Casey Anthony to Be a Free Woman as Probation Ends
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Red Huber-Pool/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — Casey Anthony’s one-year probation sentence for check fraud ends this week, giving her the freedom to go wherever she pleases.
“As of Friday, Aug. 24 at 12 a.m., nobody will be able to tell her where to be,” Anthony’s attorney Charles Greene told ABC News.
“She’s complied with all the terms of her probation and she’s looking forward to having her freedom to move forward because, even though she’s been out of jail for the last year, she’s essentially still been in prison by the requirement that she remains in one location,” Greene said.
Anthony, 26, was acquitted last summer of killing her 2-year-old daughter Caylee Anthony.
After her acquittal, Florida Judge Belvin Perry ordered her to serve one year of probation for a 2010 check fraud conviction. Prior to her first degree murder trial, Anthony pleaded guilty to stealing checks from her best friend Amy Huizenga during the time that Caylee was missing.
Since then, Anthony has been serving her probation from an undisclosed Florida location. She has resurfaced a few times over the past year via a leaked video diary and a telephone conversation with Piers Morgan, but has otherwise succeeded in disappearing from the public eye.
Anthony has been unemployed for the past year, according to her monthly probation reports, so it is unclear where any money she might use comes from. She has not published a book or sold her story in any known capacity.
Greene hopes that one day she will tell her own story.
“There’s things she wants to say, but they need to be on her time, her terms, her conditions,” he said. “I hope that one day she says more.”
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