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."
(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...
Someone else did it, but Casey was too busy partying to report it to the police. Or maybe she just didn’t notice?
OFF THAT TOPIC:
HERE's the whole trial--raw and unedited:
http://www.wftv.com/caseyanthony/28083402/detail.html
More here:
http://www.wftv.com/news/28459186/detail.html
I just came across this littel tidbit of information:
"As odd and unbelievable as it sounds, yes, Juror #3 and her entire family were treated to a vacation at Disney World. Paid in full by ABC, thank you."
“The ethos of liberalism.”
Then it’s a great day for the feeble minded liberals on FR.
think of the shear panic when kids wander from your side in the grocery or dept. store.... 30 days? just hard to imagine....
Thank you. It’s good to know about this: I’ll keep my eye out for it. (Well, figuratively!)
Hitler didn’t take the verdict very well either
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9UCKSH1QJc (Warning: Language)
>>I saw the Mark Furman interview, and he nailed it (and the alternate juror). That was the best rebuff I’ve seen to date.<<
Does anybody have a link to that? I would LOVE to see that.
Wow. I guess they’re all in it for something. What a crock.
I’m pretty libertarian but they need to pass a law that juror cannot profit from their service.
Actually I think I’m buying into the concept of professional juries as unconstitutional as it seems. A jury of peers doesn’t necessarily mean a random collection of mercenary idiots!
Hannity is usually hard to take... he just annoys me .... but now, with this stand he is taking .... this is too much.. and Levin, hes a disappointment too.
Who’s splitting hairs? I didn’t say a thing about the media. I don’t know what you think you read.
I remember the time my first toddler went missing in the house. I freaked out. She’d fallen asleep under the sideboard in the dining room. She’s now 35, but I’ll never forget that horrible feeling, and I can tell the minor details of that experience. You just never forget.
It's so obvious to me that Casey's guilty. Where is common sense? Any mother would report a two yr old missing within minutes. The whole thing is upsetting.
Mark Fuhrman was on Greta. He used the word ‘ridiculous’ to describe how the jury interpreted the evidence.
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?
I believe the jury acted responsibly and did their jobs to the best of their abilities. They were drafted. They did not volunteer. They followed the instructions of the judge and they found insufficient evidence to convict the defendant of murder. Even the prosecutors admitted they had a problem with insufficient evidence.
If the mob lynched Casey Anthony and the twelve members of the jury, would the little girl be brought back to life? No, but we would end a constitutional framework of justice in criminal prosecutions and declare anarchy king and openly embrace mob rule.
The next one of us accused of any crime would deserve the same vigilante justice - trials are unnecessary when you have torches and billy clubs.
Once you let slip the dogs of vengeance, borne of fury, you have embraced evil.
BULLSH!T...If you thought she was guilty but there wasn’t enough evidence there then you should have had a ‘hung jury’. That way she could have been retried after more evidence was found. By rending a ‘not guilty’ verdict on these three counts, Anthony is now protected by ‘double jeopardy’, and they can’t try her again for these crimes. This is a case of the jury waking up and realizing they screwed up royally and are trying to excuse their inept actions. Not enough evidence? What did they want, a home movie of the woman killing her child? My god, the evidence of child abuse alone was beyond reasonable doubt.
WOW...
That's the problem.
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