Casey Anthony Found Not Guilty of Murder in Death of Daughter Caylee
- Posted on July 5, 2011 at 2:20pm by
Jonathon M. Seidl
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ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Casey Anthony was found not guilty Tuesday of killing her 2-year-old daughter in a case that captivated the nation as it played out on national television from the moment the toddler was reported missing three years ago.
Anthony, 25, wept as the judge read the verdict, which jurors reached after less than 11 hours of deliberation over two days. She was charged with first-degree murder, which could have brought the death penalty if she had been convicted.
Instead, she was convicted of only four counts of lying to investigators looking into the June 2008 disappearance of her daughter Caylee. Her body was found in the woods six months later and a medical examiner was never able to determine how she died.
She will be sentenced by the judge on Thursday and could receive up to a year in jail for each lying count.
Anthony’s attorneys claimed that the toddler drowned accidentally in the family swimming pool, and that her seemingly carefree mother in fact was hiding emotional distress caused by sexual abuse from her father.
Prosecutors contended that Caylee was suffocated with duct tape by a mother who loved to party, tattooed herself with the Italian words for “beautiful life” in the month her daughter was missing and crafted elaborate lies to mislead everyone from investigators to her own parents.
Captivated observers camped outside the courthouse to jockey for coveted seats in the courtroom gallery, which occasionally led to fights among those desperate to watch the drama unfold.
Anthony did not take the stand during the trial, which started in mid-May. Because the case got so much media attention in Orlando, jurors were brought in from the Tampa Bay area and sequestered for the entire trial.
Anthony’s attorney, Jose Baez, conceded that his client had told elaborate lies and invented imaginary friends and even a fake father for Caylee, but he said that doesn’t mean she killed her daughter.
“They throw enough against the wall and see what sticks,” Baez said of prosecutors during closing arugments. “That is what they’re doing … right down to the cause of death.”
He tried to convince jurors that the toddler accidentally drowned in the family swimming pool and that when Anthony panicked, her father, a former police officer, decided to make the death look like a murder by putting duct tape on the girl’s mouth and dumping the body in woods about a quarter-mile away. They said that Anthony’s apparent carefree life hid emotional distress caused by sexual abuse from her father. Her father firmly denied both the cover-up and abuse claims. The prosecution called those claims “absurd,” saying that no one makes an accident look like a murder.
Lead prosecutor Linda Drane Burdick concluded the state’s case by showing the jury two side-by-side images. One showed Casey Anthony smiling and partying in a nightclub during the month Caylee was missing. The other was the tattoo she got a day before her family and law enforcement first learned of the child’s disappearance.
“At the end of this case, all you have to ask yourself is whose life was better without Caylee?” Burdick asked. “This is your answer.”
Prosecutors hammered on the lies Anthony, then 22, told from June 16, 2008, when her daughter was last seen, and a month later when sheriff’s investigators were notified. Those include the single mother telling her parents she couldn’t produce Caylee because the girl was with a nanny named Zanny – a woman who doesn’t exist; that she and her daughter were spending time in Jacksonville, Fla., with a rich boyfriend who doesn’t exist; and that Zanny had been hospitalized after an out-of-town traffic crash and that they were spending time with her.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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Comments (752)
El Jefe
Posted on July 5, 2011 at 2:30pmProbably gonna make most of you mad…
Don’t get me wrong, I think she did it but there’s no DNA and no witnesses to the crime. How can you convict her, seriously.
Is she guilty until proven innocent, come on people, your better than that.
Report Post »Rillobymorning
Posted on July 5, 2011 at 3:15pmThere was plenty of evidence. The smell of a decomposed body in the trunk of a car and air samples that had definate traces of chloroform. It may not have been DNA, but was certainly evidence enough to get her for manslaughter. I can‘t believe she didn’t even get child abuse, considering this baby was gone 31 days before even an attempt was made to look for her, at the insistance of Cindy.
Report Post »PanicFire
Posted on July 5, 2011 at 3:28pmI haven’t watched any of the trial or followed it. But the Jury obviously believed that there was not enough evidence to convict. Innocent until proven guilty.
In the end the person responsible for the child’s death will stand before God and account for what they have done.
Report Post »HappyGirl99
Posted on July 5, 2011 at 4:07pmYou don’t have to have DNA to convict for murder! Get that out of your head! There would be no DNA evidence in this kind of a case.
Report Post »Bluebonnet
Posted on July 5, 2011 at 4:14pmThe DNA evidence wasn’t the issue. Her lack of caring what happened to her child was an issue. How can any, even an uncaring bad mother, not care where her child was for 31 days? I’d have been wringing my hands and standing by the phone if I truly thought my child was kidnapped. But she knew what happened. Ever hear the expression, “Boy, I got away with murder on that one.”
Report Post »BOUGHT YOUR SILO YET?
