Casey Anthony NOT Guilty Of Murdering Caylee Anthony Guilty of Lying To LE
Orlando, FL- 10 days shy of 3 years after the smell of decomposition in her pontiac sunfire prompted her Mother to shriek through a 911 call that something “was wrong” Casey Marie Anthony has been acquitted
She has been convicted of providing false information to a law enforcement officer only
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Cindyc says:
July 6, 2011 at 6:48 pm
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Hateful ugly post.
Peggy,
I can see you are upset wrt to the verdict as well, otherwise why would you be bothering to post? I suggest you change your channel from HLN if it is causing you such great frustration. You’ll see it won’t bother you if you don’t watch it.:) Personally, I don’t find anything wrong with the Prosecutions case. There was a lot of science involved which I enjoy and understand. I think those that didn’t feel she was found to be guilty were intimidated by the evidence and were waiting for a point by point map to give directions to the verdict. Information is continuing to be advanced and if the use of lay people as jurors continue, education needs to be a requirement.
All legalities aside, I’m truly sorry by this outcome and the fact that you feel you failed. You offer a great public service, Blink. Keep it up and let’s just hope that life catches up with Casey sooner than
later.
Nana2
That is the reason they failed to do their duty. They were so concerned about how to punish or not punish that they paid no attention to what was being presented.
Any group of jurors that sit and listen to testimony, make notes and then take none of them to the jury room for examination and discussion have already decided.
Now that Mr. Ashton has retired I hope he writes a book it will be a best seller. Title “Caylees Voice” or just a book about his life and cases that has a chapter Caylees voice. Because his, Linda and George where and are the only truth tellers. These three are role models for the young and the old. They know and believe what Justice truly is.
There is a petition on the above article take a look and sign if you wish.
nana 2 – thank you…..
solange -i went back and read the comments you mentioned. i agree that the jury could very well have found doubt in this. i have a friend who was totally taken in by the defense theory about george and it completely skewed her thinking about who did what to caylee. i am beyond baffled by her thinking. i did not watch this part of the trial, but what i saw of the anthony testimony caused me to know with certainty that they all lied and had roles in helping the defense. for some reason, people really went for george’s part in the charade. jeff ashton has said that george cooperated with detectives until caylee’s remains were found, and then george’s cooperation stopped. mr. ashton then said george was told by the defense in april before the trial about the molestation and about their plans to claim george played a role in the dumping of caylee’s body. ashton said today in his interview that he believed george was upset by this, that the two of them had spoke about it. ashton said george was most upset about baez’s claim that he dumped caylee’s remains. i think he helped them put this doubt in the mind of the jurors, i just dont know if he was sincerely flustered/angry or if it was an act. time will tell with george, i guess. maybe george will speak out?
justice23 says:
July 6, 2011 at 4:42 pm
Casey Anthony Juror: ‘Sick to Our Stomachs’ Over Not Guilty Verdict
http://abcnews.go.com/US/casey_anthony_trial/casey-anthony-juror-sick-stomach-guilty-verdict/story?id=14005609
Hard to view this honestly. Damage control. Seriously Mr. Huekler? Go back to playing with your marbles and transistor radios.
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So……., Caylee was rolling around the trunk w/ duct tape on her face b/c of what? Family dynamics? Habitual lying?
i don’t believe a word that chick said- doesn’t jive.
Wow!!!
Can’t believe what this doctor’s says about George.
http://www.foxnews.com/health/2011/07/05/why-casey-anthonys-verdict-makes-sense/
(snip from above link)
…..if she (Casey) were the victim of rape as a child (something Casey accuses her father of perpetrating), then learned that the man responsible for her rape had tried to sexually assault her daughter while using chloroform to drug her, only to cause her death “accidentally.”
And, believe it or not, a young woman in denial of her assailant’s depravity, preferring to think she was actually “chosen” as a little girl over her mother, might even cover up for her assailant and the killer of her daughter, because she has been trained to hide his assaultiveness her whole life. She might even sit still for a long, long time, despite that man making the death of her daughter look like murder by a third individual.
I’m not saying that anything really happened this way, but it could have. Really. And if it did, it would certainly explain why George Anthony would contemplate suicide in the middle of this case
(Grandparents don’t routinely try to kill themselves when their grandchildren go missing or are found dead; in fact, I have never, ever heard of it happening).
