Trial of casey anthony verdict

But a criminal trial is not about who is the better lawyer. It is about the evidence, and the evidence in this case left a reasonable doubt in the mind of all of the jurors. The system worked. Sterling , June 18, AM. The criminal justice system is far from perfect and this was a tragic example of problems and mistakes. So many mistakes were made from the way the mother was charged to the way the case was tried in the press.

It was a mess all around resulting in Casey somehow becoming the victim. Sad and frustrating. In the OJ trial he was acquitted because the gloves did not fit. They could no longer fit. It happened to me a few years ago, I wore my leather gloves on a very rainy day. I could no longer wear them, they were no longer my size, they were too small. True enough she was found Not Guilty but most believe she is Not Innocent. And, she may also earn a ton of money which she will definitely need.

However, what kind of a life will she get? She's an unwanted and much despised human being. She'll have a lifetime of misery and loneliness she brought on herself. There is one line I'll always remember from the movie Saturday Night What does 'reasonable' mean to you? Definitely not the same thing it means to me. When I wake up and see that the ground and streets are wet, it's reasonable for ME to think that it rained. What would you say? Larry , January 22, PM.

Dershowitz knows when people are guilty like OJ Simpson. Now that Casey is free maybe she and Robert Blake can look for all the killers that are still out there. France has a better way of saying it "not proven".

In this case, it would of help the response from the public if the jury had said "not proven". Casey has spent 3 yrs in jail, she didn't get off the hook completely. Was the death of her daughter an accident? Did she murder her daughter? Wasn't that what the court had their doubts on, was it murder or an accident? Murder wasn't proven without a reasonable doubt that it could of been an accident.

Was Casey guilty because her daughter died, yes, without a reasonable doubt, flat out murder, their was some doubts to that. Can Federal Court retry the case? If so, more counts may be charged against Casey. His murderer has not been convicted yet, even though the murder was about 30 years ago, for lack of evidence, no body at the time. There is a suspect, and there may be new evidence. The man is scheduled to get out of prison for having served a 20 year sentence for another crime, sexual molestation of a young boy, next year.

The Kletzky murder raises theoretical problems. If someone were to be mentally troubled but if they committed the crime, they might be given a verdict of "not guilty due to insanity" because our system requires them to have enough sanity to have formed an intent, and also to assist their counsel, which means they might go into an asylum and then get released, whereas IMHO in a theoretical case, if we were to know that a person did the crime based on the evidence presented in a trial, but if it was proven that they have mental problems, IMHO the mental defect might be an excuse to not give them the death penalty depending on the evidence of their competence or incompetence, however it would not make them"not guilty", it might make them "not responsible due to insanity but still dangerous" and therefore still in need of being locked up.

There is the interest of the defendant, but there is also the interest of the society in being protected, and in protecting the innocent. A person may or may not have the capacity to form criminal intent but there is still a body of a once alive now dead child,and barring accident, and barring self-defense, which is ridiculous re a child,and including other crimes such as possible kidnapping and possible cover up, you still have to get from pt A a live child to pt B a dead child.

If a person had a condition that resulted in the death of an innocent, and if the condition will not improve based on reasonable evidence, the mere passage of time is no reason to free the person. I hope the Casey Anthony trial does not result in bad law. As Mr. Dershowitz is well aware, the "reasonable doubt" standard does come from Jewish teaching -- "for the sake of the one [innocent man] all go free. Because if you believe in God and that God is just, God will deal with what we let pass.

That is what "faith" means to a Jew, reliance on God to see it comes out right I agree with the article by Mr.

I am aware of the difficulty of proving "beyond a shadow of a doubt", as I was one of two women who were reviled and insulted by the other members of the jury in a very different and not publicized case, where we decided that the D. It ended in a mistrial, and I was glad to be out of there, but I felt it was my duty to do it as I saw it, and there was definitley a "shadow of a doubt" in the case I was involved n.

Based on the reasonable doubt standard would you have concluded that Casey Anthony was Guilty or Not Guilty? I must say, I'm surprised at this article. Reasonable doubt.

It begins with "reasonable" for a reason. A jury must use their reason, and as far as I'm concerned, the jury in this case checked their "reason" at the door. A just verdict? The jury never once examined one shred of evidence that was made available to them in the jury room That's what "deliberation" is for NOT coming to a conclusion on personal opinion, which is just what this jury did.

They were charged with the outcome of Casey Anthony's life, and they never asked for a "readback" or the opinion of all lawyers concerned, which is their right to do, and you would call this a "just" verdict? You say their verdict was due to a lack of forensic evidence Who are we to assume that FBI forensic's are not valid? Are we to believe that they testify in court, simply to go for the jugular? G's results and opinion, and conclude there was no forensic evidence?

