( CNN ) -- Casey Anthony must serve a year of probation after being convicted on check fraud charges , a Florida appeals court ruled Tuesday . Anthony can not `` take advantage '' of an administrative error to avoid serving the 2010 sentence , the appeals court ruled . The Fifth District Court of Appeal 's ruling comes a day after Florida 's attorney general filed a motion in the case . Attorney General Pamela Bondi argued that a clerical error should not prevent Anthony from abiding by a judge 's verbal order . Anthony `` and her lawyers were well aware that her probationary placement was not to begin until her release from confinement , '' the appeals court ruling said . Anthony has been in seclusion since her July acquittal on murder charges in the 2008 death of her 2-year-old daughter , Caylee , and her subsequent release from jail . Anthony was convicted of felony check fraud for stealing a checkbook from a friend and writing five checks for $ 644.25 . A judge sentenced her in that case in January 2010 . Orange County Chief Judge Belvin Perry Jr. ruled earlier this month that she had to report for probation on the bad-check charge by Friday . The attorney general 's office wrote that Anthony `` upon her release ( July 17 ) , should have reported '' for probation -- something she did not do . Anthony 's probation order requires her to live in Orange County , Florida , unless the probation office allows her to leave . She has received no such approval , a corrections department spokeswoman has said . But Anthony 's attorneys have argued repeatedly that Anthony should not have to return to serve her probation in Florida . In an emergency petition filed on Wednesday with the same appeals court , Anthony 's defense team asked that the court overturn Perry 's order before the required date . They also asked the appellate court to strip Perry of further jurisdiction in the case . Orange County Circuit Judge Stan Strickland had earlier ordered Anthony to serve a year of probation after her release in the charges involving her daughter , but a clerk misunderstood the judge and prepared an order that the judge later signed , instructing that Anthony would serve the probation while in custody awaiting trial . The order was updated August 1 to add the words `` upon release . '' But Anthony 's lawyers contended that she could n't be required to serve probation , arguing that she had already served it while in custody under a signed order from Strickland . Serving the sentence now would violate constitutional protections against having to serve a sentence twice for the same offense , they argued . Perry ruled earlier this month that Strickland 's verbal order was binding -- a ruling the appeals court upheld Tuesday .
Appeals Court : Casey Anthony ca n't ` ` the ' '' of an administrative error . The decision comes a day after a motion from Florida 's attorney general . Anthony 's lawyers argued she should n't receive probation on check fraud charges . A judge states she 'd serve that probation in prison , despite what a judge said .