@ Peggy
Regarding your question about banning programs if she was found guilty. I’ve already removed HLN from my cable package…before a verdict was handed down.
I can only speak for myself.
Eloise,
The tape was found matted to hair at the base of the skull. What the public saw of tape over caylees mouth was a superimposed picture presented by the prosecution. Faux evidence.
Eloise,
Glad to see you’re still posting.
Your health issue has been on my mind and I’m holding good thoughts for healing.
Your sense of humor will serve you well with that!! LOL times 10 on the marbles and transistor radios! (How did this guy make the grade?)
Be well,
WG
Hi WPG, no not what you said at all. Read some reference to the movie Runaway Jury and corruption in regards to this and it sounded as if it was getting a little conspiracy theory-ist a bit early. I personally think if we are going to go there, we need to back it up. JMOO. I’m all for looking into what you’ve stated if need be. Cheers to you too.
TGF: what a great post. I will be back in the am to respond but thank you. Have you ever read Albert Camus’ book: The Stranger? For that matter has anyone here? It is relevant philosophically to this case.
@4.Joan says:
July 6, 2011 at 6:54 pm
“Why is there not a law on the books that jurors cannot profit in any manner from their service?”
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I agree with this completely. This would help maintain the integrity of our jury system.
Ms Blink-I just discovered your site a couple of weeks ago. Thank you so much for speaking for those with no voices! The daughter of someone I know disappeared 9 years ago-her skeleton was found recently. That poor Daddy has searched for all this time to find out what happened. There are so many little bones out there crying for Justice. Thank you for giving us a place to speak up. I have just signed the petition for Caylees Law. thank you, thank you, thank you- Good hearts will triumph!
@A Texas Grandfather says:
July 6, 2011 at 10:33 pm
Nana2
That is the reason they failed to do their duty. They were so concerned about how to punish or not punish that they paid no attention to what was being presented.
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They shouldn’t have been thinking about punishment they were only in the guilt phase the punishment phase comes after they decide the guilt & they hadn’t done that yet at that point..
I don’t know if this has been posted already but Casey’s former fiancee is going to be on Dr. Drew this evening (Thursday), he said the family spent months and months trying to set him up for killing Caylee.
The successful Defense tactic was to find someone jurors could dislike more than Casey to pin it on, in this case George.
My granny was a wonderful woman who practically raised me until I was about 10 years old. My connection to her was unexplanable, deep and highly emotional. She was a character of sorts and just thinking of her makes me smile. Cerebral hemorrhage from aneurysms (two major ones about 12 years apart) destroyed my granny. 21 years of suffering and deterioration later, she thankfully passed on. I was relieved in her death because I knew she was with her heavenly father and not tied to the body that had become a trap for her beautiful soul.
She taught me to love the Lord. Her wild streak also showed me a bit about rebellion. She was a country girl with a garden and animals. Her sense of humor/pranks she played on people made life joyous always with a hint of anticipation of what she would be up to next.
The last time I saw her, I felt like she knew who I was for the first time in years. She couldn’t talk but she accurately squeezed my hand appropriately to the questions I asked her. She had that glint in her eyes that told me she was either conceiving of something ornery or remembering something…
Like her, I’m also a country girl with livestock and animals. At the time of her death, I had 16 baby chicks. It was cold outside so I had them in a very tall box in my house, under lights to keep them safe and warm. The day of the funeral, we returned home. There were 15 chicks in the box. One chick was missing, unable to escape, no other animals or people around and never to be found. I have been convinced from that moment that she took that baby chick with her. There were many God moments in and around that time – too much to go into here except that I received “answers” from her in strange and mysterious ways.
In my sleep last night, I had a very vivid dream of her holding sweet little Caylee in her arms, rocking her to sleep. I’m sure it is all my own wishful thinking that she feel the kind of love I did as a small child but the message I felt strongly when I woke up is that Caylee no longer has to crave – and be denied – the love and comfort that did not surround here on this earth.
Thanks for indulging me. Of all the cases I have followed, this one stings the worst and the cloud won’t go away.
I’m so angry and appalled at the bits and pieces I’ve read from some of the jurors interviews.
If any of the jurors felt pressured to vote not guilty, I hope they have the MORAL FORTITUDE to step forward.
