Caylee Anthony, Murder Trial | featured news

Casey Anthony told a psychiatrist that she became pregnant with her daughter, Caylee, after passing out at a party when she was 18 years old, according to depositions in which the doctor said tests gave no indication that Anthony was mentally ill as she faced her murder trial.

One of the prosecutors in the Casey Anthony murder trial is writing a book about the case. Ashton was the co-prosecutor in the trial of Anthony, the young Florida mother accused of murdering her 2-year-old daughter Caylee. The trial garnered national media attention.

After less than 11 hours of deliberation, a jury Tuesday found Casey Anthony not guilty of first-degree murder and the other most serious charges against her in the 2008 death of her 2-year-old daughter.

Prosecutors in their rebuttal closing argument earlier Monday said the defense's assertion that Caylee's death was an 'accident that snowballed out of control' made no sense. Jurors did not reach a verdict Monday in the Casey Anthony murder trial after deliberating for almost six hours on the prosecution's claim that the woman killed her 2-year-old daughter Caylee because the toddler interrupted her carefree partying and love life.

The parents of a Florida mother accused of killing her 2-year-old daughter returned to the witness stand Thursday as the defense began calling its final witnesses.