Casey Anthony to Stay in Jail a While Longer
Forced to Cancel Celebratory Parties, Personal Appointments

(Orlando, FL) — Casey Anthony, the 25-year-old Florida mother who was acquitted on July 5 of first-degree murder and other charges related to her 2-year-old daughter, Caylee Marie, in 2008, will be released from prison on July 17, later than she had hoped.

While found not guilty of murder, she was found guilty on four counts of lying to authorities, each carrying a one-year prison sentence. Given her three years served behind bars, plus time off for good behavior, Anthony was hoping to be released on July 5 or, at worst, after her sentencing hearing on July 7. But it was not to be.

Anthony smiled and played with her hair while awaiting the judge's decision Thursday morning, turning stone-faced as the sentence of extended jail time was handed down. She will be released after serving 1,007 days in jail.

"We disagree vehemently with the judge's decision regarding any additional jail time," said an Anthony attorney, speaking on condition of anonymity. "This means that Ms. Anthony will be inconvenienced. I mean, she's already had to cancel a tattoo appointment for July 9. Now her hair, pedicure and massage appointments will also have to be postponed. And she won't even be able to go to the Report-Your-Daughter-Missing-A-Month-After-She's-Disappeared party on July 15. Now, where's the justice in that?"

Prosecutors claimed Anthony suffocated her daughter with duct tape because motherhood interfered with her desire for a carefree life of partying with friends and spending time with her boyfriend. The defense claimed Caylee actually drowned a month before she was reported missing, on July 15, 2008, in a pool at the home of Anthony's parents, George and Cindy Anthony, with whom the child and her single mother lived. George and Casey worked then worked to cover up the toddler's death.

There is the potential for Anthony to profit from the case via publishers, filmmakers or television producers. "She could team up with OJ [Simpson] and produce something," said a network television spokesman, speaking on condition of anonymity. "Now that would be some good reality TV."

The Florida public has generally been either in shock or in an uproar over the acquittal. But Americans from the other 49 states don't seem as angry or surprised. "I mean, this is Florida we're talking about," said a non-Floridian on the streets of Orlando, speaking on condition of anonymity. "These are the people who can't figure out what an arrow means when they're voting," apparently referencing the botched November 2000 presidential election. "Who's surprised that she's going to be free?"