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Casey visited chloroform site only once.

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Prosecutors in the Casey Anthony trial repeatedly asserted that she searched for information about chloroform on the Internet 84 times, but they were wrong: A software designer who testified at the trial says she searched only for chloroform once, visiting a site that gave information on the drug’s use in the 1800s. The designer, John Bradley, says he discovered the error after redesigning his software. He alerted prosecutors to the error, but they appear to have never told the defense.

Read it at The New York Times