Posted on July 5, 2011 at 4:52pmOh good. From what you are say all those prosecuted prior to 1987 and having no witnesses should get to go free- because DNA was not use to catch criminals until 1987. Most cases do not have witnesses. So, if these are the only criteria for conviction we are in big trouble as a nation. OUR BIGGEST PROBLEM IS that we are not using common sense anymore. Casey was the last person to see her daughter alive. The body was found with duct tape from the house in which Casey lived and had access to. It wasn’t an accidental drowning because drowned, dead bodies do not need duct tape- especially over the mouth/nose. Only live bodies need duct tape! The defense did not try to blame anyone else. They said it was an accidental drowning. First of all, if this was true, who found the body floating in the pool? Casey? Her dad? Her mom? Does not make sense. Why would anyone from that house phone the police to report her missing AT ALL (even 31 days later)? Did Casey find the body floating in the pool and decided not to tell anyone? Why put duct tape on the mouth of a dead body? Did the dad find the body floating in the pool? Why put duct tape on the mouth of the dead body? The defense can’t say that someone abducted the girl and disposed of the body because they have already said it was an accidental drowning. It does not make sense so you have to conclude that the child did not die of an accidental drowning.
Report Post »Free77Man
Posted on July 5, 2011 at 9:19pmReally? Grow up! Wake up men! This is what we are up against. So if I shoot your daughter from the woods with a silenced sniper rifle we should go ahead and forget about justice. Remember the angry gangs outside of Stauss Kahn’s hotel? I do.
Report Post »kenny1960
Posted on July 5, 2011 at 2:30pmWhen did Pinellas County become part of California ?? They must have imported the OJ jury to try this case !! Now I guess things are even, OJ got away with murder and now so has Casey Anthony. Is America a great country or what ???!!!!
Report Post »ilovethiscountry
Posted on July 5, 2011 at 2:30pmI knew that there was not enough evedence to convict her. Next time maybe the prosecutors will rely on someting other than their good looks to try to convict someone.
Report Post »NEL
Posted on July 5, 2011 at 5:35pmI agree. She was guilty of neglect but the prosecution proved NOTHING. Innocent until PROVEN guilty remember????
Report Post »Anamah
Posted on July 5, 2011 at 2:30pmThis sentence can be an example of how lost is our country with this kind of people judging a clear case of assassination of a defenseless little girl .. You can go to hell!!! To the Jury and this despicable woman go to hell murder!!! My beautiful Cailey wont have justice in the America Justice System. This is a disgrace!
Report Post »flasho
Posted on July 5, 2011 at 2:30pmHoly crap!!! It’s O.J. Anthony!!!
Report Post »Czar Casm
Posted on July 5, 2011 at 2:34pmMTV will now pay her a bunch of money to follow her party lifestyle.
Report Post »Logic77
Posted on July 5, 2011 at 2:30pmPay back for the OJ case.
Report Post »HemiOwner
Posted on July 5, 2011 at 2:30pmB @&CH got away with it.
Report Post »SavingtheRepublic.com
Posted on July 5, 2011 at 2:29pmThere was NO smoking gun, no DNA to tie her to this. Its all about evidence not feelings. Like Baez said shes a liar and sl*ut… probably but nothing tying her to the death of the baby. EVIDENCE DNA and fingerprints were NOwhere to be found!
Report Post »John 4157
Posted on July 5, 2011 at 2:43pmEverybody backs the justice system. Then why is it that everyone contests the results. This isn‘t lynch mob time it’s the justice system!!!
Report Post »PATTY HENRY
Posted on July 5, 2011 at 2:54pmNO this is the OPPOSITE from “OBAMA” being re elected for sure…YOU NEED to think about what you said…this means that AMERICANS CAN THINK FOR THEMSELVES…..not be fooled by the MSM and the no-nonsense talking head……CALEE is dead because it was an accident. The CRIME…is not informing on it…blame her dad for that.
Report Post »tbl10
Posted on July 5, 2011 at 3:46pmYou are absolutely right, the prosecution failed to tie the evidence to her. I have said for a week she would not be found guilty of murder due to this fact. Do I personally think she did it, ABSOLUTELY. Just another example of a failed judicial system, the prosecution failed to properly do their job. Wouldn‘t be the first time the cops didn’t do their job correctly.
Report Post »Dahart
Posted on July 5, 2011 at 4:12pmThank You! I live here in Orlando and have been bombard for three years with this case….I have always said she knows something..but there was no proof.
Report Post »BOUGHT YOUR SILO YET?
Posted on July 5, 2011 at 4:21pmExcept the duct tape! The duct tape that was found on the body was determined to be the same from the Anthony home. This is the stupidest thing I have ever heard. Just because the house was not hers and the duct tape wasn‘t hers doesn’t mean she COULDN’T have used the duct tape- she did live there. She had access to it. Her attorney said it was an accidental drowning. C’mon! why would you need to duct-tape the kid’s mouth if she drowned! The judge DID say to the jury that they could use their common sense in this case. It is refuted that Casey was the last person to see the kid alive. It is refuted that there was duct tape found on the body. It is refuted that the duct tape is the same from the Anthony home. That is all the evidence you need to find that she was at least guilty of manslaughter!
Report Post »Bluebonnet
Posted on July 5, 2011 at 5:14pmAnother OJ Simpson trial. Funny, OJ went to Florida too.
Report Post »melmatmic
Posted on July 5, 2011 at 4:52pmWas this the perfect crime????
Report Post »Aunt Nee Nee
Posted on July 5, 2011 at 6:11pmThat is unfortunate, but true. It’s the perfect crime. Casey was able to stall, delay, lie and deny long enough to make sure that any evidence connecting her to Caylee’s disappearance and death was well hidden, or deteriorated enough as to make it useless. Even little Calyee‘s body was decomposed to the point that the cause of death couldn’t be determined. I think she chloroformed that child to keep her quiet and out of the way, but gave her too much and accidentally killed her. And even if she didn’t kill her, she knows how she died. I‘m just glad to know that one day she will face a Judge she can’t fool. He knows everything. Casey will pay.
