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“Prosecuting Casey Anthony” will debut on Jan. 19



On Nov. 30, 2012, Naples News reported that the new Lifetime movie based upon the Casey Anthony trial has a premiere date. The movie “Prosecuting Casey Anthony” will debut on Jan. 19, at 8 p.m. on the Lifetime network. The movie is based on Jeff Ashton’s book of the same name and Rob Lowe will appear in the lead role. Though Anthony does not profit from the film, and reportedly is a minor character as the movie is told from Ashton’s perspective, some refuse to watch the film due to their belief that it will glorify Anthony.

Casey Anthony continues to be the most vilified person in the country and revelations of missed evidence has thrust the case back in the spotlight. In November, it was learned that the prosecution missed searches on Anthony’s computer for the misspelled words “fool proof suffication.” Defense Attorney Jose Baez spoke of the searches in his book “Presumed Guilty: Casey Anthony: The Inside Story,” and said he was waiting for the prosecution to bring up the searches during the trial but they never did. Though the searches occurred the last day Caylee was seen alive, Baez counters that they were made by someone interested in committing suicide, not committing murder.


Casey Anthony leaves the Booking and Release Center at the Orange County Jail after she was acquitted of murdering her daughter Caylee Anthony on July 17, 2011 in Orlando, Florida.
Photo credit: Red Huber-Pool/Getty Images
Still, many websleuthers and those following the case suspect the search terms could have been used in trial to show with greater conviction that Anthony was guilty of the charges she was ultimately acquitted of including first-degree murder, aggravated manslaughter of a child and aggravated child abuse.

Anthony has kept a low profile since her 2011 acquittal and her whereabouts are unknown. The civil trial Zenaida Gonzalez vs. Casey Anthony has been delayed and will no longer being in Jan. 2013. It is unclear when the civil trial will start, as Anthony is currently appealing her criminal conviction of lying to law enforcement officers and will deal with that case before the civil trial.

What do you think about the Lifetime movie? Are you going to watch it?

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212363 1st-Dec-2012 06:32 pm (UTC)
And the internet searches.. what innocent person searches for that shit?
katiexxpie 1st-Dec-2012 06:39 pm (UTC)
one of the biggest blows to the prosecution was she didn't actually search for chloroform 80 times it was just her bfs MySpace page
sadisticsidhe 1st-Dec-2012 07:11 pm (UTC)
Not going to lie, I do because I didn't know chloroform was something you could make. And I was curious.

I lot have a lot of weird internet searches, I hope I am never accused of a crime, they'd think I was bat shit.
williammiller 1st-Dec-2012 06:39 pm (UTC)
I think I read somewhere that no one checked Firefox for her internet searches, even though they check her Microsoft Explorer one. Apparently she searched for "fool proof suffocation" but spelled suffocation wrong. The next website she went to was her Myspace so it more than likely was her. I can't believe they overlooked that.
ilikeandrewbird 1st-Dec-2012 06:44 pm (UTC)
she had a terrible, terrible jury
cickiz 1st-Dec-2012 06:45 pm (UTC)
cue the "this is how the law works, probable cause blah blah blah" posters.




I agree with you. I feel like without a video of her suffocating the child the jury couldn't be fully convinced.
ponpiri 1st-Dec-2012 06:45 pm (UTC)
Her jury was terrible. I was watching a few of them being interviewed and they said that they liked her lawyer better than the prosecutor because he had more charisma.
onyxobsidian 1st-Dec-2012 06:49 pm (UTC)
This country is full of idiots. Don't you realize that? Poor white trash people almost elected Mitt Romney as president to destroy their lives JUST because he was a republican.
myxwill 1st-Dec-2012 07:01 pm (UTC)
The prosecution really goofed with trying to try her for capital murder even before the body was found.
littlelauren86 1st-Dec-2012 07:17 pm (UTC)
She definitely did that shit, but they pretty much had to let her get off. She was smart by making sure the cops didn't find the body until it was too late.

But to the people who say that it was based too much on circumstantial evidence -- I wonder if they said the same thing when the public crucified Scott Peterson.
kaedemoon267 1st-Dec-2012 07:42 pm (UTC)
Me too. But I will watch this movie because she won't profit. The verdict still makes my blood boil to this day.
xbellaxmiax 1st-Dec-2012 08:23 pm (UTC)
me too. I didn't read every document, but I tried to read as many as possible since I watched the entire trial every single day on TV.
I didn't have any doubt in my mind she was going to get convicted- any idiot could see she was guilty- so when the verdict came out it was just insanity. but i guess the prosecution dropped the ball and the jury were dumber than idiots.
chikntetrazzini 1st-Dec-2012 08:26 pm (UTC)
There was no real evidence connecting her to the murder. If the prosecutor hadn't aimed so high, he probably would have at least got something, but murder 1 wasn't happening -- with any jury.
mhfromnh 1st-Dec-2012 09:03 pm (UTC)
ohkimosabe 1st-Dec-2012 09:04 pm (UTC)
it was a total screw job.
revertigo 1st-Dec-2012 09:24 pm (UTC)
floridians
londonsquare 1st-Dec-2012 10:06 pm (UTC)
I can't believe she got off either. But the prosecution was going for Murder 1 and not 2. She more than likely would have been convicted if they went Murder 2.
sweet_honesty 1st-Dec-2012 10:54 pm (UTC)
Ugh, fuck Florida, tbh. Their justice system is all messed up.
xpirate_queenx 2nd-Dec-2012 12:11 am (UTC)
Well, under our system you don't have to prove your innocence; they have to prove your guilt. They didn't do a good enough job.
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