Casey Anthony Case= O.J. & Rodney King Trials

[tampa24]

I'm not even going to try be unbiased here. I am stunned that any 12 people living on planet Earth could dismiss all charges against Casey Anthony in her daughter's death. She has done nothing but lie, and lie and lie some more...throughout the whole investigation. Why would she lie constantly to law enforcement who were trying to find her "missing" daughter? Unless of course she had a whole lot to hide.

Just like O.J. and the Rodney King beating trial...the Casey Anthony trial will go down as another train wreck for the American judicial system. Casey Anthony is just a pathological liar and murderer being set free on our streets. Now that she has been acquitted does that mean her daughter isn't dead any more?

Your thoughts?

 

[mrboop]

Tampa,

I agree with you 100% but i am not going to get nuts over it because on final judgement day little Kaylee will be sitting at the right hand of God while Casey is burning in Hell.

May Kaylee rest in Peace.

Anthony

Patchogue NY

 

[another1]

unfortunately, it is not about what everybody knows or what everybody believes.
it is about the state proving the charges.
in this case, only casey and God, know the truth the state did not prove.
the state's case fail the victim, not the judicial system. in my humble opinion.
if the state could win convictions without convincing proof, there would be no justice for anyone.
casey will suffer in this world or the next.

 

[jayshaw]

I agree with Tampa24 and Mrboop. I was very disappointed in the verdict. How much proof do these 12 people need??

 

[tampa24]

unfortunately, it is not about what everybody knows or what everybody believes.
it is about the state proving the charges.
in this case, only casey and God, know the truth the state did not prove.
the state's case fail the victim, not the judicial system. in my humble opinion.
if the state could win convictions without convincing proof, there would be no justice for anyone.
casey will suffer in this world or the next.

You make alot of good points Another1. But what bothers me the most about the verdict is not just that the state/judicial system lost its case...it's that there is no justice for the daughter. God help us all if the state wins every case. That unfortunately does happen in many countries around the world. But this is a case that should have prevailed in the courts.

C.A. got away with murdering her daughter. There was no ransom note. Her own mother was the one who called the police when Casey ran out of lies to tell her mother about her daughter's whereabouts. By then she had been "missing" for a month. The only one who benefited from the daughter's death was Casey. There were all kinds of cell phone photos of her out drinking and partying, pawing on men and women in bars during that month. She just wanted the single lifestyle again. Where she could go out drinking and whoring around. Murdering her daughter was obviously an easy thing for her to do in order to attain that goal.

As with O.J. karma's a bitch. He got away with murder for a while and then still ended up right where he belonged in the first place. Whether it comes back to bite C.A. in the butt in this life or in the hereafter, she'll pay a price for it eventually.

 

[another1]

the jury did not accept proof that she was a selfish woman as proof that she was a murderer.
no witness claim knowledge of her abusing her daughter.
many single mothers have left their child with grandmother and partied they life away.
sometimes, what we just know cannot be proven.

 

[MissDeidra]

When I was a Freshmen in college I had to serve as a juror on a murder case. The victim was an 18 month old boy suffocated by his stepfather. It was plain awful. The trial lasted 3 weeks and we deliberated for 5 days. We ended up finding him guilty of involuntary manslaughter. I have no idea how long he was sentenced for, because after it was over I wanted to be rid of the whole thing. The thing is that I feel in my bones that that child was murdered by his step-father, but the state did not prove beyond a reasonable doubt that it was premeditated. 12 years later and it is still weighs really heavy on me.

So I reserve judgement about this trial because I wasn't there and you don't know what the conversations were in that deliberation room. There must have been a reason that those 12 people made the decision they did. I bet we will start to hear from them soon.

 

[another1]

we the public know things about this case that the jury could never hear.
a death qualified jury wanted to know more, before voting for conviction in a murder case.
from here, i already had her on the table and in hell!
i respect their call.

 

[tampa24]

When I was a Freshmen in college I had to serve as a juror on a murder case. The victim was an 18 month old boy suffocated by his stepfather. It was plain awful. The trial lasted 3 weeks and we deliberated for 5 days. We ended up finding him guilty of involuntary manslaughter. I have no idea how long he was sentenced for, because after it was over I wanted to be rid of the whole thing. The thing is that I feel in my bones that that child was murdered by his step-father, but the state did not prove beyond a reasonable doubt that it was premeditated. 12 years later and it is still weighs really heavy on me.

So I reserve judgement about this trial because I wasn't there and you don't know what the conversations were in that deliberation room. There must have been a reason that those 12 people made the decision they did. I bet we will start to hear from them soon.

Wow Deidra. That sounds like a pretty intense experience for an 18-19 y/o woman in college. I'm sure that's just one more reason that you are wise beyond your years.

That's the part that sucks about our system of justice though. Knowing the truth and proving the truth in court beyond any reasonable doubt...are entirely different matters. But then reasonable doubt has helped acquit many innocent people too.

