Anthony not guilty of murder

[ELITEofWARMANGINGERYBREADMEN88]

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nati...html?r=topnews


What a damn crime that she wasn't found guilty.

[gaelic cowboy]

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nati...html?r=topnews


What a damn crime that she wasn't found guilty.

apparently no crime was committed hence the verdict

[ELITEofWARMANGINGERYBREADMEN88]

No.... When you got money, you get off. Can you say O.J?

[Centurion1]

anthony doesn't have money

but yes this is worse than oj

[HoreTore]

I have never heard of this.

[Populus Romanus]

Warman you stole my thread idea. Anyways, this is horrible verdict, one of the worst I have ever heard of (except for OJ).

[Lemur]

Haven't been following this case at all. Somebody have a good link to a summary of events?

[a completely inoffensive name]

This isn't worse than OJ until she writes a book called "If I had killed my daughter."

[Adrian II]

I didn't do it.

AII

[Centurion1]

This isn't worse than OJ until she writes a book called "If I had killed my daughter."

true and while you obviously cannot place a price on life the killing of ones own baby daughter does seem a bit more horrendous.

also the OJ case had far greater evidence than this case which was mostly circumstantial.

[Samurai Waki]

I'd like to know what made the jury decide she was innocent-- I wouldn't come to any conclusions before that happens.

[Tellos Athenaios]

Yeah, without any primary evidence to speak of against her (specifically) circumstantial evidence alone is not good enough for a conviction. Then again, I've only seen this single article and it didn't bother with specific evidence in her favour (circumstantial or otherwise). Just a few accusations towards her father made by the defense team and not really substantiated as far as I could see.

[Reenk Roink]

But yeah, for all of you people SO SURE about her guilt, man the media influence is scary...

[Hosakawa Tito]

Very odd case, and dysfunctional lying family. I didn't really follow it, but did just finish watching a tv show, "48 Hours", about this crime. This is just part 1 and not the whole thing. That video isn't available online yet.

[Centurion1]

i just think the woman needs to get something and tbh we even if she didnt do it..... what kind of mother has a missing child for a month and goes out partying and clubbing, desn't report it and gets a tattoo of beautiful life on herself?

[Samurai Waki]

i just think the woman needs to get something and tbh we even if she didnt do it..... what kind of mother has a missing child for a month and goes out partying and clubbing, desn't report it and gets a tattoo of beautiful life on herself?

An emotionally crippled, hopelessly damaged human being-- She's guilty of being a borderline psychopath, but you can't convict people on that basis alone.

[Tellos Athenaios]

She's guilty of being a borderline psychopath, but you can't convict people on that basis alone.

... yeah, pretty much. Wouldn't be many business types or politicians left if we started convicting based on that trait alone.

[Centurion1]

you can on not telling anyone her child was missing for 30 odd days.

sounds like child abuse to me.

[Samurai Waki]

Prosecution has to pick it's battles. Murder One was the more serious charge, and likely the one investigators will continue to focus on; they could have of course tacked on a potential child abuse charge, but what would the point be? The child was already dead.

[Major Robert Dump]

Overcharged. Capital Murder? Why not manslaughter? Child Abuse? But Capital Murder.

Overzealous prosecutors who think they cannot fail

[Tellos Athenaios]

you can on not telling anyone her child was missing for 30 odd days.

sounds like child abuse to me.

For an analogy if I am to file a complaint with the moderators alleging that Warman is in fact a sock puppet of yours and it turns out they find my accusations without merit, should the moderators hit you with infraction points for some random TOS violation because you probably committed those somewhere they do not yet know of?

Might as well ditch the judge and jury and bring in some Kangaroos instead.

[Centurion1]

Prosecution has to pick it's battles. Murder One was the more serious charge, and likely the one investigators will continue to focus on; they could have of course tacked on a potential child abuse charge, but what would the point be? The child was already dead.

....... she was also charged with aggravated child abuse.

[Centurion1]

For an analogy if I am to file a complaint with the moderators alleging that Warman is in fact a sock puppet of yours and it turns out they find my accusations without merit, should the moderators hit you with infraction points for some random TOS violation because you probably committed those somewhere they do not yet know of?

Might as well ditch the judge and jury and bring in some Kangaroos instead.

If your child is missing and you do not know where she is and she is four she is likely being abused or suffering trauma in some way. If you persist in not reporting her as a missing person then you are allowing that abuse or trauma to continue and you are therefore an abuser.

[Populus Romanus]

She was tried with murder 1 because that is what she committed. To go for anything less would be a injustice for the victim. As it happens, though, she was acqueitted, so now Caley Anthony has no justice.

[Samurai Waki]

Pretty much; This case got enough national attention, and the media demonized Ms. Anthony so thoroughly that prosecution failed to conduct a proper and thorough investigation-- and that bit 'em in the . Although something tells me this isn't over yet.

[Centurion1]

it was a three year investigation, no?

[Tellos Athenaios]

If your child is missing and you do not know where she is and she is four she is likely being abused or suffering trauma in some way. If you persist in not reporting her as a missing person then you are allowing that abuse or trauma to continue and you are therefore an abuser.

Yes you are. Was Anthony charged with child abuse? Nope, not as far as the article makes it seem to be the case anyway. It's not the job of a jury to match the crime and punishment. It's the job of the jury to assess guilt of the specific charges levied within reasonable doubt. And they found that the charges were not sufficiently backed by evidence to proclaim guilt beyond reasonable doubt, which implies she is still to be considered innocent until proven otherwise.

EDIT: This is what appeals are for, and you can probably chalk this up to the prosecution getting ahead of itself.

[Samurai Waki]

it was a three year investigation, no?

Time means for naught if you don't have anything to back up your case-- You can profile a murderer, speculate as to how the victim was killed, and what their motivation is-- but if you have nothing in the way of evidence to prove it, you simply don't have a case that can be proven beyond a reasonable doubt. A good example would be Gary Ridgeway aka The Green River Killer, law enforcement speculated for years that he was the one behind it, but they just couldn't get anything to stick-- finally after about five years they got a break in the case, a co-worker had collected a piece of his chewing gum-- and dropped it by the police department for evidence, they got his DNA and matched it with other DNA they had found on his victims, and they suddenly had the evidence they needed to convict him for Capital Murder.

Prosecution got overzealous, simple as that.

EDIT: Keep in mind she could actually be innocent.

[Cute Wolf]

meh, she just have a bad luck when duct taping her noisy child, because she must get some parties, just pretend she does some very late term abortion, that's why we should legalize abortion... (half sarcasm)

[Hosakawa Tito]

Overcharged. Capital Murder? Why not manslaughter? Child Abuse? But Capital Murder.

Overzealous prosecutors who think they cannot fail

I believe they based the Capital murder charge on premeditation. The alleged accusation that Casey Anthony did a web search on the family computer about chloroform etc... several months before the crime. Her mother claimed to have done that, but the date and time of the web search placed Mom at work. They couldn't prove without a doubt that Casey did that search. Casey and her parents appear to be pathological liars. 4 people know who did it, the victim, Casey, Mom & Dad. The little girl's suffering is over, the others suffering has just begun. Looks like that is all the justice little Kaylee will get.


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