XP: Casey Anthony - Not Guilty

pkw

Not guilty verdict.

Discuss. 

pkw

Disgusted.  I am disgusted and sickened.  I am trying to think about all of this from a non-emotional viewpoint...they still had enough to nail her.

teambaumer

PKW:

Disgusted.  I am disgusted and sickened.  I am trying to think about all of this from a non-emotional viewpoint...they still had enough to nail her.

Agreed. I'm in tears. I feel guilty leaving my daughter for an hour to go to the grocery store. How can she be found not guilty on any of the charges regarding the act?!! She gets a slap on the wrist for lying to law enforcement!?! WTF? I'm interested to hear what the jury has to say. 

tiki_t

I didn't follow the trial but only caught bits and pieces. Wasn't one of the claims that she made was it was an accidental drowning? Was that what cause the reasonable doubt? Or other than her behavior, was there no hard evidence? 

AnyaBella

I wasn't surprised by the first degree murder verdict but when they read the verdicts for Aggravated Child Abuse and Aggravated Manslaughter of a Child I just sat there with my hands over my mouth. It makes me physically ill. Really I am just disgusted. The woman murdered her child, covered it up, hid it for over a month and partied the whole time and she's probably going to get away with doing a little community service for lying to the police. Disgusting. There is no justice for her sweet baby girl.

carmelbride05

AnyaBella:

I wasn't surprised by the first degree murder verdict but when they read the verdicts for Aggravated Child Abuse and Aggravated Manslaughter of a Child I just sat there with my hands over my mouth. It makes me physically ill. Really I am just disgusted. The woman murdered her child, covered it up, hid it for over a month and partied the whole time and she's probably going to get away with doing a little community service for lying to the police. Disgusting. There is no justice for her sweet baby girl.

I agree completely with exactly what you said.  I am so sad for that little beautiful girl.  My stomach literally has knots in it right now. 

kfishie

Ditto AnyaBella.  All around, a terribly sad situation. 

danandkelly

kfishie:

Ditto AnyaBella.  All around, a terribly sad situation. 

KellyMRocks

Ditto anya. I started shaking when the abuse charge came back not guilty.

danandkelly

kfishie:

Ditto AnyaBella.  All around, a terribly sad situation. 

Ditto this.  So So sad.

Although, I'm torn, I want to have faith in the justice system, and in the trial by jury system...I want to believe that maybe they had some information that we don't.  Although I just can't figure out what that info might be.  Everything I read of the case seemed pretty clear that she was guilty.

Mrs.Wright07

MrsJulieT:

They said the jury was split. I thought juries had to be in agreement. And that split juries were ones that hung. Can someone explain this to me?

CNN is showing that all jurors agreed on all counts

mythreesons03

MrsJulieT:

They said the jury was split. I thought juries had to be in agreement. And that split juries were ones that hung. Can someone explain this to me?

They do have to be. I think this just means when they first go into the room before discussing they take a vote to see where they are at. In those 10 hours (which I for SURE meant some form of guilt given the time) those people who were on the guilty side crossed over to not guilty.

This jury seemed rushed overall, they worked through weekends, on July 4th. They wanted it done. I wonder if they were just too fast to judge/call it.

I get there was no smoking gun to prove she did it, but gosh didn't her behaviour speak for itself. Also her defense was that the girl drowned in the pool in the backyard and she and her Dad covered it up. So she KNEW her kid was dead and went out and partied? Even if I believed that isn't covering up a body a crime?

 

mythreesons03

and on the child abuse charge it has been said she said she would leave the baby with a Nanny called Zanny. Later this person did not exist, it was said or speculated that she gave the daughter xanax and put her to sleep for several hours (in the car) while she went and partied it up. they think she "accidently" OD'd the little girl doing so but could not prove it 100% because the body was discovered so late.

It is all so sad, and sick. I think the problem was the state put the death penatly on the table and that the jury got gun shy looking for a 100% smoking gun that the state could not product. To not find her guily of the lesser counts really confuses me, and makes me sick.

