To the many people frustrated about the lack of answers in Caylee Anthony’s death, attorney Cheney Mason offered a theory Friday in an interview with LawNewz.

Casey Anthony was acquitted six years ago — July 5, 2011 — in her 2-year-old daughter’s death. That anniversary went by largely unnoticed, but then there was Mason’s interview with LawNewz.

“I believe that Casey’s mind, in some dimension, I guess the common word would say ‘snapped.’ She didn’t go crazy by any means — but blackout — completely a blackout — of what went on and what happened,” Mason told LawNewz Network host Jesse Weber.

LawNewz is a legal news website established last year by Dan Abrams. He has said that Law Newz Network, a live trial online video network that started in February, was inspired by his years at Court TV.

Mason said he based that view of Anthony’s “blackout” on his experience — he is 73 — as well as his instinct and judgment. He also cited client Anthony’s strong reaction to a grief counselor during the trial.

The attorney’s comment came in response to a Weber question about an interview that Anthony gave to The Associated Press in March. “I’m still not even certain as I stand here today sure about what happened,” she told The AP about her daughter’s death. Anthony added that she didn’t know how Caylee died.

Mason acknowledged that it has “been awhile” since he talked to Anthony, who now lives in South Florida. Mason represented Anthony with Jose Baez.

The case still causes a wide range of reactions. Mason said that he has heard from people who think that Caylee is still alive and others who believe that Casey Anthony plotted her daughter’s death. He repeated Baez’s view in the opening statement that Caylee Anthony drowned and that George Anthony, Casey’s father, found the body and yelled at his daughter.

“I wasn’t there. I don’t know all that happened,” Mason added.

In an April documentary on Investigation Discovery, George Anthony said the theory that Caylee drowned was a “bunch of bull” and instead suggested that Casey medicated her daughter with deadly results.

George Anthony told the program that he no longer had a relationship with Casey.

“We are done because when this happened, I lost my daughter and my granddaughter. I lost them both,” he said. “Justice would be to have my daughter behind bars and have her suffer the way Caylee suffered.”

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