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Casey Anthony Sentenced to 4 Years, But Could Go Free in a Month

Casey Anthony Sentenced to 4 Years, But Could Go Free in a MonthORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — A judge sentenced Casey Anthony on Thursday to four years for lying to investigators but says she can go free in late July or early August because she has already served nearly three years in jail and has had good behavior.

While acquitted of killing and abusing her 2-year-old daughter Caylee, Anthony was convicted of four counts of lying to detectives trying to find her daughter in July 2008. She lied to them about working at the Universal Studios theme park, about leaving her daughter with a non-existent nanny named Zanny, about leaving the girl with friends and about receiving a phone call from her.

At the time of the girl’s disappearance in June 2008, Anthony, a single mother, and Caylee were living with Anthony’s parents, George and Cindy Anthony, in suburban Orlando. No one has come forward as the child’s father.

Prosecutors contended Anthony, then 22, suffocated Caylee with duct tape because she was interfering with her desire to be with her boyfriend and party with her friends.

Defense attorneys countered that the toddler accidentally drowned in the family swimming pool. They said that when Anthony panicked, her father, a former police officer, decided to make the death look like a murder. They said he put duct tape on the girl’s mouth and then dumped the body in woods about a quarter-mile away.

The defense said Anthony’s apparent carefree life hid emotional distress caused by sexual abuse from her father. Her father firmly denied both the cover-up and abuse claims. The prosecution called those claims absurd, and said no one makes an accident look like a murder.

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  • biohazard23
    Posted on July 7, 2011 at 10:22am

    Well, kids, at least now we know what a pizza rotting in your car in the middle of a hot Florida summer smells like: a decomposing human body. Casey got away with murder – I don’t care WHAT those idiot jurors say. I am soooooo glad I don’t live in Pinellas County. Most of the residents there are transplants from up north. That must explain their liberal delusion of “lack of evidence.”

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  • TRONINTHEMORNING
    Posted on July 7, 2011 at 10:21am

    Yeah, alot of us are sick of it all–ya hear that FOX? Leave the garbage programming to CNN and MSNBC.

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  • CatB
    Posted on July 7, 2011 at 10:20am

    I hope that the jurors were watching this .. I think they saw the “real” Casey if they did … without the ruffled blouses and hair in a bun.

    Heck of a job they did …. NOT!

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  • I.Gaspar
    Posted on July 7, 2011 at 10:19am

    Her defense worked better than the prosecution’s best efforts.
    I think she was involved in the death and coverup, but she did not have to prove her innocence; the state had to prove her guilt.
    My guess is she will indeed go right back to being a tramp and will be in trouble again.
    I just hope she doesn’t bring another poor soul into the world.

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  • SPOT_OF_TEA
    Posted on July 7, 2011 at 10:18am

    Rush Limbaugh said yesterday about this case what I have been thinking for the past 3 years but was afraid to say.

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  • tiredofprogressives
    Posted on July 7, 2011 at 10:17am

    She should be immediately freed. Geraldo said she was a Good Mother.

    Geez Geraldo ,,,too bad you did not have a mother like her!!

    You waste.

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  • SPOT_OF_TEA
    Posted on July 7, 2011 at 10:17am

    Looks like an angry mob is forming again this morning.

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  • cntrlfrk
    Posted on July 7, 2011 at 10:16am

    Is this over now?

    Can we stop hearing about it?
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  • SREGN
    Posted on July 7, 2011 at 10:15am

    Welcome to a world where a baby‘s very life is secondary to the mother’s quality of life. What’s the difference between Caylee and the victims of Roe v Wade?

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  • MotorMedic
    Posted on July 7, 2011 at 10:14am

    Remarks like that, makes you no better than her.

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  • GoldenRudy
    Posted on July 7, 2011 at 10:14am

    When will we hear that she is going to spend the rest of her life searching for the “real murderer(s)” of her daughter? At least that is what OJ Simpson told us when he got way with murder.

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  • nomercy63
    Posted on July 7, 2011 at 10:14am

    America’s justice system is a joke!!!!!!

