What started as a missing child investigation for Casey Anthony’s daughter three years ago, has turned into a media firestorm surrounding a murder trial, which USA Today referred to as, “the social media trial of the century.”

This week, Casey Anthony was found not guilty of first-degree murder and two other felony charges for the death of her daughter, but found not guilty of four misdemeanor counts of providing false information to law enforcement officers. Like the verdict reached in the OJ Simpson case, there was shock and dismay from both the media and the general public, as both had been passionately condemning Anthony as a murderer for the past few months. Within two days of the verdict, we are seeing jurors on late night TV and the prosecutor on CNN.
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