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| Anthony must serve one year of probation |
| By palmbeachpost.com |
| Published: 08/15/2011 |
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Casey Anthony has spent her first four weeks of freedom living in secrecy, but that obscurity is going to come to an end soon — and so are some of her liberties. Orange-Osceola Chief Judge Belvin Perry ruled Friday that Anthony has until Aug. 26 to turn herself in to the Florida Department of Corrections, which will monitor her for one year while she serves probation. There was confusion last month, when Anthony was released from the Orange County Jail, about whether she would have to serve probation resulting from check-fraud convictions in 2010. The Department of Corrections allowed her to serve while in jail, but that was not what the judge who sentenced her had intended. "To permit the Defendant, whose counsel was well aware that the probation was to begin upon the Defendant's release from jail, to avoid serving probation now, would take a lawfully imposed sentence and make it a mockery of justice," Perry wrote in his order. Anthony will have to provide her address to a probation officer, though Perry took her safety into consideration and told the Department of Corrections it has discretion to keep Anthony's location confidential and not subject to public record. However, if and when she returns to Orange County, Anthony will not be back at her parents' home on Hopespring Drive, their attorney said in a statement Friday evening. "Regardless of what happens George and Cindy Anthony do not have any idea where Casey Anthony currently is or where she will be living while she is on Probation," attorney Mark Lippman said. It's unknown when Anthony will report to probation, but as part of the sentence, she:
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