Report Post »bereal
Posted on July 5, 2011 at 6:11pmYeah, this is how the Jury gets confused, by facts. It doesnt take a rocket scientist (or shouldn’t) to figure it out. All the evidence of the disapearance of caylee points directly at Casey. The next step is the logical one, Casy wanted freedom, eliminate the hold and you have freedom, “beautiful Life”.
The jury forgot the one basic premise, COMMON SENSE. Oh well, justice has not been served!
One other thing, the Jurors were tired and wanted to go home, so, they could have said to themselves “lets get this thing over and get out of here, how do you vote with the proof of death? Not guilty 12 times, end of stry , now lets give the verdict and get outa here.
Report Post »Patriot Rider
Posted on July 5, 2011 at 8:27pmWOW, people still amaze me. The plane simple truth is, if you were not there, then YOU DON”T KNOW. PERIOD.
Report Post »If you were not at the seen of the crime, then you don’t know. If you were not in that court room, then you don’t know. How on earth can anybody make a decision on this with just what has been told by the media? But, just like the OJ case, you all think guilty until proven innocent. She may have done it, but THERE WAS AND IS NO PROOF!!!!!!!!
Bernard
Posted on July 5, 2011 at 8:46pmVery simple, if a mother takes a full bloody month to report her missing 4 yr old child, shouldn’t she be guilty on something other fibbing to the cops?
Report Post »Meyvn
Posted on July 6, 2011 at 7:16amCertainly.
Report Post »cheezwhiz
Posted on July 5, 2011 at 2:29pmHow many in the jury were hardcore lefty Obama voters ?
Report Post »Michael600r
Posted on July 5, 2011 at 2:29pmShe killed her kid and got away with it.
Report Post »KOCHLEFFEL
Posted on July 5, 2011 at 4:38pmHOW DO YOU KNOW?? Where you there and are a witness?
Report Post »bereal
Posted on July 5, 2011 at 7:02pmKOCHLEFFEL, no, the only one there was Casey, and she did it!
Report Post »Common sense, were did go?, it surly left 12 people without it. Were you listening to anything? or just hearing echos? I know, Iknow, you tell a story to a room full of people and tell it to just one and have him repreat it to the next person in the room, so on and so on, by the time it gets back to you, the story has changed. The only problem with this parable is, the facts were told to everyone within hearing distance. Well, you could’ve been out of the room, you may have tinnitus, not hearing proper.
Point is, the facts, not what was made up for you to decide if that’s true, but the facts in hand. It points to the guilt of one Casey Anthony of wilful death of her daughter. The Jurors just wanted to go home, they were tired and just needed it to end, NOT GUILTY, let’s get outa here. End of Story.
timber wolf
Posted on July 5, 2011 at 6:43pmWill probably make a profit as well with book deals and magazine interviews.
Report Post »cheezwhiz
Posted on July 5, 2011 at 2:28pmSo WHO killed the kid ?
Report Post »I’m sure that woman will spend rest of her life looking for the killer of the little girl, just like OJ is
True American66
Posted on July 5, 2011 at 2:40pmI was thinking the EXACT same thing….this is just like the OJ trial. Sensationalize a murder trial and the guilty get off everytime! NO JUSTICE FOR CAYLEE, BUT A PARTY FOR HER MOTHER THE KILLER!
Report Post »SLARTIBARTFAST
Posted on July 5, 2011 at 2:43pmShe’ll be looking for the murderer on golf courses – when she isn’t working as a legal correspondent for MSNBC.
Report Post »rgalunas
Posted on July 5, 2011 at 3:04pmyes the questions go on and on! The bigger problem is who did it and why would our system fail again and again? The people don’t fear God! The fear of God is longer taught in churches none the less the schools!
Report Post »Falcon11
Posted on July 5, 2011 at 3:42pmYou nailed it Wes!
Report Post »RRFlyer
Posted on July 5, 2011 at 5:48pmyeah, if the killer is on the golf course, or in this case, a bar.
Report Post »Ari Ben TZion
Posted on July 5, 2011 at 2:27pmUnbelievable
Report Post »Uncurable wound
Posted on July 5, 2011 at 2:27pmJustice for all…..PPPLLLEEEAAASE!
Report Post »THE FAT LADY HAS SUNG PEOPLE…
tjzbears
Posted on July 5, 2011 at 2:27pmOMG!!!! Unbelievable….did all the California’s move to Florida
Report Post »SingerGuy
Posted on July 5, 2011 at 2:26pmUn-friggin-believable! Can we not find juries anymore that are able to parse through the facts in a complex case and make a sound decision?
Report Post »netmail
Posted on July 5, 2011 at 2:50pmNo, can’t be done. Cagey lawyers seem to be able to dismiss objective people and stack the box with people who are easy to manipulate. There’s lots of them around these days. God help us. Jurors and voters gone wild.
Report Post »cassandra
Posted on July 6, 2011 at 5:40pmit seems now you have to have a video of a murder to get a conviction,and then a liberal jury would say what you are seeing and hearing isn’t enough ,you don’t have enough evidence. give me a break use your common sense casey murdered her baby and got away with it
Report Post »randy
Posted on July 5, 2011 at 2:26pmWell, they just let a murderess go free. Disgusting
Report Post »GulfPeg
Posted on July 5, 2011 at 3:39pmYes it is certainly DISGUSTING! This ignorant jury. The evidence presented was way above their heads.