Watching both of the Ant’s smiling and smiling outside of the courtroom this morning. The entire family makes me sick and I have not one molecule of sympathy for them . . . never have, never will. Their only goal was to get her free and now they have the gall to display triumph.
Look at her!!!!! . . . she is still winking and smooching it up with her “team”. Guilty POS.
@8.noJustice says:
July 6, 2011 at 11:31 pm
I’m going to *try* to articulate my thoughts on your post and I hope that it will somehow make sense.
As mentioned before, I am a survivor of long-term childhood sexual abuse and I understand this vicious cycle of self-loathing and denial and well as how be a “great” victim. Here it goes…
It’s MOO that Casey was not raped or sexually abused by her dad in any way for a couple of reasons. #1 – She loves attention. She also apparently loves to play the part of being a victim. IF the allegation were true, she would have “used” it at some point in her life – especially as a teen-age girl for the attention it would muster. #2 – This type of abuse causes people to act out sexually in different ways, causes mistrust and certainly impacts a real sexual relationship. This is something to be discussed between partners. I don’t want to be graphic so let’s leave it at there being an imaginary line between what’s OK and what’s not, triggered by memories.
NOT ONE PERSON of the all the friends she had in school and beyond and the alleged revolving door she seemed to have with multiple sex partners over the years, has come forward to support her claims. Not one person.
Secondly, for someone like Casey, incarceration changes things. Those who embrace the role of victim will use it like some people change clothes. Again, MOO, when the DA’s office was evaluating her for bond, she would have done ANYTHING to convince them not only of her innocence by mitigation but also attempt to throw someone – anyone – under the bus. IF this abuse happened as her attorneys alledged in court, EVERYONE would have known about it long before this case went to trial. I also submit that the defense strategy would have been wholly different.
This pathological liar wouldn’t have told the truth if it meant potentially getting out from under a DP case? If she truly loved Caylee and the scenario was as posted, she would have gladly persued George not only for justice for Caylee, but also to avenge the abuse.
I don’t buy this theory. AMOO
@8.noJustice says:
July 6, 2011 at 11:31 pm
“(Grandparents don’t routinely try to kill themselves when their grandchildren go missing or are found dead; in fact, I have never, ever heard of it happening).”
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While this may very well be true, IMO, MOST cases will not involve the death of his granddaughter at the hands of his own daughter. Quite overwhelming! I am a mother and a grandmother and the very thought of losing a child or grandchild is more than I can imagine living with.
It seems that everything I’ve read about this jury’s verdict, whether from a juror who has chosen to speak out, the above mentioned physician, et al, etc., all go to the suggestion that this crime was perpetrated as the defense stated in opening statements and, IMO, this should not be the case. I hope this makes sense as my mind is still reeling.
I’ve only been reading about this case for a couple of weeks and really missed so much. But now that I’ve had time (very little) to consider some of the things I wasn’t aware of – I have A LOT of questions, especially, regarding the Anthonys’ involvement. I don’t believe they were involved in the murder or that GA molested Casey but…..how much did they assist in covering up the murder?
They haven’t visited their daughter since 2008 but Baez was running that show and they’ve been trying since BEFORE the trial and immediately after to visit her. I would, as most parents would, take a bullet for my child but I can’t see that I could EVER accept anything close to what Casey is ‘not guilty’ of.
@17.Survivor says:
July 7, 2011 at 8:04 am
Thank you for sharing that beautiful story.
That was such a great post Survivor, you articulated really well what I’ve been thinking about her supposed sexual abuse. Also, something that struck me, *if* George had done all these horrible things to her why would she be raising her own daughter in his home? The normal motherly instinct would’ve been to protect Caylee from that. I have a close family member who was molested and she is so ultra diligent with her own daughters now, maybe even to the point of paranoia.
I don’t think the defense should’ve been allowed to just randomly throw this out there without proof. The jurors seemed to have been so focused on it that they completely disregarded that Casey was the one on trial, not George.
Nana2
Agreed. This jury lacked something called “understanding your job”. The result is what we have mostly found to be beyond the realm of normal behavior.
I am beginning to think that, in high profile cases, the judge is going to have to give the jurors the normal instructions, then speak to them specifically about how to listen and evaluate evidence and testimony from witnesses prior to the actual trial.
