# Is anyone else sick of the Casey Anthony media circus? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 4, 2011, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-else-sick-of-the-casey-anthony-media-circus/587853 "2011-07-04T22:48:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2011, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-else-sick-of-the-casey-anthony-media-circus/587853/101 "2011-07-07T01:51:08Z")
> [@scratch\_llll](#): > > The blame is on a US society incapable of producing one out of twelve people with a brain. All lawyers need to do these days is to find twelve with no sense at all of what is reasonable. You’re a complete numbskull. The prosecution only succeeded in proving that Caylee Anthony was dead. They didn’t prove who did it, how it was done, or why it was done. A conviction can certainly happen when one of those elements is not proved, maybe sometimes even two of them, depending on the evidence of the parts the prosecution is not missing. None of those elements are proved? Get real. The result in this case is an affirmation of the U.S. justice system, not an indictment of it. ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2011, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-else-sick-of-the-casey-anthony-media-circus/587853/102 "2011-07-07T02:40:46Z")
> [@Death\_of\_Rats](#): > > > [@JRDelirious](#): > > > > BTW, WTH with all the posts about pornos (in all three threads)? > > She is infamous, pretty hot and probably broke as hell right now. That means she is target #1 for every pornographer with an easy few tens of thousands of dollars to throw at her to show off her goodies and give thier movie that little bit of noteriety and creepy voyuerism to sell a few hundred extra copies/downloads. And damn if it was not floated… :eek: [stay classy](http://www.tmz.com/2011/07/06/casey-anthony-steve-hirsch-porn-offer-vivid-entertainment-terminate-withdraws-offer-take-back-no-more-murder-suspect-adult-film-xxx-naked-nude/), is all I can muster up :rolleyes:. ---
**Author:** ![SweetLucy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bcef8e/32.png) [@SweetLucy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SweetLucy)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2011, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-else-sick-of-the-casey-anthony-media-circus/587853/103 "2011-07-07T02:43:31Z")
[quote=“MegaBee, post:87, topic:587853”] Ugly?[/QUOTE I guess it’s in the eye of the beholder, but judging from the photos she has Bugs Bunny teeth, Dumbo ears, and bugging out eyes 😃 ---
**Author:** ![scratch\_llll](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9fc348/32.png) [@scratch\_llll](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scratch_llll)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2011, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-else-sick-of-the-casey-anthony-media-circus/587853/104 "2011-07-07T02:52:22Z")
> [@Frank](#): > > You’re a complete numbskull. The prosecution only succeeded in proving that Caylee Anthony was dead. They didn’t prove who did it, how it was done, or why it was done. > > A conviction can certainly happen when one of those elements is not proved, maybe sometimes even two of them, depending on the evidence of the parts the prosecution is not missing. None of those elements are proved? Get real. > > The result in this case is an affirmation of the U.S. justice system, not an indictment of it. They proved where the body was with chemical analysis of the trunk right? They surely proved who didn’t tell her daughter was missing and her cavalier attitude and callous disregard for her and the withholding of information and obstruction. Soooo if somebody kills someone for no reason by drowning or chloroform (remember the chloroform testimony?)and manages to keep the body hidden for long enough then it’s a freeby. I guess it’s possible someone could carry thier daughters body around in the trunk while they party and it’s just because they care so much and not because they want to hide it for, oh I don’t know, SOME reason. “You really just said that in reply to a post that jumped to NO conclusions, then proceeded to jump to THAT many conclusions? Did you forget a few smileys, or something?” NO conclusions? “Fantasize on her execution” That’s the conclusion I was talking about and you both know it. I guess you figure the qualifier “as you might” makes a difference. It “might”. Let’s say I did jump the gun. I am emotional about the case of someone who has at least been proven to do those things I stated above. I still felt it necessary to defend the slight that I “might” fantasize about her execution. ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2011, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-else-sick-of-the-casey-anthony-media-circus/587853/105 "2011-07-07T02:59:09Z")
> [@scratch\_llll](#): > > They surely proved who didn’t tell her daughter was missing and her cavalier attitude and callous disregard for her and the withholding of information and obstruction. You know, she was convicted of four counts of lying to the police. ---
