CHICAGO ― Evan D. Brown, an intellectual property attorney in the
Chicago office of Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP, was interviewed on February 21, 2011, on CNN's HLN Prime News. The interview concerned a high-profile criminal case involving Casey Anthony, who was indicted for first-degree murder in connection with her two-year old child Caylee’s death. Caylee went missing in June 2008 and was found dead six months later. Ms. Anthony did not report her daughter missing, and during the period of the child’s absence, Ms. Anthony allegedly went to a party and got a tattoo. Circumstantial evidence concerning the alleged murder of Caylee was found in Ms. Anthony’s vehicle. Ms. Anthony’s trial is set to begin in May 2011.
After Caylee’s disappearance, but before her body was found, Ms. Anthony posted comments on her Myspace page. The prosecution is expected to seek to introduce those comments into evidence. Asked his thoughts on those Myspace postings, Mr. Brown stated, “What I think the larger issue is here [is that] [i]t really underscores the importance and the power that social media as evidence can have. . . . We are painting a very high-resolution picture of our lives by using these tools, and we don’t always realize the ways that that can come back and really tell a story that we don’t always intend to tell when we’re putting this stuff online.” Mr. Brown also provided his thoughts on the difficulty of finding an impartial jury for the lawsuit given the high-profile nature of the case and the extensive commentary in social media and elsewhere online on it.
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Evan Brown's HLN Prime News Interview.
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