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After finding Casey Anthony guilty of four counts of lying to law enforcement (“A gimme,” said Juror No. 2) they discussed the most serious charge: first-degree murder. There are only two sentences: life in prison without parole or death by lethal injection.
The state’s theory is that Casey Anthony suffocated her daughter with duct tape, then dumped her body in a swamp near the home they shared with the girl’s grandparents. She didn’t want to be a mother anymore, the state said, and she partied with friends and got a tattoo while her child was unaccounted for.
But the only forensic evidence was possible signs of human decomposition in the mother’s trunk, and the child’s decomposed remains found six months later.
The first vote was 10-2 against first-degree murder.
“We didn’t know how she died, we didn’t know when she died,” said Juror No. 2, who was one of the 10. “Technically, we didn’t even know where she died.
“You couldn’t say who did it. To me, that’s why it was aggravated manslaughter of a child.”
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That was the next charge the jury could have found 25-year-old Casey Anthony guilty of. It carries a sentence of up to 15 years in prison. Juror No. 2 believed the mother was guilty of “culpable negligence” as required of that charge. He wasn’t alone.
The vote on Tuesday was 6-6 for manslaughter. The two sides hardened. They started talking over one another. The jury foreman calmed them all down.
Here the defense’s theory was key: They told the jury that Caylee accidentally drowned and the family tried to cover it up. But the defense also accused George Anthony of sexually abusing his daughter Casey — a charge he denied. The defense said the abuse trained Casey Anthony to lie and live in denial.
The jury didn’t believe anything George Anthony said on the stand, according to Juror No. 2.
But more importantly to the jurors who opposed the manslaughter charge, no one could say who was Caylee’s caretaker — the mother or the grandparents — when the child actually died.
If it was murder, who did it? If she died accidentally, then who was the child’s caretaker? But Juror No. 2 didn’t buy that.
“The six that voted guilty said it didn’t matter at what point in time she came home and found out her daughter was missing,” he said. “She had to report it in some way, shape or form, and that’s where the negligence came in.”
But some jurors, he said, had decided not to convict Casey Anthony of any charge in the girl’s death. By lunch Tuesday, the guilty side started to lose votes.
Juror No. 2 was the last holdout. Deliberations lasted for 11 hours over two days. They filed into court at 2:15 p.m. Tuesday to hand over their verdict.
“We truly don’t know what happened,” he said. “Somebody knows, but we don’t know.” …

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