Casey Anthony Found Not Guilty

[Scottdau]

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Yeah I am sure she killed her, but they still couldn't tell how she died. So I can see that playing a factor in the decision; if it did.

[Money99]

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While I agree with the general consensus here, one of my friends just posted this on facebook and makes a very good point:
"People complaining about the Anthony verdict: Innocent until proven guilty. We don't have all the info, and from what I saw, I'd need to know more before finding her guilty. Whether we like her or not is NOT something to consider when playing with her life. There were key pieces missing in the prosecution's case. This is how our justice system works. If you want to be thrown in jail without a jury, go move to Serbia."

That's all well and good, but I bet if I had the time, I could find 10 cases where less evidence was used to convict other people.

If Casey Anthony was anything but a skinny, pretty white girl, she doesn't walk.
If she was a fat male trucker from Alabama, he's in the pen getting hosed right now.

It's all about perception and I think that jury WANTED to let her off no matter what.

It's disgusting that she didn't even call the cops to help find her daughter; her mom did.
While there's no smoking gun, having duct tape wrapped around the nose and mouth, as well as high levels of chloroform, I would say suffocation was a clear indicator of death.

I hear what you're saying. But I'm still disgusted!
As a parent I panic if I don't know where my boys are for more than 5 minutes.
This piece of garbage thing was spending time at hot body contests and doing body-shots while her daughter hadn't been seen for over a month.
Shortly after getting arrested she made a call to her family begging for her new boyfriends cell number. Everyone on the phone was distraught asking what talking to her BF would do to help find Caylee and all she did was complain that "This was a waste of a phone call!".
Her own friend was balling over this woman's daughter but Casey didn't shed one tear.

Ugh, this makes me so mad. No justice for Caylee and I bet after Casey gives the obligatory "I won't rest until I find my daughter's killer" speech, she'll be back at the bars and living it up.

True justice would be forcing Casey to babysit her defense-attorney's daughter. I'd like to see how Baez would react to that.

[BlueNGold]

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While I agree with the general consensus here, one of my friends just posted this on facebook and makes a very good point:
"People complaining about the Anthony verdict: Innocent until proven guilty. We don't have all the info, and from what I saw, I'd need to know more before finding her guilty. Whether we like her or not is NOT something to consider when playing with her life. There were key pieces missing in the prosecution's case. This is how our justice system works. If you want to be thrown in jail without a jury, go move to Serbia."

Why should we be careful with her life when she wasn't careful with her own ****ing daughter's life?

It's obvious she did it. Just look at what Money posted.

[Mo]

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I still dont understand why this was such a huge "news," story.

Prosecution must have screwed this up badly, from all the reports I am hearing.

[BlueNGold]

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BTW it's times like these that I wish Dexter was real.

[fishepa]

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I still dont understand why this was such a huge "news," story.

Prosecution must have screwed this up badly, from all the reports I am hearing.

They did, they left too much doubt.

[fishepa]

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BTW it's times like these that I wish Dexter was real.

No joke....

[Money99]

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I still dont understand why this was such a huge "news," story.

Prosecution must have screwed this up badly, from all the reports I am hearing.

It's funny you say this because nearly every single law expert (includes lawyers, former lawyers, judges, etc) has commented on what a great job the prosecution did as well as what a horrible job the defense did (bring up the drowning scenario, molestation, etc).

All these experts felt that Baez (defense attorney) was doing a better job of convicting his client than the prosecution.

Again, this has nothing to do with the law. It's about 12 sad, unemployed, uneducated jurors falling for a young, perty girl.

[Buckeyes_Doc]

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It's funny you say this because nearly every single law expert (includes lawyers, former lawyers, judges, etc) has commented on what a great job the prosecution did as well as what a horrible job the defense did (bring up the drowning scenario, molestation, etc).

All these experts felt that Baez (defense attorney) was doing a better job of convicting his client than the prosecution.

Again, this has nothing to do with the law. It's about 12 sad, unemployed, uneducated jurors falling for a young, perty girl.

There are plenty of unemployed people out there. Some highly educated. I'm not sure what their job status or level of education has to do with anything here.

[ryan36]

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This is NOT a discussion on unemployment.

Look, 2 things... the law has to be explained to jurors this is done by jury instruction, and heavily weighs in favor in the defendant.

"Use your best judgment and common sense" is NOT a jury instruction. And I don't care what LAWYERS think. A camera has never been allowed into a deliberation session. No lawyer knows how a jury really works. If a guilty person is innocent, the prosecution got outclassed. Bottom line.

[chilli311]

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I still dont understand why this was such a huge "news," story.

Prosecution must have screwed this up badly, from all the reports I am hearing.

The Natalee Holloway case lost steam, so they needed a new story to sensationalize. It wasn't a news story at all.

What bothers me is how people are so up in arms over this case, but are ignoring the 5 kids every day that are dying as a result of child abuse.

[ex carrabba fan]

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I still dont understand why this was such a huge "news," story.

I seem to constantly be asking this whenever specific cases get dramatized. But I'm pretty sure we all know the answer.

[Money99]

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There are plenty of unemployed people out there. Some highly educated. I'm not sure what their job status or level of education has to do with anything here.

Disagree. It has a lot to do with the kind of people that make up a jury.
I've heard lawyers say "If you were a smart person, you wouldn't be on a jury. Smart people know how to avoid them".

It's not hard to get out of jury duty. And I'm not talking about the petty stuff that takes a day or two.
For a case like this, where you know you'll be sequestered for a very long time, you'd be an idiot not to work your way out of the selection.

And that's the kind of person that made up the Casey jury.
I can almost guarantee that in the next day or two, you're going to hear some very ignorant and 'dumb' statements from some of the jurors.

Someone will say something ridiculous like "I often fight my depression by entering into hot-body contests too." or "I just felt someone wouldn't be THAT dumb so she must have been innocent."
Just wait.

And before anyone spouts off saying "just because she went to bars, doesn't mean she's guilty"; hogwash! It's called character witnesses.
Her defense team paraded out people saying how she looked like a great mother that one time she gave her daughter a candy bar. That's to show the jury that she'd never kill her daughter.
It's no different than showing the jury how in that 31 days while Caylee was missing, she didn't mention ONE TIME how her kid was missing to any of her new friends or boyfriend.

It's to paint a picture of the person they're trying to convict. Showing examples of how little this woman thought of her daughter is a big piece of evidence to prove to the jury that she's more than capable of having the kind of disposition to kill her kin.

[BlueNGold]

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What bothers me is how people are so up in arms over this case, but are ignoring the 5 kids every day that are dying as a result of child abuse.

This doesn't even add up to me. People are up in arms over this BECAUSE a kid died from child abuse.

[ImTellinTim]

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This doesn't even add up to me. People are up in arms over this BECAUSE a kid died from child abuse.

He's questioning why this one gets all the publicity.