Jean Casarez Biography
Jean Casarez is an American anchor working for CNN as a correspondent covering a wide variety of stories for the network including legal and crime, investigation, and breaking news. He joined the CNN news team in September 2013, after previously working for Court TV.
Jean Casarez Career
Casarez works as a correspondent for CNN, where he covers a wide range of topics, such as crime and legal stories, investigations, and breaking news. She works out of the network’s office in New York. The country first heard about the mass shooting in Las Vegas in 2017 from Casarez’s overnight reports from the strip. Her work as a reporter has also included breaking news about the 2016 Chelsea bombing in New York and the sentencing hearing for Larry Nassar. She has also been in charge of reporting on Bill Cosby’s arrest, trial, and conviction for indecent assault, the chemical water spill in West Virginia, and O.J. Simpson’s release from prison. She is writing about the criminal case against Harvey Weinstein right now.
Casarez found the case of a man who is 60 years into a 70-year jail sentence for breaking 13 bones in his baby son. From the start, James Duncan said he was innocent. Casarez looked at the facts in great detail. He talked to Duncan in prison and important people on both sides. They were used to make the CNN program “Broken Bones…Shattered Lives,” which aired during prime time.
Now, the court has told Duncan that he will have a hearing this fall to decide if his verdict should be thrown out because of new proof that his son did have metabolic bone disease. Casarez has also done long-form work for the network, such as killing Jon Benet, covering the Drew Peterson case, and covering Bill Cosby’s rise and fall. He is also working on a series about the 40th anniversary of the arrest of serial killer John Wayne Gacy. She also wrote about Anna Nicole Smith’s court cases in Florida and the Bahamas, focusing on the international legal aspects of her unexpected death.
In 2011, Casarez went to Lima, Peru, for CNN to cover the arrest of Joran van der Sloot for the murder of a college student from Peru. While she and her crew were there, they were able to get into Peru’s Castro Castro maximum security jail and talk to inmates and the country’s Director of Prisons about the prison system.
In 2009, when Court TV changed its name to “In Session,” she covered the court cases of George Zimmerman, Casey Anthony, Conrad Murray, and Jodi Arias. Casarez got to talk to Mark O’Mara and Don West, Zimmerman’s lawyers, for the first time in person for CNN. As well, she met with her lawyer, Cheney Mason, the night before Casey Anthony’s death sentence trial to talk in-depth about the challenge he was facing.
She was a reporter for Court TV, a Turner Broadcasting network before she joined CNN. She started working for Court TV in 2003. It was her job to cover high-profile court cases all over the country, such as the kidnapping trial of O.J. Simpson, the civil rights trial of Edgar Ray Killen, Kobe Bryant, the murder of Jon Benet Ramsey, Scott Peterson’s sentencing decision, and the criminal trial of Elizabeth Smart’s kidnapper Brian David Mitchell.
Casarez is a licensed lawyer in the U.S. Southern District Court of Texas. He is a member of the bars in both Nevada and Texas. She used to be the weekend host and reporter for KOLO-TV in Reno, Nevada, before she worked for a network. She helped make the news show First Edition and worked as a City Hall reporter and fill-in host at KENS-TV in San Antonio, Texas, before that.
Casarez was born and raised in Long Beach, California. She graduated from the University of Southern California and then went to Southwestern University School of Law in Los Angeles to get her Juris Doctor. She won first place in a statewide Moot Court competition and helped put together a Writ of Certiorari for the US Supreme Court while she was in law school. While she was in law school, she also worked as a clerk at the Nevada firm of Gallagher and Tratos.
Jean Casarez Salary
Casarez earns a salary of about $47,000-$120,000.
Jean Casarez Net Worth
Casarez has an estimated net worth of about $1 Million – $7 Million which she has earned through her career as a News Correspondent.
Jean Casarez Age
Casarez was born in 1960, in Long Beach, California, the United States. She is 53 years old as of 2023. He has not disclosed any details concerning his date and month of birth. However, this information will be updated when available.
Jean Casarez Height and Weight
Casarez stands at a height of 5 feet 6 inches tall (1.67m) and weighs 58 kgs (127 lbs).
Jean Casarez Family
Casarez likes to keep her personal life private hence she has neither disclosed the names of her parent nor those of her siblings. However, this information will be updated when available.
Jean Casarez Husband and Children
Casarez is married to John Casarez but has not disclosed if they have children or not. However, The couple lives happily in New York City
Jean Casarez Social Media Platform
SAMPLE is very active on her Twitter, and Instagram. She has 11.1k followers on Twitter and 260 followers on Instagram.