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Did the Jury get it right in the Casey Anthony trial

Did the jury get the verdict right in the Casey Anthony trial?


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From what I have heard, and from what I know about trying cases, there was sufficient reasonable doubt especially on the First Degree Murder charge

I haven't followed the case, only heard what's been on the news, which I didn't pay that much attention to.

I suspect that the child died accidently and the mother just stuck the body in the trunk or something and then later the parents tried to clean up the mess.

Like planning to use chloroform on the childs mother to "fake" an abduction or something.

Patents will go to great lengths, and if they lost their grandchild due to their daughters stupidity already, at least they still have their daughter. Who tbey might lose as well if she gets sent to prison for negligence.

I really don't buy complete innocence, however.
 
I don't believe so. I don't believe the state proved beyond any reasonable doubt that Casey Anthony killed her child.


This I have to agree with ... there's a dead child and no one convicted for it.

That doesn't make her innocent. She's intelligent yet narcissistic. I believe she committed the crime. One needn't be blind to nothing but evidence.

It's actually not difficult to murder and escape justice.
 
If you want to know why "people like me" are angry, it's because Casey was found not guilty yet I am 95% certain that she is NOT innocent.

wow. Imagine going to a court full of people who just KNEW you were guilty from the start. That would be a failure of the legal system.
 
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From what little I understand about the case and in my highly uninformed opinion, she should of been convicted of the child neglect and/or abuse charges.

If I heard correctly, she failed to report the disappearance for 1 month.
She was not charged with child neglect, although she probably should have been. She was charged with child abuse but I believe there was no evidence presented that she abused Caylee.
 
Stillballin75, it's not easy to just "get over" this obvious injustice.

This issue angers me far, far more than political discussion ever could. I can't think of that sweet little girl and get over it.

It's the price we pay for the justice system we have, and we keep it that way for a very good reason. If she is truly guilty then God will give her justice.
 
wow. Imagine going to a court full of people who just KNEW you were guilty from the start. That would be a failure of the legal system.

That would be bad.

Thank goodness that's not me.

...

Your point?

:coffeepap
 
She was not charged with child neglect, although she probably should have been. She was charged with child abuse but I believe there was no evidence presented that she abused Caylee.

They can still charge her with child neglect though.
No double jeopardy with that.
 
I'm not 100% sure she's guilty, therefore I'd have to say they got it right. My gut says she did it -- but my gut is not admissible as evidence.
 
It's the price we pay for the justice system we have, and we keep it that way for a very good reason. If she is truly guilty then God will give her justice.

I agree with you on this.

They say karma is a *****.

What would you think if someone killed her, similar to what happened with Vander slu*, the guy who killed Holloway? Would you feel God may have passed judgment? I don't know. I just feel deeply that Casey is the murderer, and that she will walk.
 
That doesn't make her innocent. She's intelligent yet narcissistic. I believe she committed the crime. One needn't be blind to nothing but evidence.

It's actually not difficult to murder and escape justice.
I don't believe she's innocent. I believe she was at the very least, aware of Caylee's death; and at the worst, responsible for it. But I also believe our justice system requires the state to prove that in a court of law to a jury of her peers beyond any reasonable doubt ... and I believe the state failed to do that.
 
I see you've finally come around.

Yet many members on the other thread seemed to think that not guilty equaled innocent, which only angered me.
 
I agree with you on this.

They say karma is a *****.

What would you think if someone killed her, similar to what happened with Vander slu*, the guy who killed Holloway? Would you feel God may have passed judgment? I don't know. I just feel deeply that Casey is the murderer, and that she will walk.

I have no idea whether Casey is a murderer or not, but the fact remains that this day, our justice system worked the way it was designed to, and I wouldn't have it any other way.

And yes, I believe that if she is indeed truly guilty, karma will come around and bite her in the ass.
 
I don't believe she's innocent. I believe she was at the very least, aware of Caylee's death; and at the worst, responsible for it. But I also believe our justice system requires the state to prove that in a court of law to a jury of her peers beyond any reasonable doubt ... and I believe the state failed to do that.

It just seems so unfair and perverted.

What's to keep me from doing the same thing and being found "not guilty" even though my stone-cold face and certain behaviors have betrayed me?

I also wonder what the judge felt and thought. Maybe he felt like throwing his gavel at her at that moment?

And, oddly enough, Papa Roach's "Getting Away With Murder" sounds appeasing right now.
 
The American Justice System always gets it right.

Just ask O.J.
 
I have no idea whether Casey is a murderer or not, but the fact remains that this day, our justice system worked the way it was designed to, and I wouldn't have it any other way.

And yes, I believe that if she is indeed truly guilty, karma will come around and bite her in the ass.

But then a question worthy of its own thread arises...

...if our system is designed in such a way that intelligent and thorough people can slip through, is it really such a good system?
 
They can still charge her with child neglect though.
No double jeopardy with that.
Yes, double jeopardy still applies. Double jeopardy applies to the offense, not the specific charages.
 
But then a question worthy of its own thread arises...

...if our system is designed in such a way that intelligent and thorough people can slip through, is it really such a good system?

No justice system is perfect, because humans are human, and we are not omniscient gods. Even if someone commits a crime, there might not always exist enough evidence after the fact in order to convict him. That's just the way of the world. We can only hope that the police and the lawyers can be competent enough to allow jury and judge to render the correct decision.
 
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