Cindy Anthony Facing Possible Perjury Charge
July 12 2011, Published 4:10 a.m. ET
- Breaking Celebrity News Senior Reporter
UPDATE: The State Attorney’s office said they will not charge Cindy Anthony with lying on the stand during her testimony. “Our office is not pursuing perjury charges,” said Danielle Tavernier, a spokeswoman for the Orange-Osceola State Attorney’s Office.
Casey Anthony is just days away from being released from jail after being found not guilty of killing her two-year-old daughter Caylee Marie, but her mother may be facing charges of lying during the hearing.
Orange County Sheriff Jerry Demings spoke on Tuesday in a press conference next to a large picture of Caylee. “We’ve had discussion with the State Attorney’s Office…they will make a determination about perjury charges in the near future,” the sheriff said about Cindy Anthony being charged with perjury for her testimony during her daughter’s trial, according to the Orlando Sentinel.
Prosecutors in the case against Casey, 25, had expert witnesses testify about the number of times the words chloroform, neck breaking and other violent terms were searched in March of 2008, three months before Caylee died. They claimed that the searches were made during the afternoon by Casey, but Cindy took the stand and said she may have made the searches herself for chloroform accidentally while she was searching for chlorophyll and made the searches for neck breaking while seeking information about a skate boarding accident.