Actually she won't do a single day for negligence because she wasn't found guilty on any lesser charges which would have given her time for negligence. She'll only get time for providing false info....time which she's pretty much already done. Don't be surprised to see her out next week. Frankly I do believe it was proven that she did. The defense basically did the same thing Casey did from the beginning.......lie. Everything in this case pointed to Casey. One can argue that it was largely circumstantial evidence, but there was a mountain of it and nothing except for proven lies to cover her tracks. The defense's theory was not reasonable to a reasonable person given the facts of this case. You don't think failing to report a child missing for 31 days isn't negligent? WOW The jury came up with a verdict, but they failed miserably in performing their civic duty to the fullest degree. During deliberations they 1) did not review the evidence, 2) did not review the testimony, 3) did not ask any questions of the Chief Judge and after the verdict was read they 4) would not take questions or let their identities be known. This jury was a group of cowards that just wanted to go home. The judge should have made them review everything in this case before coming back with a verdict. I'll agree that it's not evidence she murdered her daughter, however the fact that she did not report her kid missing until her mom busted her is evidence at least negligence to any reasonable person not hiding behind the veil of innocent until proven guilty. And you think that is reasonable?? Sounds like you a defense lawyers dream jurist. I can tell by that post that you're friend watched very little of the trial. Cowards, especially since they didn't go over any of the evidence or testimony.
good lord, against my better judgement this has to be addressed. you do not take into account all the circumstances behind oj's trial. the reputation of the LA police department. the rodney king trial 4 years earlier. the riots, oj himself and his reputation and the trial. this crap has nothing to do with oj
I think this is an interesting thing to say. Anthony hid behind the veil of innocent until proven guilty, and you seem to act like it’s a bad thing. It is not, as that veil exists for a very good reason. From what little I’ve seen of the trial, I’m 95% sure she did it. 95% isn’t good enough, especially in a death penalty case.
Thank you. When you look at the case from the perspective of "I assume she's guilty" it's easy to see the evidence as proof. When you look at it with "She is innocent, now prove me wrong" the evidence falls short. For some reason people think it is wrong to look at it the second way. "Hide behind the veil of innocent until proven guilty." That statement sums it up.
I completely understand and agree that the veil exists for a very good reason. However you seem to have missed the point. I'm not arguing that she should have been found guilty of murder 1 and sentenced to death. Since there was no "smoking gun" in this case, it is reasonable that Caylee's death was an accident that Casey tried to cover up. That said, she was undoubtedly negligent in reporting her kid missing (which could have gone on longer if Cindy didn't bust her) or reporting Caylee's drowning. She is 100% guilty in that regard. There was no 5% leeway there and the jury failed to do their job. I do think she's guilty, however you are right that the evidence falls short of murder, but it lands squarely on negligence. No reasonable person would buy the defense's theory after the mountain of lies spewed by Casey Anthony. My statement sums up the mindset that many people have these days regarding judging others and not wanting to get involved. I'm curious.....did you watch or listen to any significant portion of the trial?
man I must have been under a rock the last few months because I had no idea who she was or what the big deal was about until I saw the Hangout thread right now. that or i just dont watch the news nearly as much as i should
I don't disagree with anything you are saying, but she was not charged with negligence, she was charged with aggravated manslaughter, murder 1 and aggravated child abuse. None of those three things were proven. (Child abuse wasn't even suggested) Regarding negligence, I do not know the legal definition of negligence. As has been talked about in this thread, if the child is dead, is it negligent not to report the dead body to the police? I don't know that qualifies as criminal negligence because the child is already dead. You'd have to get Sam to speak on that. Yes, I watched and listened to a lot of it.
According to her, she knew Caylee was dead. But she threw her in a bag and let the dead baby rot in her trunk and then dumped it in the swamps while misleading the police on a wild goose chase. I'm no lawyer, but if what she said was true, there should've been a way way harsher charge than just negligence.
That may very well be the case. I don't know what charge that would be. She also didn't say that she threw the bag in the swamp, or that the body was in her car. Her defense team said the father did it.
I guess my point of negligence was that, if she claimed she didn't know, then she should have reported the girl missing. If she claimed she did know, you'd think all that lying would implicate more than it apparently did. Apparently making ridiculous excuses, lying your tail off, blaming everyone in your family for heinous acts and changing your story every time you speak to police is the best way to create reasonable doubt in a situation like this. You'd think it would be the opposite. Not having watched every detail, admittedly, I don't see this as a case where the evidence didn't support a conviction as much as I see a case where one legal team blew it while another was allowed to throw the kitchen sink into things just to muck it all up with little to no repercussions whatsoever for lies and deceit that spanned the entire period of the act until the verdict.
I dunno. Some of folx seem like you would have been ready to say D*MN THE TRIAL . .. WE KNOW SHE GUILTY!!! then Raid the jail . .. pulled her out and just hang her. Rocket River
This is a real crappy thing to say. The people gave weeks of their lives away to honor our judicial system. These people are just as important as the hundreds of thousand of the military who protect our country. Would you show up at the airport and scoff the soldiers coming off the plane from Afghanistan or Vietnam and tell them "you failed to do your job"? Nevermind the fact they know so much more about the case than you will ever pretend to know. The jury did a fine job, your opinion be damned. Yes, a murder has likely walked, but I cringe at the thought of the hundred or thousands who have been wrongfully convicted on less evidence than this due to an angry mob rule. If you feel the need to be angry, then be angry at the prosecution, not the jurors.
