Casey Anthony Murder Trial Judge Says "There Was Enough Evidence For Conviction" In New Interview, Was "Shocked" At Verdict [VIDEO]

Two years after the closing arguments in the case of Casey Anthony, the judge in the murder trial breaks his silence saying, "there was enough evidence for conviction."

Judge Belvin Perry told NBC's "Today" show on Monday that he believes there was sufficient evidence for a first-degree murder conviction for Casey Anthony, even though much of it was circumstantial.

When asked about what he felt when the verdict was read he said he felt "surprise, shock, and disbelief." He claims he had to read the outcome twice, "just to be sure I was sure of what I was reading," the judge said.

In the interview the judge called Anthony "two faced" and "manipulative."  He claims there was the side of Casey that was for the public and the jury to watch in hopes of gaining sympathy. The other Casey was a spoiled girl that yelled at her lawyers when she didn't get her way.

He claims that she often screamed at her lawyers from inside her jail cell.  The judge recalls the day Casey's lawyers approached her with a possible plea deal. He said there were "lots of four letter words" being shouted.

Casey Anthony was acquitted of the murder of her 2-year-old daughter Caylee. The trial attracted worldwide attention. She was only convicted of making false statements to police and got credit for time she already served in jail.  So when the "not guilty" verdict was read, 25-year-old Casey Anthony was able to leave the courtroom a free woman.

The defense team, led by Jose Baez, countered that the child had drowned accidentally in the family's swimming pool on June 16, 2008, and that George Anthony, Casey's father, disposed of the body. The defense contended that Casey lied about this and other issues because of a dysfunctional upbringing, which they said included sexual abuse by her father. The defense did not present evidence as to how Caylee died, nor evidence that Casey was sexually abused as a child, but challenged every one of the prosecution's four hundred pieces of evidence, calling much of it "fantasy forensics."

The "not guilty" murder verdict was greeted with public outrage, and was attacked by the media.  Some complained that the jury misunderstood the meaning of reasonable doubt, while others said the prosecution relied too heavily on the defendant's allegedly poor moral character because they had been unable to show how the victim, 2-year-old Caylee, had died.

After the trial In November 2012, it was reported that police never investigated the "Firefox" browser evidence on Casey Anthony's computer the day of Caylee's death; they only looked at the "Internet Explorer" evidence. The browser history showed that someone at the Anthony household used Firefox to do a Google search for "fool-proof suffication."

When asked if he thinks Casey Anthony got justice, Judge Belvin says that even though Anthony was acquitted she will face justice one day from the "Judge of judges."

"Justice has been served in the sense that the jury has spoken but justice will finally be served one day by the Judge of judges," Perry told the TODAY show Monday.

"And she's going to live, deal with this for the rest of her life."

You get the picture, right?

On a positive note, since the end of the trial, various movements have arisen for the creation of a new law, called "Caylee's Law," that would impose stricter requirements on parents to notify law enforcement of the death or disappearance of a child.

See the entire "Today Show" interview here:

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