Report Post »DDD
Posted on July 5, 2011 at 4:58pmMurder in the worst way – no stranger, no enemy. No, her victim was her own baby!
Report Post »Redd
Posted on July 5, 2011 at 6:23pmNow that the trial is over, can we move on to the Donald Young and LT Quarles trials.
Report Post »pappy
Posted on July 5, 2011 at 2:25pmSomebody’s gonna have to explain to me how she got off of the murder charges. I turned off the TV as soon as I heard it. I did the same thing with the OJ trial. Now, you can kill a kid and walk. WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON IN THIS COUNTRY????!!!!
Report Post »Luckywon
Posted on July 5, 2011 at 2:32pmThe Liberals in the jury box must have simply wrote it off as Late term abortion. Women have been killing kids in the country for a very long time and walking.
Report Post »dtaglione
Posted on July 5, 2011 at 10:45pmI agree…children aren’t even considered of value anymore. She should be strung up for slowing the investigation. Surely there was a charge they could have brought. Any parent that can’t figure out their kid is gone in thirty days…
Report Post »Someone brought up a good point, the dad was a cop, drove the car home, smelled a horrible smell and called no one – no one. If he didn’t have a pretty good idea of what was in the trunk during or after that ride…..what kind of cop could he have been. Took the grandmother one whiff…to get on the phone for help.
Think of all the children that have been murdered and nothing done about it. The media will make Casey the victim. Anyone who reads a magazine featuring Casey interviews, goes to a movie, buys a book should be ashamed of themselves.
ItsintheBible
Posted on July 5, 2011 at 2:40pmNO JUSTICE FOR CAYLEE!
Our Lord will make sure that justice is served when Casey stands before HIM!
Report Post »coloradolifer
Posted on July 5, 2011 at 2:52pmThis country… is calling good evil and evil good. That‘s what’s going on. The only satisfaction I get is that Casey Anthony will spend the rest of her life looking over her shoulder, because someone, sometime, is going to give her what she gave Caylee.
Report Post »neverending
Posted on July 5, 2011 at 3:44pmWe have lost our country – that is what is going on.
Report Post »butterfly53
Posted on July 5, 2011 at 3:52pmApparently the jury didn’t have enough evidence to find her guilty. Plain and simple. And people, what if she didn’t do it?
Report Post »pulguita
Posted on July 5, 2011 at 5:45pmIt happens every day, in fact it’s totally legal to kill your children. It’s called abortion. Why should it feel so different to us that this child was a little older? It’s the same thing.
Report Post »SlimnRanger
Posted on July 5, 2011 at 6:21pm@ Pappy,nothing is hid forever,someday the truth will come out as to whom murdered that precious little girl
Report Post »Beachplum
Posted on July 5, 2011 at 10:22pmwhere have you been for the last 30 years? Murder of innocent children has been going on since Roe v. Wade! What is the difference here? That is what has happened to this country!
Report Post »lyradd
Posted on July 5, 2011 at 2:25pmDid the O.J. jury move to Orlando???
Report Post »melmatmic
Posted on July 5, 2011 at 4:49pmNo but OJ moved to Florida. Probably contaminated the place.
Report Post »Cherokeelady
Posted on July 6, 2011 at 4:03pmGOOD ONE I think they did. Just sicking………gag magnut……..
Report Post »cadkins
Posted on July 5, 2011 at 2:24pmtotal crap
Report Post »111gecko
Posted on July 5, 2011 at 2:24pmwhat do you think the bigger blunder is: this mess by the jury or the OJ mess?
Report Post »Elena2010
Posted on July 5, 2011 at 2:26pmI‘d say it’s a tie.
Report Post »woemcat
Posted on July 5, 2011 at 2:33pmthey’re equally unbelievably pathetic. did the juries even show up for the trials?!?!?!
Report Post »pyeatte
Posted on July 5, 2011 at 3:07pmOJ was worse but this is a very close second.
Report Post »Magyar
Posted on July 5, 2011 at 9:29pmIt’s a coin toss!
Report Post »Bible Quotin' Science Fearin' Conservative American
Posted on July 5, 2011 at 2:24pmAin’t that America
Child killer gets what she wanted. her freedom to party back. Ridiculous.
Report Post »molleighsgm
Posted on July 6, 2011 at 11:23amShe got away with murder!!!! no doubt in my mind that she killed that beautiful baby. I was in complete shock after the verdict. If you find her guilty of lying to the police then that proves right there that she was involved in the murder. I thought murder 1 might be hard but I thought for sure they would take manslaughter stick. My solace right now is that God knows and will deal with Casey when it’s her judgement day. What scared me more was something i heard today. She said in a jailhouse letter that when she was set free she planned on trying to get pregnant again right away!!!! I pray that people will stay clear of anything that can help this murderer profit from the horrible tragic death of that sweet angel baby. Caylee may you rest in peace and know you were loved by so many people. Don’t be surprised if you see charges brought against Cindy Anthony for perjury. a reported said last night people were bringing their kids to caylee’s memorial site. They were bringing flowers and saying prayers.. one even brought a Winnie the Pooh balloon. the reporter said it’s funny those closest to caylee grandma Cindy and grandpa George and the woman who was supposed to be her mom…. were no where to be found but complete strangers that felt compassion,love and sadness that there was no justice for little Caylee. No one deserves to be thrown out like trash in a swamp. Caylee deserved better than that. God Bless you little Caylee Marie. You were taken from this world way too soo
Report Post »TomFerrari
Posted on July 5, 2011 at 2:23pmSimply BIZARRE.
