Strictly speaking, it was probably the correct verdict.
Casey Anthony was a party-girl, who hated the responsibility of motherhood. When she went out to party, she’d knock the kid out. She probably thought it was the perfect compromise, and cheap because she wouldn’t even have to pay for a babysitter.
If the prosecution had charged her with something that she’d serve 20 years, Casey probably would have been convicted.
If the prosecution had charged her with something that she’d serve 20 years, Casey probably would have been convicted. “ ====
The lesser charges you spoke of were in the indictment. They were availed to the jury. The jury chose, instead, the popcorn soap opera of the family disfunction over the circumstantial evidence they were did not understand. They identified with the soap opera entirely and must have skipped every science class they ever had, which left them closed to the obvious. (In my humble opinion.) :)
If I had to bet, I'd bet that's exactly what happened.
But, of course, justice is not about bets, it's about facts. And the fact is Casey Anthony went 30 days without reporting her child missing.
If you believe she did not kill the child, then someone else took her. The first few days would have been critical. But Casey did nothing. She should have been convicted of criminal negligence at the least.
Your posting about Casey “knocking out” Caylee to facilitate her partying is in the same lame category of what the Prosecutors tried to do.
There was no evidence presented to tie Casey to her daughter’s death.
The news media and many in the public “deemed” Casey guilty because of her behavior; NOT because of any evidence.