Posted on 07/12/2011 8:27:34 PM PDT by MsLady
ORLANDO, Fla. -- Authorities were looking into allegations of witness tampering during Casey Anthony's murder trial, a Florida sheriff said Tuesday during a wide-ranging news conference with his top investigators in what he said was an effort to bring closure to a case that polarized the country.
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I didn’t follow this trial that closely. I don’t even really know if she actually really used chloroform. There was talk in some message boards and Facebook that she did.
So I added it to the diatribe for dramatic effect.
Everyone familiar with the case knows the mother perjured herself in an effort to save her daughter - that is no doubt why thet decided not to prosecute.
The sheriffs’ office should be looking into jury tampering instead of wittness tampering. They jury didn’t spend enough time in deliberations to do a serious job.
And too many jurors changed their votes from guilty of manslaughter to not guilty in a very short period of time.
Now those speaking out are saying they have remorse over their votes.
What went on in the jury room?
Who was twisting arms and why?
Which one of the ALL TWELVE jurors was tampered with?
Here is how you make chloroform. I now may be accused of murder, since I searched for the information. You all now have seen the synthesis and have traces of it on your hard drive. Do you think the prosecution needs to find evidence that you purchased or obtained Chlorox and nail polish remover, or is this data alone enough? If so, you are all candidates. Do you think Anthony could have done this, leaving no evidence?
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With Calcium Hypochlorite and Acetone
When chlorine is passed into boiling alcohol, both chlorination of the methyl group and oxidation of the primary alcohol group to an aldehyde occur, giving trichloro-acetaldehyde or chloral: When chloral is treated with caustic alkali, fission of the C-C linkage occurs, giving chloroform and a formate. Acetaldehyde and also many ketones, such as acetone, containing the CH3CO- group behave similarly when treated with calcium or sodium hypochlorite, chlorination of the CH3CO- group being immediately followed by fission of the molecule by the alkali present in the hypochlorite solution. The acetone method clearly gives a much cheaper product than the alcohol method.
Required: Calcium Hypochlorite 100g (bleaching powder), acetone 44ml
Place 100g of calcium hypochlorite in a mortar and add 250 ml of water in small quantities at a time: between each addition grind the mixture of bleaching powder and water well together and decant the cream-like suspension through a funnel into a 1-litre flat-bottomed flask. Finally, when all the water has thus been used, only a gritty residue remains in the mortar. Fit the flask with an efficient reflux water-condenser, pour 44ml (35g) of acetone in small quantities, at a time, down the condenser and mix by thorough shaking after each addition. The reaction usually starts spontaneously after a few minutes, and a bath of cold water should be available into which the flask may be dipped if necessary to moderate the reaction. Should the reaction show no signs of starting within 5 minutes of the addition of the acetone, warm the flask cautiously on a boiling water-bath until the reaction starts, and then remove it immediately. When the vigorous boiling has subsided, heat the flask on a boiling water-bath for a further 5-10 minutes (not more) to complete the reaction. Cool the flask in cold water (to prevent loss of chloroform vapour whilst the apparatus is being rearranged) and then fit the flask with a fairly wide delivery-tube and reverse the water-condenser for distillation. Heat the flask on a water-bath until distillation of the chloroform is complete.
The chloroform thus obtained is usually acidic. Therefore shake it thoroughly with dilute sodium hydroxide solution in a separating-funnel. (If the chloroform tends to float on the alkaline solution, it still contains appreciable quantities of acetone: in this case the soda should be run out of the funnel and the chloroform shaken with water to extract the acetone. The extraction with the soda can then be performed after the water has been removed.) Carefully run off the heavy lower layer of chloroform into a small conical flask, dry it over calcium chloride for 15-20 minutes, and then filter it directly into a 75 ml. distilling-flask fitted with a clean dry water-condenser. Distill the chloroform, collecting the fraction of bp. 60-63øC. Yield, 30g. (20ml).
Chloroform is a colourless liquid, of bp 61ø and d 1.50. It has a characteristic sweetish smell, and is frequently used as a solvent in organic chemistry.
Reference: Mann & Saunders, Practical Organic Chemistry, 3rd Ed
So if the FBI or NSA is checking up on me...It's just research for a book!!!
Yes it did divide the country!!! 90% guilty and !0% not guilty. But the laugh is on the juror’s. If one of the jurors would have voted guilty and they were the only one, what would the be getting for an interview? My guess about 5 million!!! They would be on easy street the rest of there lives instead of hiding.
LOL, screw um...let the Confederacy of Dunces hide.
Fairly simple to make.
Bleaching powder and acetone.
I am a curious person and if I read or hear something and it interests me at all or I don't understand it I do searches. My computer is likely full of suspicious searches about nearly anything you can think of and some you can't. I have been stunned by the spotlight on the searches...really. I could be made to look very guilty...of almost anything if my searches were looked through.
Google is your friend . Search “ how to make chorophorm” pretty easy
Well, I hate to break it to you, but a rather large amount of freepers think she was not guilty and readily attacked those of us that felt different.
I have no respect for anyone who felt she was not guilty.
As someone else said earlier on another thread, the OJ jury is no longer the stupidest 12 people on the planet.
Yes, but did you or anyone here suddenly have a suspicious death/murder shortly after the searches? I don’t think so.
It was the other way around.
Those who felt that the prosecution did not prove Casey guilty were attacked ad nauseum by many.
If you weren’t part of the groupthink here, you were a target.
That seems to have subsided a bit, but it was ugly.
We are going to be challenged far more by the Dems and the Rinos in the next year and a half to the election.
The circular firing squads need to cease firing.
“These freaking retard on that jury are the only one’s to blame.”
Whoever had the idea to trust society’s fate to twelve ordinary citizens? Everyone knows how stupid ordinary citizens are. They can’t be trusted with any kind of decision making. Much better to have elected politicians make these kind of decisions.
I favor internet polling to determine guilt or innocence.
I don’t know. I’m not planning on knocking someone out.
Those who thought she was not guilty are raving imbeciles and should be shunned and tormented the rest of their miserable days. That includes any fools on FR also.
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