I think most right-thinking people would agree that things looked pretty bad for Casey Anthony. Casey Anthony was accused of killing her 2-year-old daughter, Caylee Anthony, and disposing of her body in a trash bag, which was tossed into a swampy area not far from her home.
For 31-days, Casey lied to her parents about where she was and where her daughter was. She was REALLY with her boyfriend partying in Orlando. The end of her freedom came when Casey’s mom found her and insisted on knowing where Caylee was. She was arrested and charged with the murder of her daughter, having told police that Caylee was stolen by what turned out to be a non-existant nanny.
Prosecutors alleged Casey Anthony used chloroform to render her daughter unconscious and then duct-taped her mouth and nose to suffocate her. They said that she put the child’s body in the trunk of her car for a few days before disposing of it. Caylee’s skeletal remains were discovered 被窝网站 11, 2008, by former Orange County meter reader Roy Kronk. – cnn.com
Caylee was last seen in June of 2008 and her remains were found, completely decomposed in 被窝网站 of 2008.
After 3 years, Casey was finally tried and… acquitted. Shockingly. Why? Because as perfectly sensible and strong the prosecution’s case was, no matter how well they tied all of the lies and behavior into a situation where a mother didn’t appear to be grieving over her “accidentally deceased” daughter, no one had the ability to determine Caylee’s cause of death.
There was no DNA anywhere, although I believe there was a hair from Caylee in Casey’s car trunk which was proven to be from a dead body, and didn’t match the length or non-treated composition of any hair in the Anthony home… except for the possibility of Caylee.
I am not sure how to feel. I look at the footage of her being acquitted and think, “How often does that happen?” She thought she would spend her whole life in prison, I’m sure.” I think her parents did, as well, since they indicated through their attorney that they didn’t think she was innocent, but they didn’t want her to be executed, either. But instead, she’s about to be free. How often does someone get such a drastic second chance at life?
Then I wonder what kind of life she will have. Lots of people have become emotionally involved. Loads of people have watched every day of the trial. The prosecution’s case was so strong and the defense’s case seemed so full of lies and holes, it wasn’t even funny. Yet, she is walking. I hope she will spend her life doing really useful and important things.
Also, I think about little Caylee and how unfair it is that she died and no one will be blamed or
have to suffer legally for it. No one will have to sit in a cell and think about what they did to get themselves there. No one is going to jump up at this point and say, “Ok, this is exactly what happened to her.” It still seems that Casey doesn’t even grieve for her. All I’ve heard is that she is talking about adopting or having other children. You had one, you know. Do you even care or know what happened to her? Just once, can you stand up and say with some emotion, “I miss my daughter so much. I wish I could have her here with me now.”
I don’t think it’s going to happen. And it might be a lie if it does.
I would just like to say that I believed the prosecution team, and they did an impeccable job. Too bad the police didn’t look for little Caylee’s remains several months earlier, when they were first seen and reported. 😦
Casey won’t even talk about Caylee in a loving way. That’s what makes me sad.
Casey Anthony’s lawyer said Wednesday that her acquittal signified justice for little Caylee Anthony, who prosecutors unsuccessfully argued died at the hands of her mother.
“Caylee would never have wanted her mother to suffer this way,” defense attorney Jose Baez told Barbara Walters of ABC News. “Caylee certainly never wanted her mother to die.”
I don’t know, Mr. Baez. She probably wouldn’t, but she didn’t deserve to have her life cut short. Too bad you can’t figure out what really did happen to her. Or maybe the prosecution team already knows.
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…..this case doesn’t seem to have been reported in the UK, so I can’t comment but what a sad world it can be when anyone would do this to a child!
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Oddly enough, it’s been on the US tab of the BBC for a few days. It’s a bizarre story. Today, when they were about to sentence her, she was laughing and winking at people. She’s one of those fake kind of people, it seems. She doesn’t sound bothered at all about her daughter.. not now, not when it first happened.. never.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world/us_and_canada/
Innocent and not guilty are two different concepts. Without cause of death and direct forensic evidence, the prosecutors put forth a lot of circumstantial theories. I watched quite a bit, and I don’t think they made the case. The jury had to decide based on the evidence, not how unlikeable Anthony was.
Personally, I cannot understand how someone could go a month without notifying the authorities, or even worse, hit the party circuit. But, there are all kinds of reactions to stressful situations.
Unfortunately, the press – Nancy Grace, in particular – made the trial into both a personal quest and a ratings bonanza. I found that extremely disguisting. I also think that the roving crowds of outraged citizens need to quit taking justice in their own hands, and put some faith – or at least respect – in our jury system.
Maybe she’s guilty. Maybe not. In any case, the decision is made, and we cannot change it. Further, we are not above the law.
Someone said that the strength of our legal system is not in how we treat the best of us, but rather in how we treat the worst of us.
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Looks strangely like your blog post :). I think Nancy Grace did have one point to ponder, and that is whether or not people were so used to CSI television programs where they expect things to be worked out perfectly so that you absolutely know exactly what happened during a crime, as if you were there watching it.
I think she got lucky that there were enough people, as well as herself, contributing to “not finding Caylee” to cover up whatever DNA or physical proof might have been available otherwise.
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Whatever the result…innocence, non-guilt, etc, the great sadness is that the young life of a lovely, lively child has been snuffed-out. What a terrible loss to the world, and despite my Christian beliefs, I just cannot reconcile in my mind how such a horror can happen, hit the news for a while, and eventually be forgotten by most of us.
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“Looks strangely like your blog post”
– I assume you have forensic evidence to that effect . . .
Seriously, Harry is right. The tragedy of this is not the verdict, but the life not lived.
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The sad thing is always Caylee and that she died. Someone should be held accountable for that, in an ideal world. I figure it won’t take long for Casey to screw up and ruin her own life.
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Her life is pretty much ruined already. She’s not going to be able to get a normal job. The best she can do is start her own business or get lucky and get some promotional money. With the amount of media circus surrounding her trial, I doubt that anyone will touch her with a 10 mile pole.
My personal opinion is this would have turned out differently if there had not been so much media involved. I think Johnny Law felt an undue sense of urgency to move things along and didn’t spend enough time looking for the evidence needed to convict. There’s no statute of limitations on murder so they had all the time in the world to put together a case with more than circumstantial evidence.
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