 

[RayJ3MD]

Pathological liars are often acquitted since their pathology has them believing their own version of events. What happened in this case was this: the State took to long, their opening, their case in chief, and their closing. The jury was absolutely on the money with this verdict (not that she didn't cause the child's death) but that the State didn't prove it beyond a reasonable doubt. I also need to add some further comment on the commentators. How that "Nancy Grace" person has a television show is beyond me. First, I have never seen anyone need a makeover more than her. A nose job, a redo of that helmet head haircut, and that smarta** comments she makes to the male attorneys that appear on her show should make the HLN owners think about a replacement forthwith. There are others that would do a much better job. Now then my friends let me know what you think about all this mess I have thrown against the wall to see if anything stuck.

 

[joeychuck2]

I agree I was shocked by the verdict. We don't know what the truth really is but that woman will always live with what happened. Deep down I feel she knows the truth. I'm not sure she killed her or what happened but we will never know.

 

[powabam]

Like Nancy Grace said, "the devil is dancing" after the verdict.

 

[tampa24]

The prosecution didn't have enough physical evidence or even a provable cause of death to prove that Casey was the one who actually did it. Even though our common sense and a mountain of circumstantial evidence tells us that was the case. One commentator said it best when he said that the jury's verdict didn't mean that she didn't do it. Only that there was too much reasonable doubt.

It's very sad though that being a pathological liar and disposing of a body where it will decompose quickly is enough to get you off for murder. Now she is going to be back out on our streets soon.

 

[slimvintage]

Apologies in advance for this unseemly rant

I know much less about the trial than you guys. I got up to speed only toward the end. I was really offended by the prosecution, specifically (a) a huge person who appeared to be very angry to be on whatever opiates were slowing her speech almost to a standstill, wearing what looked like a blond wig made of textile fiber suitable for the manufacture of automobile carpet, who had to consult 3 different files in order to get through one sentence and probably made several jurors want to put a sock her mouth to silence her and (b), a supercilious asshole in gray curls who tried, having intuited that he and the rest of the state's team had failed to bring home a conviction, tried, as I say, to get points from the jury by peekaboo hiding his tacky mouth behind his stupid hand and giggling at the defense attorney during the summings up. If I had been a juror I'd have had to resist strongly the temptation to vote against the prosecution just on the basis of that disrespectful, transparently strategic mirth. What a major douchebag.

Like José Baez, I'm glad that the blood lust of those two employees of the state was stymied by a perfect jury, who saw clearly through to the nucleus of the case, pro and con, and reached a blessed verdict that kept a failed person off the gurney, no tubes feeding poison into her sorry, fucked up veins, but rather doomed to live out her life with a 24/7 conscience whispering eternally in her ear.

Her little child is in heaven, happy as only a two year angel can be. How would you like to be the one to flap your pretty wings over to her playground and tell her, "Because mommy whom you loved with all your heart was naughty and sent you up to shitty heaven, we've organized a very controlled murder for her, honey, that'll take place in the next decade more or less, so she'll have time to think about it, become born again, and marry, on death row, some psycho from Naples who even as we speak is planning to write her his first fan letter. Sweet, yeah?"

Sorry, really sorry, to be so tasteless. I abhor the fact that my beloved country counts itself among a smallish number of other lovely places on the planet where the state relieves criminals of their lives as punishment for their unspeakable deeds. And that we do this partly to be seen by our peers, and the world, as God-fearing, patriotic, fair-minded, law-abiding people.

Lots of my friends are distressed that Caylee has had no justice. I wish we could ask her now what she'd want fucking death-penalty Florida to do with her mother. Does anyone think she'd say, "Leefal injecshun pweese."





Read this to see the league we're in: http://www.theatlantic.com/internat...which-countries-use-the-death-penalty/241490/

 

[Markymark]

Slim, you and many many others are justified in your feelings of being betrayed by the Judicial System of this country, or at least of Pinelles County, Florida. The simple fact is that the prosecution made the mistake of attempting to get more for their buck than they had evidence to support. Jose Baez was smart enough to insist that his client Casey not plea bargain down to a Manslaughter charge, forcing the prosecution to attempt to use circumstantial evidence to obtain a Murder 1 conviction. The jury saw that the "dots were not connected, so they did the only thing they could.

To me the greatest failure is that the law allows lies , in a felony case, to be handled as misdemeanors. Otherwise casey could be facing much more time.

But, in her memory, we can all push for passage of Caylee's Law, where failure to report a missing child within 48 hours, will result in felony child neglect charges.


Caylee, I know justice was not achieved for you, but through your sacrifice, perhaps we can find justice for others, as well as peace for you! God Bless you little Angel!

