ORLANDO, Fla. -- A judge sentenced Casey Anthony on Thursday to four years for lying to investigators. Thursday afternoon, a court official said Casey's release date is scheduled for July 13.
She has already served nearly three years in jail and has had good behavior.Casey was smiling as she spoke with her lawyers before Judge Belvin Perry began, but as soon as she was sentenced, her smile faded.Casey walked in wearing a lavender long-sleeved top and she wore her hair down.
Thursday marked the 997 day Casey has spent in jail.
While acquitted of killing and abusing her 2-year-old daughter Caylee Marie Anthony, Casey was convicted of four counts of lying to detectives trying to find her daughter in July 2008. She lied to them about working at the Universal Studios theme park, about leaving her daughter with a non-existent nanny named Zanny, about leaving the girl with friends and about receiving a phone call from her.
At the time of Caylee's disappearance in June 2008, Casey, a single mother, and Caylee were living with her parents, George and Cindy Anthony, in suburban Orlando. No one has come forward as Caylee's father.Prosecutors contended Casey, then 22, suffocated Caylee with duct tape because she was interfering with her desire to be with her boyfriend and party with her friends.
Defense attorneys countered that Caylee accidentally drowned in the family swimming pool. They said that when Casey panicked, her father, a former police officer, decided to make the death look like a murder. They said he put duct tape on the girl's mouth and then dumped the body in woods about a quarter-mile away.
The defense said Casey's apparent carefree life hid emotional distress caused by sexual abuse from her father. Her father firmly denied both the cover-up and abuse claims. The prosecution called those claims absurd, and said no one makes an accident look like a murder.
WFTV.com
Copyright 2011 by wftv.com. The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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