[Cabrera:] Bombshell testimony out of a Murrieta, Georgia, courtroom this week. It's just the beginning in the shocking case of a father accused of leaving his son to die in a car in the scorching summer heat. My panel of experts joins me again. Holly, let's start with you, what's next for Justin Ross Harris?
[Hughes:] There will be a grand jury convened and they will do pretty much what you saw happen at the probable cause hearing. The detective will go in, he will testify, the D.A. will be there, and he will present what he believes are appropriate charges. So again, we may see this upgraded to a malice murder charge. He'll ask the grand jury to vote on it and they will either return an indictment or not. I'm pretty sure we're going to get a high indictment on this one but I also think that simultaneously, the investigation is going to continue and we may see charges brought against Leanna if they're able to develop the evidence to support those charges.
[Cabrera:] Danny, will the charges stay the same for Justin Harris?
[Cevallos:] Highly doubtful. Look at the facts. The primary crime he's charged with is one of negligence. All the evidence we heard at that preliminary hearing was evidence about why he might have purposefully left this child in the car. Why would the D.A., why would the prosecution, introduce this evidence of specific intent, of malice, if they intended to keep the murder charge as it is? Which as it is, is a negligence-type murder. Georgia has only one kind of murder, there are no degrees. Yet I think we can expect this to be upgraded. I think the prosecution is strongly considering death penalty.
[Cabrera:] Wow. What about the family of this couple? This is just the beginning for them too, of course. How are they likely to handle this?
[Ho:] Well, I think right now what they have to focus is on still staying tight as a family, being able to console each other, because really, it's hard to tell what's going to happen here. I think one of the strongest tools the defense has is actually the fact that Justin Ross Harris will be sitting there, developing a relationship and a bond with the jury, who may end up being sympathetic towards the end because they've gotten to know this person.
[Cabrera:] Richard, is this the next big trial in America?
[Gabriel:] Sure looks like it. It's got all the hallmarks. It's got obviously so wrenching. You know, the death of a child. I think it touches us so meaningfully. That's why to a certain extent we have to reflect, we look at ourselves, we look at the times where we have the impulse to leave our child in the car. And maybe we didn't, maybe we just ran an errand, stuff like that. So, it's got all of the things that make us compelled to watch something like this.
[Cabrera:] It's one that really touches people deeply, I think, like you said, because it involves a child. And I can say I can speak for myself as a parent and for other parents when I'm talking to them about this story, they say, it just hurts so much to think of something like this happening to my own child. So I think you bring up why this is such a hot-button case. We have a lot more to talk about, of course, on this case, but no time today. Holly Hughes, Judy Ho, Danny Cevallos, thank you all for joining us. Richard Gabriel, you're going to stay with us because of your unique perspective in another child murder case in the news this week. Stay with us. And it's been three years since Casey Anthony was found not guilty of killing her 2-year-old daughter Caylee. Up next, exclusive images of Casey Anthony and details on what her life is like now.
[Cheney Mason, Attorney:] She hasn't been freed from her incarceration yet, because she can't go out. She can't do anything.
[Cabrera:] It was a verdict that shocked America. In 2011, Casey Anthony walked out of a court a free woman after a trial marked by controversy, secrets, and prosecutors arguing that she killed her 2- year-old daughter. Now, the circumstances surrounding young Caylee's death are still a mystery. In a CNN exclusive, we now know what life is like for Casey Anthony today. And, Richard Gabriel, a jury consultant for Anthony's defense, is with us to discuss one of the most talked about cases of this decade. But, first, Richard, let's look at this report from CNN's Jean Casarez.
[Jean Casarez, Cnn Correspondent:] Three years after being acquitted in what was described as the death penalty trial of the century, Casey Anthony remains a virtual prisoner according to her attorney, Cheney Mason.
[Cheney Mason, Attorney:] She hasn't been freed from her incarceration yet, because she can't go out. She can't do anything.
