JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Ann Finnell, the former Duval County public defender who served on the Casey Anthony defense team, saved a threatening letter she received soon after the Orlando mother was found not guilty.
The 25-year-old woman was acquitted July 5 of killing her 2-year-old daughter, Caylee.
The unsigned letter sent to Finnell's office says:
"Have you ever triple bagged a human being and 'threw' them in a hot Florida swamp? You may have because you sure do condone it! In fact, you 'obscenity', you deserve what the baby killer did to her 2 year old."
Finnell helped choose the jury for the trial and would have represented Anthony in the death penalty phase if she had been found guilty.
Does Finnell have a personal opinion of Anthony?
"Sure, I don't think she killed her child," Finnell said. "I don't think there is any way Casey Anthony intentionally killed her child."
Finnell, who worked for the defense pro bono, spent weeks digging into Anthony's background.
Finnell helped choose the jury for the trial and would have represented Anthony in the death penalty phase if she had been found guilty.
Does Finnell have a personal opinion of Anthony?
"Sure, I don't think she killed her child," Finnell said. "I don't think there is any way Casey Anthony intentionally killed her child."
Finnell, who worked for the defense pro bono, spent weeks digging into Anthony's background.
"She was a great mother, according to everybody that I talked to," Finnell said. "I didn't talk to one single person who said she ever abused the child or left the child or neglected the child or didn't feed the child or didn't give it a bath. I never ran into one person who said anything bad other than she was a great mother."
"How on earth do you think she could ever get her life back on track?" Channel 4's Tom Wills asked Finnell.
"I think the bottom line on Casey Anthony is she is going to have to do a number of things. She is going to have to change her name. She is going to have to change her look, and she is going to have to try to assume a new life," Finnell said. "I don't know how else really you get beyond this. She is supposedly the most hated woman in America."