Pinellas County Jury Hears Opening Statements For Casey
Selasa, 24 Mei 2011 by Android Blackberry
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| Casey Marie Anthony' trial at the Pinellas Country Crimina |
Immediately after two weeks of waiting and questioning, a group of 17 Pinellas County residents have begun the complicated job they were chosen for: serving as jurors and alternates within the very publicized murder trial against Casey Anthony.
Shortly just after 9, the jurors filed into a big marble-walled Orlando courtroom and took their seats. Orange-Osceola Judge Belvin Perry asked them if they had followed his instructions to avoid news coverage, discussions and Online searches in regards to the case. They all said they had.
After which Assistant State Lawyer Linda Drane Burdick began her opening statement by alluding to the storm of media coverage surrounding the case. Television stations and newspapers have chronicled the story of Anthony and her legal ups and downs. But now, she told the jurors, "It's time to tell the story of slightly girl named Caylee," the 2-year-old daughter Anthony is accused of killing.
Burdick did so in a graphic way. She told the jurors that Casey Anthony's mother took the final acknowledged photo of Caylee and she showed it to them: a shot with the little girl grinning wide having a coloring book in front of her.
And then she showed what she said was the subsequent identified photograph of Caylee - a vivid image of her remains, which had been discovered numerous months after her disappearance in 2008.
The jurors will remain in an Orlando hotel for an estimated six to eight weeks though hearing the case. Prosecutors are looking for the death penalty
