Casey Anthony Gets To Walk

[The Fallen Angel]

http://www.cnn.com/2011/CRIME/07/05/florida.casey.anthony.trial/index.html?hpt=hp_t1

After less than 11 hours of deliberation, a jury Tuesday found Casey Anthony not guilty of first-degree murder and the other most serious charges against her in the 2008 death of her 2-year-old daughter.

But the jury convicted her on four misdemeanor counts of providing false information to law enforcement officers.

As the verdict was read, Casey Anthony cried from her seat in the courtroom, breathing deeply as she looked forward. She then hugged her defense attorney Jose Baez and other members of her defense team.

I am disgusted by this, i thought this was pretty clear that she killed her daughter... the jury is letting a murderer walk free

 

[Mitchell]

This decision is a travesty of justice. My heart goes out to Cayley. May she rest in peace. More than likely, Casey will have another child, and, even if she doesnt kill it, she will abuse it in some way.

Hopefully, a force greater than anyone on that jury, will hold Ms Casey Anthony accountable for her dastardly, evil act.

Mitch

 

[maniactickler]

Im starting to think there should be professional juries. too many stupid people in this world. disgusting.

 

[Comfort Eagle]

Child murder is legal in the state of Florida?


Ballin'.

 

[GQguy]

Can you convict someone of murder if you don't even know how they did it or when? It sucks but the reasonable doubt is there. Casey is guilty of being the worst mom/person ever.....but that isn't a crime unfortunately.

GQ

 

[paracarl44]

SO WRONG!

Young Caylee's skeletal remains found with duct tape over her mouth and nose. The Mother not reporting her daughter missing for almost a month.

SO WRONG!

 

[venray]

Can you convict someone of murder if you don't even know how they did it or when? It sucks but the reasonable doubt is there. Casey is guilty of being the worst mom/person ever.....but that isn't a crime unfortunately.

GQ

Actually neglect is a crime and not reporting that your toddler has been missing for over a month totally reeks of neglect. Having been summarily found deceased, neglegent homicide certainly looks like it would fit the bill...

 

[bftk2005]

Im starting to think there should be professional juries. too many stupid people in this world. disgusting.

I AGREE

 

[bftk2005]

She's lucky she did not go to court here in Oklahoma, they would have given her Life Without Parole if not the death penalty. It would have taken a jury less than an hour to convict her.

 

[smokinj]

Just horrible, I couldn't believe the verdict. What the hell was the jury smoking, cause I want some.

 

[milagros317]

Asinine jury.

 

[cabalist]

Yep. The defense was lucky enough to have 12 stupid, easily-confused people on the jury, too stupid to even understand the meaning of reasonable doubt. I think the alternate juror who was interviewed and agreed with the verdict was likely representative of those who served. Even while claiming he saw "reasonable doubt" about her guilt, he claimed to believe that it was "an accident that snowballed out of control" -- based on nothing more than innuendo with absolutely no evidence whatsoever to support it. It's clear that the jurors in this case were neither reasonable or very bright.

While I'm not sure about "professional' jurors, it would clearly be better than the way the system currently works. At the very least, some sort intelligence or comprehension test should be required to serve. In fact, constitutionally, a jury of her peers would have to have been composed of psycho/sociopaths.

But I believe that this verdict was based, not only on stupidity, but also on "gutlessness", or cowardice. While I don't even believe in the death penalty (for practical reasons), I would have found her guilty in a heartbeat in this case despite that personal belief -- even knowing that she might (someday) be put to death for her crime.

 

[chicago]

Part of me is surprised that she only got the four counts of lying to police, especially when her story was that it was an accidental drowning, which should equal negligence in and of itself, but then again, there really is nothing concrete tying her to the killing.

 

[cabalist]

Part of me is surprised that she only got the four counts of lying to police, especially when her story was that it was an accidental drowning, which should equal negligence in and of itself, but then again, there really is nothing concrete tying her to the killing.

That might depend on how you define "concrete." In fact, I thought the evidence found in her car, among other things, was pretty "concrete."

But this was a circumstantial evidence case, and a pretty good one. While each "piece" of evidence taken individually may not have been sufficient in itself, looking at all the evidence together points to only one logical conclusion. To see it any other way, one has to imagine a scenario for which there is no evidence whatsoever, "concrete" or otherwise.

 

[chicago]

That might depend on how you define "concrete." But this was a circumstantial evidence case, and a pretty good one. While each "piece" of evidence in itself may not have been sufficient in itself, looking at all the evidence together points to only one logical conclusion. To see it any other way, one has to imagine a scenario for which there is no evidence whatsoever.

