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

 

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.

 

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.

 

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.

 

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.

 

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........

 

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)

 

Here's the article I was speaking of:

USATODAY.com

 

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

 

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.