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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You are working on my last nerve!
You mean “hopefully” Talisker doesn’t have their two-year old simply come up missing and Talisker doesn’t report it for 30+ days and then Talisker lies constantly to the police about the disappearance of the two-year old?
Is that the kind of “hopefully” you are talking about?
I guess, you believe the idiots that stated she was a “good mother” too?!?! Let me give you an applicable quote, “Stupid is as stupid does!”
Hay stupid if you think she is guilty and the case needs work, you hang the damn jury, you do not let them walk. How damn dumb can one be.
Just your way.
That's great unless you're a 2 year old whose mommy is quietly googling "chloroform" while you nap.
Bull crap, you do not need to prove the cause of death, what do you do when there is no body. The kid was missing her sorry ass slut of a mother did not report it. End of case.
The sympathizers with the idiot jury are as disgusting as those bumpkins, and their idiotic rants about "potentially innocent" people, whatever that means, getting convicted, have never been original in the first place. Where was such choice of an innocent person getting convicted? Where? It's an old demagogic argument to defend the indefensible.
Yeah, blame it on the prosecutors.
Sorry, it's the system that failed. A murderer goes free to murder again. Why not, after all?
Yep.
Good for them. It's not their fault if the prosecution was not able to make the case. They could only go with the evidence presented, not base a verdict on their emotions.
Justice will be meted out for that little girl by her Heavenly Father.
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.
Casey Anthony’s representation. To a T.
Ultimately OJ did not get away with it and neither will skank mom. What goes around comes back around again—eventually.
Yep. The prosecutors were magnificent. The jury was a monstrous insult to us all.
This Casey garbage will be either: Kill again, die of drugs, or be found dead by the side of some road.
Please excuse my grammatical error in my previous post!
And not just the finger, but the whole works (with hand on arm — whatever that’s called). Total class. That’s what happens when a drunk parties in public.
His gesture is surely that of a practiced expert. Disgusting.
My opinion of defense lawyers has not always been extremely high; but this has slopped the whole lot through the sewer.
No bannie...no grammatical errors allowed on FR.
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