Casey Anthony: Is probation coming her way? Stations disagree
Casey Anthony at her sentencing hearing on July 7. Photo credit: Joe Burbank/Orlando Sentinel
Will Casey Anthony be going back on probation? WESH-Channel 2 and WKMG-Channel 6 saw the issue differently tonight.
“It is still possible that Casey Anthony will be ordered to come out of hiding to come back to Orange County to begin serving a yearlong probation,” WESH’s Bob Kealing reported.
Kealing, citing a source in the clerk’s office, said a clarification order is being drawn up to bring Anthony back to Orange County to serve a year’s probation for check fraud. Judge Stan Strickland could sign the order on Monday, but Strickland wasn’t available for comment today. Strickland had intended the probation for check fraud to start after she left jail.
Anthony hasn’t been seen since she left Orange County Jail on July 17. She was acquitted July 5 of first-degree murder in the death of her daughter, Caylee.
Attorney Richard Hornsby, a legal analyst for WESH, said the law is clear that the Department of Corrections should be supervising Anthony. “The person’s not supposed to start probation until they’re actually released out of the jail and out on the streets,” Hornsby said.
Randy Means of the state attorney’s office said Anthony’s probation started while she was in jail waiting for her murder trial. “She’s already served what the state required her to do,” Means said.
WKMG anchor Lauren Rowe said that “media reports today created some confusion” about the probation issue. Rowe said that Anthony completed her one-year probation while in jail. Rowe added that the Department of Corrections and the state attorney’s office reconfirmed that Anthony had served probation.
WKMG’s Tony Pipitone also talked to Means, who said there was nothing else the state could do on the probation issue. “I do not think the court has jurisdiction to change it,” Means told Pipitone. “She has served her probation.”
Pipitone ended his report with an editorial about coverage of the probation issue: “All the other speculation you may have heard or read about, it’s just noise. This is over. Some people just have to let go.”