Survivor
Your paragraph about how Casey’s friends behaved is IMO the key to learning about what she really thinks.
Most sociopaths do not ever have real friends. They choose certain people to be around in order to advance their agenda. When the two or three who are around have served their purpose, they are abandoned without any thought or remorse and the sociopath moves to the next thing they want.
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The Dana Pretzer Show On Scared Monkeys Radio – Wednesday July 6, 2011 – Special Guests: Blink from Blink on Crime, Pat Brown & Tim Miller Discussing the Shocking Casey Anthony “Not Guilty” Verdict … Where is the Justice?
http://blinkoncrime.com/2011/07/06/the-dana-pretzer-show-on-scared-monkeys-radio-%e2%80%93-wednesday-july-6-2011-%e2%80%93-special-guests-blink-from-blink-on-crime-pat-brown-discussing-the-shocking-casey-anthony-%e2%80%9cnot-guilty/#comments
Walks free on July 13th.
http://www.foxnews.com/
A number of people have linked this to the Scott Peterson case. Although there are a number of similarities, there are also a number of quite important differences, which I suspect resulted in different verdicts.
1) We have a very specific time frame for Lacie Peterson disappearance. We have a 31 day window for Caylee’s disappearance.
2) Scott Peterson had a specific documented alibi for the time in question (which ended up working against him). Casey was all over the place.
3) Forensic evidence on Scott’s computer lead police to a very specific sequence of events, and lead to searches, that although unsuccessful, where in a general location consistent with the eventual body recoveries. Casey’s computer evidence yielded searches for chloroform and neck-breaking, but the prosecution suggests she was suffocated by duct tape. This is suggestive, but not very specific evidence.
4) There was some forensic evidence at the probably Peterson crime scene (their kitchen), but we don’t know the location of Carlee’s death.
5) There is specific evidence linking Scott Peterson to the “disposal” scene (his parking stub from the marina), we don’t have any direct linkage of Casey to Caylee’s recovery site.
6) Scott Peterson did not have crazy family members stirring the pot.
In general, all of the circumstantial evidence in the Peterson case led to a specific understandable story. In the Casey Anthony case, there was a lot of evidence as to her guilt, but this evidence did not lend itself to an easy to follow narrative.
One final thing, the jurors did not volunteer for this trial. They were subpoenaed. They were isolated, essentially jailed (although in nicer quarters than true prisoners), deprived of their liberties, and had their outside contact limited. Many of them may have taken a financial hit from missing work. They based their decisions based on the (quite limited) information given them. They were given scientific information which may be cutting edge, but is not generally accepted. Now we here that they are stupid, lying, thieving, attention seeking conservatives who should be harassed in their communities for this verdict.
Caylee had her day in court, and we are all free to interpret Casey’s guilt. Some of the blood-lust I have seen recently is out of tune with what I have come to expect from the fine posters at BOC. I know people are angry and upset. I believe that Casey had something to do with Caylee’s death also. But punishing jurors and seeking vengeance against the Anthony’s is not “Justice for Caylee.”
i just think it is wrong how casey gets away with murder like that n not be found guilty isnt that wrong to kill your child n caylee was missing 4 31 days now any mother who love their child knows that if she was missing for so long they would of called the police and tried lookin for their daughter not out party like nothin even wrong dnt u think ………………………… it just wrong to the fulliest
Hi Everyone, I am going to try to not think negatively today. I have used “The Serenity Prayer” many many times in my life and it has helped me to focus on the now. Every line of the Prayer is Perfect. God, Grant me the Serenity To Accept the Things I cannot Change. The Courage to Change the Things I can. The Wisdom to Know the Difference. Acceptance does not mean that you have to like it! Only that you Accept that something has happened and that You can’t Change. Courage to Change the Things I Can. The meaning of that line to me is to change the way I react to Something that has Happened that I cannot Change. Wisdom to know the Difference. I Hope that this helps someone here.
