Autopsy: NYC boy was given drugs, then smothered

Yahoo News ^ | 7/20/2011

[Former Fetus]

NEW YORK (AP) — The medical examiner says an 8-year-old New York City boy who was abducted off a street in a Jewish neighborhood in Brooklyn, killed and dismembered last week was given a combination of drugs before he was smothered.

[samtheman]

Drugging and smothering children is legal in Florida. This guy just picked the wrong state.

[samtheman]

That jury deserves the death penalty.

[naturalman1975]

Such schemes have operated in Australia for at least 30 years. They work very well. No need for a massive bureaucracy, and I’ve never heard of a case where a child came to harm because of the program.

It’s not perfect but a kid in trouble needs to go somewhere for help. This gives them more security and safety than if their choice is totally random.

[central_va]

The Casey Anthony problem was not the jury. It was the prosecution charging much more than it could prove. I have served on a jury that let an obviously guilty party that most of us loathed walk because the prosecution charged him with things that could not even be indicated as likely, much less proved.

Tell me, are you familiar with the charges in the Anthony trial? I'll bet not.

The child was drugged and killed. Too bad for the perp the body couldn't have been hidden and decomposed leaving no evidence of direct foul play. He would nave nothing to fear. No DNA no conviction.

[miss marmelstein]

I’ll go as far as saying they should hide their faces in shame.

I’ve just been told that when Baez & Anthony had a meeting with some guy who was offering the two creeps a million, the lovely Ms. Anthony’s first question was: where’s my check? And yet some folks on FR think she’s the reembodiment of Audrey Hepburn, lol!

[samtheman]

Anybody who buys or patronizes anything that murdering b*tch sells should be shot.

[Munz]

>I don’t know what are the chances of someone getting the death penalty in NY,

Old “Sparky” is dormant - we are full of liberals.
It will never happen

[arthurus]

The prosecution relied on the ductape to be proof of murder. People do that with the tape rom time to time, not intelligent people, not nice people, but not necessarily murderers. Some drugged out fools and drunks will tape their kids' mouths shut to make them be quiet. It is wrong and in most states will get intervention from the State and maybe the child confiscated.It is not proof of murder or intent to murder. You feel that the woman was evil and should have been convicted no matter what the evidence. You were not a juror. A juror has to decide, not is the accused a bad person who should be locked up, but has the prosecution proved him guilty. I was not on that jury but I have read extensively about the trial and I have sat on a jury that decided to not convict an obviously guilty perp. He was obviously guilty of something that the prosecution did not even address except once in an offhand manner. The actual charge did not address it. The prosecution had been targeting the fellow(rightfully) for a long time and the actual charge was far more serious than the charge they could have proved.

Manslaughter would have gotten a conviction. When Mom is "impaired" and frantically beats up a child who then dies she is not properly convictable of 1st degree murder. If it is charged she will get off. She can go away for a long time, however, on a manslaughter charge. That prosecutor was playing politics, not seeking justice.

You are incensed that this evil woman "got away with it" and feel that the jury should have convicted no matter what the evidence presented.

That is mob justice.

[central_va]

Manslaughter would have gotten a conviction.

The charges against her (see count 3 below) included manslaughter, she WAS on trial for manslaughter. You waste my time, you are the knee jerk reactionary not me.

Count One,

First Degree Murder

: If Casey Anthony is convicted of first degree murder, regardless of whether it is on a theory of Pre-meditated Murder or Felony Murder she will receive at a minimum a life sentence. A life sentence in Florida is a true life sentence, which means there is no parole or early release. A defendant convicted of first degree murder only leaves prison after his or her death. The only alternative to a life sentence is death by execution. Lesser Included of Count One, Second Degree Murder: (depraved mind murder, not premeditated) The maximum penalty for Second Degree Murder is a life sentence. The minimum sentence is based on the Criminal Punishment Code. The estimated minimum sentence for this charge and other charges which might result in conviction along with this count would be 24 years, 6 months.

Count Two,

Aggravated Child Abuse

: The maximum penalty for aggravated child is 15 years in prison. The estimated minimum sentence for this charge and other charges which might result in conviction along with this count would be 12 years, 1 month.

Count Three,

Aggravated Manslaughter

of a Child: If Casey Anthony is convicted of causing the death of Caylee by culpable negligence the maximum sentence is 30 years in prison. The estimated minimum sentence for this charge and other charges which might result in conviction along with this count would be 16 years and 6 months.

[central_va]

PS there was plenty of evidence, the jury was intellectually incable of putting 2 and 2 together. This is sad, indeed we live in a dumbed down era.

[Cincinna]

The death penalty was declared unconstitutional in NY State BUT because little Lieby was kidnapped and transported across state lines to NJ the killer is death penalty eligible under Federal statute.
We don’t hold out much hope that the Obama/ Holder Justice Dept will step in and do the right thing here.