Since everybody else is quoting themselves, ahem:
… Baez-type tactics would get him off just as easily (obviously, won’t be Baez). Too much physical evidence had been destroyed by the time the bones were found. There’s no forensic smoking gun pointing to any one person. JonBenet Ramsey Part Deux.
I agree that following the letter of the law I’d probably come to the same conclusion. I’m just not sure if I would choose to follow the letter of the law in that situation.
No f’n way.
Oh stop. Unhappy for sure – his granddaughter is dead and his daughter got away with murder – but what does he have to be worried about? If the state couldn’t convict Casey, they sure can’t convict George.
Why should he be worried? Please point to one single piece of evidence against him. If I were him, I would sleep like a baby—after telling Casey to never speak to me again.
STILL stunned!
I see where the jury was coming from, I think. As a juror I might think:
Did we see any hard evidence that this was a first degree murder? No.
Okay then, what about manslaughter 1 & 2? No. We don’t know how this poor kid died to begin with. If there’s no first degree murder, no man 1 or 2.
Evidence of abuse? Well, she didn’t report her kid missing, but no forensic evidence showing Caylee was abused previously. So no guilt there either.
Lying to police? BLATANTLY obvious, so let’s go with guilty.
So she was only convicted on known and provable evidence.
All this and we still have no clue whatsoever how Caylee died. Of course, even a guilty verdict wouldn’t give us that info.
What about criminal neglect though? If not reporting your kid missing for a month and then telling a pack of ridiculous lies that wasted police time isn’t neglect, then I don’t know what is.
Originally Posted by Susanann
I think George Anthony is a very unhappy and a very worried man right now.
George’s face turned all red and flustered when Casey was found Not Guilty. Cindy showed relief. George is facing a very bad future. George can still face criminal charges.
I’m not sure if the kid is already dead you’d be “neglecting” anyone.
Good point. The prosecution was going for the whole enchilada, I never heard them try to really make a case for neglect.
So what? A red and flustered face could also be because he wanted justice for his granddaughter, and didn’t get it.
Please list one shred of evidence, ACTUAL evidence, that implicates George. Not the unproven and fantastical drowning story, but ACTUAL evidence.
I think you can say the same about Casey. There was no direct physical evidence linking her to Caylee’s death. No DNA, prints, etc. The difference was her seemingly blithe and carefree behavior while the girl was missing. Of course, we got testimony that George was also fooling around during that time. I just feel that there are some secrets in that family that have not come out. And of course George is nervous. Casey’s off the hook for good. He has to worry about what the police will find if they dig further into Caylee’s death.
Damn people. You don’t need DNA or fingerprints or a fucking video tape to convict someone of murder. You don’t even need a dead body.
People are driving me nuts with this “reasonable doubt” argument because the 45 circumstantial things that linked Casey to the crime were not enough, but by golly old George better be worried because, um, um, well his face was red!!!
Exactly! Why didn’t she report her missing? Why was there hair in her trunk that was probably the kid’s? Why was their chloroform and the smell of the dead body? Is all this coincidence?
Well, this guy is obviously a LEO with experience. Talking to law enforcement officers WILL get you convicted of laws you had no idea existed for you. LEOs have one agenda, and it is not to serve and protect citizens. It is to serve and protect their gang. Our Law Enforcement Agencies are jobs programs for bullies funded by the Justice System’s war on drugs. End the war on drugs and the prisons will be smaller, there will be less crime, fewer corrupt cops, and a more peaceful society. I believe today most citizens FEAR their local, state, and federal police gangs. Gangs because they act that way, above the law. This case is smoke and mirrors but because it is that, it is very hard to determine what happened. Also because of the long history of police corruption, it is hard to believe a thuggery agency that has proven its willingness to convict on fabricated evidence or personal agenda. Search Fulton Co Jail officers arrested by FBI. Conviction for murder must be proved as it is a very serious crime. The Media does not help.
Again, so what? People are so quick to say “it MUST be George!” with no evidence, even after the lack of evidence linking Casey to Caylee’s death resulted in a not guilty verdict.
So, once again I ask, what’s the evidence that has been presented so far that links George to Caylee’s death?
So George is guilty because he’s a former LEO?
I don’t know how Caylee died and neither do medical professionals whose only job in the world it is to look at human remains and determine such things. That alone would make it nigh-impossible for me, without any other compelling evidence (weird behavior just isn’t enough for me) to convict someone of murder. The prosecution did not demonstrate beyond a reasonable doubt that a murder happened, let alone that Casey committed it.
Is Casey despicable? Yeah, I think so. Is Casey crazy? Yeah, I think so–I’ve seen absolutely insane blatant lying in which the person is 100% caught in it and continues the charade before, and Casey is one of those people. That isn’t the same as being guilty of murder, and the prosecution just didn’t have a compelling case in my opinion.
It all mostly boiled down to:
-There was a reported smell in a car
-Casey acted weird
-Caylee was dead
There was no certainty as to what was ever in the car, nothing hard, no concrete forensic evidence. There was hard evidence that Caylee was the victim of foul play.
It’s a far cry from the O.J. case. I think O.J. would have been convicted back then if Mark Furman hadn’t openly perjured himself during the trial and thrown doubt on the entire prosecution’s case. The evidence against O.J. was highly compelling. The evidence against Casey was not.
Does this constitute evidence now? Or were you presuming that “red face = guilty” for some other reason?
ETA: The man was accused of molesting his own daughter, I can imagine why he wouldn’t be relieved to see her acquitted.
I imagine plenty of people who haven’t murdered their children have their kids hair in their trunks. Kids, and their hair, get everywhere, so I’m not sure that really means anything. And there may have been chloroform and the smell of a dead body, but then the car had a rotting bag of trash in it, so maybe not.
That pretty much just leaves Anthony’s general sketchyness, especially in not reporting her child missing. That’s pretty hard to explain if she didn’t kill her kid (though honestly, its kind of hard to explain even if she did kill her kid, I can’t imagine a rational person is going to believe that she can just not have a kid anymore and no one would notice). But as Martin Hyde says, some people are just naturally sketchy, so I can’t really blame the jury for not convicting if thats all they had to go on.