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Casey Anthony Not Guilty—What Do You Think?

Ballwin-Ellisville Patch wants to know what readers think about the verdict.

The Huffington Post is reporting Casey Anthony was found not guilty of first-degree murder Tuesday afternoon.

The online news source reports that after 33 days of testimony, today a jury found her not guilty of killing her 2-year-old daughter in 2008. If found guilty, she could have faced the death penalty. She was found guilty on four counts of providing false information to law enforcement.

Anthony, 25, was charged with a total of seven counts including first-degree murder, aggravated child abuse, aggravated manslaughter of a child and four counts of providing false information to a law-enforcement officer in her daughter's disappearance and death.

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