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    • erecon67
      Posted on July 7, 2011 at 3:14pm

      I couldn’t agree more with you!!!!!!!!!

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    • Irosin
      Posted on July 8, 2011 at 5:56am

      I agree 100%. Not to compare a murder case with a small claims case I made against someone but, I did file a small claims case which I won due to the defendant NOT appearing. I won the maximum of $3,000 which the person has not paid. If I want to TRY to collect I will need to go back to the court, spend more money and file another summons for the person to appear with bank statements and other account numbers in an attempt to get the judgement.
      What I’m saying is the victims of a crime are screwed in the court system and the guilty get off scott free.

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  • robert
    Posted on July 7, 2011 at 10:12am

    Her defense has to be the most unbelievable, dumbest of any I’ve heard or read about. It’s hard to believe any lawyer is so stupid as to concoct such an unbelievable tale. I can think of a half dozen better lies to base a defense on that would be far more believable, but what kind of critism is possible when such a dopey defense worked so well for them?

    I know I’d never want an idiot like Baez to be my defense lawyer. His dumb defense stories would lose 99 out of a hundred times.

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  • ipaevavu
    Posted on July 7, 2011 at 10:12am

    It was 1 year per count, 4 counts total to be served concurrent. Wich means she only received 1 year rather would only have to serve one year. And she was tried in accordance with the law, and her peers found her not guilty so enough said. who are we to pass jugement

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  • CatB
    Posted on July 7, 2011 at 10:05am

    I think now she goes into general population … she is in for a different lifestyle if that is true.

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  • Liberalismsamentaldisorder
    Posted on July 7, 2011 at 10:05am

    Big, big problem in America today. The standard in our courts is “beyond a reasonable doubt”. Does this not assume the jury is comprised of reasonable people? Anybody out there deal with the public? Maybe watch the myriad of “real life” TV shows? Think the general public is “reasonable”? If I’m ever accused of anything, don’t give me a jury of my peers, just treat me like an illegal alien.

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  • Juniemoon
    Posted on July 7, 2011 at 10:04am

    Why is her hair not up in a bun? Did she don the innocent old church lady look?

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    • GulfPeg
      Posted on July 7, 2011 at 11:33am

      I thought her hairdo today was absolutely ridiculous. Part of her hair was down and part of it was up in a French twist. I thought I could see an “s” for S L U T on her forehead. Did anyone else see it?

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    • jtorres1212
      Posted on July 7, 2011 at 10:18pm

      I thought the same exact thing! She looked alot different today!!! Too bad she will never feel the guilt that most human beings would feel.

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  • vennoye
    Posted on July 7, 2011 at 10:03am

    Am sure the juriors feel real good about the verdict they rendered on this!! Hope the state feels real good about how they handled the case…..guess thought it was a “slam dunk”.

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  • NHABE64
    Posted on July 7, 2011 at 10:03am

    This piece of **** will be out partying and screwing around the day she is released. She might think she is home free but if she has any conscience at all she will be haunted at some point for what she did and that will last till the end of her days. Then of course like all of us, she will have to stand before God. So is she REALLY free ? I don’t think so….not really.

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    • ipaevavu
      Posted on July 7, 2011 at 10:15am

      Have you not seen her she is a dope. She has very small intelligence, we cannot credit her with being one to carry out an unsolvable crime. Shes to dumb to pull that off

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    • salvawhoray
      Posted on July 7, 2011 at 11:35am

      where was god for her little girl?

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  • mycomet123
    Posted on July 7, 2011 at 10:02am

    IT IS WHAT IT IS!!. At first I was angry, than sad, now I pray for her redemption & safety. Sometimes it’s worse being locked out than locked in. Hell knows no boundaries & doesn’t exist inside the physical realm. Just as it’s a choice to have the kingdom of God within you, you can also have the kingdom of hell inside you. I pray for her redemption!!!

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  • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
    Posted on July 7, 2011 at 10:02am

    Justice may not have been complete in this case, yet the jury did act in accordance to the law itself and the instructions given to them. The prosecution could not meet the high standards for most of the charges, and their case fell apart save for the lying charges.

