Casey Anthony Found Not Guilty

Jurors in Orlando, Florida have found Casey Anthony not guilty in her murder trial. The jury was out for just 10 hours after getting instructions on Monday.

Anthony was also found not guilty on manslaughter and child abuse charges. Anthony was found guilty on four counts of providing false information to law enforcement.

Casey Anthony in court

Prosecutors argued the woman killed her 2-year-old daughter Caylee because the toddler interrupted her carefree partying and love life.

Jurors in the murder trial ended their first day of deliberations on Monday without reaching a verdict.

Anthony was charged with first-degree murder and six other charges. If convicted of first-degree murder, she would have been sentenced to death or life in prison.

The seven women and five men of the jury were chosen from the Tampa Bay area because of pretrial media coverage of the case and have been sequestered in an Orlando hotel. They have listened to 33 days of testimony and another two days of closing arguments.

Anthony's attorneys say the girl drowned in the family's pool.

They have said Anthony panicked and that her father, a former police officer, decided to make the death look like a homicide by placing duct tape over the child's mouth and dumping the body in some nearby woods. George Anthony has denied that.

The state contended Anthony was a party girl who killed Caylee because the toddler got in the way of her love life. 

Brian Blackwell