StefandTodd

danandkelly:

kfishie:

Ditto AnyaBella.  All around, a terribly sad situation. 

Ditto this.  So So sad.

Although, I'm torn, I want to have faith in the justice system, and in the trial by jury system...I want to believe that maybe they had some information that we don't.  Although I just can't figure out what that info might be.  Everything I read of the case seemed pretty clear that she was guilty.

I don't think this is possible.  There are people (like my mom) who played psuedo-juror and watched the entire case from start to finish, every hour of testimony, read every document, etc.  I don't quite understand that level of fascination, but I'm basically saying that there wasn't anything hidden from the public that the jurors were privy to (at least that's my understanding). 

Mrs.K&C

mythreesons03:

MrsJulieT:

They said the jury was split. I thought juries had to be in agreement. And that split juries were ones that hung. Can someone explain this to me?

They do have to be. I think this just means when they first go into the room before discussing they take a vote to see where they are at. In those 10 hours (which I for SURE meant some form of guilt given the time) those people who were on the guilty side crossed over to not guilty.

This jury seemed rushed overall, they worked through weekends, on July 4th. They wanted it done. I wonder if they were just too fast to judge/call it.

I get there was no smoking gun to prove she did it, but gosh didn't her behaviour speak for itself. Also her defense was that the girl drowned in the pool in the backyard and she and her Dad covered it up. So she KNEW her kid was dead and went out and partied? Even if I believed that isn't covering up a body a crime?

 

I was on bedrest when this case broke so I saw A LOT of coverage about it and I will never, as long as I live, forget the pictures of her partying. I have always thought her parents were very odd, too  and think there is some serious mental illness in that family. Just so freaking sad.  That poor little girl. UGH.

soon2Bkranz

StefandTodd:

danandkelly:

kfishie:

Ditto AnyaBella.  All around, a terribly sad situation. 

Ditto this.  So So sad.

Although, I'm torn, I want to have faith in the justice system, and in the trial by jury system...I want to believe that maybe they had some information that we don't.  Although I just can't figure out what that info might be.  Everything I read of the case seemed pretty clear that she was guilty.

I don't think this is possible.  There are people (like my mom) who played psuedo-juror and watched the entire case from start to finish, every hour of testimony, read every document, etc.  I don't quite understand that level of fascination, but I'm basically saying that there wasn't anything hidden from the public that the jurors were privy to (at least that's my understanding). 

I would guess the information they have isnt the testimony or anything like that...but moreover the judges instructions on what it means for somebody to be found guilty of the crimes she was charged with.

I just dont have words for what I am thinking and feeling...it is sickening...Even if se is completely innocent in killing her child...her behavior...I just judge it adn think it is wrong and wish it was possible to punish her just for that...

danandkelly

StefandTodd:

danandkelly:

kfishie:

Ditto AnyaBella.  All around, a terribly sad situation. 

Ditto this.  So So sad.

Although, I'm torn, I want to have faith in the justice system, and in the trial by jury system...I want to believe that maybe they had some information that we don't.  Although I just can't figure out what that info might be.  Everything I read of the case seemed pretty clear that she was guilty.

I don't think this is possible.  There are people (like my mom) who played psuedo-juror and watched the entire case from start to finish, every hour of testimony, read every document, etc.  I don't quite understand that level of fascination, but I'm basically saying that there wasn't anything hidden from the public that the jurors were privy to (at least that's my understanding). 

Yeah, I agree that it's not likely...but I guess I want to believe that so I can justify their decision in my mind.  Because I simply can not understand how she was not found guilty on any counts.

mommy2jay

I am speechless and disgusted.  It is so sad, and god only knows what happened with that sweet little girl and what she might have gone through in the short life she lived.

 

LoLoPanda

After waiting as long as we did for DD, I can NEVER imagine life without her, let alone hurting her. I would kill the person who ever hurt my daughter. This woman is one disgusting...thing. She's not even on the same level to be called a human being. It's just disgusting.