Report Post »TomFerrari
Posted on July 5, 2011 at 2:37pmEven her own Mom and Dad were shocked and disgusted by the verdict.
Report Post »EP46
Posted on July 6, 2011 at 5:25amFrom what the “alternate juror” said, sounds like they might have believed the ‘swimming pool’ story. How is the jury going to feel when they find out that the ‘swimming pool” story was another of Casey’s lies stolen from a woman who was in jail at the same time she was who had a little boy who Did drown in a swimming pool, and Was found by the grandfather? This info was never presented to the jury. Just another lie by Casey, taking something that really happened to another person and using it for herself. Such a sad, sad story.
Report Post »SpankDaMonkey
Posted on July 5, 2011 at 2:23pm.
Report Post »Free at last, free at last………..Let’s Party………….. Are you kidding me?………
woemcat
Posted on July 5, 2011 at 2:21pmoh good grief!
Report Post »hauschild
Posted on July 5, 2011 at 2:21pmI LOVE IT!!!
Idiots in every jury box. Civic duty gone terribly wrong.
This country is over.
Report Post »Dale
Posted on July 5, 2011 at 2:26pmThe jury was required to make a decision on the FACTS (and there were none), not on how they LIKED her.
Report Post »RebelSon
Posted on July 5, 2011 at 2:58pmFact: innocent people don’t lie, they tell the truth. Fact: A parent who is remorseful over the recent loss of a child don‘t go clubbing and get tattoo’s touting a “beautiful life.” Fact: She‘s guilty as hell but get’s away with it.
Report Post »REDBLOODEDHUSKER
Posted on July 5, 2011 at 3:02pmAgreed. I think she’s a piece of garbage (To put it mildly) and I BET the jury does too. But the FACTS and EVIDENCE were not enough to convict her.
Report Post »JD Carp
Posted on July 5, 2011 at 3:04pmShe was convicted in the media, by the media with no basis in facts and physical proof. Did she do it? I am confident she did, but remember this is the same media who will tell us that Obama is the greatest President in our history!
Report Post »NWalters78
Posted on July 5, 2011 at 3:09pmDale, shut up. Way to gloat over this piece of trash and her even bigger piece of trash lawyer crowing about how great the justice system is.
Report Post »Ethereal
Posted on July 5, 2011 at 3:17pmI agree with this statement. I just dont think the prosecution did its job in making sure there were enough hard facts and no doubt. Sadly Im sure she did kill her beautiful daughter and because someone in the courtroom was not competenet she walks. Or at least walks from the muder charges but still may get 4 years for lying to police. Lets see what happens to her in prison during this time.
Report Post »par4thecourse
Posted on July 5, 2011 at 4:49pmOk Dale, so what you’re saying is that if a parent strangles their kid then drives the body around in their car until they decide what to do with the it, then dumps it in the woods because the car is starting to really smell, then tells everyone that the kid is at Disneyland having fun while going out and partying for a month until a family member reports that their car smells like a corpse, then tells the cops a nonsensical story or maybe 20 nonsensical stories until the skeletal remains are found scattered by animals in the woods, that that parent that was responsible for that child’s care and well being, that that parent who is supposed to be a loving caring parent of that child, that that parent who had a car that had the stench of death inside it that cadaver dogs reacted to, that that parent has no evidence against them.
Report Post »That means that any parent that doesn‘t want their kid could just go out and do a delayed abortion on them and as long as the body isn’t found before it becomes skeletal, “Well no evidence, no crime”. Her behavior was evidence as much as any fingerprint and I would say more reliable than any eye witness. If not, then every parent has about 2 1/2 months every summer to decide if they really want that bothersome little person ruining their lives. Who knew summer vacation could become so dangerous.
WithOutGodWePerishAsARepublic
Posted on July 5, 2011 at 5:26pmThe Prosecution failed this lil girl ..plain and simple they did not connect the incedible Facts and Evidence …this case was open and shut… The Jurors are clueless… Geeeeeeezzzee !!?? Well I am just glad God will sort this out ..and I believe it will be sooner then later … all three ..Mom and Grandparents will go through hell ..here on earth and then later on … Justice will be Served !!!
Report Post »blackeyerat
Posted on July 5, 2011 at 7:46pmyes
Report Post »RED_JOHN
Posted on July 5, 2011 at 7:54pmYou are sadly mistaken!
Report Post »SeymourHiney
Posted on July 6, 2011 at 1:41amThank you!
Report Post »momsense
Posted on July 6, 2011 at 2:11amThere were plenty of facts, but there wasn’t a jury intelligent enough to understand them. Caylee is still dead and her slut mother is free to party. Fact # 1
Report Post »Disnylv
Posted on July 5, 2011 at 2:27pmNo doubt
Report Post »time4termlimits
Posted on July 5, 2011 at 2:28pmI just said the very same thing to a co-worker. Staggers the imagination.
