Casey Anthony will have to wait a few more days to celebrate her release from the Orange County Jail where she has been incarcerated since October 2008. According to CNN, even though her release date was to be Wednesday, July 13, Florida Orange County Corrections officials, after going over the numbers and calculations, have found that they miscalculated by four days. She will now be released on Sunday, July 17.
In a statement from Orange County Corrections public information Allen Moore, "a detailed recalculation of the projected release date" had resulted in a new date, albeit one not in Anthony's favor. There was no explanation of how the recalculation was made, if it was a mistake in the original calculations, or if some factor was omitted or added that was not part of the initial calculation.
Regardless, Anthony's release date was moved back by four days.
On Tuesday that release date had been in jeopardy of being a death row sentence. However, the jury in the Casey Anthony trial, after deliberating 11 hours, delivered a "not guilty" verdict on the charge that she had murdered her 2-year-old daughter, Caylee, shocking nearly everyone in attendance and the millions that had been following the developments and the trial via the media. She was found "not guilty" of manslaughter and aggravated child abuse as well. The jury did find her "guilty" of four misdemeanor counts of lying to police.
At sentencing on Thursday, after Judge Belvin Perry gave her the maximum sentence for the four charges and after hours of calculations that considered time already served in jail, Anthony was told that she would be released from jail on July 13. She was also fined $1,000 for each count.
But what can the now 25-year-old mother expect upon her release? Interviews? Book deals? Movie deals?
According to TMZ, Anthony has already received a movie deal from Vivid Entertainment, the adult entertainment company famous for releasing porn videos from Montana Fishburne and Kendra Wilkinson. That offer was quickly withdrawn after public backlash sent the company in retreat. Vivid founder Steve Hirsch noted that the offer was made because it was felt Casey Anthony would probably have a difficult time adjusting and Vivid could help her "transition into a new life." The amount being offered was not disclosed, but other high-profile personalities had made deals with Vivid totaling hundreds of thousands of dollars (with royalties and riders that netted millions). But the "overwhelmingly negative response" made it "obvious to us that Vivid fans, and people in general, want nothing to do with her and that includes a XXX movies," Hirsch told TMZ.
Many, like Fox News contributor and crisis management expert Gene Grabowski, said Anthony could look forward to a $1 million interview deal with a major network. He also said that he didn't recommend she take that path, however, because of her reputation as an "unsympathetic figure and a known liar."
Still, it is generally seen as a given that Anthony will attempt to capitalize off of her infamy, much like O. J. Simpson and Amy Fisher did, doing interviews and writing books -- if only to stave off court costs, lawyers fees, and civil suits. Anthony already faces a civil suit with regard to one of her lies to the police -- that of the story of the babysitter that abducted Caylee, where a Florida woman named Zenaida Gonsalez was arrested and underwent interrogation as the suspected "Zanny the Nanny." Texas Equufax, the equestrian search team that spent hours looking for Caylee, have contemplated seeking recompense for their efforts. Orange County and Florida officials have also pushed the idea of charging Anthony for services rendered during the wild goose chases inspired by her lies.
As to her personal life, that seems to be an unknown. It is seen as doubtful that she will return to her parents' home outside Orlando, especially considering the accusations that the defense team made in opening arguments that her actions were the result of emotional, psychological, and sexual abuse perpetrated against her by her father, George, since she was 8 years old.
Jean Caesarez of tru TV's "In Session" asked Cheney Mason, a member of the Anthony defense team, where the newly exonerated Anthony would go once freed from jail. "He told me it would not, with all seriousness, be back to her family home."
But an advance on a $1 million book deal or interview (or even some type of movie) would be enough for Casey Anthony to go just about anywhere she wants.
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