Casey Anthony: CBS Host Cries While Reading Verdict

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[Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears]

>>Actually the state did prove guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. The problem was, the jury was brain-dead; a consequence of attending public schools.<<

There are obviously quite a few Freepers who are just as brain-dead. And they think they are serving the cause of Justice by applauding this travesty.

We are through the looking glass.

[Sacajaweau]

Is that what the accident report said?? Therein lies the problem.

So if your kid drowns accidently, you tape her mouth, put her in a plastic bag, take her to the river and lie for the next 3 years.

[Retired Greyhound]

Don’t ever leave your child in the car, even for 60 seconds.

[tirednvirginia]

There may be quite a few freepers who may committ suicide over this decision. That chatroom was brutal.

[Johnny B.]

I believe it requires only one dissenting vote for a not guilty verdict.

Nope. They have to be unanimous either way (and they were).

If they couldn't reach a unanimous verdict, then they would be deadlocked.

[Retired Greyhound]

There are also many FReepers who are revealing themselves to be Statists.

Trial by jury is fair. The state spent millions on this case. Jury still had doubt.

In Cuba or Iran she would have been guilty 3 years ago.

In America, she gets her day in court.

[Jim Scott]

This one of those troubling cases where the police and prosecutors may be convinced that the suspect - in this case, Casey Anthony - was guilty of murdering her toddler, Caylee, but can't find enough evidence to prove it. They often decide to not prosecute such cases. This time, they did prosecute and by doing so, took a gamble that they ultimately lost. This is the way it's supposed to work. The law and the justice system protect the average citizen, even when the citizen is a sleazeball or, like Casey Anthony, an unsympathetic, self-obsessed, immature 'party girl' who very likely murdered her two-year-old child because the child was an impediment to her chosen lifestyle. The prosecution proved Casey Anthony was despicable, that her child died under mysterious circumstances and that Casey's actions (not reporting the disappearance of Caylee, lying incessantly) were extremely suspicious. However, they didn't prove Casey murdered little Caylee. That is the crux of the case. So, Casey will be freed to pick up her sordid lifestyle (sans child) and we'll all grumble about the vagaries of the U.S. criminal justice system but frankly, although I don't particularly like the jury's verdict, I understand why they arrived at it and had I been a juror on this trial, I probably would have voted to acquit Casey Anthony.

[demkicker]

How did they NOT meet their burden of proof beyond a reasonable doubt? Let's see - they established the facts that:

1. Casey had no job but lied that she did
2. Casey did not report Caylee ‘missing’ for 31 days - only after her mother called the police because she knew something was very wrong when they found her car with the foul order from the trunk.
3. Casey lied about having a nanny (Zanny) keeping Caylee while she was at her fake job
4. Casey continued lying about where she and Caylee were to avoid her parents.
5. Casey lied telling her family & the police that ‘Zanny’ kidnapped Caylee - and later stated that she was held down while Zanny and others kidnapped Caylee because they thought she was a bad mother.
6. Casey lied about doing her own investigation trying to find Caylee
7. Casey continued lying that she was out of town to avoid family members
8. Casey's car trunk smelled like death
9. Casey borrowed a shovel from her neighbor and the cadaver dogs alerted to the inside of the playhouse in the Anthony's backyard where she may have tried burying her.
10. Caylee was found with the clothes her mother dressed her in.
11. Caylee was found with the same rare duct tape on the face of her skull that matched the roll in their garage.
12. Caylee was found 15 houses down from the Anthony's home in the wooded area where they used to bury their dead pets.
13. Casey used her parents computer to look up chloroform & neck breaking before Caylee’s disappearance.
14. Casey didn't show any emotion or concern that her daughter was missing.
15. The jailhouse face to face conversation she had with her parents showed that she didn't blame them for Caylee’s disappearance.
16. The recorded phone call to her family the day she got arrested clearly shows that she had no concern for Caylee, she cussed her parents out and only wanted a guy's phone #.

I could go on but if that list isn't enough circumstantial evidence, I don't know what is. Puhleeze - Anyone saying the prosecution didn't meet their burden of proof must want a video of the murder in order to convict. Anyone with the common sense God gave a billy-goat knows damned well Casey Anthony killed her daughter. She should have at least gotten manslaughter.

I never thought we would have another OJ jury, but someone told me that the area these jurors are from supported Obama - dumb@sses with zero common sense. 'Nuff said.....

[don-o]

The burden of proof is on the prosecution. Eleven jurors decided they did not see proof of guilt. That’s all that matters.

And I’ll go with Mark Levin who says that the prosecution failed and that the defense’s closing argument drove that home.

[Mr.Unique]

If your point is that you would knowingly let a murderer go free to walk the streets of America, you should be ashamed of yourself.

Are you a drama queen or illiterate?

Or both?

[ilgipper]

Why is this jury sacred? They didn’t do their job. That is the same as just assuming every politician is acting correctly just because they are in office. This jury is a sham.

[pyx]

Mark Levin's assessment in a nutshell on the Casey Anthony trail is;

The JURY are the one's who decided the case. The JURY;

Didn't believe the science.
Didn't believe the medical examiner.
Didn't find evidence on the duct tape.
Didn't believe the weight of the prosecution's arguments.

The prosecution proved only that Casey Anthony liked to party and may well have been mentally ill. The prosecution did not prove much else.

Pyx's Opinion.

Television hosts on viewer's favorite television programs OUTSIDE of the court may have swayed viewers but INSIDE, the court with prosecution and defense arguments presented to the JURY is where it counts.

In short, as a viewer, you may deny it, you may hate it, you may just accept it, but YOU WERE MANIPULATED by the media.

Note for your future: The media will do everything it can to manipulate the electorate.

A comparison to the OJ Simpson case is moronic. The two cases are not the same.

[tirednvirginia]

Wrong! Thats called a hung jury.

[onyx]

What are you going on about? I’ve not followed this whole thing, but she wasn’t charged with manslaughter now was she? If so, I’m sure the result would have been much different...

Actally, she was, --- aggravated manslaghter, right along with aggravated child abuse, --- all NOT guilty.

[tirednvirginia]

Wrong! Thats called a hung jury.

[Retired Greyhound]

The jury isn’t sacred. If they represent a cross-section of Americans (Floridians, at that), then they are likely stupid.

But they are the jury that was picked. Twelve citizens. There is no litmus test.

[don-o]

Spot on. All the emoting over the verdict is somewhat troubling. Our system is always vulnerable that the guilty may go free. I’d rather it be that way than have it tilted the other way, where more innocent would be convicted.

[bigbob]

Guess that’s about it for me, too. Just a damn shame when someone can be this sloppy and incompetent about it and still get away with murder.

[Retired Greyhound]

Good post.

[Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears]

>>Afterward, we all chatted and agreed that what we “knew” and what the prosecution proved were two different things.

I have no problem making the prosecution prove their case.<<

Once again, if you are saying you would knowingly let a murderer go free, you are what’s wrong with America.