think the most difficult part of this case is obviously Casey Anthony's behavior.

**Cheney Mason** (2:48)
There is no evidence linking her to anything to do with the death of this child, period.

**SPEAKER_6** (2:54)
Three years of questions.

**Jose Baez** (2:57)
Casey did not murder Caylee.

**SPEAKER_6** (3:01)
Finally, a shocking verdict.

**Jose Baez** (3:03)
My daughter will ask me, what did you do today? And I can say I saved her life.

**SPEAKER_11** (3:19)
Madam Clerk, you may publish the verdicts.

**SPEAKER_1** (3:21)
State of Florida versus Casey Marie Anthony.

**SPEAKER_6** (3:25)
Today's verdict was not what most of the impassioned observers outside the Orlando Courthouse were expecting.

**SPEAKER_1** (3:32)
We, the jury, find the defendant not guilty.

**SPEAKER_6** (3:36)
Casey Anthony was acquitted of murder.

**SPEAKER_1** (3:42)
We, the jury, find the defendant not guilty.

**SPEAKER_6** (3:44)
Acquitted of manslaughter. Acquitted of child abuse.

**Matthew Bartlett** (3:49)
This is crazy.

**SPEAKER_6** (3:51)
She was convicted only of four misdemeanors, all of them about lying to investigators.

**SPEAKER_15** (3:56)
I think she probably needs to hide because a lot of people are very angry.

**SPEAKER_6** (4:01)
Minutes after Casey's fate was read aloud, the man in charge of her case, who sat beside her for the past six weeks, spoke out.

**Jose Baez** (4:09)
Casey did not murder Caylee. Our system of justice has not dishonored her memory by a conviction.

**SPEAKER_6** (4:22)
It's been three long years since attorney Jose Baez began fighting an uphill battle to save his most notorious crime.

**SPEAKER_20** (4:30)
Here comes Casey Anthony.

**Jose Baez** (4:35)
I admire her greatly. I think she has courage, strength, intelligence.

**SPEAKER_6** (4:43)
The Orlando, Florida woman first became a national obsession in July 2008, when she claimed that her two-and-a-half-year-old daughter, Caylee, had been kidnapped a month earlier, but she didn't report it. While her daughter was supposedly missing, Casey partied and told her family and friends that Caylee was with a nanny. That October, Casey was charged with murder.
Two months later, Caylee's skeletal remains were found not far from the family home. After years of damaging pre-trial publicity, Baez was practically the only person left defending her.