The truth here is simply, they never intended to convict her There is simply far more money and noteriety in cutting her loose. People are angry because their intelligence has been insulted.

Their "reason" has been assalted. Missing for 31 days without being reported? A loving mother? A "Just verdict? Does "reason" tell you she's innocent?

I'm sorry, I mean you no disrespect, honestly, but please stop The Jury made a big mistale. Why do you say we have to respect the jurys dicesion.

I do not. One can say I respect the Jury's dicesion but just because one may think it is the right thing to say out loud does not mean that is what they really think.

A reasonable person would know with out any doubt that the jury was very wrong. The case against Casey Anthony was proved. They proved that she killed her daughter. I think the jury did not understand reasonable doubt. Of course you are a Defense Laywer so you say what you say. I do not think that you really think that Casey was not guilty. Defense Laywers say what ever they have to say to have the Jury have reasonable doubt. I think Defense layweers should have to be honest so that justice can happen.

It does not change anyting in my life. I just like for everyone to be honest about the case. I do not like to hear respect the Jury"s dicesion when the Jury made a very wrong dicesion. I like to see justice and honesty in the court. That is what bothers me not what happens to Casey. Drshowitz has not given us me the impression that he believes the legal system should be about determining the truth, but about playing mind games, and building as much wealth as possible by the practiioners.

I will not serve on a jury because I do not believe the judicial system is fair and equitable for all people. Who ever has the most money and influence wins, the very great majority of times.

There are thousands of murderers walking among us. I can quote many examples, but I will use an example of a case when I was working in the legal arena. A woman of about 45 had 4 dead husbands, and one surviving ex-husband who she had injured with multiple stabbings.

She was only interested in the insurance money. She was never arrested or tried. How hard could it be to prove she killed one. All died suspiciously. There was no "reasonable doubt" in the Casey Anthony case. So why, then, was Scott Peterson sentenced to death row? It strikes me that he was also convicted on circumstantial 'evidence', rather than hard evidence. We never found out how he killed his wife. Same goes with Casey Anthony. The circumstances around the death of her daughter seem very much in the same vein at Scott's.

Yet the jury did sentence him. In both cases, bodies were found, but didn't yield how the crime was committed. Curious about your thoughts. I live in Florida and what is coming out is that half of the jurors were in favor of manslaughter and the other half convinced them to let her go.

No one says Casey had to be executed or convicted of first degree murder, but to walk free after a severe case of child neglect-hello-her child was missing for a month and she lied -and that is okay?

While I highly respect Alan Dershowitz and agree with his comments on the Anthony trial, I disagree with his conclusion that the system worked. According to his reasoning, the fact that the jury reached a verdict means that the system worked!

In other words the system worked in all the obviously unfair trials of Blacks in days of segregation in the South! I think we need a more thoughtful way of determining the fairness of a trial. They found her guilty before the trial. Casey is mad at her family, because they left her holding the bag in this family conspiracy.

If the media drops the story, I think the public outrage will go away. Where is the rage for the 3 children who are murdered in the US every day, by parents or grandparents?????? I could never serve on a jury after the OJ case and the Anthony case. I could never live with any verdict because I know there is evidence that is not presented because it favors one side or the other to strongly.

To me, as a potential juror, I would always know that the court is not interested in the truth but on the rules of the court and the games the lawyers play with the law. So no verdict I could ever come to would be based of truth, or facts in their totality, just what I am allowed to here and knowing only the information I am allowed to hear is not a fair or just way to come to a verdict.

A murderer is free. The system did NOT "work". Deal with it. Taking into consideration all the known facts - there is one explanation. Casey was using chloroform to put her child to sleep while she partied or spent the night with friends - She wanted her parents to think she was being the Mom they wanted her to be so she made up the "nanny " and other lies.

She did not intend to kill her daughter - but the last time she administered chloroform - it was too much. The child died. Casey tried to dispose of her instead of seeking medical help. Unpremeditted murder - but certainly child abuse of the worst sort - plus the criminal disposal of the child. There are no words to describe the horror of this -. Zenaida Gonzales has already filed a civil suit, which will bring facts not allowed into evidence. The civil trial of Goldman vs. Simpson produced testimony from his friends that impeached his own statements.

Casey Anthony will not have the 5th Amendment protection against self-incrimination; she will be forced to speak in depositions. IMO this country needs to get back to its roots and what we were founded on.

