Anthony can go free -- on Wednesday

ORLANDO, Fla. -- Casey Anthony looked ready for freedom. For the first time since her trial began, she let her hair down, smiling and playing with it as she awaited the judge's decision on when she would be released.

Then she turned stone-faced as the sentence was pronounced: Freedom won't come just yet. She'll have to spend 10 more days in jail for lying to investigators about the death of her daughter Caylee, 2.

Yesterday's sentence means Anthony will go free a week and a half after she was acquitted in the slaying.

The extra time in jail did little to satisfy throngs of angry people convinced of her guilt who gathered outside the courthouse.

Two days after the verdicts, most of the jury remained silent, with their names still kept secret by the court. One juror explained that the panel agreed to acquit Anthony because prosecutors did not show what happened to the toddler.

Judge Belvin Perry gave Anthony, 25, the maximum sentence of 4 years for four convictions of lying to authorities. He denied a defense request that could have made her eligible for immediate release.

"As a result of those four specific, distinct lies, law enforcement expended great time and resources looking for Caylee Marie Anthony," the judge said. Anthony's release will come nearly three years after Caylee was reported missing.

The prosecution alleged that Anthony suffocated her daughter with duct tape because motherhood interfered with her lust for a carefree life.

The defense argued that the child accidentally drowned in her grandparents' swimming pool. Defense attorneys say Anthony was a victim of sexual abuse by her father, and that he helped her death look like a murder, both claims he denies.