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Casey Anthony found "Not Guilty" of First Degree Murder.
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Post by
Meggie
Murderers do value human life, but in a generally unaccepted way.
Soldiers are trained to set evaluation aside, but act to commands instead. Actions of soldiers use to have public support.
Post by
TheMediator
The prosecution shouldn't have went for murder. I personally think she just wanted to drug the kid to go out and party, she went overboard and the kid died while she was getting wasted. She came back, realized how she could be in prison for 20+ years for manslaughter, then tried to cover it up. There's nothing utterly insane about that. If a scenario like that is plausible, that is a reasonable doubt.
Too many Americans today think if you're in court, you're guilty until proven innocent, and I just find that sick. I'm glad to see some people out there actually follow the intent of the law.
Post by
ElhonnaDS
To be fair Mediator, the jury had the option of convicting of manslaughter, rather than murder- both were on the table. If, like you say, she drugged the child and accidentally killed her, that would have been manslaughter. If she neglected to watch her child in the pool (which is what SHE said she did) and it lead to her death, that might also be considered manslaughter. The jury didn't even convict her of that.
Post by
Squishalot
Doesn't manslaughter require intent, for the most part?
Negligent manslaughter is fairly hard to prove, because it requires that the offender have committed 'gross negligence' (i.e. greater than ordinary negligence or 'accident').
Post by
TheMediator
To be fair Mediator, the jury had the option of convicting of manslaughter, rather than murder- both were on the table. If, like you say, she drugged the child and accidentally killed her, that would have been manslaughter. If she neglected to watch her child in the pool (which is what SHE said she did) and it lead to her death, that might also be considered manslaughter. The jury didn't even convict her of that.
Yeah, but the prosecution didn't do a good job convincing the jury of that. They tried to focus on the flimsy murder charge. What they ended up doing to the jurors is confusing them and having them all end of saying "We don't know what happened".
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343569
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Post by
ElhonnaDS
I understand reasonable doubt, but if your child accidentally dies, and then you freak out and hide the body, at what point is it necessary to put duct tape on the child's mouth? And why are you so interested in chloroform and neck-breaking? If you're heartbroken why do you get a tattoo that says "The Good Life" during the month before they find out your daughter is dead.
Post by
deathbyte
I want to know what went on with the utility worker that called multiple times saying where the body was before she was found where he said...
Post by
TheMediator
at what point is it necessary to put duct tape on the child's mouth?
Perhaps she thought it would keep the body from stinking as badly?
The chloroform was to drug the kid. I don't know anything about neck breaking though. Who said she was heartbroken?
Post by
MrSCH
Seems guilty as hell to me.
Post by
ElhonnaDS
at what point is it necessary to put duct tape on the child's mouth?
Perhaps she thought it would keep the body from stinking as badly?
The chloroform was to drug the kid. I don't know anything about neck breaking though. Who said she was heartbroken?
Her search history on her computer showed that someone used it to look up how to break someone's neck. The grandmother said it was her, but records show she was at work at the time. So the mom was looking up both how to drug someone, AND how to kill them. And the defense did try to paint a portrait of a mother who was grieving and just scared of getting caught- it's hard to make a jury believe that your client didn't kill a child on purpose when her response to the death is to go out and celebrate. (Edit: But apparently, not impossible)
Post by
OverZealous
I understand reasonable doubt, but if your child accidentally dies, and then you freak out and hide the body, at what point is it necessary to put duct tape on the child's mouth? And why are you so interested in chloroform and neck-breaking? If you're heartbroken why do you get a tattoo that says "The Good Life" during the month before they find out your daughter is dead.
While the last three are very suspicious, neither of them can, unfortunately (as I'm sure you're aware of), be used as evidence. All of them can be waved off with "I only looked out of pure interest" and "I wanted to"
The part that
could
possibly (though unlikely) be used as some form of something is the fact that she put duct tape on the child's mouth. I haven't been following this, but I would very much like to know how the hell she explained that.
Post by
Sweetscot
Since it's a related note, what do you all think of this hoopla over people wanting the jurors names released? I think it would be nuts to release their names.
Post by
gnomerdon
yep. they could potentially get assassinated. when i was asked to be on jury duty. I told them that I had lots of bias, racist, and all other stuff.
The system made the jury so that the judge won't be the target of assassination if the victim or the victim's friends felt like the judge made a bad judgement. the jury gets more heat than the judge.
Post by
Lenience
The system made the jury so that the judge won't be the target of assassination if the victim or the victim's friends felt like the judge made a bad judgement. the jury gets more heat than the judge.
That would be even more reason to assassinate a judge.
Post by
Sweetscot
eh, I would say it has more to do with not putting so much power in one set of hands.
Post by
wildx22
eh, I would say it has more to do with not putting so much power in one set of hands.
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Post by
Modibybob
This
pretty much sums up the entire trial.
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204878
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