Posted on 07/07/2011 1:45:03 PM PDT by kathsua
The Casey Anthony jury reached the correct verdict. The question put to the jury wasn't did Casey Anthony kill her daughter Caylee Anthony, but did she deliberately carry out a plan to murder Caylee by suffocating her with duct tape.
The jury didn't buy the prosecutor's claim of premeditated murder and its easy to understand why they might have rejected it. When I first heard of what the prosecution was attempting to do I thought they had a difficult, if not impossible, task before them.
I could believe that Casey got frustrated because she couldn't get her daughter to shut up and covered Caylee's mouth with duct tape to keep her quiet rather than to kill her. Casey might have positioned the tape carelessly or the child might have had a stopped nose with the end result that Caylee was unable to breathe and died. I have difficulty accepting the claim that Casey is mentally capable of planning to kill her daughter by using duct tape to suffocate her.
Casey was unable to accept responsibility for her action and tried to cover it up. Perhaps she had difficulty admitting to herself what she had done.
American prosecutors suffer from a "disease" which causes them to try to present every wrongful death as premeditated murder. Perhaps prosecutors feel they get better publicity if they convict an evil killer then if they convict someone for doing something stupid.
I don't know if Casey Anthony caused her daughter's death or not, but it would be unfortunate if she will go unpunished for the death because prosecutors made the mistake of trying to turn a tragedy into something sinister.
I disagree.
I think that the worst kind of speculative tripe is put out by people like Nancy Grace and Greta Sustern.
They harp and hype these cases endlessly for ratings and money.
Then when the cases don’t turn out the way their pimping would have the public believe they should, the public erupts in fake outrage.
How many people have said that justice wasn’t done, when all of their information about the case comes through a media filter?
Ironic: The number of so-called conservatives who moan and cry about the “lame stream media” and simultaneously gripe about the “stupid” jury - the only 12 people to get the case without a media filter.
Aggravated manslaughter does not require premeditation, simple nelgiglence will do. How she was acquitted of the AM charge I have no idea.
Wow, sorry I meant negligence.
I don’t think circumstanial evidence is meaningless. But from the evidence I heard, I can’t say for sure Casey caused Caylee’s death. I can’t say it wasn’t an accident or that another person caused Caylee’s death. From pictures of Casey with Caylee, she seemed to love her daughter. There were no reports of abuse. I think Casey has serious mental problems, one being a pathological liar. But I just didn’t see enough evidence that she murdered her child.
This seems to be the best take on the case.My wife and I have both sat on juries in cases when the prosecution made charges that were way beyond what was provable. It results on criminals getting off of charges that should have sent them to prison for 5-10 rather than 20-life the prosecution was trying for. It is not a rare outcome. It is more and more the norm.
If that was the only verdict they were given, I might agree, however, they had two other options to chose from. They rejected all claims of guilt and thus a child murder walks among us.
If that was the only verdict they were given, I might agree, however, they had two other options to chose from. They rejected all claims of guilt and thus a child murderer walks among us.
What nonsense!
How ironic.
You really don’t understand that “assume” and “evidence” are mutually exclusive concepts, do you?
I am truly shocked and disheartened that so many current FReepers aren’t appalled the state tried to convict someone of murder knowing full well they had no positive evidence, what-so-ever.
Got that right.
There are hundreds of children murdered every year in America. Many of their killers get away. Yet we are supposed to obsess over this one case like it was the only crime ever committed.
I make a point of changing the channel every time this sort of manipulative tabloid "news" comes on.
Please defend your statement that the prosecutors case was “speculative tripe”.
Oyvey.
The real reson polygraphs are inadmissible in court is that they are junk science and totally unreliable. The same witness can get polygraph tests from three polygraph operators and get three different results.
From the evidence, it was possible Caylee died accidentally. It is possible someone other than Casey caused her death. I don’t believe they found any fingerprints on the duct tape or trash bag. There is no confession, no eye witnesses. All they had was a body - no cause of death. The most damning evidence to me was that Casey did not notify the police that her child was missing. There was conflicting testimony from various “experts”. All in all, not a very convincing case, IMO.
Nonsense, she was also charged with aggravated child abuse and acquitted. Maybe if she had waited two months to report her missing daughter, went out dancing a few more times while her daughter lay rotting in a swamp and put a few more wraps of duct tape on Caylee's head she would have been found guilty of the abuse charge.
Orlando (CNN) — Duct tape found on Caylee Anthony’s skull was placed there after the toddler’s body had decomposed, not before she died, a forensic pathologist testified Saturday as the murder trial of the girl’s mother ended its fourth week on a contentious note.
Prosecutors claim Caylee’s mother, Casey Anthony, used chloroform to make her daughter unconscious then used duct tape to cover her nose and mouth, suffocating her. The girl’s skeletal remains were found in a wooded field six months after her family last reported seeing her.
Dr. Werner Spitz said he believes the tape was placed on the body long after the flesh had disappeared to hold the jaw bone on, perhaps because someone wanted to move it.
Spitz also criticized the Orange County medical examiner, Dr. Jan Garavaglia, for conducting what he termed a “shoddy autopsy” by failing to cut Caylee’s skull open to look inside.
http://www.cnn.com/2011/CRIME/06/18/florida.casey.anthony.trial/index.html
Casey applied the duct tape she was under her care at time there is no evidence of anyone else. I did not mention the 31 days yet.
The duct tape was applied pre-mortem because it held the lower jaw together even after decomposition. Dr Spitz was discredited in his view in cross examination.
How was he discredited? I didn’t see much of the trial so I don’t know.
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