I see what you're saying and I think she did it too, but the verdict didn't completely shock me because no one could even tell how the kid died. All signs point to Casey, but even with that you can't say for sure it was her, and had she been found guilty, she would have been up for the death penalty and that's kinda fucked up for some circumstantial evidence.

What was found in her car? Besides the smell of something rotting? Been trying to keep up on the case, but I don't have tv or internet at home.

 

[cabalist]

I see what you're saying and I think she did it too, but the verdict didn't completely shock me because no one could even tell how the kid died.

The verdict didn't shock me, but not because we might not know exactly how she died. It didn't shock me as much as it might mainly because I've known only too well for too long how irrational people are. In fact, I don't see knowing exactly how she died as being essential to a rational, reasonable conclusion about who killed her.

All signs point to Casey, but even with that you can't say for sure it was her,

One might argue that one might never be able to say who committed a crime beyond all possible doubt short of being an eyewitness to the crime oneself. But that's where the importance of reasonable doubt comes in.

and had she been found guilty, she would have been up for the death penalty and that's kinda fucked up for some circumstantial evidence.

I agree, because I'm opposed to the death penalty and this is just one of the practical reasons why I'm opposed to it. That is, because I think it may make it harder for some jurors to convict even when they believe that the defendant is guilty because they're reluctant to risk feeling responsible for a person's death. While, as i said, I don't believe that my feelings about the death penalty would have prevented me from finding her guilty in this case, I strongly suspect that it does affect some people's judgment in such cases, consciously or unconsciously.

What was found in her car? Besides the smell of something rotting? Been trying to keep up on the case, but I don't have tv or internet at home.

Several people who know the smell of a decomposing human corpse reported smelling it, plus the evidence of the presence of chloroform along with the Internet searches for chloroform found on the family computer, which there was apparently little reason to believe could likely have been done by anyone else. There was also the hair found in the trunk matching the victim's DNA with characteristics unlike ever seen in a hair from a living person.

Add the fact that her mother was the last person seen by anyone with the victim alive, the duct tape found on/with the remains matched that available in the family home (where she lived), and the fact that she blatantly lied to everyone about her own and her daughter's whereabouts and many other things -- and more that I don't have the time to try to go into now -- and I believe it was a strong enough circumstantial evidence case to have "hung" a defendant in at least 90% of less high-profile cases, or at least in such cases in states without the death penalty to possibly "influence" the jurors' final decision for the very reason that it seems to influence you.

 

[chicago]

Yeah, and I forgot that the laundry bag the kid was in came from her house. That's a lot closer to concrete than I originally thought. Who reported the dead body smell? I know the mom did.

 

[cabalist]

Yeah, and I forgot that the laundry bag the kid was in came from her house. That's a lot closer to concrete than I originally thought. Who reported the dead body smell? I know the mom did.

I didn't remember that her (Casey's) mother did, but I believe her father did, claiming to know the smell as an ex-police officer himself. The others I can't specifically recall at the moment, but there were others, perhaps others here may recall more specifically. But I doubt that the father would have reported it if either he was involved himself (which the defense insinuated but never offered any evidence to support, but among other things it helped give the jurors an excuse to acquit), or if we was trying to cover up for his daughter.

Everything considered, knowing that even should she have received the death penalty, she might likely be at least middle-aged when/if it was ever actually implemented (by which time the death penalty might be abolished in the state), I think it would have plenty enough for me to have found her guilty -- since that is the only direction to which all the evidence points.

 

[Knox The Hatter]

Twelve retarded morons.

@cabalist: love your sig!

 

[cabalist]

Twelve retarded morons.

I disagree. It was twelve moronic retards.

@cabalist: love your sig!

Thanks.

 

[Dave Pavet]

Yes, reminds me of the old saying, "The dilemma facing both the prosecution and the defense is convincing 12 people who are too stupid to get out of jury duty."

 

[c7_assassin]

So, she's not guilty of murder...but she's guilty of lying about not committing murder.

Cool, I didn't know Lewis Carol wrote legal decisions.

 

[DianaBanana88]

i was so upset and pissed off when i heard about that...no justice but karma will come around im sure

 

[Eye Cue]

It's interesting how the same people who tend to assume the justice system works when it convicts people (or acquits famous people) also assume that the system failed when a decision goes against the popular opinion whipped up by a media circus.

 

[Frowg]

evidence

Young Caylee's skeletal remains found with duct tape over her mouth and nose. The Mother not reporting her daughter missing for almost a month.

SO WRONG!

Unfortunately that evidence is circumstantial. The prosecution seems to have failed in making a strong case. Even if the members of the jury believe she did it, they have no choice but to let her go.