Posted on 07/05/2011 12:26:49 PM PDT by buggy02
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All the talking heads said her lawyer was inexperienced and doing a bad job. Guess they aren’t so smart after all.
In order to find a person guilty of murder 1 you need evidence to conclusively proove that the individual did indeed committ murder.
The Prosecution FAILED to prove that Kally was murdered by Casey and failed to proove she was even murdered at all. There is no evidence, just suspicion and suspicion isn’t enough to execute a person.
The damn prosecutor here WASTED taxpayer dollars on a hopeless case. Had he gone for a lesser charge he MIGHT have won the case.
Were I on the jury I would have voted exactly as they did.
Back to La bella vita.
Good for her. The system works. beyond a reasonable doubt.
The “jurors” are too embarrassed to speak to the media. ROTFL!!! I would be too!
Yeah, the prosecution messed up bad.
They should have put her in the klink for lying to cops and waited for her to blow
I think what saved her was the Prosecutor was worse than her defense attorney. The State had NO evidence and NO case.
Just suspicions and you don;t execute people on the basis of suspicion - at least not anymore.
That Tax Dollar wasting Prosecutor should be FIRED.
I agree. She is probably guilty of something, but the prosecution’s case didn’t reach the “beyond a reasonable doubt” threshold.
America has lost its soul...no justice for Caylee...so sad...
Yet with Scott Peterson a few years ago the result was a death penalty conviction based on 100% circumstantial evidence with a dash of blatant prosecutorial misconduct thrown in for good measure.
I’ve always hated that case because I followed it at the start and the police were bound and determined that he was their man. Every new fact that surfaced they’d just change their story to show how that made him guilty.
Peterson was a crappy excuse for a husband, no doubt, but that didn’t mean he killed his wife.
Justice for little Caylee will be meted out in the afterlife.
In the case I sat on where we found the defendant innocent, it was because the prosecutor did not provide the evidence. We all felt he probably did it, but the proof was not there.
I sat on a case where we found an 18 year old girl guilty of murder. The prosecutor had evidence including eye-witness testimony. Believe me it was not easy to do, but basically the jurors are going to do the right thing.
My guess is that the first vote they took was unanimous.
What possible grounds were there for "resonable" doubt.
I would pack up and go home.
I agree, the state had no case for a first degree murder charge. If the state had gone with a lesser charge that carried a lesser penalty, they might have gotten a guilty verdict.
I think that Baez as much as said this in his rant against the death penalty.
Duct tape is not a murder weapon.
No motive.
No cause of death.
No witnesses to “killing”
Not Guilty is correct verdict
The surprise to me is that they found a jury that wouldn't be bulldozed by what the prosecution called evidence. I wouldn't have needed any of the defense's claptrap to wonder where was the prosecution's beef.
Peterson did it.
The second count of which Casey was accused: felony murder (associated with aggravated child abuse), does not require an intent to kill, but is still a capital offense. Is there reasonable doubt that Casey was not guilty of at least that second count? Caylee did not die of natural causes.
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