Casey Anthony trial: Witness testimony continues after tense jury selection

A central Florida mother charged with killing her 2-year-old daughter wiped away tears Thursday as her ex-boyfriend described to jurors affectionate moments Casey Anthony shared with her toddler.



Anthony Lazarro testified under questioning from Anthony’s defense attorney that she taught Caylee how to swim and regularly displayed affection for her daughter.





Anthony is charged with first-degree murder in the death of her daughter. If convicted, she could be sentenced to death. She has pleaded not guilty.



Prosecutors and defense attorneys have offered strikingly different portrayals of Anthony.



Prosecutors have gotten witnesses to testify that Anthony never seemed upset during the time Caylee disappeared. Defense attorneys have coaxed witnesses to testify that Anthony was a loving mother.







Caylee was last seen June 16, 2008. Prosecutors said Caylee died from three pieces of duct tape being placed over her mouth and nose, while the attorney for Anthony, 25, has claimed the toddler accidentally drowned in her grandparents’ pool.



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Nancy Grace Hypnotized by Casey Anthony

If Nancy Grace wins an Emmy Award, will she have to share with it Casey Anthony, the accused "Tot Mom" murderer in Florida?

Every Nancy Grace Show on HLN is exactly the same. She talks about the Casey Anthony murder trial more than Maury Povich reveals if "Cinnamon" is really a man or a woman.

Each weeknight, we find Grace and four lawyers discussing what the "Tot Mom" wore in court that day. Grace and her guests say "tot mom" at least 30 times per show. I smell a T-shirt deal.

Grace beats up the "Tot Mom" and her defense team relentlessly. She's like Madame Defarge knitting in the courtroom in A Tale of Two Cities, only with weirder eyebrows.

Grace practically wears a hypodermic needle around her neck as costume jewelry. Call off the fight, ref!

The Nancy Grace Show is the Kramer portrait on Seinfeld — she is a loathsome, offensive brute. Yet I can't look away.



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Murder trial witnesses say they saw no change in Casey Anthony's behavior

One month after prosecutors say a Florida mother murdered her two-year-old daughter and left the body in garbage bags in a wooded area, she invited an acquaintance to the toddler’s upcoming birthday party, an Orlando courtroom was told Wednesday.

The mother, Casey Anthony, continued to suggest for weeks after the alleged murder that her daughter, Caylee, was staying with a nanny or that she had to leave soon to pick the little girl up.

“She said she had to pick up her daughter.… She said that her birthday was the next month and I was invited to her birthday party,” said Jamie Realander in testimony Wednesday, the second day of Ms. Anthony’s expected two-month murder trial in an Orlando courtroom.