10:26 ET<\/span><\/span><\/p>\nThe trial has opened in Florida of a young US woman accused of murdering her two-year-old daughter in 2008.<\/p>\n
Prosecutors base their case on forensic evidence they say shows Casey Anthony, 25, kept Caylee Anthony’s dead body in the boot of her car.<\/p>\n
But they have no witnesses or confession linking Ms Anthony to the 2008 death, and forensic experts are unable to say how the child died.<\/p>\n
Ms Anthony has pleaded not guilty, and says a babysitter kidnapped the child.<\/p>\n
The trial is being held in Orlando in the US state of Florida, though jurors are being selected elsewhere due to the intense media scrutiny the case has garnered there.<\/p>\n
Weeks to report<\/span><\/p>\nHer lawyers are expected to argue she was in jail when the child’s body was left in a wood.<\/p>\n
If she is found guilty of first-degree murder, she could face the death penalty.<\/p>\n
Ms Anthony is also charged with aggravated child abuse, aggravated manslaughter of a child and providing false information to law enforcement.<\/p>\n
Ms Anthony drew investigators’ attention when it was learned she waited weeks to tell her mother the child was missing.<\/p>\n
Caylee’s decomposed body was found in December 2008 in a patch of woods near her house.<\/p>\n
Ms Anthony’s mother reported smelling something like a dead body emanating from the boot of Ms Anthony’s car. And there, prosecutors say forensic experts found traces of chloroform.<\/p>\n
Ms Anthony’s lawyers will say the foul smell came from a bag of rotting rubbish, but prosecutors plan to offer a novel form of forensic science they say shows chemical compounds from decomposition were present in the boot.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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