Not Guilty

[Malaki86]

Just heard on the news that Casey Anthony was found not guilty on all charges except for the 4 misdemeanor charges of providing false information.

I knew the prosecution hadn't provided enough proof for a murder conviction, let alone 1st degree.

[golfhobo]

I tried to avoid MOST coverage of this trial even tho I listen to the 3 newschannels all day long while driving. So... I wasn't completely "up" on all the evidence and arguements. But, watching the Defense's closing arguments Sunday.... I just couldn't get over the strange behavior of George (Casey's father) concerning the gas cans and the duct tape! At the conclusion of their summation, I said to myself.... "She just got off!" The Rebuttal had me questioning my judgement, but the verdict endorsed it. They JUST couldn't prove HOW she died, WHO killed her, and WHY so many others acted so strangely.

[Windwalker]

I have one nagging question above all others.....

Why did it take a month before the natural mother reported her daughter missing?

Even after that, it seemed that she was not willing to admit that her daughter was dead. Why?

But, a criminal trial is about "REASONABLE DOUBT", not answering "burning, unanswered questions". If she knew her daughter drowned an the family pool, how could she go out partying and enjoying herself? Too many things just don't make any sense.

[Mr. Ford95]

The prosecution could never prove solid evidence. Our system worked in this case whether you agree with the verdict or not. What she did afterwards was morally wrong but not against the law besides telling some lies. I'm still curious about the guy who found the body not once but twice in the woods. What's his backstory, why did the cops not go check it out when he first called them about it as he claimed he did? The defense ate him up, he admitted that his friend could have gone and messed with the bag. He claimed he never messed with it himself but how did he know a body was inside it from a distance away a she claimed to be both times?

[GMAN]

I thought that she might be convicted just from all the publicity. They never really had a solid case. In fact, they didn't even have a weak case. They don't even know how the child died, so how can they say she was murdered? Casey did act strange, but she seems to have been acting strange for some time. Strange behavior doesn't make someone a murderer. I wondered about the guy who found the body, too Mr. Ford. As far as I know they never questioned him, at least as a suspect. They seem to have zeroed in on the mother from the beginning. I don't know if she actually killed her daughter or not. From the evidence, or lack thereof, she didn't. I don't think that she is smart enough to have pulled of a murder without leaving any evidence.

[golfhobo]

I don't think that she is smart enough to have pulled of a murder without leaving any evidence.

But her FATHER.... an ex-cop.... MIGHT be! Not trying to stir up stuff, but.... IF there were any truth to the allegations that he had sexually abused his daughter, (which could explain her strange behavior,) he might have done the same to poor little Caley! And HE is the one that tried to "cover his trail" concerning the duct tape and the gas cans!

[GMAN]

I don't recall hearing anything about her father being an ex cop. That could explain the lack of evidence, if he was involved. It makes sense that he abused his daughter the way she acts. But, with all the lies she has told, you don't really know what to believe and what to question. In any case, there is a little girl who is dead and no one seems to have a clue as to what happened to her. The cops and prosecution just wanted someone to hand this on and Casey was an easy target. They should have pursued other leads, if any existed. The guy who discovered the body should have had more scrutiny, I believe. We may never know what really happened. I wonder how much time she will get for lying to the cops? She has already spend a lot of time behind bars. I do think she needs professional help. I hope she gets it.

[MichiganDriver]

That girl has a face that says "guilty as charged".

I'm glad our courts don't operate that way - just saying.

[GMAN]

The cops and prosecution don't even know that the child was murdered. In fact, they don't even know how she died. I don't think the mother should have even been charged based upon the evidence. If you can't prove a murder how can you charge anyone with murder? In order for someone to be charged the police or prosecution should be able to prove that a murder had been committed. It was a media circus. I would say that many do believe the mother killed her daughter, but there is no evidence that she hurt her child. She has lied and was convicted of lying to the police, but they had no evidence that the mother or anyone else murdered the child. Something happened, but there is no evidence of murder.

[Malaki86]

I think that the daughter climbed into the pool and drowned while her mother was partying. When Casey found her, she freaked out and tried to cover it up to appear as if Caylee had been abducted/murdered.

That's my thoughts, anyway.

[Bigmon]

What's the deal with the father of the child? btw...I think OJ will help find the real killer

[Windwalker]

I think that the daughter climbed into the pool and drowned while her mother was partying. When Casey found her, she freaked out and tried to cover it up to appear as if Caylee had been abducted/murdered.

That's my thoughts, anyway.

That was my thought. Any mother that finds her child dead will freak out. What I have a problem with is the time before reporting it, and the partying afterward. I have a hard time picturing a mother of a dead child being in a party mood for a time afterward. Unless the child wasn't wanted in the first place,and if that case, the murder is also possible.

They say our court system is set up so that some of the guilty will slip through in order to keep the innocent out of prisons. (Except around the Dallas/Ft Worth areas where DNA evidence has been clearing people after 20 years in prison) It's all about "reasonable doubt". It's up to the prosecution to eliminate it, and the defence to introduce it.

