Posted on 09/25/2011 12:21:38 PM PDT by nickcarraway
After millionaire developer Bob Ward was found guilty of second degree murder Saturday in the killing of his wife in Isleworth, Fla., his defense seemed to blame the verdict on backlash from the Casey Anthony acquittal, which occurred in the same state in July.
"Certainly what happened to Casey Anthony makes it more difficult for any defendant in, probably anywhere in the state of Florida, to get a fair trial and that's a concern," said Ward's attorney Kirk Kirkconnell.
A jury found Anthony not guilty in the murder of her daughter Caylee.
But former prosecutor and defense attorney Susan Filan completely disagrees.
"I don't think the jurors are going to take it out on this particular defendant if they happen to disagree with the Casey Anthony verdict," Filan said on "Good Morning America" this morning.
The defense team is threatening to appeal the verdict.
"Everybody appeals their verdict if they lose, it's the defendant's right. They're going to just look for some kind of legal error. They can't say 'I think the jury got it wrong.' They have to find some kind of evidentiary error, something that was introduced that shouldn't have been," said Filan.
But Filan didn't think Ward had any chance of succeeding in an appeal.
"I think the defense made a mistake by saying either accident or suicide. If he was there in the room with her and he really didn't have anything to do with it, I think he would know which one, particularly if she was shot between the eyes, he would have seen her raise the gun to her head."
If it was in fact a suicide, it would be out of the ordinary for a female to shoot herself between the eyes.
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He just had the wrong attorney.
Bush’s fault.
A millionaire worthy of BambamKennedy’s TAXATION!!!! Strip him clean bare like the middle class has been. After watching his party mood in jail I would have convicted him for ‘first’ degree murder.
I heard his daughters were very upset about the verdict. Was this their mother or step mother?
What the jury wasn’t allowed to hear was testimony from his previous girlfriend that after she returned from an evening out with her girlfriends he pulled a gun out of the bedside stand, threatened to shoot her, then broke a post off the bed and beat her with it.
Guilty a hell.
Commentary at post #7 indicates she was their stepmother.
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