This is such crap. The evidence for manslaughter, at least, was overwhelming. And for murder it was a slam-dunk for anyone who added up all of the coincidental evidence. And yes, if there is enough coincidental evidence, and it forms a tight enough pattern, it is enough to convict for murder one.
If Casey was a man, she would have been convicted of first degree murder, and no one would even remotely question it.
She left her little girl “lost” for 31 days (before her body was found). The girl ended up dead. BUT.....someone said she was still “a good mother!”
Are you playing the man vs. woman card?
The evidence was not overwhelming, you don’t know the whole story, you were not in the court room, you got all of your info from the media...just let it go.
The jury has ruled. Hopefully you get an open-minded jury when you are charged with a crime.
Lazy bunch of slackers. They wouldn’t take the time to reason out what was believable and what wasn’t.
Maybe the judge should have told them explicitly that cause of death is not vital to a guilty verdict. As time passes details slip away. They let her off because the ‘Demon Spawn’ bought enough time.
The Manslaughter charge only required that she was associated in the death not responsible for it. She was that.
You are so right. You put all the pieces together and unless you’re dumber than ditch water, you’ll come to the conclusion that Casey Anthony is a lyin’, cold-blooded killer. HELLO???
It was a big mistake for the prosecutor to go for the death penalty charge. That became too much of a distraction and an obstacle.
AMEN! If Casey Anthony was Caylee’s father, then they couldn’t get her to the execution chamber fast enough. People complain about the death penalty being racist, but I think the sex bias is more telling and problematic. The trial was a joke because they can’t kill a poor old woman, despite the fact that she’s a complete psychopath.
A lot of jurors generally don’t understand the difference between circumstantial evidence and direct evidence which is a flaw in our system. They make the mistake of assuming that because it’s circumstantial evidence, it therefore presents other possibilities for the crime which they immediately equate with failing the “beyond a reasonable doubt” claus, so they acquit.
I had an arson case a few years ago I served on where this crackhead burned down a womans garage and half her house, and despite 3 witnesses seeing this crackhead flaming up his pipe with his gas torch, despite them seeing him breaking the window and entering, we still had 4 idiots in our jury that wanted to acquit because they had this circumstantial evidence misundertstanding “Oh well another crackhead could have been in there and lit the place on fire” and I said no no no no no..This isn’t imagination land where other people suddenly appear and do the crime, there is no evidence of another person, 1 + 1 = 2, the dude took specific steps, it wasn’t his house, he broke in, it’s not a crack den.
Although we could not see him, the probability is certain beyond a reasonable doubt he put his torch on her couch in the garage which started the fire. The fire marshall said it was started by a direct burning torch, 3 witnesses saw him with a torch, but the HELL I had to go thru to get them to convict this POS was incredible!! They were all set to let him off scot free, meanwhile her husband sustained 3rd degree burns, her dogs and cats were killed, and these morons were all set to let him fly because “we couldn’t see what happened in the garage” and finally we did convict, but it was a real lesson on how effed up this system can be.
If the crime ain’t on HD video in technicolor with 3D glasses and surroundsound in THX, you can be damn sure the defense is going to use the juries misconception of that reasonable doubt shiet to the fullest extent,and that’s what happened in this case.
I don’t know. ONe thing that I can’t understand is how can you acquit her of child abuse? I mean, a child is missing 31 days, and it’s not reported?
Spot on unless it was a black man who was too big a symbol of the struggle for black jurors to convict for killing a white woman and a Jewish boy