Report Post »banjarmon
Posted on July 5, 2011 at 2:30pmHOW??? mmmm
Report Post »Jediusetheforce
Posted on July 5, 2011 at 2:31pmYeah, I guess you need video taped evidence in order to convict.
Report Post »harvbell
Posted on July 5, 2011 at 2:37pmMust have been the same jury that O.J. had.
Report Post »MidWestMom
Posted on July 5, 2011 at 2:37pmAnd I thought the justice system was a cesspool that couldn’t sink any lower…..this proves me wrong.
Report Post »stogieguy7
Posted on July 5, 2011 at 2:39pmA little girl will never find justice. So no, I don’t love it. Not one damn bit.
But I do endorse vigilantism for those who are victimized. Because our legal system is a joke. A total joke that depends on society’s airheads for “justice”. Now a murdering ho is free and may never be convicted. As nobody else killed Caylee, that’s it.
Thanks Florida – more proof of your general trashiness.
Report Post »stogieguy7
Posted on July 5, 2011 at 2:40pmA little girl will never find justice. So no, I don’t love it. Not one damn bit.
But I do endorse vigilantism for those who are victimized. Because our legal system is a joke. A total joke that depends on society’s airheads for “justice”. Now a murdering ho is free and may never be convicted. As nobody else killed Caylee, that’s it.
Thanks Florida – more proof of your general trashiness.
Report Post »Gold Coin & Economic News
Posted on July 5, 2011 at 2:46pmUnbelievable! The defense came up with such a ridiculous story as to why Casey was not guilty (because her father abused Casey, when Caylee died in the family pool her grand father wrapped duct tape around her face and disposed of her body…WTF?), that any half witted jury could have seen right through that mess and immediately known what a scam was going on here. Unfortunately the jury must have not even been comprised of halfwits.
So, so sad for little Caylee. God rest her soul.
Report Post »PATTY HENRY
Posted on July 5, 2011 at 2:49pmYOU are the IDIOT. J. CHENEY MASON and JOSE BAEZ knew she was innocent. THEY risked it all to prove it. YOU dopes who keep believing all the trash in the papers…the MSM papers…versus the Constitution and the RULE of LAW need to take a deep breath now and relax. THANK GOD we don’t have to kill someone who was innocent. THINKABOUT IT. CASEY could go out and party because 1. she knew her daughter was dead 2. She was in denial….she has reason to be nuts. THESE are great lawyers…especially MASON. HE speaks the truth. I know that both parties have asked him to run for office, but he feels his job is defending Americans.
Report Post »American Capitalist
Posted on July 5, 2011 at 2:50pmMaybe she ought to marry OJ Simpson… They’d be great
Report Post »Evileye
Posted on July 5, 2011 at 2:51pmScott Peterson got the death penalty for dumping his wife in the bay less evidence than this.
Report Post »This Is American Justis?
kentuckypatriot
Posted on July 5, 2011 at 2:54pmI’m outraged!! She’s guilty as sin. IMO, the whole Anthony family is a major train wreck! Hopefully, on judgment day, Casey Anthony will be punished.
Report Post »HisNameWasRobertPaulson
Posted on July 5, 2011 at 2:54pmI am curious to so many, nearly all of you, who are convinced that she is guilty and have the audacity to convict the jury for not coming to your conclusion; were ANY of you in the jury? Did ANY of you have access to all of the evidence? Or are you all reacting because of news reports that have convinced you of the ‘truth’ they have brought you?
Do any of you understand the point of a jury trial by your peers? It isn’t a jury trial by people who know you are guilty! It is a jury trial by people of the same like mind and education, capabilities, and so on, who can formulate proper thought based SOLELY and ONLY on the evidence presented and allowed at trial and having SOLELY and ONLY to do with the issue and charges at hand.
It was said by one of our founders, and I am paraphrasing here, that it is better that nine guilty men go free than imprison one innocent man falsely. The purpose of our criminal justice system is to provide justice by fellow citizens, not by so called smarter people who know how guilty you are.
It means that people that YOU YOURSELF SOMEHOW KNOW ARE GUILTY don’t get found guilty.
I cringe when I see my fellow posters jump on the mainstream media bandwagon blitz of info and fall in line with what they have been told on this issue. I thought we were all smarter than this?
I pray for all of us when we are willing to condemn someone based on media reports and forgo the results of a constitutionally authorized jury of justice.
Report Post »JG79504
Posted on July 5, 2011 at 3:02pmYou can go to hell with her and that jury.
Report Post »stifroc
Posted on July 5, 2011 at 3:03pmNo CONCLUSIVE EVIDENCE
No clear time or even cause of death. No DNA, nadda, zip, zilch.
If the jury HAD found her guilty it would have been because they FELT she did it, not because it was PROVEN she did it.
I don’t like it! HOWEVER! I want a judicial system that hands down verdicts based on EVIDENCE and not emotion.
It’s not perfect, but it’s better than the alternative, and sometimes we have to take the good with the bad. She is still going to face prison time for giving false information and testimony to law enforcement though. She’s not going to go home tomorrow.
Report Post »Skippy Toes
Posted on July 5, 2011 at 3:16pmIt should be illegal for the media to discuss court cases. They don‘t know the facts and you don’t either.Media was wrong on Michael Jackson and now this. All you know is the CRAP the media fed the public like a bunch of goldfish in a pond. GET THE FACTS! before making a judgement. Geraldo get a life and quite ruining othe people’s. Arrogant media lawyers. BARF.
