Casey Anthony’s first degree murder trial might not begin until May 2011, prosecutors have said. On Thursday, a schedule for the start of the trial was outlined which would have it beginning three years after Casey’s little two-year-old Caylee, went missing.
Anthony, 23, has been charged with first degree murder of her daughter, Caylee, and so all parties—prosecutors, her defense team and the judge–are proceeding cautiously, as it is a death penalty case.
One recent delay was Anthony defense team’s failure to provide their witness list to the prosecution. They had been given until February 1st 2010, but that deadline came and went and no witness list was presented. The defense has said that the prosecution is at fault, as they are awaiting more information, hence their delay.
Prosecutors have already submitted the names of witnesses whom they intend to call to testify at trial.
Anthony’s defense attorneys have maintained that someone else is responsible for the death of Caylee, not their client.
Anthony sits in the Orange County Jail awaiting trial. She has said that her daughter was kidnapped by a baby sitter, although to date, there has been no evidence to support this. Casey’s mother, Cindy Anthony, was the first to report her granddaughter missing, one month after she hadn’t see the child in early June 2008.   Caylee’s remains were later found in December 2008, in a wooded area in the vicinity of the Anthony family home.
If convicted, Anthony could face the death penalty.
