Verdict in Anthony Trial
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this is where the justice system failed, watching CNN right now, she could go up tomorrow to the court house and confess and no one can do anything about it.
so... does anyone have civil standing? Her parents perhaps?
She has no job or money, so I dont see that happening. Her parents probably wont let her live with them anymore, either. She is probably going to be harassed by all the lifetime-watching women forever, if one doesnt pull an abortion-doctor-like hit on her. We all remember Larry Flynt getting shot, so the next few weeks could be interesting.
She has no job or money, so I dont see that happening. Her parents probably wont let her live with them anymore, either. She is probably going to be harassed by all the lifetime-watching women forever, if one doesnt pull an abortion-doctor-like hit on her. We all remember Larry Flynt getting shot, so the next few weeks could be interesting.
Anyone who is a parent should be outraged. A 2 year old girl's killer is being set free.
Cyclonepride
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I think they got it wrong as far as guilt or innocence. However, if the case didn't support a conviction, then it didn't. I guess the consolation is that I'd rather live in a society where the government has to prove your guilt rather than just think you're guilty.
I agree. Unfortunately, that's not how it played out. The jurors can't play by emotion or common sense. They have to play by straight evidence and there wasn't much. There was no hard evidence. The prosecutors did a terrible job and the defense did a excellent job, does it make it right? No. That's how the law works, does it need to be changed? Probably.
People are ******** at the jurors, when they followed the way the law is written.
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As someone who knew nothing about the back story and just watching the trial and not listening to any of the talking heads rabble about how guilty she was, I saw this one as not guilty as well. You can sit here and say what an abomination of justice this is, but I'm afraid you've been listening to the talking heads. The media has been pushing this one as guilty from the get go. Justice HAS been served. She was put on trial with a jury of her peers and they found her not guilty. Pretty sure that is how the justice system is set up and I'm pretty sure thats what went down. Just my thoughts.
Agreed. As the old saying goes, 'better to let 10 guilty men go free than one innocent man suffer'. Good on this jury for making the prosecution prove the case (and voting not guilty when they didnt).
As for the actual case... i dont know. So much of the evidence was circumstantial, and its hard to get into the mind of someone who has 1. lost their child (even if through no fault of their own) and 2. allegedly been abused by her family members as well. She will have to live with whatever she did or didnt do for the rest of her life, and one way or the other probably could use some serious psychological help.
Bingo. It's not the governments job to make jurors think someone is guilty...it's their job to PROVE they are guilty. Absolutely no way they proved anything. We should all take comfort in that (that our government has to prove guilt, not just imply it) even though most likely this woman goes free when maybe she shouldn't have.
I know I don't want to live in a country where a man/woman can be put to death over what is percieved to be odd behavior.
I bet the jury was itching to be shipped back home. They are heroic for suffering so long away from their families 150 miles away.
I wouldnt even say it needs changed. The system is set to err on the side of letting the guilty go free, so that we minimize the number of innocent that are convicted.
I might even go so far as to say things like this dont happen enough. Too often the jurors think 'they wouldnt be on trial unless they were guilty' and an innocent defendant who was railroaded by the police\prosecution can get a guilty verdict when the jury votes on what they think happened rather than what the prosecution proved happened.
to be fair, if she murdered her husband in LA, even though she was already convicted of murdering him in OR, you can bet that LA would nail her for murder in their own state.
Not to be a downer, but it happens every day yet I don't see people flooding the streets in a rage. The real tragedy of this situation is the death of a little girl was turned into a damn circus.
The entire jury had to agree on this verdict... it's not like it was a hung jury where one person felt differently than the others. If every one of those jurors felt that she wasn't guilty after hearing the evidence (or lack thereof) presented by the prosecution, I'm not going to sit here and say they're wrong.
I believe 7 of the 12 jurors have children. Unreal. I could maybe see them passing on the first degree count, but the 2 and 3 counts she's guilty. On ironic is this happens day after the 4th of July. This is a day that makes me ashamed to be an American.
Agreed. By passing on lesser counts they basically said Casey had NO part in the death of her daughter.