    I will respect the juries decisions, and also consider this much, would you rather have the chance that a truly innocent person in the future (maybe yourself) going to jail or death for crimes you did not commit? Look at how many people have been wrongfully convicted just on the basis of a over zealous prosecutors looking for political gains.

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    • Barb
      Posted on July 7, 2011 at 10:04am

      @Snowleopard, and how many guilty people are walking the streets, free to commit more crimes? The duct tape alone should have been enough to bring back a guilty verdict.

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    • edp12568
      Posted on July 7, 2011 at 11:00am

      @Barb… if you think duct tape alone was enough, then you have absolutely know idea what you are talking about and I PRAY you never end up on a jury. You want to talk about a miscarriage of justice? You are one waiting to happen if you ever sit on a jury.

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    • Rowwdy
      Posted on July 7, 2011 at 5:26pm

      Spot on!

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    • Taquoshi
      Posted on July 7, 2011 at 12:17pm

      Barb – The duct tape alone should have been enough to bring back a guilty verdict.

      But it didn’t, did it? Because they couldn’t prove anything. And if she’s like Crystal Mangum, O.J.. Michael Skakel or Susan Smith, she;ll run up against the law again and they’ll nail her.

      The problem is that the prosecution went for the gold ring and thought they had a slam dunk based on trying her in the court of public opinion, rather than based on the evidence. Next time, they’ll have the evidence.

      As for the court costs – uh, who turned it into a circus sideshow?

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    • jtm
      Posted on July 7, 2011 at 10:25am

      They only acted in accordance with part of the law. She could have been convicted of a lessor crime, and since there was a mountain of evidence against her, she should have been. Nevertheless, she could have been convicted of first degree, even if the prosecution sis not have physical evidence. It’s called Jury Nullification. That’s what the O J trial was all about.

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    • Attention2Detail
      Posted on July 7, 2011 at 10:43am

      Get real. Juror #3 admitted that they were sick about letting her off. That’s because they had no doubt that she did it, but they had some weird idea about what proof is. The jurors didn‘t convict because there were some facts about the case they didn’t know, not because there was doubt. They acted stupidly.

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    • MONICNE
      Posted on July 7, 2011 at 10:46am

      SnowLeopard, ,you are for once the only Sane Voice on page one.

      I salute you when you are right.

      The Blaze pillory of hate for populist cases continues. God bless our little hearts.

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    • SamIamTwo
      Posted on July 7, 2011 at 10:51am

      This is a reply to Snowleopard, only God knows where it will end up at.

      If she was truly innocent, then why would she lie to the coppers? One would think that thought will haunt the jurists for the rest of their lives.

      Precedence has been set for future occurrences…

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    • FreedomBelle
      Posted on July 7, 2011 at 11:35am

      Snowleopard, I agree with what you said.

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    • BarbieDoll
      Posted on July 7, 2011 at 2:45pm

      Naive.

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  • Barb
    Posted on July 7, 2011 at 10:02am

    I don’t envy what the jurors will have to live with for the rest of their lives. They wanted to get out of there and enjoy the rest of their summer. They took no time at all deciding to find her not guilty. I’m guessing all jurors were against the death penalty, and a child murderer will walk out the door. After hearing the alternate juror and hearing what juror #3 had to say, it was obvious they didn’t understand most of what was presented at the trial, and the 2 year old will have no justice. Shame of those jurors!

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    • ipaevavu
      Posted on July 7, 2011 at 10:18am

      Its not the jurors the prosecutor never proved anything. He had 3 years to do it too. No one let alone 12 people are going to let a crime against a child go unpunished. The fault lies upon the defense, and the assumption of guilt hardly ever proves the guilt.

