Interesting.
I’m sick of hearing about her. My wife had this on the TV 20 hours a day. Unfortunately, she couldn’t get out of bed because she broke her foot. So that’s all she had to do.
Thanks for posting, TK...excellent article. I had Judge Torres once when I did jury duty...he was great.
...and if the police had chosen to go into the swamp six months earlier they would have found her little body in a lot better shape...in my mind the police are the ones who screwed up
Excellent article.
Sadly, the way Voire dire operates, anyone who is intelligent, can make cognitive arguments, and has strong opinons about anything usually gets sent home.
I never get to serve. I was even blackballed by the US District court after one voire dire where after about 4 questions I had most of the jury pool agreeing with me and against the public defender.
And its a shame, because I wouldn’t mind serving but I just won’t lie to get on a jury.
Thanks for the article. I’m slowly going through all the depositions from her friends and I find it scary that there are people like this in this country, that there are young people so naiive as to get mixed up with this: they think drugs are nothing; they party like libertines; they shack up with anybody at the drop of a hat. They have no defense against being victimized by a sociopath like Casey. They allow Casey and others to drift in and out of their residences, use their cars, steal their checkbooks, etc.
I don’t think any of my kids were so stupid when their were in college, or just starting out. Now I worry about my grandchildren.
Of course, then there is Cindy who certainly has problems of her own.
On the bright side, at least now Mississippi can say: "Hey, at least we ain't Floriduh".
We have a systemic problem in the United States in that one trial can not be used to assign guilt of a crime of premeditation, or guilt of a crime of passion or opportunity all at one go.
That idiocy does not lie upon the jury, and those utter Rosey O'Donnell pie holes reading this who have been bloviating about how stupid the jury is need to take a closer look: You've been shouting into a mirror.
All in all there is a fine line between wrongful and rightfull convictions. If you get my drift.
Was the prosecution not allowed to take part in jury selection?
Even the defense team knows Casey is very dangerous and very guilty.
Those who want to say “see how the system worked”, I would agree that the process was followed, but the system is only as good as the quality of the people on the jury and the behavior of the attorneys.
To actually put a person on a jury who says “I don’t like judging people” is about the most ignorant thing you could do.
I just can’t believe these jurors looked at Casey’’s history?
Gee, I listened to Mark Levin right after the verdict.
He is a lawyer, and pretty sharp minded conservative one, at that.
He said on the air, he did NOT believe the PROSECUTION proved the case, beyond a reasonable doubt.
He said they showed the mother was an awful, despicable human, and that the child was dead.
But he said they failed to prove the child was murdered, or that the mother was the murderer.
Apparently to Levin, the jury got it right, not wrong.
Good morning....this was put up too late for me last night.
There are so many aggravating/irritating things about this whole mess but I add to it the remarks by that creep Mason that the jury saw the whole trial and the rest of us didn’t. Therefore, they were in a better position to make the call as to guilty/not guilty.
Is he so stupid that he doesn’t realize that we got to see MORE of what went on in the courtroom because the jury was sent out so many times? I know the stations broke for commercials during the majority of these times but we still saw more than the jury did. We got information the jury was never allowed to see/hear.
And pukey Geraldo seems to be getting a kick out of sticking his finger in our eye each time he appears on TV! His own wife is disgusted with him - HA! Hoorah for Kimberly Gilfoyle - she can outshout him!!!!
I don’t know the cure for a verdict like this but something needs to be changed in the whole system. Everyone is entitled to a “defense” according to our constitution but do defense attorneys have the right to twist things to the point that they can get their “guilty” clients off? They can stand up and say, “I know my client isn’t guilty” and then proceed to lay out a preposterous defense. There should be some restrictions on their presentations. Why are they so FOND of defending and clearing dirtbags?
We need defense attorneys like Dustin Hoffman in “Sleepers”.
If any of us ever find ourselves hauled into court for ANYTHING, hire an attorney who will put forth the most ridiculous and absurd defense and we too can be judged “not guilty.”
Bah! Humbug!
Maybe if they had taken the death penalty off or even gone for just manslaughter there would have been “guilty” for some charge
We want to toss around ideas on your new thread - how about this one?
We ask all future jurors on a murder trial who they voted for in 2008 and who they intend to vote for in 2012? It can become the new “law” for seating jurors so even our children/grandchildren/greatgrandchildren can see how these kind of decisions will impact their lives and futures!!!