# Anyone following the Casey Anthony trial?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [May 29, 2011, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-following-the-casey-anthony-trial/583652 "2011-05-29T12:50:14Z")\
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**Author:** ![Susanann](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7ab992/32.png) [@Susanann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Susanann)\
**Post date:** [June 19, 2011, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-following-the-casey-anthony-trial/583652/111 "2011-06-19T15:34:15Z")

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> [@AuntiePam](#):
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> I agree that everything points to Casey (and I believe she did it), but it’s still all circumstantial evidence, as I understand “circumstantial”. There are no witnesses, no DNA, no fingerprints.
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> I think the strongest evidence the prosecution has is the bad smell in the trunk of her car, the research on making chloroform, and her behavior while Caylee was “missing”, but that’s all circumstantial.
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> She had no real motive, not in the sense that Diane Downs and Susan Smith had motives – getting rid of their kids because their boyfriends didn’t want them. Casey was being hassled by her parents for partying – big whoop. That’s not a motive for murder. There’s no evidence that Casey mistreated Caylee, no signs of abuse, etc.
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> I’m not arguing that she’s not responsible, just that the jury might have a hard time finding her guilty in a death penalty case without some **direct** evidence that it was premeditated murder rather than an accidental overdose of chloroform.
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> It wouldn’t surprise me if she gets off.

Just wait until you see the second autopsy report by Spitz! It really bothers me when the prosecutor’s autopsy/prosecutors testimony is full of holes/incompetent/a lie/whatever.

Casey may have accidentally killed the child, and Casey is definitely not normal, but I think Casey is innocent of m1, and I think there is something here done… by somebody else that we dont know yet. I think somebody else, besides Casey, did something wierd, strange, and probably illegal.

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