Casey Anthony release date recalculated to July 17

By: Crimesider Staff
Topics: Daily Blotter

Casey Anthony, left, speaks to her attorney, Dorothy Clay Sims, before her sentencing hearing, July 7, 2011.

(Credit: Pool,AP Photo/Joe Burbank)

(CBS/WKMG/AP) ORLANDO, Fla. - Late Thursday, Orange County, Fla., corrections officials said they had "conducted a detailed recalculation of the projected release date'' and that Casey Anthony would actually not be freed until July 17.

On Tuesday, Anthony was acquitted on first-degree murder, aggravated child abuse and aggravated manslaughter charges in the death of her daughter, Caylee. She was sentenced Thursday by Judge Belvin Perry to four years in prison for lying to police, but a court official announced shortly after that she'd be freed on Wednesday due to credit for time served and good behavior.

The new projected release date, July 17, will be her 1,007th day in jail.

When she is released, the 25-year-old Anthony must decide whether to return to a community in which many onlookers long ago concluded that she's a killer, or to a home strained by her defense attorneys' accusations of sexual abuse.

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by gosstom July 9, 2011 6:22 AM EDT

....Give her a free all-expenses -paid trip to Yellowstone Park and let her see how a Mother Grizzly protects her cubs.....

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by caseyissociopath July 9, 2011 8:26 PM EDT: ooh, I like that visual..... ha


by DKurk July 8, 2011 1:10 PM EDT: I have a question I hope someone can answer. One of the posters on this page said:

2) They could not find Casey's DNA on the duct-tape.

Did they find ANY DNA on the duct tape? I didn't hear the testimony about it, so this makes me wonder if any was found. It none was, obviously someone had to of touch it, and 6 months in a swamp destroyed it. If that's the case, it does not rule out Casey.; Reply to this comment


by DKurk July 8, 2011 12:44 PM EDT: I just want to say while I very strongly disagree with the jury's decision, it was their decision. I'm as angree as everybody else with the verdict, but I think we need to believe these people voted what they believed to be right according to the instructions given them. If people continue to take their anger out on them, nobody is going to want to serve on a jury, and where would this leave our judicial system? I've been guilty myself of saying I never would have let her walk, but to be fair to the jurors, I was not on that jury.

I tried to listen to everything said and done during the trial, but unless you were in that courtroom, I doubt everybody heard everything. Please don't take this as I agreed with the verdict, I definitely did not, but I think everyone is taking their anger out on the wrong people. There is one person, and one person only, responsible for what happened to that poor baby girl, and we all know who she is. Just my humble thoughts.

On a side note, seeing "that person" sitting there in court yesterday, no longer looking like an innocent school teacher, and laughing and flirting, I wanted to throw up. It was said on TV yesterday, the defense actually lowered her chair during the trial to make her appear smaller and younger. Just like the trick with putting a picture up of her at 15 with her "imaginary friends".; Reply to this comment


by allisonburness July 8, 2011 12:04 PM EDT: One of the jurors had a cruise on July 9 that she didn't want to miss. Hope she enjoys herself, knowing she let this woman walk free!; Reply to this comment


by Brokennews July 8, 2011 10:47 AM EDT: There's a great line in the movie Law Abiding Citizen.

"It's not about what you know, it's about what you can prove in court!"

Seems to apply here.; Reply to this comment

by msay3 July 8, 2011 10:29 AM EDT

The Jury was sequestered for nearly six weeks...They sat through Memorial Day and the 4th of July...Had they found her guilty, they would have been sequestered up to and through the "death penalty phase" of the trial and the deliberations that followed....There would have been another parade of witnesses testifying, on, and on, and on....Who knows how long that would last? My feeling, is that the idiots on the jury figured out the quickest way to get home....

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by masterofdiaster July 8, 2011 10:35 AM EDT: The only idiots are those people who did not serve on the jury, were not exposed to the evidence, and believe that they know better.


by Incisive1 July 21, 2011 1:10 AM EDT: Masterofdiaster - Well said. Some of these people think Nancy Grace is the paragon of truth. It is laughable.

by masterofdiaster July 8, 2011 10:21 AM EDT

Casey Anthony was found not guilty. In this country you still have to prove that fact beyond a reasonable doubt before you are convicted of a crime. For those of you who are clamoring for "mob justice" perhaps you would perfer tyranny instead? If so, why don't you move to a country where your views would fit in with their system of justice.

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by andie52 July 8, 2011 10:27 AM EDT: And none of the jurors thought that she was innocent either. The didn't like the DA and made up their minds before they 'deliberated'


by Revolutionary1776 July 13, 2011 5:58 PM EDT: Your lack of intellect is a disaster. The jury was exposed to much less evidence than those of us that watched the trial streaming live. Get your facts straight before vilifying people who believe she is guilty (including several jury members). Just because she is set free by a court of law does not mean she is innocent.


by hicks76 July 8, 2011 7:14 AM EDT: Now that she has achieved her fame, it is time for the paparazzi, tabloids, people with camera phones to spring into action...dcoument her new life go viral with candid videos..let america see the real casey...sheen is looking for women perhaps she could shack up with him; Reply to this comment


by ncramer999 July 8, 2011 7:06 AM EDT: It is outrageous that this poor woman has to spend 10 whole days in jail for chloroforming and murdering her daughter and then abusing the body (for, oddly enough, 10 days) before tossing it in the woods. Has justice no mercy?; Reply to this comment

by ALBrainTrust13 July 8, 2011 6:56 AM EDT

The case of the death of Caylee Anthony is still open and active.

I would think that the DA would procees with filing felony charges against her for one, failing to report the death and second, for mishandling of a corpse, via a conspiracy or directly.

Surely her admitted (via her attorney) conduct is illegal in Florida? She needs to be in prison where she deserves to be, simply for not picking up the phone and calling 911.

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by RealiteBites July 8, 2011 7:05 AM EDT: My prof spent all of 10 minutes on 'double jeopardy' ... interesting idea if they could charge her with something else!

Not sure whether they can though ... maybe legally they can, but conceptually, even though people think she's guilty and got off, not sure if people will like the concept of keeping at her until something sticks?

Like the jury spoke?

Interesting idea though!!