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    • babylonvi
      Posted on July 7, 2011 at 11:23am

      No, you don’t understand Barb, the prosecution is at fault, that and the lack of direct evidence. Sure, she is an unsavory, sick or at least very weird, but the prosecution did not prove beyond a reasonable doubt she was guilty. If anything, the prosecution, in it’s attempt to throw everything they had at the case, planted the seeds of the verdict. They used junk science, flawed opinion and frankly illegal innuendo(that fantasy reconstruction of the crime video) in a serious capitol trial. There was NOTHING that legitimately tied the defendant to the death. By putting on flawed evidence, the jury feels the are cheating in a case for which they were asking for the death penalty. If they kept it much simpler, concentrated on a lesser charge they could have gotten a guilty verdict and put her away for the foreseeable future, but they went for broke and lost. As it was, no reasonable, honest person who understands the law and evidence could have delivered a different verdict. Personally, I believe the child died by act or omission by the defendant. I do not believe it was deliberate, but either through sociopathic personality or psychological disease she has severed mental connection to the victim. It is unusual that after all this time, the truth of the act has not slipped out. They should have never charged her but put her under survailance until something surfaced or she cracked, but the the political pressure was too much and they threw the dice and lost.

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    • Countrygirl1362
      Posted on July 7, 2011 at 11:57am

      Don’t blame the jury. The DA did not give them the evidence they need to give a guilty verdict. Been on a jury like that, we knew the guy was guilty, but the DA did not prove it. If DA does not prove it, and they find her guilty it will just be over turned by a higher court very quickly.

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    • suejenkins
      Posted on July 7, 2011 at 12:08pm

      Absolutely! One of the jurors left for a preplanned cruise today. Our local news in Orlando contends they were fatigued and just wanted to get out of Dodge. Then add to the mix that 3 had arrest records and at least one was a high school dropout (guess he was the “peer” to Casey!), none of them cared that this was a huge responsibility.

      I hope that all the jurors remembered what they did for the rest of their lives.

      Cindy Anthony could have saved her big grin going into the courtroom until she was out of camera range. Who knows how much her perjury added to the “reasonable doubt” that this jury so quickly agreed upon. I wonder if, when she goes to sleep every night of her natural life, if she will see Caylee saying, “Grandma, why did you help Mommy get away with my murder?”

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    • GiveUsJustice
      Posted on July 7, 2011 at 12:08pm

      One thing I still don’t understand, why the sheriff was telling people to stay away from her neighborhood and that they will be patrolling constantly.

      Why? What makes her so special that more tax payers money is being fed into her? If I think everyone is out to get me, can I get 24 hour patrolling in my neighborhood? Hell no.

      Call the cops when something happens and wait 20 minutes like the rest of us. You aren’t guilty, you are now a normal citizen.

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    • Barse77
      Posted on July 7, 2011 at 12:31pm

      Barb……Do you understand the law at all? The prosecution must prove, WITHOUT ANY REASONABLE DOUBT, for a guilty verdict. There was no official DNA, no official cause of death, no witnesses. Obviously, there was plenty of reasonable doubt. To everyone who is hating on the jurors….STOP! Want to hate on anyone, hate on the prosecution for not presenting their case strong enough. This is our justice system….has been for many, many years. We all need to deal with it and move on.

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    • Rowwdy
      Posted on July 7, 2011 at 5:09pm

      Your comments are based on what? Personal knowledge of the juror’s agendas for summer? I can tell you, as a former homicide investigator, I would have NEVER taken what little they had to the DA to prosecute. They did NOT have ANY solid evidence. Not even a manner of death which is essential. No murder weapon and no provable motive. Not to mention, the prosecutors were stupid in combining a murder 1 charge with a manslaughter charge. Had they gone with manslaughter only, they most likely would have gotten a conviction. Based on evidence presented…the jury rendered the ONLY verdict they could.

      Additionally, the prosecutors did not see through all the dysfunction in their witnesses. Even their expert witnesses couldn’t pinpoint most of the alleged evidence that was alleged in the police report.

      No one has to like the verdict. Do I personally think that child died due to her mother’s selfish recklessness and negligence? YES, I sure do! Do I believe she, with malice aforethought, set out to murder her child? I do not. This woman was careless and lacked total disregard for her child and that makes an abhorrent human being.