Ok,I have had several questions about events of the trial that I am curious about. Dominick Casey and his Buddy were very creepy. What was that all about? DC received a call from a “woman who told him to go there” in Nov and to look for trash bags.Why + what happened? They found nothing? The guy with DC spoke so fast in court like he didn’t want anyone to understand him. He was so inaudible that I couldn’t understand anything he said. DC spoke as if he had become demented perhaps from alcohol. Is he always like that? Who were they working for at the time? Jose Padilla said at that time on NG show that a bombshell has been found. I body had been found and that he told DC that any info he had he had better report to police. OK, JP has said a lot of things in 3 years, but what was going on there? JP went with divers into a pond 1 or 2 days later. Smokescreen ? I don’t expect answers I’m just full of Q’s regarding all “The Players”.
This is a statement from one of the alternate jurors. If this was the mindset of all the jurors where in the “H” is the “lack” of evidence Caylee was murdered? There was duct tape on her nose, mouth, chin and under her chin!! Hello, it was a homicide!!!!! Were any of the jurors looking at the physical evidence presented by the prosecution??
“Huekler said the lack of physical evidence that Caylee was murdered overwhelmed the circumstantial evidence of Casey Anthony’s many lies and her hard partying in the 31 days when she knew her daughter was dead but didn’t tell authorities.”
The State could not prove it was a homicide???
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2011857/Casey-Anthony-trial-verdict-Jurors-felt-sick-stomachs-accused-cleared.html
TGF, your post last night was meaningful and helpful. You have helped me see a bit of the person you are behind all the posts I’ve read by you over time. It brings a sensitivity and depth of you that I see is now, rooted in great strength and conviction of faith. Thank you.
I would only add that Christ added 2 more commandments in addition to the OT. We as Christians have been charged with loving our neighbor as ourselves, and to love our God with all our heart, mind, soul, strength. As you said, not easy. At all. Maybe even impossible, yet try we must.
I agree with you that we are to try to love others, and we’ve been charged to love them as ourselves, however, for me, I don’t know if I think respecting others is a religious charge. Maybe one of being a citizen of this country-and respect in regards to the rights of others, but I personally see this separate from my faith. At this point anyway, as I am a flawed human being in process with a long long way to go, and it will certainly not be accomplished here on earth. There are many many people I have no respect for inherently in relation to what they do, nor do I strive to respect them, even while understanding I must attempt to see them as ‘me’-someone who is broken by the knowledge of what it is to be here on earth.
As this case has revealed for me: anytime “I” think I’m “right” or have the bead on “truth” and “know” how it is, or should be done, should be, will be, and on and on, what I get hammered with is the revelation of how little I know, that what “I” think or feel gets turned upside down, that “I” not even close. I can get righteous and more attached to my POV and see others as obscured and wrong, or I can “rejoin” so to speak-the human race and take my place in hopefully, a measure of humility-and go back to the drawing board. And work on me, my shortcomings, faults, logs in my own eye and so forth.
However, with all this being said people must must must be held accountable for their actions. Our founders knew-I think-that thin fine line of moral right and wrong in the religious sense of truth as opposed to right and wrong in being a part of what it is to hold civilization together regardless of one’s personal religious peruasions. Meaning I ‘think’, that as we evolve-or choose not to grow spiritually and morally from the sense of belonging to God, we must be held to a standard of ‘morality’ as what it means to be a member of society regardless. God knows we are imperfect works in progress, but our laws, for the most part, do hold us to a standard of ‘being’, acting, participation, etc.. and to uphold a degree of conduct and obligation to duties regardless.
And (bringing it back to topic) this means for me that no matter how badly KC was, if ever, mistreated by anyone, no matter how damaged or victimized-as long as she’s not legally insane or of low intelligence etc……any and all illegal (political) [or evil (religious)] acts she’s done, she must be punished for, held accountable and charged.
Where-and I have very little ‘facts’ to state this really, but since I’m fatally imperfect-I’ll indulge myself,
, I am thinking the jury made the mistakes of not finding her guilty of one of the first 3 charges b/c they felt George or others in the family were involved, murder or by accident, sensed a cover up or conspiracy, and therefore proverbially, threw the baby out with the bathwater. Meaning that if someone else was involved in the murder/or for them maybe an accident, of Caylee along with KC, it was not proved ‘beyond a reasonable doubt’, and therefore they used this to give KC a complete and total pass on ANY of her involvement. That they probably knew she was guilty as all get out, but they perceived the charges having being written in ways that boxed them in. I am totally speculating on the juror’s mindsets. I would love to know eventually how they saw this so we can learn and grow from this and so it won’t all be for naught.
