ORLANDO, Fla (Reuters) - The jury in the first-degree murder trial of Casey Anthony resumed deliberations on Tuesday morning.
Jurors spent nearly six hours considering the case on Monday, getting no break for the Independence Day holiday.
They received the case just after noon and deliberated until Judge Belvin Perry recessed court at 6 p.m. Jurors were then sent back to their Orlando hotel rooms, where they have been sequestered since the closely watched trial began six weeks ago.
Prosecutors will seek the death penalty if Casey Anthony, 25, is found guilty of first-degree murder in the June 16, 2008, death of her 2-year-old daughter Caylee.
Casey, who has been in jail for almost three years as she awaited and then stood trial, chose not to testify on her own behalf.
She also is charged with aggravated child abuse, aggravated manslaughter of a child and four counts of providing false information to a law enforcement officer.
Prosecutors say Casey smothered Caylee with duct tape, drove around for several days with Caylee's body in her car trunk and then dumped the remains in woods near the Anthony family home.
Casey initially told detectives Caylee had been kidnapped by a nanny, triggering a nationwide search that ended on December 11, 2008. That's when Caylee's skeletal remains were found in woods near the Anthony family home with duct tape dangling from her skull.
Defense attorney Jose Baez provided an alternate theory of Caylee's death. He claimed that Caylee accidentally drowned in the Anthonys' backyard swimming pool on June 16, 2008, and that, for some unspecified reason, her death was not reported.
As the jury began deliberating, people showed up on Suburban Drive on the outskirts of Orlando where Caylee's remains were found, leaving flowers, stuffed animals and American flags and taking photographs of themselves at the crime scene.
The curious also drove by the Anthonys' house nearby. The Orange County Sheriff's Office is patrolling the area to maintain crowd control.
The activity outside the Anthony home is reminiscent of 2008, when their neighborhood was virtually under siege by media and spectators during the intensive search for Caylee.
(Editing by Colleen Jenkins and Jerry Morton )
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