[GMAN]

Some police and prosecutors are under a lot of pressure to get results. I think that pressure sometimes encourages them to falsify or omit evidence. Some are as corrupt or more corrupt than those whom they are trying to convict.

[Mr. Ford95]

Add in the fact that they have nobody to answer to normally when they act out of order like this. He may get voted out at the next election but then he will just go and open his own office or move to another area and run for the DA spot. No way should this case ever have gotten to trial based on the lack of evidence. The prosecutor should be facing his own trial, that would stop this BS of taking people to trial when they have zero case to stand on in the first place. He knew all along he had no case, he just hoped that he could sway the jury to believe some of his radical accusations and opinions. I would not be surprised if the family turns around and files suit against the locale for this.

[GMAN]

I agree, but I doubt the family would file suit against the DA due to the thought of retaliation from the police or DA's office. I know we have always had a few in office who were corrupt, but we have seen a number of them of late. Remember the basketball players in North Carolina? It was a complete fabrication. I believe that he withheld evidence or something equally as despicable. I don't remember all the details, but they ran him out of office on a rail. This prosecutor wasted who knows how many thousands of dollars and still didn't have a solid case. All they had going for them was public opinion and a mob mentality that wanted someone to pay for a little girl's death. If someone is guilty of killing her, then I think that they should pay dearly, but I would want clear cut proof of their guilt, especially with the way this case was mishandled. It could be that they destroyed evidence that would have cleared the mother. With all the publicity surrounding the mother, such as writing bad checks, partying, etc., they painted a good picture of someone who was a bad mother. But, there were a number of witnesses who testified in her behalf who stated that she was a great mother. If you look at the photo's that the media put forth where she and her child are together it looks as though she was a loving mother and that the child was happy. It doesn't quite fit the profile they painted of her. If you recall much of the publicity that they released about the bad checks, etc., were prior to her arrest. By all accounts, it should have tainted the jury pool to the point where she would have been considered guilty. Thankfully, the jury followed the law rather than their desire to make her pay for her child's death, whether there was proof or not. If I were ever in front of a jury I would hope that they would give me equal consideration as her jury.

[Mr. Ford95]

Your thinking of the Dook Lacrosse team who got charged for rape. Just a short time after that mess finished a couple of the players got in trouble again for something else IIRC.

There was an article I was reading about 8 months ago about how the DA's and Federal prosecutors are acting out of order more and more. It found that they had nobody to answer to and were never being held accountable for their actions even though it was destroying people's lives that up to that point had been immaculate. Some of the cases noted were about people being charged with a crime that had no base/no facts/no evidence to merit any charges against the named person. It was like they were pulling a name out of a hat and charging you for something that never happened in some of them. It was up to that person to prove they were innocent and that all the "evidence" was fake. There is supposed to be someone over their heads who can dis-bar them and further punish them for acting out of order, that has not been happening for some reason. These people supposedly "looked" into the cases and concluded that the lawyers were acting within proper guidelines and no punishment was needed. In several cases a completely innocent person was put in jail, the family scraped together some money for better lawyers to do an appeal, on appeal it came out that no evidence ever existed to tie them to the said crime and the person was then set free. Those prosecutors were cleared of any wrongdoing........

[Jackrabbit379]

I agree with GMAN. They didn't have a case. I feel like she took her 2 yr old child and suffocated her. Taped her, and dumped her in that swamp.
They didn't have a cause of death.
No DNA, no finger prints.
The only problem, I think everyone has been watching too much tv.
I think she's guilty as hell, but I'm not the judge on that (no pun intended)

[Mr. Ford95]

Here's the article I was speaking of:

USATODAY.com

Judges found that the violations were so serious that they overturned convictions or rebuked the prosecutors for misconduct. Some of the abuses put innocent people in jail. Not one resulted in a successful lawsuit against a prosecutor.

The latest test of the extent of prosecutors' immunity began with a December 1984 murder and a separate carjacking three weeks later in New Orleans. John Thompson was convicted of both crimes and sentenced to die for the murder. A month before his execution date, his lawyers discovered that prosecutors had deliberately covered up a police lab report that showed he could not have committed the carjacking. Then they uncovered still more evidence that undermined his murder conviction.

[Malaki86]

The prosecuters in that case (the ones that covered up the evidence) should have been charged with attempted 1st degree murder. Plain and simple.

[GMAN]

The prosecutors who do this should be convicted of the same crime that they prosecuted and have to serve the same sentence. No individual should be above the law, not congress, not prosecutes, not any politician, lawyer or anyone else. It encourages corruption when people put themselves above the law. When those who are entrusted with enforcing our laws are them selves framing others and withholding evidence they are guilty of the most heinous crime of all. It makes you wonder how many of those who have professed to be innocent are really innocent or have been framed by ambitious law enforcement officials or corrupt politicians.