Casey Anthony Found Not Guilty (PHOTOS)

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Casey Anthony has been found not guilty of the death of her 2 year old daughter Caylee.

Casey was found not guilty on all counts except four of providing false information to police.

After over a month of testimony, 400 pieces of evidence and more than 90 witnesses, the jury in the Casey Anthony case reached a verdict of not guilty. The verdict was read in court at 2:15 p.m.

STORY: Caylee Anthony, The Daughter Of Casey Anthony (PHOTOS)

The Florida mom was on trial for first-degree murder in the death of her 2-year-old daughter Caylee. Anthony initially claimed that a babysitter kidnapped Caylee. Anthony most likely would have faced the death penalty.

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As Reported By The Associated Press:

Anthony, 25, wept as the judge read the verdict, which jurors reached after less than 11 hours of deliberation over two days. She was charged with first-degree murder, which could have brought the death penalty if she had been convicted.

Instead, she was convicted of only four counts of lying to investigators looking into the June 2008 disappearance of her daughter Caylee. Her body was found in the woods six months later and a medical examiner was never able to determine how she died.

She will be sentenced by the judge on Thursday and could receive up to a year in jail for each lying count.

Anthony’s attorneys claimed that the toddler drowned accidentally in the family swimming pool, and that her seemingly carefree mother in fact was hiding emotional distress caused by sexual abuse from her father.

Prosecutors contended that Caylee was suffocated with duct tape by a mother who loved to party, tattooed herself with the Italian words for “beautiful life” in the month her daughter was missing and crafted elaborate lies to mislead everyone from investigators to her own parents.

SOURCE: AP

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