This sort of a pass on KC’s evil-to me-just b/c it wasn’t proven she had help or was assisted or whatever, represents again, to me, a major flaw in thinking and/or our laws. Esp. since this was a double jeopardy case, this is an insult to us all and our system. And for me and jmoo, this is where I feel the PT over reached and created too much of a burden of proof, too much potential reasonable doubt, in the way the charges were written. The PT knew how wacked out and guilty (of something) the rest of the family was and the PT let this go unaddressed basically (elephant in the living room), while the DT pounded this family’s not only involvement but complete dysfunction over and over again. IMO the jury picked up on this ‘disconnect’ and translated this into a very confused ‘reasonable’ doubt.
Felt uncomfortable with allowing KC to take the bullet alone. JMO. As most know I feel the entire family was involved to various degrees and are so sick that unconsciously and consciously, they went in and out of colluding with her all the way to throwing her under the bus. This family’s sickness was so obvious and profound and the ‘grieving’ parents, or mother, the ‘altruistic’ perjurying mom was ‘accepted’ as normal. Each family member in the middle of our legal system, during the trial, showed utter disrespect for the truth and the court, our laws, and majorly: CAYLEE!!! and rubbed our faces in it. I think the jury saw this and refused to scapegoat one family member for the sake of justice. Horribly, this allows them all to ‘go free’ basically.
I think most everyone, the jurors as well, know KC is EVIL-without a doubt, but we don’t prosecute ‘evil’ in this country-this is why we have the separation of church and state. And this TGF brings the religious-political relevance of this case back to what I think many of us are struggling so hard with. Maybe……I am anyway.
I’m not able to proof read this d/t time constraints, so here goes- and again thanks TGF for exploring and sharing your insights w/me here. Much appreciated as I am learning from so many of you all and open to this process.
“Ahh Vanity, my Favorite Sin.” Last line of “The Devil’s Advocate”.I love to watch that movie because the actors are all excellent.
A Special Thank you to Dr. Spitz for his performance of “The Bumbling Professor who shakes, spits and plays with his skull prop when confronted. He managed to convince the jury of what everyone else can’t understand”.
Inappropriate Perhaps, but this is how I deal with grief.
The Jurors had every opportunity during the jury selection to make it quite clear that they were not able to be on the jury. The Judge and State certainly do not want Jurors who had any reservations. I don’t buy that they had no choice in the matter. I have been to a jury selection for a Capital Offense, hundreds of people are called for days. The instruction is very clear there and then that they do not want you if you cannot comply with all aspects involved. Period.
@23.Tori says:
July 7, 2011 at 10:12 am
Thank you, Tori. It’s such convoluted thinking that I struggled with wording to make the points. You are also correct on something I failed to point out. Had she truly been a victim, NO WAY would she have allowed Caylee to be around him alone, much less actually live with him. Paranoia = I have two daughters as well. The oldest had very restricted, supervised visits with him for a few months. The youngest never met him and didn’t know he existed until he died. Only then, because I received the call where there was no way to hide the emotion that invoked and she was there. I hid my family & their activities, excluding his mother and sister as well. (LONG story but justified) Even further, everyone who had young children were warned by me, not that they had to believe any of it because that was between him, me & God but simply asking them if they believed his lies, go ahead and leave their children with him. None did that I am aware of. I’m a highly protective mom
@25.A Texas Grandfather says:
July 7, 2011 at 10:28 am
You said it better than I. None would actually be true friends, mere acquaintences. However, she would have said something to somebody somewhere at some point to gain their sympathy and/or attention. Given so many have sought their 15 minutes with this trial, somebody would have said something by now. The silence is deafening, in my opinion.
@22.M Harris says:
July 7, 2011 at 9:32 am
Thank you
@GeorgiaDad – Well said.
I just finished watching Jennifer Ford’s (juror #3) interview with George Stephanopoulos and she actually stated that it was easier to get to the conclusion of an accident rather than to the conclusion of murder.
She somehow found it plausible that a duct taped, triple-bagged dead baby in a swamp met with an accident that caused her to be duct taped, triple-bagged and in a swamp. She could not believe beyond a reasonable doubt that a duct taped triple-bagged child might have been the victim of murder. In fact, she does not believe that a duct…(you know)…child points in any way to the commission of any crime at all and is not sure that a crime occurred.
