Posted on 09/15/2011 3:14:25 PM PDT by Jersey Republican Biker Chick
Casey Anthony owes authorities just under $98,000 for the costs of investigating the disappearance of her 2-year-old daughter, Caylee, in 2008, a Florida judge ruled Thursday.
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I think you’ve hit on the bottom line. Most states now have laws prohibiting criminals from profiting from their crimes. Since she was acquitted, that law does not apply directly. However, with his substantial fines, which the judge has said he may increase, he is accomplishing much the same thing.
Bull, there is lying to police, go for it, and then there is lying and robbing the tax payer. She lied and robbed the tax payers.
Personally, I think the Orange County Prosecutor should pay the tab for screwing up the trial like he did. That goes for that chick he had assisting him too.
Did she kill her daughter?? If I was on the jury (I did sit on a murder trial jury and we found for the defendant) The O/C prosecutor did not convince the jury!
Personally, I think the Orange County Prosecutor should pay the tab for screwing up the trial like he did. That goes for that chick he had assisting him too.
Did she kill her daughter?? If I was on the jury (I did sit on a murder trial jury and we found for the defendant) The O/C prosecutor did not convince the jury!
I think so as well.
So much not said here. I might well expect the state of Florida to file a civil lawsuit against Anthony to recoup the money it wasted on account of what she reportedly confessed was a lie. Then Anthony would be due a trial of that lawsuit. But I’m not hearing about any lawsuit. Just some unaccountable judge issuing an order out of seemingly nowhere.
Good point bro!
You get nothing for the right to get nothing, taxed for it, and then you’re billed for the right to get something you’re entitled to but aren’t because it costs money. Got it. Hot mess. Brilliant!
I totally agree! 12 idiots is all it takes to walk free. God will take care of her one day!
There is no double jeopardy and there certainly is no constitutional right to defraud taxpayers by sending cops on a 5 month wild goose chase.
I agree. Not guilty, no cost to the accused for the “investigation”. Otherwise it would open the door abuse of the system, using the criminal justice system to inflict economic harm on individuals by investigating and or prosecuting marginal cases.
She shouldn’t have to pay a dime for this. Sorry if I am in the minority, but it seems clear as the driven snow that this would be a slippery slope if the state or county or city were allowed to bill for investigations that they lost or couldn’t prosecute for whatever reason.
She was aquitted of murder, but she was not found not guilty on all of the charges filed against her. She was convicted of this crime - providing false information to police. Her false information lead to police following false leads - she is responsible and found guilty in a court of law of this crime. Paying for these costs is part of the sentence of her conviction.
When you are convicted of a crime, there are penalties that must be paid. She was also sentenced to jail time for her conviction and how must pay these costs as another part of the sentence.
She was convicted of the crime she is being punished for. She is being fined for the cost of following her false leads. She was also sentenced to and served jail time as another punishment under the same conviction.
Yes, but don’t forget, she was in fact convicted on some of the counts she was charged for - this is actually the lesser of the penalties she received - she was also sentenced to jail time which she has completed serving. The people on this thread objecting are speaking as though she was not convicted of anything.
You’re right, I forgot she was convicted of lying to police / false report or similar charge. So yeah, in that case maybe she should have to pay for that cost.
But upon (not much) further thought, the police are public service paid by taxes, not a private agency paid for by criminals. Obviously haven’t given the issue a whole lot of thought, but my initial comment, based on her acquittal, was not accurate.
Sorry, but this amounts to an illegal taking. "No person shall be deprived of Life, Liberty, or Property without due process of law."
If you can be charged for the prosecution building a case even if you are found 'not guilty' by the jury, no person is safe, no home, no bank account, no one.
Anyone could be extensively investigated and then tried for any crime, exonnerated, and then handed a bill for however much the jurisdiction claimed to spend--a bill that would be sure to strip you of all your assets.
Like the results or not, this is wrong.
She is responsible for the costs of the search because the whole cornerstone of her defense was that the little girl was never missing. She drowned and then her mother dumped her body. Then Anthony lied to the police and allowed them to spend six months looking for a little girl who wasn’t lost.
It’s typical to charge someone who fakes an abduction for at least some of the costs of the searches. This is par for the course and not pay back for the verdict.
We’re talking apples and oranges here.
She was found not guilty of the murder charges.
She was found guilty of lying to law enforcement.
She is NOT being given a bill for the cost of the criminal trial.
She is being given a bill for amounts spent by law enforcement searching for the little girl, before this trial ever began.
Remember that the defense testimony was that the little girl drowned in the swimming pool, and in some panic, the grandpa disposed of the body. This was their sworn legal testimony. Since their sworn legal testimony is that the little girl drowned and was never kidnapped, and never a missing person, that is why she is getting this fine.
This fine is not trying to recover the costs of the trial. It is to recover the costs incurred because she sent police on a fruitless search for a little girl who was not kidnapped.
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