**Author:** ![scratch\_llll](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9fc348/32.png) [@scratch\_llll](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scratch_llll)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2011, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-else-sick-of-the-casey-anthony-media-circus/587853/106 "2011-07-07T03:19:43Z")
> [@Frank](#): > > You know, she was convicted of four counts of lying to the police. For which she likely gets time served. Justice tastes a lot like shit. All we can hope for is Karma and her catching something which keeps her from producing more children. ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2011, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-else-sick-of-the-casey-anthony-media-circus/587853/107 "2011-07-07T03:23:29Z")
> [@scratch\_llll](#): > > For which she likely gets time served. Likely so. So? She got convicted of the elements the prosecution proved to the satisfaction of the jury. What more do you want? ---
**Author:** ![scratch\_llll](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9fc348/32.png) [@scratch\_llll](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scratch_llll)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2011, 12:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-else-sick-of-the-casey-anthony-media-circus/587853/108 "2011-07-07T12:00:09Z")
Since it is the nature of high profile cases to point out glaring holes in the law where the letter of it may be served without actual justice being accomplished perhaps the hole can be patched for future cases. Amend obstruction of justice laws to include a more stiff penalty for hiding a body for the purpose of tampering with a murder investigation. I don’t think it unfair to make that a 20 year penalty considering the nature of the crime and the fact nearly all sentences are reduced. As I say, it can’t help this case, but will help close a hole and administer some simblance of justice in the furture. There was no real justice in this one but I see your point in that the jury is not at fault and it now makes it obvious the fault is in an inadaquate set of laws. ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2011, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-else-sick-of-the-casey-anthony-media-circus/587853/109 "2011-07-08T18:01:53Z")
Am I unusual in thinking a jury at the trial, with total concentration on the case, totally involved in the case, made the only decision they could. Some of them wanted the same pound of flesh TV viewers wanted, but could not do it. I don’t see how you can prove a case because someone said the trunk smelled funny. That is not compelling proof of anything. I suppose Nancy Grace should make the calls. She knows much better than the jurors from her perch far away. ---
**Author:** ![Jenaroph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e8c25b/32.png) [@Jenaroph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jenaroph)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2011, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-else-sick-of-the-casey-anthony-media-circus/587853/110 "2011-07-08T19:26:43Z")
Speaking of Nancy Grace, there’s a newspaper column making the rounds suggesting that if it were not for her, Casey Anthony would never have been acquitted: [http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2011107070444](http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2011107070444) > [@](#): > > No journalist did more to make Casey Anthony the poster girl for bad mothers everywhere, and even when what began as her own personal crusade grew into an international phenomenon, Grace remained at the center of the feeding frenzy, hurling bloody chunks of revelation and conjecture to an ever-growing audience of voyeurs, amateur sleuths and deranged conspiracy theorists. > > You do not escape a legal abyss as deep as the one Casey Anthony had dug for herself without skilled legal representation, and in the U.S., such representation is available to only two kinds of criminal defendants: those who can afford to hire the full-time services of a good lawyer themselves, and those whose cases are so celebrated that good lawyers are willing to work on them for little or no fee, in the confidence that their labors will ultimately be compensated in some other way. > […] > Until Grace and her fellow travelers made her the uber-villainess, Casey Anthony was just another indigent defendant, the kind whose cases are plea-bargained every day by public defenders or court-appointed attorneys juggling dozens of clients just like her. > > There were plenty of holes in the murder case against Anthony. But to find and exploit them required the skills of experienced trial lawyers with sufficient time and resources to take on a well-financed government prosecution. And until Grace & Co. vaulted her from local obscurity to internationally reviled Tot Mom, Casey Anthony’s chances of assembling such a team were negligible. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-else-sick-of-the-casey-anthony-media-circus/587853.md?page=5)