Casey Anthony had a criminal history way before the murder. Both her mother and grandmother made attempts to have her arrested but then backed off. She stole endlessly from girlfriends and men.
She has one felony arrest prior to these new felonies.
She had sole custody of the child for the 31 days the baby was missing. Neither Cindy nor George Anthony had access to the baby during that time.
Casey abandoned her car. It was taken to a tow shop but the owner was frightened by the “smell of death” coming from the trunk. He alerted Casey’s parents who came down to collect it.
Cindy Anthony called 911 saying her daughter had just admitted that her grandchild had been missing for 31 days and “The damn car smells like there is a dead body in it.”
Casey Anthony then blames a complete stranger for stealing her baby, causing that woman to be descended upon by every law enforcement agency in the nation.
Stuck in jail, and still proclaiming her daughter alive, Casey laughs at rumors that her daughter died in the family pool.
Casey thrives in jail until the body is found in a swamp. Her reaction is so bad that jailers immediately suspect she is guilty of murder.
The body is wrapped in plastic bags from the Anthony house as is the duct tape and baby blanket.
Police find an overwhelming smell of chloroform in the trunk as well as decomposition and a single decomposed hair from Caylee. The cadaver dogs locate decomposition in the trunk and near Caylee’s playhouse.
Casey is seen going in and out of the Anthony home while both are at work. She even borrows a shovel from a neighbor at one point.
And then there are the 31 days of orgies and Ecstasy-taking, lesbian photos, tattoo-getting and sleeping with men while Caylee was present. Then there is the supremely creepy story (told by one of Casey’s boyfriends) of Casey waking up in the middle of the night while sleeping with some guy, grabbing up Caylee, disappearing into the night and showing up in the early morning hours without the baby. Asked where she was, Casey says she is with Cindy. But Cindy says she never saw the baby that night...
I know there are many other points of circumstantial evidence to this case that prove she is a murderer but I’ll leave it at that.
Some seem to be “taken” by Ms. Anthony’s photogenic “qualities”, IMO. She was seen by some observers to have made flirty eye contact with one of the male jurors. She’s a real pro at what she does, isn’t she?
Completely irrelevant, as far as the jury knew she was clean as the driven snow. That is why trials should occur in court and not on TV where cerdicts are rendered based on facts in evidence. You're basing an opinion on a TV trial, not a courtroom trial.
She has one felony arrest prior to these new felonies.
Again irrelevant, you may disagree but that is the law.
I agree with you and probably 99% of all other people who believe she is culpable in the death of her child, the problem as presented is identifying just how. The coroner could not even list her death as anything other than unknown homicide.
Where do you go with that? Should juries convict on what they interpret to be crimes in their eyes? Do we want a system where people can be whipped up by the emotion of the case rather then see true justice of people convicted of the actual, provable crime they committed?
Our justice system is very concise and the government has to prove specific elements of crimes to gain convictions....as it should be.
The problem is, the government did not meet its obligation, they screwed up....when do they ever do things right.
This Case is a travesty all of the way around, there are no winners this time.
It's not the system that is bad, its the incompetent people who run it.