Casey Anthony found not guilty

[dhussdawg]

Is this not better than convicting the innocent? Type 1 errors such as the Anthony verdict are going to happen in this system, but IMO its certainly better than the alternative.

So, you dont think a jury can ever make a judgement call? What is the use in having them then. You might as well just build a computer to render verdicts if it is that cut and dry.

[CChandler]

So, you dont think a jury can ever make a judgement call? What is the use in having them then. You might as well just build a computer to render verdicts if it is that cut and dry.

Certainly they can, if there is enough evidence (including both physical and circumstantial) for such a call. Clearly this jury did not believe the evidence warranted making such a call.

If there is any blame to be handed out, its for the DA taking this case to court before sufficient evidence was introduced.

This says nothing about our justice system. It says everything about shoddy work in the DA's office. Blame them.

[dhussdawg]

Certainly they can, if there is enough evidence (including both physical and circumstantial) for such a call. Clearly this jury did not believe the evidence warranted making such a call.

If there is any blame to be handed out, its for the DA taking this case to court before sufficient evidence was introduced.

This says nothing about our justice system. It says everything about shoddy work in the DA's office. Blame them. Innocent until proven guilty.

I guess so, but I heard some of the physical evidence plus her actions and it seemed enough to put her in the pen, but maybe the jury had more evidence that made them think otherwise. The choloform in the trunk with her DNA seemed damning along with her defense claiming she drowned just doesnt add up, along with the duct tape. I guess the defense explained it away somehow, but that must have been a hell of a story.

Interesting note, a guy i work with here in Houston is on the KBR rape case. It should be interesting to hear what he has to say after the trial is over.

[DawgyNWindow]

I would have to think that most murder cases are based on circumstantial evidence.

Have we become so mentally feeble that we have to have DNA or visual evidence to convict? If that tape hadn't been on the skull, perhaps I too would have been unsure as well...but that tape was as good as a fingerprint or a ballistics test on a firearm linking the Anthony home to the discarded child. At that point, I think you just had to eliminate each member of the family till you come up with the person that did it.

Baffling.

[LATechBanjo]

CChandler is absolutely right. DA should never have brought this to court. The ridiculous media attention put pressure on the office to bring a poor case to court.

Circumstantial evidence is not, and should not, be enough to convict someone of murder. Alot of people throw around the term "innocent until proven guilty" without understanding what it means......

Don't get me wrong, my opinion is that Casey Anthony did some bad shit, and probably deserves much worse than what she's getting. But the jury picked the only option they had. If there is any silver lining to this case, its that the jury didn't run with their emotions.

[saltydawg]

Pretty sure I saw him in the courtroom.

You're right. The guy "attempts" suicide and leaves an interesting note that the prosecution uses during the trial. The Defense argued that Casey was sexually abused by her father and was taught to lie at a young age. Helps explain her weird behavior. I agree with the jury's decision since there was no evidence connecting Casey to the death of her daughter.

Happy to see that Grace ended up being hit in the face with a mud pie.

The defense attorney did a heck of a job and is going to be in big demand going forward.

[DawgyNWindow]

Circumstantial evidence is not, and should not, be enough to convict someone of murder.

Wasn't Scott Peterson convicted based on circumstantial evidence? Nobody saw him kill his wife or dump her body, but the circumstantial evidence was there to convict.

Murder - the only eye witness is usually dead.

[DawgyNWindow]

Happy to see that Grace ended up being hit in the face with a mud pie.

The ONLY good thing to come out of all of this.

[saltydawg]

Wasn't Scott Peterson convicted based on circumstantial evidence? Nobody saw him kill his wife or dump her body, but the circumstantial evidence was there to convict.

Murder - the only eye witness is usually dead.

I thought that there was plenty of circumstantial evidence to connect Scott Peterson to his wife's murder. The day she disappears he goes boating in the same area where her body is washed ashore months later. There was an ocean currents expert who tesified that the body was probably dumped where Scott was fishing. The whole fishing story sounded "fishy" since it was late December.

[glm47]

Casey ends up posing for Hustler and marries Defense attorney Jose Baez.









She's guilty big time!

And so much for the liberal theory that only rich people get away with murder.

[parisdog]

Certainly they can, if there is enough evidence (including both physical and circumstantial) for such a call. Clearly this jury did not believe the evidence warranted making such a call.

If there is any blame to be handed out, its for the DA taking this case to court before sufficient evidence was introduced.

This says nothing about our justice system. It says everything about shoddy work in the DA's office. Blame them.

Are you a liberal?

[solo1001]

listened to a legal analyst chime in and said he was shocked because there were seven women on the jury and figured due to the nature of the case would have convicted easily since it came back so quickly. He said the prosecution must have left a HUGE hole in the case that the media didn't get a hold of for them to vote not guilty.

[Guisslapp]

Just goes to show how unpredictable a jury trial is.

[WWDog]

smoking gun (not=) DNA on sticky tape?
lying for a month about the child
records of search for chloroform and breaking neck
decaying body odor in trunk
chloroform in the trunk

Looks pretty reasonable there was something bad that happened to the child!

[GrassyNoleHitman]

listened to a legal analyst chime in and said he was shocked because there were seven women on the jury and figured due to the nature of the case would have convicted easily since it came back so quickly. He said the prosecution must have left a HUGE hole in the case that the media didn't get a hold of for them to vote not guilty.

depends on they character of the women. young, drunk party girls and single moms would be sympathetic to a mom who kills her child in order to party more and enjoy a wild lifestyle.