Casey Anthony Reports In For A Year Of Probation

TALLAHASSEE (CBS4) – Casey Anthony has reported to the state to begin her one year probation for 2010 check-fraud convictions.

The Florida Department of Corrections said she came in sometime Wednesday evening but did not give details including where in the state she is.

The Orlando woman has been out of sight since being acquitted last month of killing her 2-year-old daughter, Caylee. Afterward, she had received death threats from those who followed the much-scrutinized case.

On Tuesday an appellate court denied her request to have a probation order halted.

Circuit Judge Stan Strickland sentenced Anthony to a year of probation in January 2010 after she pleaded guilty to stealing checks from a friend. At the time, Strickland said Anthony should serve the probation upon her release, but those instructions never made it into a written order.

Corrections officials interpreted the sentence to mean Anthony could serve the probation while she was in jail awaiting her murder trial, where she was acquitted in the death of her 2-year-old daughter, Caylee.

Strickland clarified in an order earlier this month that Anthony must begin her probation now that she is out of jail. He then recused himself from the case and turned it over to Judge Belvin Perry, who had presided over Anthony's murder trial. Perry upheld Strickland's order.

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