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Casey Anthony Juror: 'Sick to Our Stomachs' Over Not Guilty Verdict
ABC NEWS ^ | July 6,2011 | MARY KATE BURKE, JESSICA HOPPER and ENJOLI FRANCIS

Posted on 07/06/2011 6:31:34 PM PDT by Hojczyk

Casey Anthony juror Jennifer Ford said today that she and the other jurors cried and were "sick to our stomachs" after voting to acquit Casey Anthony of charges that she killed her 2-year-old daughter Caylee.

"I did not say she was innocent," said Ford, who had previously only been identified as juror number 3. "I just said there was not enough evidence. If you cannot prove what the crime was, you cannot determine what the punishment should be."

The jury's jaw dropping not guilty verdict shocked court observers, but it was also a difficult moment for the panel, Ford said in an exclusive interview with ABC News. No one from the jury was willing to come out and talk to the media in the hours after the verdict.

"Everyone wonders why we didn't speak to the media right away," Ford said. "It was because we were sick to our stomach to get that verdict. We were crying and not just the women. It was emotional and we weren't ready. We wanted to do it with integrity and not contribute to the sensationalism of the trial."

Instead of murder, Casey Anthony, 25, was found guilty of four counts of lying to law enforcement and could be released from jail as early as Thursday.

Ford praised the jurors.

"They picked a great bunch of people, such high integrity. And there was high morale," she said. "We all joked. We are like a big group of cousins."

Casey Anthony Prosecutor: 'All Came Down to Cause of Death'

Earlier today, the prosecutor and an alternate juror agreed on why the jury had refused to convict Anthony: They couldn't prove how little Caylee Anthony died.

"It all came down to the evidence," said Florida state attorney Jeff Ashton on "The View."

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: anthony; caseyanthony
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To: Retired Greyhound

Inn Illinois of all p[laces, a few years ago the governor commuted all of the death penalty convictions to life in prison because so many of the convictions were later proven wrong and several of the prisoners had to be released.

The judges and juries were convicting based upon outright lies from the prosecuters and/or the prosecuters withholding evidence.

The entire judicial systen was so bad that there was no confidence that any of the death penalty convictions were valid.


181 posted on 07/06/2011 8:53:45 PM PDT by dglang
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To: rbmillerjr
I am honestly waiting for the next one to say "I don't know what happened, I wasn't there."

Trust me, it's coming.

182 posted on 07/06/2011 8:58:44 PM PDT by truthkeeper (Vote Against Barack Obama in 2012!)
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To: rbmillerjr
That dipshit juror who didn’t follow the news is a high school government teacher. ...ya can’t make this stuff up

Unbelievable...

183 posted on 07/06/2011 9:03:40 PM PDT by Dr. Scarpetta
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To: Abbeville Conservative; Retired Greyhound

>> No one is questioning the jury system in America but we are questioning the ability of this jury to reason and logically think through the evidence presented.

I understand the prosecutors failed to make a logical charge that could meet the strict requirements for conviction.

Abortion is murder. It’s legal killing. Ponder that.


184 posted on 07/06/2011 9:04:15 PM PDT by Gene Eric (*** Jesus ***)
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To: truthkeeper
as more and more examples of this jury's impaired reasoning leaks out, I question the intelligence of those on this forum continuing to defend their verdict. I find it strikingly similar to the Obamabots defending "their guy."

I absolutely agree...

185 posted on 07/06/2011 9:05:36 PM PDT by Dr. Scarpetta
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To: All

Okay, watching a bit of this woman juror’s interview on Nightline....she shouldn’t have done the interview, IMO (for her own sake)

Says when someone dumps a body like that, it shows your covering up something, but doesn’t show what you’re covering up.

Says George Anthony was clearly dishonest. I think this juror said she thought he was there when whatever happened, happened.

Prosecution didn’t even paint a picture on what might have happened.

Couldn’t convict because didn’t know a cause of death

Swiss chees holes everywhere in the prosecution’s case, couldn’t understand how chloroform was used - didn’t get the chloroform.

Terry Moran asks her about the duct tape - Well, yeah, it can look bad, it can smell bad, but you have to prove it.


My impression is that the jury did not connect with the prosecution, but did connect with the defense. Will someone tell me whether they thought the defense painted a picture of how Caylee was killed? I thought they did.

This juror obviously listened to he defenses’s painting lots of pictures, but didn’t get it with the prosecution.


186 posted on 07/06/2011 9:07:06 PM PDT by Girlene (If da trunk don't smell; she's free as he**)
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To: Hojczyk
Apparently the jury believed the fairy tale about Calee drowning in the pool.

They should have asked themselves two questions before making the finding of Not Guilty.

1 - They know Casey lied about everything else in her life. Why did the jury pick that one statement to believe?

2 - If Calee drowned in the pool as Casey claimed through her lawyers, and it resulted in a family wide cover-up why did her legal team spend so much time painting the father and brother as incestuous molesters of Casey?
What would that have to do with a drowning and cover-up? Especially one where they were all supposedly cooperating?