 

[mikeyank]

Sorry, really sorry, to be so tasteless. I abhor the fact that my beloved country counts itself among a smallish number of other lovely places on the planet where the state relieves criminals of their lives as punishment for their unspeakable deeds. And that we do this partly to be seen by our peers, and the world, as God-fearing, patriotic, fair-minded, law-abiding people.
Read this to see the league we're in: http://www.theatlantic.com/internat...which-countries-use-the-death-penalty/241490/

I too did not follow this case at all, and only became aware of it in recent weeks, but I completely agree with Slim regarding the death penalty, and it is most interesting to see the list of the other countries that join us in this barbaric ritual.

 

[tampa24]

Like José Baez, I'm glad that the blood lust of those two employees of the state was stymied by a perfect jury, who saw clearly through to the nucleus of the case, pro and con, and reached a blessed verdict that kept a failed person off the gurney, no tubes feeding poison into her sorry, fucked up veins, but rather doomed to live out her life with a 24/7 conscience whispering eternally in her ear.

If only it were that simple Slim. But there were 2 other charges that would have been satisfactory for getting justice for a murdered 2 y/o little girl...without having a needle stuck in her mother's arm. Everyone can say in hindsight that the prosecution overreached in putting 1st Degree Murder as one of the charges. Premeditation would have been difficult to prove under the best of circumstances in this case.

But there were 2 other charges after 1st Degree Murder that the jury could have gone with. The second charge was Aggravated Child Abuse. The third charge was Aggravated Manslaughter. They could have understandably thrown out the 1st Degree Murder charge and gone with one or both of the other 2 felony charges. Instead the "blessed" jury decided against all 3.

When the prosecuting attorney was caught laughing behind his hand it was because Baez was inventing these fantasy scenarios of what happened to Caylee to try to sell to the jury. Like the idea that the grandfather who is a retired cop found Caylee's dead body in the family swimming pool. Then with his years of experience with law enforcement he decided that it was not a good idea to call 911 and paramedics...or police to come file a report on this accidental drowning. Instead he decided it would be much better for he and his whole family if they just dumped the body somewhere. And then they would have no extended family, no neighbors or any friends who would ever ask what happened to their granddaughter.

Baez's fantasies were laughable. But 12 gullible people decided that they amounted to reasonable doubt. It may have been unprofessional for a prosecutor to laugh out loud, but that doesn't mean that Casey Anthony isn't a murderer.

She still went out on a barhopping spree for the 31 days before her daughter was reported missing by the grandmother. She was pawing all over men and women in clubs while she told her increasingly concerned parents that the 2 y/o was with a non-existent babysitter. She had bunches of cell phone photos to prove how much she, as a bereaved and frightened mother, was out whoring around during the time she claims her daughter had been "kidnapped". She even got a tattoo on her shoulder saying "Bella Vita" during the time she says that she was desperately and frantically trying to find her kidnapped daughter. But never alerting police or her parents that her daughter had been kidnapped.

She's a pathological liar and a sociopathic whack job. Now come next Sunday the 17th, she'll walk out of jail a free woman. A sociopath doesn't have a conscience whispering in their ear.

 

[slimvintage]

I'm sorry that the mother might well have done something to that child that led to her death. Now that the murder trial is over we'll possibly begin to hear some bona fide facts about the weird parents, the woman herself, and all the other strays, real and imaginary, that people this troubling story.

I disagree that the prosecutor, apparently a 30 year man, couldn't keep a straight face during the summing up of the bikini salesman who handled Anthony's defense because he got so tickled at how amusingly ridiculous the speech was that he almost peed his pants. The trashy idiot did it because he hoped that tactically it would help his failed, over-ambitious case gain credence with a member or two of the jury and thereby have a chance of getting the woman sentenced to death. He should have been given 6 days and a fine for contempt.

I agree that there were other possible verdicts. For them to have been considered by the jury the prosecution would have had to make them viable alternatives, and they didn't bother to do that. They gambled on the hope that a not guilty verdict would be so repugnant to the jury that they'd go for the capital one. Dumb fuckers. Ambition in the hands of the corrupt and inept is a sorry spectacle to have watch.

We are saddened and insulted by the baby's not having obtained justice in this trial. I'm at least relieved that the Florida judicial system didn't get to dip it's suntanned fingers into blood yet again, and send some miserable, criminal citizen to a government execution. Once the USA joins the rest of the civilized world in it's abhorrence of the death penalty we can talk about justice for future Caylees. For the moment it's too dangerous to flirt with the various ways it might be obtained.

 

[Ms. Kianna]

I am just in shock! Before I left Tuesday morning, the news said the jury was in deliberation. I was without phone, computer, or t.v. for three days........and I come back to find out that she got convicted of nothing.

 

[another1]

it seems the state was able to prove that she lied to the police.
i feel sorry for child and those 12 people who answered the call to serve on a jury.
she is out of jail, but she will never be free.
to save herself, she throw away home and family.
killed her child, distroyed her family and wasted a lot of people's time.
the voice/s she will be hearing, will come from all around her and not from inside her head.