She sighed utter relief and cracked a smile earlier this week when she was deemed not guilty of killing her 2-year-old daughter, but today (July 7) Casey Anthony faced the judge to receive punishment for lying to police officers.
The mother of the late Caylee Anthony was given one year in jail for each count of lying to investigators minus time already served - which comes out to around one year left in lockup (though she could be let out of the slammer as soon as one month from now).
While lawyers argued that the multiple counts were double jeopardy - the judge dismissed the notion and ordered that all four misdemeanor convictions be served consecutively.
Along with the jail sentence, Miss Anthony was slapped with a $1,000 fine for her wrongdoings, which shouldn't be an issue seeing that literary agents and publicists have said that the 25-year-old mother could make upwards of $750,000 with a book deal resulting from the case.
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