Casey Anthony found Not Guilty
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Cynovolans
Not in my dimension.
I'm so stupid I thought she was found guilty days ago.
Don't worry, I'm clueless about this too.
Rashiminos
Fool Prophet
3-year case with day-to-day coverage? Sounds about right.
(It felt like 5 years given the unrelenting coverage by headline news)
(It felt like 5 years given the unrelenting coverage by headline news)
jtb1127
Deity
If you don't live is los estados unidos then you might not have heard of her.
I've only heard that she's a defendant in a murder trial - accused of murdering her daughter, I think. I don't have the professional interest of someone like JR and no other reason to watch a spectacle like that.
madviking
north american scum
Rashiminos
Fool Prophet
Read the wiki article:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Caylee_Anthony
And the evidence seems pretty damning to me. This is just another example of sexism to me. If Casey were a man, he'd have been found guilty. But courts and society in general still seem to revere women as innocent creatures who are not capable of any wrong. Hence why men get screwed over in divorce courts even if the wife was unfaithful. Incredibly disappointed.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Caylee_Anthony
And the evidence seems pretty damning to me. This is just another example of sexism to me. If Casey were a man, he'd have been found guilty. But courts and society in general still seem to revere women as innocent creatures who are not capable of any wrong. Hence why men get screwed over in divorce courts even if the wife was unfaithful. Incredibly disappointed.
The defense took advantage of the opening and closing statements. In opening, they put up stuff that wouldn't make it into trial, but that gave the jurors some meat to chew on. They played the flamboyant lawyer/reasoned lawyer tag team absolutely right at closing. They egged the prosecutors into trying to prove motive where the prosecution couldn't really do that. The prosecution made a huge mistake by including the 4 lying-to-the-cops charges. That gave the jury easy outs for finding her guilty of something. It appears that they also won the chess game called jury selection, but is really jury de-selection.
It was funny to watch Nancy Disgrace, immediately before the verdict was announced, praising the jury and how between the IT guy and the three nurses, they could quickly bring the rest of the jury to a quick murder one decision. Immediately afterwards, she was trashing the jury and bringing out negative background information about them. She trashed the jury for not immediately speaking to the press. When the main lawyers for the procecution didn't speak at the presser, I said Nancy Disgrace will say "I don't really blame them" and this is exactly what she said two seconds later. She is the prime example of the lawyer-pundits that are wrong at almost every turn - whether misexplaining what is going on or missing the strategic and tactical gaming that is going on right under their noises, Their inflammatory reporting is maybe putting the jurors in the case in danger. It was funny to see them being offended that Cheney Mason called them out, but their reporting of this trial has been downright disgusting. Those with law degrees should know better. When the local law schools start up again, Nanacy Disgrace needs to be forced to sit through at least the first day of Criminal Law again.
Yeah her and that O.J. Simpson chick.
Japanrocks12
tired of being a man
Your reasoning is much, much worse than the actual ruling.
Actually there are plenty of examples of women getting off way easier than men for the same crime, in addition to the joke that is divorce court. These all highlight the inherent sexism of the justice system.
madviking
north american scum
Pretty much...innocent until proven guilty—beyond a reasonable doubt. The prosecution's case was based on circumstantial evidence and crumbled in the face of expert defense witnesses. Of course it may look to a layman that Anthony's guilty but you can't convict someone on a visceral feeling, you need evidence.
Japanrocks12
tired of being a man
No, that's your mind concocting an insane, sexist theory. She got off because there was no decisive proof she did it.
There is a large body of circumstantial evidence. People seem to think circumstantial evidence is irrelevant but it is not. Each piece by itself may not be much, but taken together, it is damning.
Kinda like how my insane sexist theory would be asinine if I was just looking at the outcome of one case. All I'm saying is there is a marked difference in the way society regards men and women in the context of the justice system. That's fine if you disagree.
Rashiminos
Fool Prophet
Probably an easy task considering the damnation from the court of public opinion.
I don't know much about the case because the last time I was in the US the police had just found the girl's body after a long search. I will say I can't stand Nancy Grace. She practically devoted her entire show to that case for what I believe is no other reason than tabloid journalism. A child murder is shocking but it was not so newsworthy that she had to have day to day updates on it. I see her as a big symptom of how political pundits and - well I don't know how I would classify her exactly - but they have taken over the American media.
Nancy Grace had pronounced the woman guilty long before the trial even started. Perhaps she is guilty, from what I've heard it seems likely that she is. I just don't consider Nancy Grace a reliable source.
Nancy Grace had pronounced the woman guilty long before the trial even started. Perhaps she is guilty, from what I've heard it seems likely that she is. I just don't consider Nancy Grace a reliable source.
Leonel
Breakfast Connoisseur
What's going on now?
bestrfcplayer
Steppin' up!
Wow. Just wow. She wasn't guilty for ONE of those three things...............
