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‘The jury was wrong’

Casey Anthony

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Nancy Grace still can’t believe that Casey Anthony was found not guilty of killing her 2-year-old daughter, Caylee, in a case that riveted the nation.

And the “Nancy Grace” host, who became the TV face of the trial — and whose HLN show received a huge ratings boost in the process — remains as defiant and outspoken as ever in her opinion that Anthony got away with cold-blooded murder.

“I feel the jury was absolutely wrong. I feel they went into this case with the mindset to acquit and not to have their minds open,” Grace told The Post yesterday. “For them to say ‘Tot Mom’ was a good mother is just astounding to me.”

Grace, who coined the derogatory “Tot Mom” moniker for Casey Anthony, and used it often during her trial coverage, has vociferously hammered away at Casey Anthony since Caylee went missing in June 2008. Her remains were discovered six months later in a nearby wooded area in Orlando, Fla.

“The day Caylee died, before that day and for the months on end that ‘Tot Mom’ was out partying, staying over with her boyfriend . . . there was no babysitter, so where was Caylee?” Grace says.

“Everyone knew [Caylee] was being babysat in a car trunk.”

Grace, a former prosecutor — and the mother of 3-year-old twins — knows that she’s enraged many viewers with her outspoken views on the Anthony case.

“I find it odd that people think it’s a bad thing to disagree,” she says. “Why? We all have common sense and can add two plus two and get four.

“To pretend I don’t understand the evidence . . . I do, and it all points to [Casey Anthony’s] guilt,” she says. “Nobody had a problem saying that O.J. was guilty of double murder.

“The facts indicate to me that Casey Anthony is guilty of murder.

“I am part of the justice system, and when it fails it hurts me personally and deeply to see a miscarriage of justice,” she says. “And I believe that’s what this is. The only people I’m happy for are [Casey’s parents] George and Cindy; this is something of an ease to their suffering.

“They’ve already got a life sentence . . . to have to go through and relive this every day.”

Grace was asked what she’d say to Casey Anthony if they were to meet face-to-face.

“At this point, there’s no do-over in our justice system . . . so I’d ask her to just try not to lie for a minute, and tell me why it had to be that way,” she says.

“Other mothers are faced with much worse circumstances every day, and they don’t resort to violence.

“Cindy [Anthony] would have taken Caylee in a heartbeat. Why couldn’t that be?

“The one thing that is calming and soothing to me is that I know that Caylee is being loved right now and is in a place where her mother can’t hurt her anymore.”