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Court sets aside 2 of Casey Anthony’s convictions
ASSOCIATED PRESS
In this July 7, 2011 photo, Casey Anthony smiles before the start of her sentencing hearing in Orlando, Fla. Anthonyís lawyer Jose Baez says bringing Anthony back to Florida from an undisclosed location would just add to what he called the ìcircus-like atmosphereî around her case. Anthony has disappeared from public view since her acquittal last month on charges of murdering her 2-year-old daughter. A judge this week ordered Anthony to come back to Orlando to serve probation for check fraud that she plead guilty to in an earlier case. (AP Photo/Joe Burbank, Pool)
Posted 1/25/13
ORLANDO, Fla. — A Florida appellate court has set aside two of the four convictions Casey Anthony faced for lying to detectives during the investigation into her missing 2-year-old daughter.
Judges on the 5th District Court of Appeals agreed with Anthony’s attorneys Friday that two of the charges constituted double jeopardy, or being convicted more than once for the same crime.
The judges, however, ruled that the trial court was correct to allow her statements to detectives to be used during her murder trial.
Anthony’s attorneys had argued that she was in police custody at the time and hadn’t been read her Miranda rights.
Anthony was acquitted of killing Caylee in 2011. Jurors convicted her of four counts of lying to detectives, and her attorneys appealed those convictions.