      In part, I blame people like Nancy Grace for pushing to have murder charges filed. That woman NEVER shut her mouth. She continued to incite and rage. Political pressure being what it is in DA’s offices, they flew with charges that were being demanded by public and media pressure. They lost the bet.

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  • I_Hate_Libs
    Posted on July 7, 2011 at 10:01am

    I thought for sure they would at least take away her birthing rights.

    The horror of the Democrat mind.

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  • SpankDaMonkey
    Posted on July 7, 2011 at 9:58am

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    Better yet they could make her the“Conjugal Visit Girl” for the Florida Prison System……..

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  • SpankDaMonkey
    Posted on July 7, 2011 at 9:55am

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    They should put her to work at the Bunny Ranch…..To pay court cost……….

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    • Cobra Blue
      Posted on July 7, 2011 at 9:58am

      Now that;s justice….Can you OJ Simpson boys and girls.

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    • 4blackhorses
      Posted on July 7, 2011 at 7:08pm

      If you can‘t tape it you can’t convict it.

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    • drbage
      Posted on July 7, 2011 at 10:03am

      The judge should have put a lien on any future earnings from book/movie deals to repay the people of Florida for all the costs associated with her trial.

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    • SFsuper49er
      Posted on July 7, 2011 at 11:20am

      Unbelievable she got off like this… Everybody in there right mind knows when you put the puzzle pieces together she did it. She may not have done it with her own hand though… She could have got one of those party thugs she hangs with to do it… Even so… when she gets out she will go right back to the party life she had before…because the friends she hangs with are not going to care what she did… She should not be able to profit at all on this case… It’s just wrong… Remember in the future some wrongs have a way of making themselves right. She is not out of the woods yet! She won’t have the life she had before because the public wont let her…

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    • mtnclimberjim
      Posted on July 7, 2011 at 10:10am

      Justice will be done at some point. Fear not.

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    • drattastic
      Posted on July 7, 2011 at 10:51am

      Seeing her smile makes me ill.

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    • stephenb.net
      Posted on July 7, 2011 at 11:02am

      That’s disgusting spandamonkey, how can you say something like that? It’s sexist, rude and inapproprite to suggest sexual slavery for anyone regardless of their “supposed” crimes.

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    • smithclar3nc3
      Posted on July 7, 2011 at 11:07am

      Since Casey covered up the “fact” that her daughter drown accidentally instead of coming forward at first. Can the state of Florida sue her for the court cost.

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    • Pujols
      Posted on July 7, 2011 at 11:11am

      Since this little girl was killed over 100,000 more little kids were kid or raped. WAKE UP FOOLS!

      She was found NOT GUILTY people. Get over it. The Worlds on fire, our Country is being taken over by a Marxist.

      Little kids get killed everyday. Most don’t have a pretty Mom or they come from the Hood and no one even knows about them or cares at all.

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    • Wyld_goose
      Posted on July 7, 2011 at 12:06pm

      All I heard was that they would be handing out Anthony Hunting Licences July 13th. With time served see’s getting out in 6 days. I know most people think Florida is full of backwoods rednecks. Just think of it this way….do you hear that? That’s the sound of a lot of guns cocking. YEE HAAW! Get them hounds ready!

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    • arx
      Posted on July 7, 2011 at 12:13pm

      one of the alternate jurors gave himself and the other jurors the lie….he said “..we all felt…” But how could he know how the primary jurors felt if he was released prior to deliberations beginning?? This tells me these morons were talking about the case throughout the trial, and formed a group mentality for casey…exactly why the judge kept asking them if “they had heeded all his directions about not discussing the case…” I could slap these people full across the face for being such morons.

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    • smithclar3nc3
      Posted on July 7, 2011 at 2:00pm

      Americans should turn away from this POS child murder and turn away from any program that offers her a dime to rape whats left of that poor little Caley’s justice. America should shun that woman let her rot with her guilt and die alone.

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    • kleftis1966
      Posted on July 8, 2011 at 12:23pm

      You want to work with her to help raise money faster ?????

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