Court hears Casey Anthony appeal, no ruling today
(PHOTO/Amanda Evans, Staff) Attorney Lisabeth Fryer argues against Casey Anthony’s four convictions of lying
to law enforcement, Tuesday, Jan. 8, 2013, at the Fifth District Court of Appeal in Daytona Beach.DAYTONA BEACH -- There is no doubt that Casey Anthony lied to detectives when she told them her 2-year-old daughter, Caylee, had been kidnapped by a babysitter.
But Tuesday, a state appellate court was asked to decide if she can overturn her convictions.
Three judges at the appeals court in Daytona Beach heard 15 minutes of testimony from both sides.
Casey Anthony was not in court Tuesday. Representing her was attorney Lisabeth Fryer, accompanied in court by Cheney Mason. Both were key players in her 2011 murder trial.
Assistant state Attorney General Wesley Heidt represented the state.
While Casey was acquitted of her daughter's murder in 2011, the jury still found her guilty on four counts of providing false information to a law enforcement officer.
The big question at Tuesday's hearing wasn't if Casey lied, but whether she was in custody at the time.
Both sides recalled the events from July 2008, just after Caylee Anthony was first reported missing. They went through Casey's lies to Orange County detectives:
- That she was employed at Universal Studios at the time,
- That she left Caylee with a nanny named Zenaida Gonzalez,
- That she told two alleged co-workers that Caylee was missing, and
- That she had talked to Caylee on the phone the day before she was reported missing.
The state said she knew what she was doing, lying again and again, even as her story unraveled.
But Fryer argued she had not been read her Miranda rights, including her right to remain silent.
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