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Attorneys representing Casey Anthony invoked her Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination 60 times during a deposition given in a civil suit against her, according to a transcript of the proceedings.

Amanda Knox is set to fly home to the US after she and Raffaele Sollecito were cleared by an Italian court of murdering student Meredith Kercher.

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.

The victim's family objects to testimony and tears about a dress given to the boy, who was later shot to death. Testimony in student Brandon McInerney's murder trial this week turned heated, at one point sparking an altercation between the family of a teacher and the family of slain gay student Larry King.

American Amanda Knox arrived in court Saturday as an appeal against her conviction for the murder of British student Meredith Kercher resumed in Italy.

A Florida judge on Thursday sentenced Casey Anthony to four years in jail for lying to police, but said after credit for the nearly three years she already served she could be out of jail by late this month or early August.

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 judge in the Florida murder trial of Casey Anthony unexpectedly called an indefinite recess Friday morning so the defense could take depositions of witnesses the prosecution plans to call during its rebuttal case....

American student Amanda Knox's bid to overturn her conviction for the murder of her British roommate in Italy may have been given a boost by fresh DNA analysis, Italian news agency ANSA reported Wednesday.

A man convicted of murdering a British exchange student testified that he believes her roommate, Amanda Knox, and her ex-boyfriend killed he ...