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Question of the Day: Did You Follow the Casey Anthony Trial?

For three years, media outlets and Americans were transfixed on the murder case. Were you?

On Tuesday afternoon, Orlando woman Casey Anthony was found innocent of the murder of her 2-year-old daughter, Caylee, whose body was found in woods near the Anthony home months after she reportedly disappeared in June 2008.

Ultimately, jurors found that the circumstantial evidence provided by the prosecution, who claimed that Anthony doused the girl in chloroform and disposed of her body so she could spend more time partying in nightclubs, was not conclusive enough to pinpoint Casey as the culprit. Anthony's defense attorneys argued that Caylee accidentally drowned in the family pool and was buried by Casey's father after he made the discovery.

The trial has captivated the mainstream media like few other trials before. The sordid details of the case, a televised trial with sensationalized recaps at the end of each day, Casey Anthony's seeming heartlessness and a rabid public demanding "Justice for Caylee" made for a legal sensation not seen since the O.J. Simpson trial in 1995.

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Casey Anthony's guilt or innocence seemed to be determined long ago in the court of public opinion. Riverhead Patch is less interested in speculation about the verdict and more interested in knowing if you followed the trial, or ignored the media's coverage. Did you track every detail of the Anthony case, pay it no mind, or somewhere in between? Let us know in the comments how much you watched the trial, and what conclusions you have drawn from the case and the media attention surrounding it.


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