Anyone following the Casey Anthony trial

[Lithrael]

Heh, the comments on the vigilante article are almost even funny. It's been a while since I've seen straight up trolling drown out the usual crazy internet person comments on a story like this. You know things have got weird when you find a comment page full of flagrant trolling refreshing.

 

[Beerina]

Baby is free!

 

[UnrepentantSinner]

There's a killer loose on the streets!!!

(Well, more likely she's gone into hiding, but whatever.)

 

[Moon-Spinner]

It will never occur to the people who want vigilante justice that they're no better than the woman they believe purposely killed her child.

They are still all over the internet screaming for blood. Here are scenes from last night at her release

Casey's release

What kind of nation would we have if we let "Mob Rule" decide court cases?

 

[caniswalensis]

That article pronounced her to be "America's Most Hated Mother".


I smell reality series!

 

[Pacal]

It will never occur to the people who want vigilante justice that they're no better than the woman they believe purposely killed her child.

They are still all over the internet screaming for blood. Here are scenes from last night at her release

Casey's release

What kind of nation would we have if we let "Mob Rule" decide court cases?

Went to the link. I think I'm going to be sick. What a series of truly sick displays. The guy with the sign asking Casey to marry him wins some sort of idiot fanboy incredulity award, admist the slimy media whoring.

 

[TheNooch]

With the right talent agent, I think she could milk this for a nice chunk o' cash. Maybe not Sarah Palin cash, but damn close to it.

 

[slingblade]

I can say I do feel sorry for her, regardless of my other feelings. Rightly or wrongly, she's never going to have a normal life without jumping through a lot of hoops and having to change a lot of things, like appearance, name, location, etc.

She was found not guilty. Even if one feels that isn't true, it sure wasn't proven, so she's not guilty. (Myself, I think she did something hinky, somewhere along the line. But my opinion doesn't matter. She's not guilty.)

Worse, if somehow she really, truly is innocent in the death of her child, this is a total nightmare. And it's really sad, no matter how you turn it.

 

[Moon-Spinner]

I can say I do feel sorry for her, regardless of my other feelings. Rightly or wrongly, she's never going to have a normal life without jumping through a lot of hoops and having to change a lot of things, like appearance, name, location, etc.

She was found not guilty. Even if one feels that isn't true, it sure wasn't proven, so she's not guilty. (Myself, I think she did something hinky, somewhere along the line. But my opinion doesn't matter. She's not guilty.)

Worse, if somehow she really, truly is innocent in the death of her child, this is a total nightmare. And it's really sad, no matter how you turn it.

This pretty much sums up the way I feel about it too.

 

[Severus Snape]

Okay, now we have the Casey Anthony fan base making their voices heard. Some people are actually sending her money...

Donations

She has $472.18 so far, it's going to take a lot more donations to pay off that $100,000 lawsuit in the works!

I look forward every day to read some new wacky develop about this case, it's sometimes the most entertainment I get all day

Don't forget the fines that was imposed on her.

 

[quadraginta]

Okay, now we have the Casey Anthony fan base making their voices heard. Some people are actually sending her money...

Donations

She has $472.18 so far, it's going to take a lot more donations to pay off that $100,000 lawsuit in the works!

I look forward every day to read some new wacky develop about this case, it's sometimes the most entertainment I get all day

Don't forget the fines that was imposed on her.

The donations Moon-Spinner was talking about were to her commissary account at the jail. According to Cheney Mason she has also received some unspecified number of contributions with a total in the amount of some thousands of dollars which has been sent to her c/o her defense team.

The donations to her commissary account in the jail have been a matter of public record, thanks to the FL "Sunshine Law" and much to the Grace creature's glee. She's been outing people for sending them and analyzing every snack and toiletry Anthony has purchased since 2008. This has discouraged a lot of those donations.

The stuff that the lawyers have been receiving has not been similarly disclosed. Aside from Mason's one comment.

 

[RandFan]

http://www.myfoxorlando.com/subindex/news/anthony_case
I been following it because for one I was born and raised in Florida. Plus I do watch Nancy Grace a lot.

1. I watched it almost every day for 3 - 4 hours (damn the real thing is nothing like Hollywood).
2. I think she is guilty.
3. Had I been on the Jury, knowing what I know, I would have voted to acquit.
4. Justice is a system not an outcome.
5. It's over. I'm moving on with my life.
   
   
   
   
   

 

[Cl1mh4224rd]

If society frowns on abortion, you can expect single party girls to be dumping their kids in swamps to regain the attention and affection that was stolen.

Two-and-a-half years later...?

CNN needs to do something about this woman. Even several of her colleagues on CNN are critcal of her, but CNN managment only seems to see the dollar signs and seems less concerned about their journalistic integrity.

Nancy Grace: CNN's Glenn Beck.

 

[Caper]

1. I watched it almost every day for 3 - 4 hours (damn the real thing is nothing like Hollywood).
2. I think she is guilty.
3. Had I been on the Jury, knowing what I know, I would have voted to acquit.
4. Justice is a system not an outcome.
5. It's over. I'm moving on with my life.

