This article is the worst type off speculative tripe.
That's why you should never talk to the police.
Defense lawyers try to pick a jury that have an IQ below 100. These individuals will believe anything when it comes to resonable doubt, even the ‘green martian theory’. First question asked when picking a jury pool is, ‘are you a democrat’? In the defense eyes this is grounds for immediate jury qualification.
The real reason why polygraphs are not admissable in court is because it would put half the trial lawyers out of business.
If I cover a person’s mouth and nose with duct tape I do this with the knowledge that this act will cause their death. Tis such a silly world.
Bullcrap.
Not telling anyone your child is gone and lying about what happened to the child for 31 days, and leaving the body to rot for many months, is child abuse.
Jury of morons found no child abuse.
The writer is a fool.
The jury was given choices; First-Degree Murder, which implies premeditation; also “Aggravated Child Abuse” or “Aggravated Manslaughter,” which do not necessarily.
There are always people who refuse to accept evil, with given concrete evidence of sociopathy staring them in the face.
I just wish they would stay off juries.
The author is just another moron in a long line of morons. Conviction on aggravated child abuse is a no brainer. That she wasn’t convicted of that charge and that this moron doesn’t think she should have been is simply evidence that there are millions more potential moronic jurors in the jury pool. The shallow end of the pool btw.
Courts should consider equity as well as the law. If a death was caused by ones actions, then that person should be held accountable regardless of which technical charge was brought. No one should “get away with murder”.
I know that’s not the reality but it’s the way it ought to be.
You'll never get me to agree with you so don't waste the bandwidth.
Aggravated manslaughter does not require premeditation, simple nelgiglence will do. How she was acquitted of the AM charge I have no idea.
This seems to be the best take on the case.My wife and I have both sat on juries in cases when the prosecution made charges that were way beyond what was provable. It results on criminals getting off of charges that should have sent them to prison for 5-10 rather than 20-life the prosecution was trying for. It is not a rare outcome. It is more and more the norm.
If that was the only verdict they were given, I might agree, however, they had two other options to chose from. They rejected all claims of guilt and thus a child murder walks among us.
If that was the only verdict they were given, I might agree, however, they had two other options to chose from. They rejected all claims of guilt and thus a child murderer walks among us.
What nonsense!
The Casey Anthony verdict was a travesty of justice. The jury were after the fact accomplices to the murder of Caylee Anthony.
The scenario that you set out is known as felony murder, a crime that is eligible for the death penalty. Alternatively, with a tweak of the facts, if what you have in mind is involuntary manslaughter, the jury could have found Casey Anthony guilty on that because it was a lesser included charge.
Attorneys and judges in Orlando who followed the case closely thought Casey Anthony was guilty and that she would be convicted of at least manslaughter. What happened then? Why the bad result?
In high profile cases, jurors with knowledge of the case due to news media coverage are weeded out. As in the OJ case, this tends to result in a jury of disengaged dummies who pay little attention to news and public events. Those kind of people tend to make bad jurors.
More generally, in addition to the dumbing down of America, over the last several decades, Americans have been taught to be “nonjudgmental” and “tolerant” and to ignore politically and culturally sensitive facts and issues. This has diminished the capacity of the general public to make reasonable judgments and to face unpleasant facts.
The jurors seem to have thought that Casey Anthony was a good mother because some said that she was — when they were watching. Of course, to think that Casey was a good mother ignores the hours she spent partying instead of being with her toddler.
I am hard put to imagine a “good mother” not calling 911 immediately after an accidental death of her child, then hiding and dumping the body, and casting elaborate lies for weeks about the child’s whereabouts.
Those internet searches for chloroform and neck breaking are especially ominous as they show premeditation. There is simply no sensible explanation for the duct tape except as a way to smother little Caylee.
I am also struck by comments by Anthony jurors that misunderstand what reasonable doubt means and how inferences can and must be drawn from facts. The jurors put a burden on the state that could not be met by requiring that all possible doubt be excluded, not just reasonable doubt. The jurors also seemed to expect forensic evidence that was simply unavailable.
The best hope for justice is if time and events eventually catch up to Casey Anthony.
A mother who accidentally lost her child would not be out partying and getting tattooed.
I believe Caylee’s death was intentional.
If these jurors place so little value on the brains God gave them, they should all be forced to have lobotomies so next time they’ll have an excuse.
Wrong. The article starts right off with a false premise. The question really was did she kill her daughter?
Premeditation was required in only one of three possible charges. No specific theory involving duct tape, or anything else, had to be accepted. Only that she was the person that caused the death.
I heard one of the jurors being interviewed by Greta van S. on FOX and she seemed quite intelligent. She reasoned that the prosecutor gave the jury no supportable evidence that a murder had been committed by the defendant so, much as they would have favored a guilty finding, they had to go with not guilty. My opinion of the whole matter is that there would have been no jury and probably no trial at all if Casey Anthony had been truthful from the beginning and only she knows what happened to her daughter. Therefore, Casey Anthony deserved a guilty verdict. IMO water boarding for liar and coward Casey and all of her lying family would have gotten to the truth early on. Justice was not served by this verdict no matter how members of that jury choose to interpret their decision to free the main culprit in the death of her two year old defensless daughter, Caylee Anthony.