She stated that the prosecution had a great deal of good circumstantial evidence that this was a murder. I would have asked her what good evidence the defense provided that pointed to an accident…evidence that was strong enough to provide reasonable doubt in the minds of these jurors.
She stated that the jurors would argue and then, whoever was in favor of acquittal, would ask, “So how did Caylee die?” Because no one could answer the exact cause of death, these people made the leap that there was no proof that a crime had occurred.
In order to use the accidental drowning theory as a source of reasonable doubt , consider what they had to accept as reasonable: that a grandfather would not call 911 to help resuscitate the child he loved more than the world; that that same grandfather would deny that child a proper burial and, instead, place her in a swamp/trash dump to be consumed by insects and wild animals; that the child’s mother would not report the child’s death to authorities but rather would sit in jail for 3 years and face a possible death sentence for an accidental drowning; that a mother would party incessantly after the accidental death of her only child.
These are just a few of the ridiculous assumptions the jury would have had to have given weight to in order to arrive at reasonable doubt. They literally had to suspend their disbelief…their common sense…their REASON, in order to reach their verdict.
Miss Ford stated that they were instructed not to speculate or guess in their deliberations. She said she couldn’t envision how the duct tape was applied…was it put on outside or in the back seat of the car? She found this unanswered question so troubling that it prevented her from accepting the mountain of forensic evidence provided by the prosecution and caused her to consider the inane assumptions one would have to make in order to give any weight to the defense’s theory of an accidental drowning.
It never occurred to me that, in the 21st century and with all of our brilliant technological and scientific advances, we would be confounded by a jury of 12 utterly stupid people.
Today I feel so sick to my stomach. Hearing that Baez has signed on with a talent agency, juries willing to sell their stories to the highest bidder. I want to scream and cry. The best the jurors can come up with is, they didn’t find George credible .. REALLY !! that’s it, what about Yuri Melich, what about every other detective, what about Dr. G. what about the fact that the damn car smelled like a dead body had been in it.. Were they not listening.. Did they not ask themselves who makes an accident look like a murder. Who throws their baby girl into a swamp so animals can prey on them. I just don’t get it.
“Carnival of dysfunction” is an understatement, when the porn industry decides Casey Anthony is too perverted for them. IF THAT JUROR SAID SHE KNEW CASEY WAS NOT INNOCENT she has some ‘splaining to do: how did she know that? And why did she not decide Caylee was worth the benefit of her knowledge and hang 11-1? The jury is NOT off the hook, and as much as that judge is a class act, he was over his head with a feces-for brains and morals jury. Corrupt. May they drown in the world’s vomit. Baez could have entered alien abduction as a reason for “reasonable doubt” and these feces-for-brains and morals jurors would have considered that “reasonable”. “Oh Yeah, dat’s the ticket, I saw dose lights back den too.”
Hi Blink! It’s taken me a whole day to realize I got what I wished for. PPP will no longer be costing the state of Florida. No more free meals, free lodging, free appeals, while sitting on death row reading books. Plus, she will be in the REAL gen pop. Anyone who wanted to get to this biotch would never of been able to while she sits in protective custody. Gawd, I wish she could read this becaues there’s got to be over a million crazy’s who want to wack this piece of crap. She’ll never be safe anywhere. Her BIGGEST enemy should be her own father.
Boz I know your a Floridian, and you participated in searches for Caylee. We just can’t incite hate or violence, we have to spend that emotional cash elsewhere. Besides, arent you supposed to be healing?
B
I heard today on the radio per one of the jailhouse letters that her favorite song of the moment was s song called Second Chance by a group called Shinedown (this made me sad as I had liked the song before learning) I looked up the lyrics and they are, imho, a chilling insight into her soul. Or lack therof.
My eyes are open wide
By the way I made it through the day
I watch the world outside
By the way I’m leaving out today
I just saw Haley’s Comet, she waved
Said, “Why are you always running in place?”
Even the man in the moon disappeared
Somewhere in the stratosphere
Tell my mother, tell my father I’ve done the best I can
To make them realize this is my life, I hope they understand
I’m not angry, I’m just saying
Sometimes goodbye is a second chance
Please don’t cry one tear for me
I’m not afraid of what I have to say
This is my one and only voice
I do believe they will be releasing CMA tomorrow to throw people off. For every 5 days, a day is taken off. Tomorrow will be the day and it will not be known till after the fact.