Report Post »spirited
Posted on July 5, 2011 at 3:36pmAnyone who actually watched the trial (it was televised –in it’s entirety),
knew as much,
if not more
than the jurists.
“Not Guilty” for Capital One? …Okay.
But “Not Guilty” for the next two charges???
>Even the Judge advised that “common sense” was necessary in their deliberation.
Report Post »catholiccowboy
Posted on July 5, 2011 at 3:19pmHHHHuuuuuuuuummmmmmmm……………where to start, If I had to make a case for why abortion is evil…….then this is it. We have de-sensitized ourselves to the point of no return. The life of this child was nothing more than an unwanted pregancy! This was a prime example of late term abortion! period. Life is nolonger precious! God please forgive us, we no not what we do!
Report Post »branch manager
Posted on July 5, 2011 at 3:37pmShut the front door!!!!!!!!!!!!
Report Post »ncparrot1
Posted on July 5, 2011 at 3:37pmthis country is in serious trouble! On soooo many levels! The idiocy of each day that passes is more and more disturbing!
Report Post »branch manager
Posted on July 5, 2011 at 3:44pmShut the front door!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Report Post »sissykatz
Posted on July 5, 2011 at 4:01pmWell I was not surprized that they did not find her guilty of murder. I think it was crazy for the prosecution to try to prove that. But she was guilty I believe with all my heart. I do believe it was and accident. Then made to look like someone had abducted her. I think she gave the child Xanax and she overdosed. i believe that is where Zanny the nanny came from. I think she looked up Cloraform because if she were abducted they would have used that to subdue that. I think she did then put her in the bags with the duct tape ect. to make it look like someone else did it. I blame the prosecution for not allowing lesser charges to come in. I am so upset that she was not charged with anything.
Report Post »zman173rd
Posted on July 5, 2011 at 4:04pmIt’s the LETTER of the law and no longer the INTENT. SUE fearing citizens. Wrong is Right, Right is Wrong. It’s too late America. Spose’ those in the jury will selling their stories to the highest bidders????
Report Post »Beckatude
Posted on July 5, 2011 at 4:17pmThis country was over back when the courts and politicians killed Terri Schiavo
Report Post »dabbo
Posted on July 5, 2011 at 4:38pmYea!….when can we get her signed up for Dancing with the Stars?
I always thought one lone dingbat could screw this up but all 12 of them agreeing??? you’ve got to be kidding.
Report Post »floridapossum
Posted on July 5, 2011 at 7:20pmDitto that!
Report Post »cruzinbill
Posted on July 5, 2011 at 5:09pmAgree
Report Post »arx
Posted on July 5, 2011 at 5:51pmThere is sometimes no justice in this world. God will have to take care of this one…
Report Post »floridapossum
Posted on July 5, 2011 at 7:38pmI’m counting on it!
Report Post »SpeckChaser
Posted on July 5, 2011 at 6:12pmI hope you receive the same verdict if your ever find yourself standing trial and the prosecution proves your guilt to the same degree as they did in this case. Could you please tell me what the conclusive cause of death was, I must have missed it from the trial?
Report Post »cessna152
Posted on July 5, 2011 at 6:18pmWhite people are cheering in the streets because a white person was not found guilty for the murder she committed. Wait, that was the other way around with OJ. Still never really understood how it was a race thing and not a “person was killed thing..” What happened to this once great nation.
Report Post »Secret Squirrel
Posted on July 5, 2011 at 6:18pm.
Report Post »Let’s party!
TruthisHealthy
Posted on July 5, 2011 at 6:27pmIndeed you’re right. She should have received the death sentence.
Report Post »Wolf
Posted on July 6, 2011 at 2:06amDo you have evidence to support your stupidity?
Report Post »Redd
Posted on July 5, 2011 at 6:28pmMom of murder victim speaks out!!!…
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MONICNE
Posted on July 5, 2011 at 7:50pmThis kind of means: the majority of BLAZE posters are IDIOTS. Just Sayin.
Report Post »NWalters78
Posted on July 5, 2011 at 9:54pmBugger off, you jacktard. I bet you agree with the verdict. Liberal bas….
Report Post »Bernard
Posted on July 5, 2011 at 7:58pmhauschild
I agree
Report Post »Pastor Ray
Posted on July 5, 2011 at 8:14pmJust as inocent as OJ!!! Even her parents knows she’s guilty! What a CESS POOL !!!
Report Post »Meyvn
Posted on July 5, 2011 at 8:41pmPretty sad. A huge mistake. It also reflects just how pathetic a huge portion of our citizens are. Can’t even find a sane jury any more.
Hmm… so did they try to revive the little girl with the chloroform? Or does Casey just like huffing it? Sick.
Report Post »PapaMcCain
Posted on July 5, 2011 at 9:02pmWhat an incredible coincidence, the entire jury from the first OJ trial all moved to Florida and got jury duty together! Amazing!
Report Post »The-Monk
Posted on July 5, 2011 at 9:30pmHow many of you are unemployed? The problem with being employed in a case like this is that you have to go to work each day and only get the commentaries and short (edited) news clips from the news shows. Granted, I WISH I was employed but, I’m not and I had the chance to watch each and every day of testimony directly. I was able to put myself in a position of one of the jury. Unless you watched every minute of every day’s testimony and stayed away from the main stream media news… you are incapable of rendering any verdict. The Child is dead and that is a fact. Who did it and who covered it up is not a provable fact that can be presented in court… yet! I do hope that someday the facts will come out but this prosecution just stumbled all over themselves and laughed too much in open court in front of the jury. Their unprofessionalism in open court, in front of the jury, was their own demise and very childish. Who would believe anything those laughing jokers had to say especially after the defense crushed every aspect of their case.