Why vote to acquit? There was certainly enough evidence to put her away. Never should have been a death penalty case.

 

[Caper]

It will never occur to the people who want vigilante justice that they're no better than the woman they believe purposely killed her child.

In my books in would make them better. Vigilante justice is still wrong and I hope it doesn't happen. But she's a child killer. And to me killers of child killers are better people then child killers.

 

[RandFan]

Why vote to acquit? There was certainly enough evidence to put her away. Never should have been a death penalty case.

I don't think the state made its case beyond a reasonable doubt. Calee could have drowned. If the standard were preponderance of evidence (as in a civil case) then I think that would be fairly easy. I can't reconcile her actions to a drowning. But that's not a basis for guilty in this case. It's more likely than not she killed her daughter but it's not certainty beyond a reasonable doubt, IMO.

 

[Caper]

I don't think the state made its case beyond a reasonable doubt. Calee could have drowned. If the standard were preponderance of evidence (as in a civil case) then I think that would be fairly easy. I can't reconcile her actions to a drowning. But that's not a basis for guilty in this case. It's more likely than not she killed her daughter but it's not certainty beyond a reasonable doubt, IMO.

I can understand that. There is a clip where Casie is in jail and she is telling her father how great a grandfather he is...... and he goes on to talk about what they are doing to find her....... Personally, I couldn't get past that. To me there there is just no way that is good acting that is going on there, that is beyond all reasonable doubt for me..... that removes any reasonable doubt that Casie's defense was nothing but a lie.

I'm all for the "better to let 10 guilty people free then convict one innocent person" justice system.

But in my eyes there was easily enough evidence to convict at least on the lesser charge.

1) It is not reasonable to me at all. That she would stick to her "Zanny the Nanny" story so long and so hard, when there is such a simple explanation as to what happened (if she drowned in the pool by accident)
2) It is not reasonable to me the father and daughter could be hiding something in the prison interview I saw.


I don't know how she died for sure, but beyond any reasonable doubt Casie played a role.

 

[RandFan]

I can understand that. There is a clip where Casie is in jail and she is telling her father how great a grandfather he is...... and he goes on to talk about what they are doing to find her....... Personally, I couldn't get past that. To me there there is just no way that is good acting that is going on there, that is beyond all reasonable doubt for me..... that removes any reasonable doubt that Casie's defense was nothing but a lie.

I've seen that many times. It has significance to me as to the defenses claim. But I don't accept the defenses claim. If you mean something else then I'm afraid I don't understand. The drowning could very well have had nothing to do with the father.

But in my eyes there was easily enough evidence to convict at least on the lesser charge.

That's cool. One things for sure. We are each allowed our opinion. Thankfully.

 

[Mikey T]

Why vote to acquit? There was certainly enough evidence to put her away. Never should have been a death penalty case.

I heard a good analogy the other day concerning the prosecution's indictment against Ms. Anthony and where it ultimately failed:

Imagine a football game. There are 2 seconds left and the score is 20-17. The team trailing has the ball on the 1 yard line and has two choices. Kick a field goal for 3 points and tie the game to send it into overtime or go for the win by scoring a touchdown. The team decides to go for the touchdown and the win, hands the ball off to their running back who gets stopped at the line of scrimage as the clock ticks off and the team that was leading holds on for a close win.

If the prosecution wanted to kick a field goal, the safe play, they could have added in the indictment charges for child neglect (which lead to the child's death) and obstruction of justice (for destroying evidence, i.e. the body and lying to law enforcment). In these two charges the prosecution would have had an excellent chance to convince a jury she was at least guilty of these two things, which more than likely due to their degree of severity would have had the max penalty handed down by the judge. Probably would have gotten 10-20 years and Casey would have been out in no more than 10 years with good behavior.

The prosecution chose to go for the touchdown (first degree murder or aggravated child abuse or aggravated manslaughter of a child) being all degrees of felonies which would have locked her up for a very long time if not for life, death for murder. The prosecution didn't want to even charge her for the lesser charges I listed above because it would have told the jury that even they, the prosecution, would believe there was a possibility of an accident so they were left off of the indictment. The prosecution didn't want to make that an option, thus, they went for the touchdown (due to public outcry more than anything, but they still felt they had a strong case) and got stuffed at the goal line.

When I hear idiots out there complaining about the jury, it makes me sick to my stomach, because the jury members were forced by the prosecution to chose, was it something Casey did DIRECTLY which caused her daughter's death (guilty is the only option), or was there a possiblity of an accidental death (not guilty) per the indictment. The evidence of the manner of death, which the jury solely based their decison on as they were instructed, did not conclusivly show the child died at her mother's hands. The jury was instructed not to bring the emotions of what a mother should do or how she should act after a child dies into consideration, however disgusting this behavior was, into their decision. Using this as the basis, the jury was correct in my opinion, and the prosecution got greedy.

 

[TheNooch]

I wonder what the price tag is for the first "out of jail and went missing" pic is worth. I can imagine a couple hundred G's just for a simple pic of her eating a taco.