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Billy Bob Thornton's daughter guilty of manslaughter
The Associated Press
Date: Thursday Jun. 2, 2011 8:34 AM ET
ORLANDO, Fla. The estranged daughter of actor Billy Bob Thornton has been found guilty in Florida of aggravated manslaughter of a child.
The Orange County State Attorney's Office says the verdict against 32-year-old Amanda Brumfield was returned Friday. She faced murder charges in the 2008 death of her best friend's 1-year-old daughter, Olivia Madison Garcia.
She was found not guilty on first-degree murder and aggravated child abuse charges.
Brumfield claimed the girl hit her head after falling while trying to climb out of a playpen. Prosecutors said it was "impossible" that a fall from that height would cause a three-and-a-half inch fracture on the girl's skull.
The trial took place in the same courthouse where Casey Anthony is on trial for the death of her 2-year-old daughter, Caylee.
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