Lawyer: Casey Anthony Didn't Get Her Daughter Had Died Until Trial

"I'm still not even certain as I stand here today about what happened," Casey Anthony told the AP earlier this year of the death of her daughter, Caylee, in 2008. 

Her former defense attorney has a theory as to why that might be. In an interview with LawNewz, Cheney Mason suggests Anthony, who was famously acquitted of murder, suppressed memories associated with her daughter's death and only truly comprehended the event during her trial. 

"She didn't go crazy by any means—but [she experienced a] blackout—completely a blackout—of what went on and what happened," Mason says. "She went into what I call 'Casey World.' She shut it out."

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