Posted on 07/06/2011 6:31:34 PM PDT by Hojczyk
Casey Anthony juror Jennifer Ford said today that she and the other jurors cried and were "sick to our stomachs" after voting to acquit Casey Anthony of charges that she killed her 2-year-old daughter Caylee.
"I did not say she was innocent," said Ford, who had previously only been identified as juror number 3. "I just said there was not enough evidence. If you cannot prove what the crime was, you cannot determine what the punishment should be."
The jury's jaw dropping not guilty verdict shocked court observers, but it was also a difficult moment for the panel, Ford said in an exclusive interview with ABC News. No one from the jury was willing to come out and talk to the media in the hours after the verdict.
"Everyone wonders why we didn't speak to the media right away," Ford said. "It was because we were sick to our stomach to get that verdict. We were crying and not just the women. It was emotional and we weren't ready. We wanted to do it with integrity and not contribute to the sensationalism of the trial."
Instead of murder, Casey Anthony, 25, was found guilty of four counts of lying to law enforcement and could be released from jail as early as Thursday.
Ford praised the jurors.
"They picked a great bunch of people, such high integrity. And there was high morale," she said. "We all joked. We are like a big group of cousins."
Casey Anthony Prosecutor: 'All Came Down to Cause of Death'
Earlier today, the prosecutor and an alternate juror agreed on why the jury had refused to convict Anthony: They couldn't prove how little Caylee Anthony died.
"It all came down to the evidence," said Florida state attorney Jeff Ashton on "The View."
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The longer the small body stayed in the swamp, the less likely to find the cause of death...no organs to examine, no skin, I heard one commentator say the 31 days was giving the murdered child a chance to decompose and with that the loss of any evidence..
Hannity is really annoying me. Kimberly Gilfoyle said she would have voted to convict. She seemed actually upset with him.
On the 31st day, Cindy called 911 reliably hysterical, handed the phone off to Casey who sounded like a psychopath sounds, like a secretarial service devoid of real interest in the report, and again...lying through her teeth to 911, who was audibly flabbergasted. Guilty.
You are 100% correct!
Baez could have found some other reliable jurors right here on FR.
..or vomiting and choking on the vomit...
Roll that scenario around in your brain for a while and see how it makes you feel!
My granddaughter woke up & was choking on mucus (because of a bad cold)....and we were there in seconds holding her, helping her cough, comforting her ....assuring her because she was panicking!
I don't want to imagine this little girl waking up and in panic because her heartless parent taped her mouth and nose shut.
The alternate juror had the nerve to say the pieces of tape were very small....
WHAT A DUMB PIECE OF WORK!.....how big do they have to be to place over the mouth and nose of a small child!
IT IS ALL HIDEOUS!
I wouldn't have thought it possible before this verdict came down, but I'll have to agree with you.
These people siding with the verdict remind me of clueless democrats who can't figure out that obama is destroying our country.
Hannity is like a dull bulb on a lot of things and last night I was so ticked on tuned in to HLN to recover.
Hannity is like a dull bulb on a lot of things and last night I was so ticked off I tuned in to HLN to recover.
I did the exact same thing!
For a fee in the mid-5 digets.
He should be ashamed to show his face.
It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.
Mark Twain
Hannity drank the kool-aid and jumped the shark in one fell swoop!
He has lost me ......I am absolutley gobsmacked!
Yes. Wasn’t that surprised with Hannity (except that I doubt he knew what a maelstrom he created among his listeners), but Levin’s take is troubling—especially without knowing EXACTLY what he said.
me too!
at one point he says “but they cast doubt about the smell in the car”...
and I’m yelling at the radio....”of course they did! you moron! that’s when you have to decide if a reasonable person is going to believe the defense lawyer of a pathological liar, or will he/she believe the devastating 911 call?”
my kids were looking at me funny and I had to turn him off.
The jury - especially this woman - lacked common sense and critical thinking skills. A poor baby, moldering in a swamp, wrapped in duct tape and plastic, put no foul play occurred.
Meanwhile, she thinks George and Casey “were up to something.” No evidence there, though, just the usual “blame Daddy who is probably a kiddie rapist.”
I have no kids left at home to rein me in. LOL
Check this out............
wasn’t it incredible?
the kid is in the laundry bag and garbage bag with tape, and they’re getting distracted with exact cause of death? really?
And how exactly did she get there?
It’s the prosecution’s fault because they could “only” present evidence the child had been dead in the trunk. They must’ve been negligent by not providing video footage.
I think critics are right when they say everyone is expecting a csi show, and let down when they don’t get one.
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