[Casarez:] Mason and his wife are among Anthony's few friends. He shared these recent pictures of her exclusively with CNN. He says Anthony fears for her life and remains isolated from her family.
[Cheney Mason:] She does not have any blood family anymore. She has no contact with them.
[Casarez:] No contact with her mother?
[Cheney Mason:] I think she's had a few phone conversations with her over the years. That's it. No contact.
[Casarez:] Her father?
[Cheney Mason:] None.
[Casarez:] Her brother?
[Cheney Mason:] None. Not likely to ever be.
[Casarez:] Cheney Mason, one of Anthony's criminal defense attorneys, has penned a book "Justice in America." He says Casey makes a meager living working from her undisclosed home in Florida.
[Shirley Mason, Wife Of Casey Anthony's Attorney:] I know that she has very very strong feelings about what has happened to her. I also know she's very saddened by her loss. And she never will forget her daughter Caylee, ever.
[Casarez:] Jean Casarez, CNN, New York.
[Cabrera:] Some of Casey Anthony's former attorneys have been doing what they can to help her. Casey Anthony though denied our request for interview. And we have Richard Gabriel back with us, the author of a new book, "Acquittal." Richard, you advise Casey's defense attorney Jose Baez. What qualities were you looking for in potential jurors in this case?
[Gabriel:] Well, when you're doing work, especially on a death penalty case, the thing you're most significantly looking for, people who are just going to have a hard time applying a death penalty. And that's the first and foremost thing. But we were looking for jurors who would be willing to really dig into the evidence, would turn a keen and skeptical eye, and were smart about it. Because we knew that so much of the emotion of this case was what the prosecutors were counting on to drive the jurors to just thinking, she's a bad mother and she lied, so therefore she must be guilty. So, we really wanted jurors smart, skeptical, and really dig in. And that's what we ultimately I think got in this jury.
[Cabrera:] Richard, I know you met with the Anthony family. Did you believe any of them were capable of telling the truth? George, Cindy, Casey?
[Gabriel:] Well, I think when you sit there in the living room after especially such a huge tragedy, and at that point, we also had the rumors and we had some indication that Casey had talked about the sexual abuse of George. And so, you're sitting there trying to make sense of it. You don't know really what the truth is. But you know that need the surface of this seemingly idyllic and middle-class home, there is lurking something else, something different there. And because a woman who loses a child and doesn't talk about it for 31 days is so puzzling to you. And so, you really struggle with what's the truth here? And it's not so black and white. It's very gray. And it was such a mystery I think ultimately for the jurors in the case.
[Cabrera:] And you wrote in your new book that we just mentioned, I have never run across a stronger or more palpable anger than I encountered in this case. What do you think triggered that public anger? Was it the media to blame?
[Gabriel:] I don't think it was solely the media. The truth is that we as a country were invested in that case. There was a missing child. That reaches out to all of us. All of us think of our own children being lost. And so, we hoped and prayed for months and months that she would be found safe and sound. And not only is the tragedy of her finding her dead there, but then all of a sudden the behavior of Casey Anthony, we needed to have a vent to have some way of expressing that deep sorrow. It obviously became directed as anger and the conclusion that Casey Anthony must have been guilty of her own child's death.
[Cabrera:] And she walked out a freedom. Ten years from now, will Casey Anthony do you think be able to walk down the street without being hassled, without being harassed?
[Gabriel:] I don't know. I mean, the truth is that we have a long memory. You know, think of O.J. Simpson. Think of these cases. We become publicly invested. And this is why I say, you know, American justice really isn't "American Idol." We have to trust our jury system, of those jurors who are hearing the evidence, hearing things we aren't at home. I'm not sure if Casey will ever not be the pariah that she is today. Hopefully time will heal some of this for all of us.
[Cabrera:] Richard Gabriel, thank you so much for your time this whole hour, we appreciate it.
[Gabriel:] Thank you.
[Cabrera:] And you are in the CNN NEWSROOM. I'm Anna Cabrera in New York. Stay with us.