Casey Anthony’s lawyer has claimed the Florida woman suffered a “blackout,” and that’s why her memory is fuzzy about the death of her daughter, Caylee.
Anthony couldn’t remember events surrounding her 2-year-old’s death because she experienced a type of trauma-related memory loss, alleges one of her trial lawyers, Cheney Mason. In a recent interview with LawNewz, he was asked why—six years after she was acquitted in her daughter’s death—people still don’t know what happened to her daughter.
Mason told the legal news website: “I believe that Casey’s mind, in some dimension, I guess the common word would say ’snapped.' She didn’t go crazy by any means—but blackout—completely a blackout—of what went on and what happened.”
A jury acquitted Anthony of first-degree murder, aggravated manslaughter of a child, and aggravated child abuse in the high-profile murder case in 2011. But she was convicted of lying to police.
“Casey, as we established with an expert witness at the end of the trial, grieved and comprehended differently than anyone else what happened. She went into what I call ‘Casey World.’ She shut it out,” Mason said.
