Casey Anthony News

SANFORD, Fla. - The judge in the George Zimmerman murder trial ruled Monday that jurors identities will be kept secret for now and she'll decide later when their names will be made public.

Less than two years after the Florida courtroom acquittal of Casey Anthony in the death of her young daughter, another high-profile trial got under way in the Sunshine State last week.

The judge presiding over George Zimmerman 's trial in the fatal shooting of Trayvon Martin announced Thursday that the jury will be sequestered.

How did the first day of jury selection go at George Zimmerman 's murder trial? National analysts saw speed while local analysts detected sluggishness.

Millions of Americans were enwrapped in the saga of a single young mother in Florida and her missing toddler, Caylee, and were outraged when Casey Anthony was not convicted for the death of her child, who was missing for a month before being reported.

Timeline: Travyon Martin murder case: A look back at events leading up to George Zimmerman's murder trial as the first day of jury selection begins.

The Trayvon Martin murder case has ignited protests, death threats, online campaigns, and become the center of national discussion about race, gun laws and self-defense.

"We as a media learned as we went along with that case because of the way it exploded two years ago," said Jeff Zeller, news director at WOFL-Channel 35. "That's kind of a blueprint, but this is a very different case.

Long before Amanda Knox, Casey Anthony and Jodi Arias, there was another young American woman on a trial for murder that became a media spectacle.

The network has watched as rivals like HLN and CNN have racked up huge ratings with wall-to-wall coverage of trials like Casey Anthony's and Jodi Arias's.

One wonders what has been become of our media news. The so-called talking heads have started a new phenomenon: trying people in the news instead of the courts.

Among the strongest evidence in George Zimmerman's defense may be George Zimmerman himself, several experts say - in part, because it may prove difficult for prosecutors to refute his claim that he killed Trayvon Martin in self-defense. Zimmerman, a former neighborhood watch captain, is charged with second-degree murder in the shooting death of the ... (more)

Casey Anthony 's bankruptcy will return to court in Tampa on Thursday afternoon, when a judge will hear argument on how - and where - the two defamation lawsuits against her should proceed.

George Zimmerman's defense fund is almost depleted with less than two weeks until the former neighborhood watch leader goes on trial in the fatal shooting of Trayvon Martin.

The media circus -- social and traditional -- will descend on central Florida next month, as lawyers, pundits, and the merely curious follow the state's second degree murder case against George Zimmerman in the death of Trayvon Martin.

Jodi Arias has been convicted of brutally murdering, with extreme cruelty and premeditation, her boyfriend Travis Alexander in 2008.

Admit it: You spent more time talking about the Casey Anthony trial in 2011 than about the presidential election in 2012.

HLN, the cable network that heavily covers flashy, scandalous trials like those of Casey Anthony and Amanda Knox, apparently did well in the ratings after Jodi Arias was convicted of first-degree murder and as she addressed the jury, asking them not to sentence her to death .

Prominent Orlando attorney John Morgan is Lauren Rowe's guest on "Flashpoint" at 8 a.m. Sunday on WKMG-Channel 6. Morgan discusses everything from politics and Casey Anthony to medical marijuana and Tim Tebow , Rowe said.

She used that time to convince the same 8 men and 4 women that found her guilty to spare her life.