**Casey Anthony Verdict In ..**

[Alize]

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THIS is what kills me with her being found innocent. My son is 18, and I would be calling the police if I couldn't reach him within just a few days. There's absolutely NO logic in a toddler/preschooler being gone for a week, two weeks, three weeks... and the police were never notified?? And despite the little girl being "missing," mommy is off having fun with her friends?? The verdict just astounded me.

And her jail visits with her parents with her saying she could feel her little girl was close by and would be back home, she could feel it.. and she knew what had happened

 

[welsummerchicks]

And can you prove her parents weren't willing partners in that little performance?

 

[spiritdance]

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I imagine there must be a great deal of pain in your life that you link to your parents for you to feel that way, but let me ask you, what could such a little child do to make someone feel that way? What pain did she purposely inflict on this woman? NONE!!! This is a case of pure, unadulterated evil going unanswered. But there is a higher power in this world, and she will face it in due time. Who knows ... she may meet her own worse nightmare, maybe on a dark street, maybe in one or her favorite clubs, and then she'll know what terror is ... Leading the kind of life she is leading, and being who she is, it's more than likely. Karma is a B!T(H!!!!

 

[Alize]

The parents were not on trial but true, consolation is that what goes around is like a boomerang and comes right back

 

[Souperchicken]

I haven't followed this case and have only read snippets in the news in the past week or so. This is such a depressing news story. It is so sad to hear about this family's problems and the death of the little girl.
I would never know if this person is guilty or innocent, but it is hard to see innocence where there are lies and cover up.
I don't want to waste my time thinking about this anymore. What is done, is done and I will never have all the facts to be able to speculate.
My daughter just read over my shoulder the headline on the local news site. She said what does "acquitted" mean? I told her that the mother was found innocent of the crime. My daughter sighed " that is a relief that she didn't do it"
It lead to a teaching moment. I told her that in our country we are innocent until proven guilty. We don't know if she did it, but they can't prove that she did. If the system works the way it should, the innocent are protected.

 

[welsummerchicks]

The parents weren't on trial, no, but positing a role for them, assists the defense in raising reasonable doubt. You can't have reasonable doubt if you want to convict on murder - that's part of the criteria.

In other words, if a person goes to trial for a murder charge, and the defense shows that others were involved, or even, the possibility that someone else actually did it, murder may not be the appropriate charge for that individual.

The problem with the murder charge is that it carries with it, an extremely high burden of proof.

The essential problem with the case is this: It's a 'dry bones case'. You don't even have a cause of death. This is what makes this case so difficult to convict on. You haven't even got a cause of death.

 

[SunBaked]

Even if Casey wasn't convicted of murdering poor Caylee she needs to face charges. She says she wasn't watching her daughter and she drowned then she dumped her poor little body in the woods like so much garbage and celebrated by partying with her friends and getting a tattoo. I can only hope they will at the very least take her to task for her cover story. Last I checked by law you have to provide a safe environment for your children and if there is a death you can't dump bodies in the woods you have to report it.

 

[welsummerchicks]

No one proved that she neglected the child, and no one proved that she dumped the child in the woods. Any one of the people in that house, or all 3, could have had a role, and nothing put Casey at the site of the body OR singled her out as the murderer. Nothing was proven. It's a 'dry bones' case - how can you even determine a cause of death? You can't. That is the problem.

The usual way that the law gets people convicted is getting one person who was involved, to give up the person who did the crime. They just couldn't get any of these three to do that.

I have other problems with the 'evidence' of Casey Anthony being a bad person who wanted to kill her child so she could 'have fun'.

From all accounts, she was extremely successful at the way she was dealing with having a daughter. Her boyfriends saw her as an exemplary, caring mother - her having a child was actually an advantage to her in that respect - she got sympathy and admiration for having the child. She got her grandad to give her money. Her parents supported her, she had full access to her parent's home and pool - the home was in a very pleasant environment. SHe had a mother who basically did everything but wipe her rear for her.

If she didn't have the child she would have not gotten anything near the support or sympathy she was getting.

She was extremely successful at getting money, getting support, getting babysitters, getting a place to live, and STILL managing to have a lot of fun, boyfriends and everything else. So why did she need to change her situation by deliberately killing the child? The answer is that she did not. Even though her mother was angry at her for taking some checks, she was STILL doing everything Casey asked her to do for her and then some.

And frankly, just because someone is a parent and feels sympathetic toward George and Cindy Anthony, that doesn't mean anything. No one EVER proved they weren't involved in the child's death.

In many ways, particularly Cindy Anthony's behavior, I suspected. There just was something very calculated and restrained in how both George and Cindy Anthony behaved.

I felt the taped jail conversations were performances by all three of them.

The WORST mistake the media made, was pushing the public to expect and demand a death penalty and a murder 1 conviction. If the prosecution hadn't been put in that position, things may have gone a lot better.

And that whole 'smell of death' - that was just a real bad idea to bring that in. That just damages the prosecution.

 

[HarlansHollowFarms]

No one should be murdered. I hope Kaylee did not suffer.

However, it is too bad that that the nation is only hearing about this ONE child, while there are many more dead and/or missing. Because this was televised, the nation weeps. What about all those that do not make the national news? Who weeps for them?

So many children are killed and/or go missing everyday, put you energy toward stopping these atrocities instead of fretting over something you can not change.

I know, S will fly, but this is just my opinion.

 

[Dar]

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you are 100% right

" Don't tell me how outraged you are; do something about it!" - Dr. James Garrow, 2008

**as in change the laws... help protect the innocent...***

NOT take the law into your own hands