Casey Anthony Acquitted Of Murder Charge

I'm putting this here because it is of relevance - for months now, the pitchforkers have been convinced that this case was all sewn up.
Also, their current pin-up girl, Ms Brown, has had the accused hung, drawn and quartered - never mind all that boring 'evidence' and 'trial' nonsense.
Who needs the law when you can join lynch mobs?

http://edition.cnn.com/2011/CRIME/07/05/florida.casey.anthony.trial/index.html

Jury acquits Casey Anthony on first-degree murder


Quote:

(CNN) -- Casey Anthony was acquitted Tuesday of first-degree murder and the other most serious charges against her in the 2008 death of her 2-year-old daughter.
But the jury convicted Anthony on four conts of providing false information to law enforcement officers.
The verdict was reached by the seven-woman, five-man jury after deliberating for less than 11 hours in a trial that stretched to more than six weeks and featured allegations of sexual abuse, questions regarding Casey Anthony's competence and various theories on what happened to 2-year-old Caylee.
Casey Anthony, 25, was charged with seven counts -- first-degree murder, aggravated child abuse, aggravated manslaughter of a child and four counts of providing false information to a law-enforcement officer in Caylee's 2008 disappearance and death.

It's a long piece; amongst forthcoming delights for US viewers:

Tune in to HLN's "Nancy Grace" at 8 p.m ET Tuesday as Nancy Grace reports live from Orlando with an exclusive interview with Casey Anthony's former fiancé, Jesse Grund.

All of which has provoked this reaction from Ms Brown:


@ProfilerPatB
PAT BROWN
F*ck! #Casey #Anthony.
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ProfilerPatB PAT BROWN
The jury system in the United States is a f*cking joke. # Casey #Anthony


Yes, aren't they spoilsports, with all that boring 'evidence' nonsense?

*edited due to profiler's potty mouth*

Great news for the family...not so great for a certain profiler...going to have fun tonight i think

I can't say I am a fan of Ms Anthony, mf, but under all the hysteria and lynch mobbery, where was the actual evidence?

Hmmmm!

I would say there was a stronger case against Casey Anthony for murder than against Mr Prout, but not necessarily strong.

She was demonstrated to have lied, which Prout never was, demonstrably shown to have done. There was a body and there was a hypothesis of death. But the 'murder' theory was very flawed. The duct tape was in the wrong position to interfere with nose or mouth, and no finger prints were recovered from it, leaving open to question who put it there. While there was cloroform, it might have come from cleaning fluids.

And so on.

Probably a sound judgment.

Posted on WM3:

Re: Pat Brown: Criminal Profiler or ignorant fool?
«Today Casey Anthony was found not guilty on all murder/manslaughter harges but guilty on 4 counts oF police obstruction. Pat Brown's comments on the verdict:

@ProfilerPatB
PAT BROWN
F*ck! #Casey #Anthony.
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ProfilerPatB PAT BROWN
The jury system in the United States is a f*cking joke. # Casey #Anthony

Says it all about her, doesn't it?

* Edited to remove poster's foul language.

It's been interesting to watch the nasties' reaction to this, HB.

They don't quite seem to grasp that sending unlikeable people to the electric chair without proof of guilt is not actually justice....

Another point that's interesting, Bonny.

I've always been an opponent of capital punishment. But I suspect one of the strongest arguments in favour of it is that it tends to concentrate the minds of jurors in a way, perhaps, custodial sentences don't to the same degree.

Maybe that's what we see here in contrast to the Prout case?

I don't know, HB, maybe our American members could help? Could she have been convicted of manslaughter instead by the jury?
Thing is, I've had an eye on this off and on - and I didn't see any actual evidence against her. Not a very nice person, from a family with a lot of issues, who told rather a lot of lies - but no evidence that she was actually responsible.

I did see an awful lot of grandstanding, and mouthing off from the likes of Nancy Grace. And of course, Ms Brown decided from the start that Casey Anthony was guilty of first degree murder and was, naturally, going to go to the chair - the usual pitchforker dreams.

I wonder if the police and the prosecution got caught up in the media hype and went for the wrong charge, with no evidence to back it up?

Question answered:

Anthony was found not guilty on all murder charges as well as aggravated child abuse and aggravated manslaughter. She was convicted of four counts of lying to investigators. Judge Belvin Perry will sentence her Thursday. She could receive up to a year in jail for each count.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/07/05/jury-deliberations-resume-for-second-day-in-casey-anthony-murder-trial/#ixzz1RHGwq5YH

Thanks for that, Bonny.

Well worth a read:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/blogpost/post/casey-anthony-not-guilty-verdict-shocks-media-attorneys-blast-talking-heads/2011/07/05/gHQAHhIXzH_blog.html

quote:

Anthony’s defense attorney, Jose Baez, said this verdict proves, “You cannot convict someone until they’ve had their day in court.”

A second defense attorney for Anthony, Cheney Mason, blasted the media in a statement, saying, “I hope that this is a lesson to those of you who have indulged in media assassination for three years, bias, and prejudice, and incompetent talking heads saying what would be and how to be.”

So now we know that not even a Not Guilty Verdict in a Court of Law will divert The Pitch Forkers from their obscene determinations.

I have followed this case for quite some time, and there never was any actual evidence to convict Casey Anthony of killing her child.

The reaction of the pitchforkers to this has been very revealing, Sabot. Mysteriously, they are blaming the jurors for being too stupid to convict Ms Antony.
Personally, I would think they followed the law to the letter.

Because the prosecutors did NOT do their job; they did NOT prove Ms Antony killed her child.

I've seen the pitchforkers on the hate sites going on about how they 'know she murdered her child'.

No, they don't - the prosecution could not even prove that the child had been murdered, let alone who by. Leaking jailhouse interviews is NOT a substitute for evidence, though no doubt it helped the TV ratings.

Again personally, I suspect Ms Antony knows exactly what happened, but that isn't the point - suspicions don't count for anything in law.

If the pitchforkers had spent less time listening to rabblerousers like Nancy Grace, and media whores like Pat Brown, and actually looked at what was being produced as prosecution evidence, they would not be in shock today.


Justice was failed by a prosecution who courted the media instead of proving their case, and turned the trial into a circus. As for the ghouls fighting to get a seat in the court room - vile, bottom-feeding trash.

I don't like Ms Antony very much; I suspect she knows exactly what happened. But the people who failed to achieve justice for her daughter were not the jury; no, it was the prosecution who were paying too much attention to TV ratings and not enough to actually proving their case.

Thanks to the prosecution, it would not matter if Ms Antony confessed tomorrow; she cannot be tried again.

The prosecution did NOT do their job; they did not prove their case. 'Theories' are no substitute for evidence; cod science is no substitute for fact; rabble rousing is no substitute for reason, and pitchforking lynch mobs are no substitute for law.

Well said, Bonny.

Yes, it was a shock, and I don't much like the sound of this young woman either. But why bother to have a trial if they are going to ignore The Verdict?

It was a Reasonable Doubt Verdict which applies in any court of law. And they didn't even find her guilty of the lesser charges of Manslaughter which don't include The Death Penalty, so it wasn't anything to do with that. The Prosecution simply did not prove their case on what was entirely circumstantial evidence anyway.

But no doubt The Pitch Forkers will roll on with this one for some time. This is what they do, and there are a few more of them about than first I thought. So, much good would a trial of The McCanns have done.

The whole mind set is obscene. They aren't interested in The Law.

Anyway, well done to Jose Baez after all of the abuse he has suffered. He did a damn fine job.