Report Post »orcuttpepa
Posted on July 5, 2011 at 9:39pm@ Monk – You make a great point. I watched every minute of this trial along with my wife. I am appalled at what the media has portrayed as fact. I am also beyond myself at the ignorance of some of the comments on this and other sites. The fact is I still don’t know if Casey did it! I can tell you by the law and the evidence, the prosecution did not come close to proving Casey did this. That is all that matters in the jury trial system. This jury did what it was required to do. It used the evidence and not their emotions, nor the prosecutions hypothetical situations to decide this case. The system worked!
Report Post »The-Monk
Posted on July 5, 2011 at 10:23pm@ ORCUTTPEPA – You said, “I am also beyond myself at the ignorance of some of the comments on this and other sites.” Don’t forget that Media Matters and other leftist progressive socialist have access to join this group, respond to it and they also get paid buy Soros to do it. This is just one of the many ways that they try (and sometimes succeed) to stir up the pot and cause havoc. Sane people, like you and I might just say, “To hell with this site, there’s just too many crazy people in it.” That’s how they win. Use your discrimination and good judgment to separate the sugar from the sand. It’s not that hard if you think about it.
Report Post »orcuttpepa
Posted on July 6, 2011 at 12:13am@ monk – I am here and here to stay! I fight the good fight everyday against the Obama Administration and all the anti American cronies he has in his arsenal. I await the day we gain back the country our fore fathers gave us. I don’t give up! Never have, Never will!
Report Post »Enuff Zenuff
Posted on July 5, 2011 at 9:55pmThe good news is that O.J. has sworn that as soon as he gets out of jail, he will track down whoever did kill little Caylee!
Report Post »Kafir
Posted on July 5, 2011 at 11:05pmI am sick and tired of the media sensationalizing crime. The Casey Anthony trial and cases like them should only be “News” in the community in which the crime was commited. These cases go national purely for Ratings. So, basically…the networks have been exploiting that little girls death for profit margins…disgusting.
Report Post »Girard1974
Posted on July 5, 2011 at 11:21pm“This country is over?“ ”Idiots in every jury box?”
What the . . .? Just because someone is found not guilty we should throw in the towel and proclaim defeat? Who defeated us and based upon what?
All that happened here today is not unlike other prosecutions where rather than make sure the evidence presented at trial is enough to withstand the burden of proof (which rests ENTIRELY upon the prosecution), they actually think the jury will disregard what they’ve sworn to do and find someone guilty simply because someone “thinks” they are? Either Hauschild (and others like him/her) skipped one too many days of Civics 101, or they’ve been watching too many television programs where all those believed to be guilty actually do end up in prison.
This jury did a great job and should be commended for their verdict. Likewise there are prosecutors and other members of their office who need to find employment elsewhere. They failed to do their jobs – plain and simple. Let‘s not throw out a perfectly good legal system just because we don’t like a verdict.
Report Post »2ndrevolution
Posted on July 6, 2011 at 1:50amCalifornia was the first to prove that they couldn’t find 12 competent people to serve, (OJ), now Florida has shown the America people the same thing. This is another great example of the dumbing down of America.
The justice system in America has broken down, and that is the fault of the American people!
People get the government they deserve!!
Sadly, you are correct. America as it was founded is over. For those of us who still care and believe in America as it was founded, and the rule of law, clearly written by our founders in the Constitution, the only way we are going to bring America back is going to be the same way our founders did. REVOLUTION!!!
Report Post »momsense
Posted on July 6, 2011 at 2:15amMaybe we an blame this on climate change too !
Report Post »Wolf
Posted on July 6, 2011 at 1:53amAnd of course, you have evidence of who killed the child that wasn’t presented in the trial… moron.
Report Post »The jury did not find her guilty according to the Constitution, so STFU.
RockstarRepublic
Posted on July 6, 2011 at 7:18amI think they were far from being idiotic. You cant judge someone based purely on emotion, one which is manipulated by the lawyers. Fact is there was NO evidence proving Casey Anthony murdered her daughter. The only objective facts we know is that Caylee is dead, and no one knows yet why, how and by whom. You cannot convict anyone on assumptions, until those questions are answered by proof and not made up narrative, this was a successful trial with a fair outcome.
Report Post »VickyN
Posted on July 6, 2011 at 4:44pmI guess that I disagree with all of you posting.
Report Post »I was positive, like most, that she did it before the trial but as I watched the trial day after day I kept waiting for the prosecution to prove it beyond a reasonable doubt. They did not prove it to me and the defense closing arguments were spot on. I believe the prosecution proved she was murdered but there was no evidence that showed that Casey did it. Dr. Baden agreed that there was absolutely no forensic evidence and none of the experts testified that their was.
If I had been on the jury, I would have found her not guilty as well.
I love this country and I love our rights. I would hate to see a time that I would vote to kill someone because my intuition told me they did it but the facts did not.
For those of you who want an eye for an eye, please remember; she will get hers in the end if she did it. There is a higher power than the electric chair at work in our lives.