Personally, the REAL REASON that corrupt jury – now complicit in child murder – did what they did is they did not warm up to Ashton. They did not LISTEN to what he said, because HE was the messenger, and it was like “la la la la, we don’t like you”. The evidence anyone needed WAS THERE, and the SIMPLE PROOF OF THAT is the juror who spouted out yesterday said she KNEW Casey WAS NOT INNOCENT. There’s a HUGE Strawman Fallacy at play here. It means the evidence was TOTALLY there. MOO Ashton sort of felt what was going on, and that’s why he’s quitting. If he does, he should form a organization and go after every single possibility to legally fry that murderess. He’d have let see, about a zillion $supporters.
8.noJustice says:
July 6, 2011 at 11:31 pm
Wow!!!
Can’t believe what this doctor’s says about George.
http://www.foxnews.com/health/2011/07/05/why-casey-anthonys-verdict-makes-sense/
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Sorry, but I just couldn’t pass this up. Wow. Ablow has obviously fallen down the rabbit hole with his reasoning here. In my career, I have seen attorneys throw all kinds of spaghetti at the wall and hope in sticks, but never have I seen a psychiatrist who is not even connected to the case do so.
I’ll just say this about GA. IMO, he was, for all intents and purposes, functioning in the combined role of father/grandfather for Caylee. Caylee resided with the Anthony’s and her presence on a daily basis only deepened GA’s emotional attachment to her. He clearly felt responsible for not doing enough to save her from her own mother. At the same time, his daughter was facing criminal charges. He then learned of Caylee’s death. On top of everything else he had to deal with the abject horror of realizing that his little granddaughter’s body had been out rotting away in the elements just a minute or so away from his home. It should be no surprise to anyone, much less a psychiatrist, that these stressors could have led to his suicide attempt.
Casey will self-destruct – the only question is how many more innocents will she take out on her way to the sewer where she belongs. What is really at stake here is our system of justice – the jury system which can be totally corrupted by 12 immoral morons who failed to act on their stated knowledge and stated belief the defendant was NOT INNOCENT. That’s when jury’s are supposed to HANG, for “not proven”. What do we do now? “Caylee’s Law” should ALSO be to change the jury system to add “Not proven” after a minimum of 2 weeks deliberation, and allowing the “double jeopardy” clause not to be valid for a “Not proven”. This means murderers like Casey Anthony who get off because e.g., technology was not there, or a witness did not come forward in time, can be tried AGAIN when proof and saner juries comes around.
I cant help but be reminded of Diane Downs, and the fact she shot her
three children because her toy at the time, didnt want children. She was also a narcissist, sociopath as well, and got herself pregnant again. Oh, how she flaunted herself in front of the camera….Casey anthony is the same kind, imo. I truly wonder if Cindy will take her
back into the home, and kick George to the curb. 2 peas in a pod? yep. Only more destruction down the road? yep. I hope Casey gets buried with financial woes, so much so that she will never be able to
purchase another push up bra again! God, this is sickening.
So, do you think this THING should be allowed to get pregnant, give birth and torture another child? I think she would do that just to twist the knife in her parent’s hearts yet again.
Yes, thanks, I am healing. I get a little twitch in my chest now and again. I think it’s my ankle vein not being comfortable where it is now. LOL
Good post Georgia Dad. People cannot understand that the jury did not, and should not, have the benefit of knowing (or thinking they know) all of the stuff the interested public did about the case. The jury spent weeks of their lives on this case and had to go only on what was presented to them. Having heard the jurors that have talked so far, I think people are being too hard on them. They felt the prosecution did not prove its case. I don’t think they wanted that to be their conclusion. The defense had no obligation to prove anything, just to create reasonable doubt where and if the prosecution had met its initial burden of proof.
I said it before but, having not watched a second of the case, when I saw the report (and later the footage) of the prosecutor laughing during the defense’s closing I immediately thought that was a lawyer who was going to lose. It did not surprise me in the least that he retired almost before the gavel sounded and was already making the media rounds the very next day. Like darden and clark, he will now try to make his fortune over a case he lost (and, unlike darden and clark, he didn’t even have great lawyers opposing him).