I believe the bottom line is that the Jurors were too weak minded to deal with the stress of sorting truth from fiction and just wanted to take the quick, easy way out and get home ASAP.

I really hope they have nightmares over their abdication of responsibility,

187 posted on 07/06/2011 9:07:12 PM PDT by Iron Munro (The more effeminate & debauched the people, the more they are fitted for a tyrannical government.)
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To: Gene Eric
I understand the prosecutors failed to make a logical charge that could meet the strict requirements for conviction.

Not true...

188 posted on 07/06/2011 9:07:21 PM PDT by Dr. Scarpetta
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To: Girlene
Okay, watching a bit of this woman juror’s interview on Nightline.... Says when someone dumps a body like that, it shows your covering up something, but doesn’t show what you’re covering up.

Unbelievable...

She should have kept her face out of view. Now her neighbors know she let Casey Anthony go free.

189 posted on 07/06/2011 9:12:12 PM PDT by Dr. Scarpetta
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To: Iron Munro

“I believe the bottom line is that the Jurors were too weak minded to deal with the stress of sorting truth from fiction and just wanted to take the quick, easy way out and get home ASAP.

I really hope they have nightmares over their abdication of responsibility “

In a few short sentences, that is the way I see it. I think they will all pay for this...Casey, the Anthony’s, the Defense team and the jury. Despicable behavior by all.


190 posted on 07/06/2011 9:13:51 PM PDT by rbmillerjr (Murdering unborn children is the highest sacrament in the liberal religion.)
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To: Gene Eric

Please see post #75


191 posted on 07/06/2011 9:14:14 PM PDT by Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears
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To: Hojczyk
"We all joked. We are like a big group of cousins."

Only a certifiable idiot could make a satement like that.

"We all joked."

Joked about what? About the dead baby? About how Casey would beat the system?


192 posted on 07/06/2011 9:14:15 PM PDT by Iron Munro (The more effeminate & debauched the people, the more they are fitted for a tyrannical government.)
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To: rbmillerjr
I think they will all pay for this...Casey, the Anthony’s, the Defense team and the jury. Despicable behavior by all.

The defense lawyer will make a fortune in getting new cases because of getting Casey off, in spite of the arrogance of their team.

193 posted on 07/06/2011 9:18:48 PM PDT by Dr. Scarpetta
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To: Dr. Scarpetta

I watched that interview with this woman juror trying to understand the logic/reasoning. I’m open to the fact that they might not have been presented all the evidence that had been made public when depositions, etc. were released some time ago.

But, I kept trying to figure out what it would take for her to determine that a murder or manslaughter had occurred....I never understood what it would take.

I thought the prosecution had painted a scenario of what had happened. She indicated she had no idea what any scenario might be. Wasn’t one presented?

She said some jurors said no way Casey was guilty from the beginning of the deliberations.......that’s quite surprising.

Maybe the prosecution should have acted it out on a doll or something for a jury to be able to visualize what the prosecution was trying to prove.

She didn’t seem to have any idea of a possible motive. Just because someone’s out partying after their daughter is dead doens’t mean they killed their daughter. She conceded it looked bad, but......

These were my impressions after watching this interview.....may have misunderstood some of it, but it had me scratching my head.....


194 posted on 07/06/2011 9:25:34 PM PDT by Girlene (If da trunk don't smell; she's free as he**)
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To: Dr. Scarpetta

Then what could have possibly motivated a capital-punishment-ready jury to form such a knowingly unpopular decision?


195 posted on 07/06/2011 9:26:35 PM PDT by Gene Eric (*** Jesus ***)
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To: Hojczyk

I have a question for those who really kept up with this case. In the beginning didn’t cindy and her husband say they had been on vacation or something for the time that caylee was missing? wasn’t that their reason for not knowing that she was missing? and if that is true, couldn’t they have verified that thus proving that the father didn’t kill the child?


196 posted on 07/06/2011 9:26:58 PM PDT by annelizly
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To: Dr. Scarpetta

True, and Casey will make millions too.

But beware of the witch called Karma.


197 posted on 07/06/2011 9:28:41 PM PDT by rbmillerjr (Murdering unborn children is the highest sacrament in the liberal religion.)
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To: Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears

Poignant sarcasm.


198 posted on 07/06/2011 9:34:20 PM PDT by Gene Eric (*** Jesus ***)
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To: Gene Eric

;-)

One of my attributes/flaws is I am ONE SARCASTIC GUY!


199 posted on 07/06/2011 9:37:03 PM PDT by Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears
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To: Girlene

“But, I kept trying to figure out what it would take for her to determine that a murder or manslaughter had occurred....I never understood what it would take.”

There are murderers sitting in jail even without the presence of dead body.
There have been people convicted by blood evidence alone - and by circumstantial evidence alone.

The difference being - other juries have taken the time to sit with the evidence and put the puzzle pieces together using basic logic and process of elimination.


200 posted on 07/06/2011 9:37:53 PM PDT by Scotswife
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