Software Malfunction in Casey Anthony Trial

According to The New York Times, John Bradley who designed CacheBack software, which is used by police to check computer searches and was used to search Casey Anthony's computer to see how many times the word "chloroform" was google searched, testified in trial saying the word was searched 84 times. Bradley later said his intitial findings were incorrect and that "chloroform" was only searched once.

The New York Times also reports that according to John, in searching for the word "chloroform,"the google search led to the site, sci-spot.com, which is a site that offers info on the use of chloroform in the 1800s and this is the one finding he is referring to.

Bradley feared the jurors did not have the most up to date accurate data based on his new findings, so he contacted the police and the prosecution the weekend of June 25th. He asked Sergeant Stenger (the computer forensics expert) about the issue, and Stenger said he knew about it. Bradley then waited to see if prosecutors would correct the record. They never did and to that Bradley said, “They needed to get that right."

Curious, why was the word searched at all?

By the way, the Orlando Sentinel is reporting that Anthony's defense has billed the state of Florida $147,018 so far. This implies there is more bills to come. I hope this state is still feeling the sunshine!