Posted on 07/05/2011 2:51:18 PM PDT by Retired Greyhound
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Thank God for the Constitution.
No doubt. I predict a few TV Lawyers are going to be hauled up in front of the Bar.
If a guilty murderer went free, I hardly think that’s cause for celebration.
And in my opinion, there was plenty of damning evidence presented. Just like in the O.J. case.
I’d rather a jury of dullards and people of with questionable pasts not be seated.
Let’s hear it for her Jerry Springer Jury!
Was she crying because of joy or sicken by it if the later good for her even if she is a lib
You can call the jury whatever you like, but they were the jury picked by both sides.
They sat in the court room and heard the case in person. They ruled NOT GUILTY.
Perhaps it was merely a matter of liking Baez better than Ashton, who was kind of a jerk.
I’m glad it’s difficult to convict someone of a crime. It’s the only way we can remain free from a tyrannical government.
IMAGINE the WEEPING there will be in NEWSROOMS all across the USA on Election Night, 2012!~
The prosecution didn’t meet the reasonable doubt threshold. So not guilty. That’s how it works.
I believe this was a sympathy verdict and it had nothing to do w/ Caylee or Casey and everything to do w/ the grand-parents. Caylee, their little grand-daughter is dead and gone and the jury empathized w/ the grand-parents and didn’t want to take the daughter away from them as well. Just my thoughts.
Better that a guilty murderer walk free than an innocent person face guilt.
Casey probably did something, but it was very difficult to prove. The jury can only rule on facts in evidence, and within the guidelines of the law.
It’s a tough burden. Thank God for that, or else the State could easily imprison dissidents. Then nobody would be free.
yup
QED
The meaning of reasonable changed in the last 30 or so years.
“She probably did it” is not good enough for a conviction.
exactly
The media will have to be put on suicide watch when Palin in sworn in.
Nah, she just drove around with her little girls dead body (with duct tape over her nose and mouth) in her car.
It may have been a loss for that poor baby, but it was a win for the Constitution where the state has to prove your guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.
Apples and oranges. The OJ case is a different ball of wax.
Yeah, not reporting your missing two-year-old for a month while you lie to the police about her, and party, until she is found dead, buried and wrapped in duct tape, doesn't come near the minimum requirements for negligence, let alone, at the very least, negligent manslaughter.
Oh and by the way - don't make the mistake of leaving your child in your car while you go into a store. Even if you remember them and run back out in 60 seconds, you'll be charged with negligence and have them taken away from you, and if they die from heat, you'll be convicted of negligent manslaughter.
Now what were we talking about? Oh yes, the burden of proof beyond a reasonable doubt.
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