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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The whole famn damily went to Disney!, courtesy of ABC
One of the jurors was scheduled to leave on a cruise tomorrow, everyone was rushing through last week to meet her schedule, I have to wonder how much that affected the speed of deliberations.
I agree with that statement.
I would rather a guilty Casey Anthony go free than any innocent person to be convicted.
They probably saw many media in the courtroom so that may be a hint of the sensationalism.
And get real, the jury had no motive to release this woman other then the instructions by the court. The anger over this case is being misdirected and should be aimed at the prosecution. They overreached and overplayed.
I hold her accountable. She was charged with murder, and it wasn’t proven.
I think the media is doing serious damage to our already crippled legal system.
I was disgusted by the whole circus. It was like Romans flocking the the Colosseum to see a good bloodbath.
The whole dang process was a nationalized freak show complete with the media as the clowns. Whoever though years ago the National Enquirer would become mainstream journalism—yet here we are...
>>Threatening jurors is another. It threatens the whole system.
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Who’s threatening jurors? Report them if this is happening.
Otherwise, don’t paint with a broad brush.
I have no empathy for these jurors. Juror number 3 and the rest of them, should have at least considered the evidence.
About 10 hours, including meals and they walk out with nothing... but feeling sick.
They SHOULD feel sick and I suspect some of them will feel sick for the rest of their lives.
The jury ~ if they “knew something”. They are supposed to think while they serve.
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.
>>I would rather a guilty Casey Anthony go free than any innocent person to be convicted.
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So would a lot of us. But that doesn’t mean we “celebrate” it or “defend” it.
Wrong is wrong, and a miscarriage of justice is wrong.
Has there ever been an instance of a child drowning in a pool and someone trying to cover up the drowning of the child? EVER?
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.
Casey is a sociopath. She will kill again. That means that what you are saying is that you’d rather Casey kill another person than that she go to jail.
Casey is a sociopath. She will kill again. That means that what you are saying is that you’d rather Casey kill another person than that she go to jail.
These oafs have the distinction of being the stupidest jury in the history of the world. At least the O.J. morons can hide behind jury nullification.
just think of it as a really late-term abortion.
That’s fine.
I just happen to be generally very Pro-Defense and Anti-Tyranny.
My son was falsely accused of a very serious crime. Fortunately he was exonerated, but I will never forget how scary it is to have the state accuse someone you love of a crime and wonder if they will hear reason.
I would rather risk guilty people walking free than potentially innocent people going to jail.
I believe in vigilante justice anyway. Violent criminals should be handled on the spot by their potential victims.
The 2nd Amendment is the great equalizer for me
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