Casey Anthony trial

Casey Anthony trial: Prosecution, defense give very different theories on death of Caylee Anthony
The trial of Casey Anthony, who stands accused of killing her two-year-old daughter in 2008, began this week as jurors were forced to come in from another county due to the local media coverage of the case. As Elizabeth Flock reported:

The trial of Casey Anthony, a 25-year-old woman accused of murdering her two-year-old daughter in 2008, opened in Orlando on Tuesday.

Prosecutors will base their case on forensic evidence that they say shows Anthony kept the body of her daughter, Caylee Anthony, in the trunk of her car, according to the BBC. They do not have a witness or confession linking Anthony to the death, however.

Anthony has pleaded not guilty, and stands by her story that a baby sitter kidnapped the child. That baby sitter has never been seen.
Although the trial is being held in Orlando, jurors are being selected elsewhere because of the media attention surrounding the case.

Due to the nature of the case, Casey Anthony’s trial is likely to be hinged upon the forensic evidence rather than a witness or confession, neither of which are likely to appear in the trial. As AP explained:
No witnesses saw what happened to 2-year-old Caylee Anthony, and only her killer knows exactly how she died. No one has confessed. So when her mother, Casey Anthony, goes to trial Tuesday on murder charges, the jury’s decision will likely come down to forensic evidence.

Prosecutors plan to have jurors smell the odor from her car, present evidence of chloroform in the 1998 Pontiac Sunfire and present photos that they say show her partying with friends after her daughter disappeared. They also likely will seek testimony from a botanist, a hair and fiber examiner from an FBI lab, and a cadaver dog handler.

Anthony’s defense attorneys plan to present testimony from an expert in the new field of touch DNA, an entomologist and Dr. Henry Lee, a famous forensics expert who has worked on the O.J. Simpson, Phil Spector and JonBenet Ramsey cases.

“It is going to be a battle of experts,” said Karin Moore, a law professor at Florida A&M University in Orlando. “They don’t have a confession. They don’t have an eyewitness. They don’t have direct evidence. They are relying on forensic science that is circumstantial, at best.”

Prosecution and defense attorneys gave vastly different accounts of what caused Caylee Anthony’s death during Tuesday’s preceedings. As AP reported:

Prosecutors and a defense attorney for a Florida mother charged in the death of her 2-year-old daughter each presented new, vastly different theories of how the little girl died as the trial for Casey Anthony began Tuesday.

For the first time, prosecutors said Caylee Anthony died from three pieces of duct tape being placed over her mouth and nose while a defense attorney for the mother claimed the toddler drowned in the family pool and the little girl’s grandfather covered up the accident.

Casey Anthony, 25, is charged with first-degree murder. If convicted, she could be sentenced to death.
An autopsy was never able to conclude a cause of death for Caylee.

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