Posted on 07/12/2011 6:50:38 AM PDT by truthkeeper
Tape may be released. Judge Perry will make this call.
The Casey Anthony jury did not explain themselves. They excused themselves. I doubt anyone thinks the Anthony family had anything to do with intimidation of the jury.
The prosecution put on a very good case, circumstantial or not. All arrows pointed to Casey. Casey was responsible for the death of her daughter. Life is not always fair which the defense proved at least for Caylee.
We will have to disagree. I think the investigators did a crappy job & the prosecution sucked. Of course, since I wasn’t in the courtroom & am not privy to all the evidence the jury heard/saw, then I will have to trust their judgement. But, what they’ve said thus far is exactly what I said during the trial. So, I get it.
You didn’t have to be there or be privy to “all the evidence”. You have to understand who the people are and especially why they are there.
Casey Anthony is a liar which has been proven beyond a doubt. But that is not why she is on trial; even though the jury convicted her of lying.. For a moment forget that she is a liar and all the other labels applied to her. Casey is on trial for the murder of her daughter. Casey’s history is indicative of who she is. History is usually the best indicator of who a person is. When Caylee went missing, she told no one. For 31 days she told everyone her child was with a babysitter no one has ever seen or spoken too; including her own family. Regardless of what Casey may have been doing those 31 days; she chose not to sound the alarm that she was missing period. Casey was the last one seen with Calylee. I doubt seriously Caylee drowned due to the unprovoked video showing her parents and her stating it was just the latest theory made up by the press. This video was in evidence before Jose made his statement.
As for the car smelling of death. This was stated by several people who have had experience with that smell including her parents before it was brought up in court. There was chloroform found in the car and where the remains were found along with a needle. Casey abandoned the car in a parking lot when it started to smell. Caylees remains were found in a swamp near her house. Most everything found with the child, duct tape, laundry bag, blanket was proven to come from where Casey and Caylee lived at the time. Casey had access to all. Since Caylee was last seen with Casey; the arrows are pointing to Casey most likely having to do with the demise of her daughter.
Let’s look at Jose Baez. Jose is a street fighter. Nothing wrong with that. Jose knew better than anyone he had to sell the jury because that is all he had and it didn’t hurt a bit he got a jury that pretty much identified with his client. He did sell this jury but it was with innuendoes; not facts and it was not mere coincidence he mentioned he did not have to prove a thing or state facts on many occasions. Just a little tweak here and there to make it sound like reasonable doubt; which it was anything but. He also sold this jury by continual distractions. Everyday he was acting up about something; sometimes turning the court room into a circus. This was just as important as accusing her father of despicable acts. Why, all of it was designed to keep the jurors mind off his client’s guilt. I personally was waiting for him to take the wrap himself. He did one thing for sure. He kept the jurors off guard while making the prosecution look like bullies. I almost got caught up in it myself a couple of times.
Here is why i didn’t. Jeff Ashton, the prosecutor is an honorable guy. A guy that probably made good grades in school, etc. Unfortunately, all they could do was object. But he and his associate did present a very convincing case of Casey’s guilt circumstantial evidence or not. It may not have been theatrics like Jose who I might add again had nothing and as he told us many, many times he didn’t have to have anything. Jeff Ashton and his associates had one thing jose did not have and that was credibility. They didn’t have to lie. They laid the case out as it probably happened. Casey was with Caylee; something she never denied, had possession of the car, did not report the missing of her child; etc. There just wasn’t anyone else who had the motive to kill Caylee.
The jurors like so many jurors vote emotionally for whatever reason and they bought the defense’’s con job. By not reviewing any evidence; etc; they did a disservice to that little girl that should not have died.
One more thing Jose Baez did was make the jury not think. He kept that court room in constant turmoil.
It's a disgrace that Jose was allowed to say that Casey's father molested her WITH NO EVIDENCE. I just don't understand that.
Jose did everything but fall on the sword. That Juror #3 is on tv saying there is no evidence. Geez, this little girl died and was thrown away like garbage. Her mother did not report her missing for 31 days. I have never seen such denial. Something really smells here. She gets a little bolder each time. Is acting more like the public is stupid. I don’t get it. Something is not right.
Dennis Miller had some harsh words for the Casey Anthony trial jurors:
Well, I think the system held up in one regard. You’re guaranteed a jury of our peers and Casey Anthony’s a moron, and they found 12 other morons to form a moron baker’s dozen down there.
I think it should be like the NFL, where you get that red flag, and during the case if you hear something that you don’t like you can stop it right there and go, “I’m voting guilty right now.”
And I would have stopped it when they said her 2-year-old was lost and she waited 30 days to call the cops.
I would have just thrown my flag and said, “Guilty. I don’t even need to know what the rest of it is, give her some time.”
Because anybody who waits 30 minutes, much less 30 days, she’s guilty of something.
I don’t quite know what it is, but something bad; something rotten in Denmark.
I missed that......Dennis Miller rocks!
Scott Peterson was having an affair with another women while everyone was out searching for his missing wife and unborn baby. This is what turned the tide against him. Everyone asked how can a grieving husband be spending hours on the phone with a girlfried. His behavior was so callous that it gave him away. Most of the evidence in his trial was circumstantial as well. I believe that they never established a method of the killing—probably suffocation while she slept which I believe is how Casey killed Caylee— when she was taking her nap.
The jury in the Scott Peterson case had some common sense. They were not waiting for the prosecution to show them a photograph of Casey actually killing Caylee.
Notice how quickly that ruse went out the window once the verdict came down?
I have seen this playacting win in a couple of other cases — the Menendez brothers and the Lorena Bobitt trial. All they did was cry during their testimony. Even though the Menedez brothers shot their parents gangland style at close range, pumping their bodies with many bullets, they were let go because they said that their father molested and abused them. They could not deny that they killed them so they switched to a “innocent by victim-hood” defense. And it worked.
I think people identify with the people involved in the trials and they judge them based on whether they like them or dislike them, whether they remind them of a mean father or someone else that they may have liked of disliked.
About the prosecutors doing a crappy job-—I don’t know why they didn’t follow through on the chloroform search by actually going on to the websites that Casey looked up and then looking for evidence of any directions for actually making chloroform. The prosecutors could then have printed up the page and given it to the jury for evidence. Any ingredients used to make chloroform which were found in the Anthony home would have made strong evidence that she had the means and the knowledge to make chloroform.
The prosecution could also have called police detectives who have worked with cases involving date rape drugs. The detective could have been asked whether chloroform was used as a date rape drug and whether it was commonly known around the club scene.
Another thing, all the people at the bars she hung out with looked really skanky to me.
Any news on the “Path to 9/11” video?
She really let her hair down in more ways than one.
The minute I heard that story break, that a young pregnant woman preparing for a Christmas eve party vanished without her purse, and the husband claims to have gone off fishing 50 miles away, my antennae was up.
Sometimes things just stink from the beginning. If you have common sense and understand human nature, that is.
I watched the Menendez case pretty closely. I think Lyle was the lead sociopath and Eric the dumbcluck follower.
The police suspected them from the start. Sociopaths always think they are so much smarter than the rest of us. Eventually it's their arrogance that does them in.
Hi hope you are wrong. I don’t know that much about him but the pain he exhibited on the stand. Since then I haven’t seen him around at all. What a sham and am so disappointed in Cindy Anthony. She swore she would tell the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth so help her GOD and yet...she lied through her teeth. They ALL need help. Caseee anthony will pay on judgement day.
Its a good thing that Scott Peterson didn’t get the Casey Anthony jurors.
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