There are only two people who know whether she did it or not, and that's Caylee and Casey. Hashem also knows, and he is the true judge. He is the one from whom real justice comes and if Caylee did murder her beautiful daughter, she'll pay for it in the end. Humans are fallible, as is the technology we increasingly rely upon, and I for one would rather see ten guilty people go free than one innocent person condemned.

However, YMMV. There was a time when the law was about finding the truth. Alas we abandoned that noble goal a long time. No wonder so many people hate lawyers. If we can find our way again, maybe the legal profession can redeem itself, but realistically I don't expect it to happen during my lifetime. In the weekday prayer service, we pray: Restore our judges as in former times, and our counselors as at the beginning; and remove from us sorrow and sighing.

After just a day of deliberation, jurors informed the court at midday that they had reached a decision, and both sides in the case were ordered to assemble in the courtroom. Anthony has been found not guilty of killing her 2-year-old daughter, Caylee. She was also found not guilty of aggravated child abuse and aggravated manslaughter of a child.

But she was convicted on charges of misleading law enforcement. The case against Anthony was mostly circumstantial, but as it unfolded she was portrayed in the trial as a promiscuous, self-centered woman who became a cold-blooded killer. The motive, prosecutors alleged, was to allow her to live a carefree life without her daughter. The state's case theory was that a desperate Anthony used chloroform to subdue her daughter and then suffocated her with duct tape.

Anthony then fabricated fantastic lies to cover up her deeds, they said. That isn't a good depiction of what our justice system is like or should be. Another woman: "I just think it's going to make millions of people think they can get away with killing their child or committing major crimes and getting away with it. This isn't a good depiction of what our justice system is like or should be. Law enforcement officials roped off a door where Cindy and George Anthony were expected to exit out of, and bystanders chanted "Appeal!

At the heart of the case was Casey Anthony's fantastic lie that a babysitter named Zenaida, referred to in court as "Zanny the nanny," had stolen Caylee Anthony. Prosecutors claimed that Casey Anthony killed her daughter by drugging Caylee with chloroform and suffocating her with duct tape over her mouth and nose.

She killed Caylee, prosecutor Jeff Ashton claimed in his closing argument, because Casey Anthony had to choose between her child and "the life she wanted.

Lawyers for Casey Anthony, who never took the stand, admitted on the first day of the trial that the year-old single mother had made up a complex web of lies. Defense attorney Jose Baez said that the truth was that Caylee had accidentally drowned in the family pool and instead of reporting her death, Casey "went into a dark corner, to pretend as if nothing was wrong.

Baez said Casey Anthony behaved that way because she had been "trained to lie" through years of sexual abuse by her father. Judge Belvin Perry ruled, however, that there was no evidence that Casey Anthony was abused by her father and ordered that it not be mentioned in closing arguments.

The prosecution was hampered in its case by the fact that Caylee's body, found in a swamp six months after she disappeared, was so badly deteriorated that the medical examiner could not determine exactly how she died. Caylee's cause of death was listed as a "homicide of undetermined means. Intent on proving duct tape could have killed the toddler, the defense showed the jury a controversial video that showed a smiling Caylee morphing into a skull with duct tape on it.

Prosecutors built a case of circumstantial evidence that documented how Casey Anthony moved in with her boyfriend Tony Lazzaro shortly after Caylee disappeared, partied at clubs, took part in a "hot body" contest, and got the phrase "bella vita" -- or beautiful life -- tattoed on her shoulder in the month after Caylee died and while her mother was pretending she was still alive.

As her lies unraveled, it became apparent that Casey Anthony had created a fictional world in which she made up a job at Universal Studios and a dozen people who were friends, co-workers, lovers, babysitters and even Caylee's playmates.

Jurors watched hours of jailhouse tapes in which Casey Anthony elaborated on her lie about the babysitter, offering extensive details about this fictional nanny.

Much of the case turned on forensic evidence found in the trunk of Casey Anthony's Pontiac Sunfire. Prosecutors brought in experts in the arcane specialty of the smell of death to prove that an odor in the trunk of Casey Anthony's car was that of human decomposition. Casey Anthony's lawyers argued that the foul smell in Casey Anthony's car trunk was from rotting garbage, not a rotting body.

An FBI hair and fiber analyst testified that a lone piece of hair in the trunk belonged to Caylee and showed post-mortem banding, what prosecutors said was proof that a dead body had been in the car. The prosecution also claimed that Casey Anthony used the family computer to visit a site on how to make chloroform 84 times.

Baez countered by arguing that the state's case was based on untried and unproven forensic theories, what Baez dismissed as "fantasy forensics. He shocked the courtroom when he called Cindy Anthony, Casey Anthony's mother, to testify in her daughter's defense and take responsibility for some of the chloroform searches.