FAMU College of Law Professor Karin Moore attended much of the Casey Anthony trial and served as one of the national media’s go-to persons for legal analysis on the case. Now that Anthony has been acquitted of charges that she murdered her two-year-old daughter, Moore thinks the former defendant faces danger. Anthony was released from the Orange County Jail in Orlando at 12:14 a.m. on Sunday, July 17, 2011.“I'd hear the public talking in the bathroom or in the hall about what they'd love to do to Casey Anthony,” Moore told TIME Magazine. “I understand the anger. I just don't understand the bloodlust.”
Moore has also been interviewed and quoted by CNN, ABC News, MSNBC, USA Today, and People Magazine regarding the Anthony case.
At the FAMU law school, Moore directs the Defense and Death Penalty Clinics. Moore was previously a criminal defense attorney for 22 years in Florida. She tried more than 100 jury trials including nine homicide trials, two of which were death penalty cases.
Moore and FAMU Law Dean LeRoy Pernell have worked to use the Anthony trial as a learning opportunity for students. Last month, the two were featured on a Central Florida News 13 segment produced by Reporter Tiffany Green, a FAMU alumna. Pernell, who has a background in Criminal Law, discussed how the proceedings allowed students to see the law in action, while Moore, an expert in Death Penalty and Evidence, responded to the forensic science introduced in the trial.