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Casey Anthony to Report for Probation for Fraudulent Checks

 

            Casey Anthony, the 25-year-old who was recently found not guilty of murdering her toddler daughter and released from an Orlando, FL jail in July, has to serve a year of probation as required by a corrected order. In January of 2010, Anthony pleaded guilty to stealing a friend's checkbook and writing five fraudulent checks that totaled $644.25. She was sentenced to 412 days in jail but received credit for time served. However, she was also sentenced to a year of probation, but a misunderstanding granted her credit for that also. Orange County Circuit Judge Stan Strickland intended for Anthony's probation to begin to day she was released from jail, but he then signed an order that allowed her probation period to coincide when she was awaiting trial for the murder of her daughter. An amendment was made to the order on August 1, 2011 that included the words "upon release" to clarify Strickland's intentions (CNN). .
             A spokesman for the Orange County State Attorney's Office, Randy Means, declined to comment on the matter. "We don't think we have jurisdiction. The court is the sentence, and if they think it was not followed, they can do something," he said. "Our position is to leave it up to the court" (CNN). .
             Anthony's lawyers are angered by the amended order and plan on contesting the move. According to Means, they will argue that it would be double jeopardy to force Anthony to fulfill another year of probation after she already served one in jail. Furthermore, Anthony's lawyers have other reasons to dislike Judge Strickland. He began as the judge that presided over her murder trial until April 2010. The defense accused him of being a "self-aggrandizing media hound," and Strickland recused himself (CNN).
             "From my reading of this, she should be reporting to probation in Orlando probably within 72 hours," said Strickland as he signed the new document with the added words "the defendant is to report to Probation upon release" and "nunc pro tunc," which allowed the amendment to work retroactively (Boston.


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