# The biggest factor in Casey Anthony's acquittal was...

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [July 6, 2011, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-biggest-factor-in-casey-anthonys-acquittal-was/587996 "2011-07-06T04:30:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![Kolga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e56c9b/32.png) [@Kolga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kolga)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2011, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-biggest-factor-in-casey-anthonys-acquittal-was/587996/81 "2011-07-06T18:38:38Z")

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> [@Susanann](#):
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> Objectively, there certainly is more evidence and suspicion that points to George, than there is to either Cindy or Casey or Lee.

Please list the ACTUAL evidence against George. Not suspicions or convoluted conspiracy theories.

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**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2011, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-biggest-factor-in-casey-anthonys-acquittal-was/587996/82 "2011-07-06T18:43:18Z")

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> [@Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](#):
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> \*Behavioral science has taught us alot about juries (and committees, in general), but we choose to ignore it, relying on the omniscience of our founding fathers instead. But that’s a discussion for another day.

I think it would be more accurate to say that the discussion is suggest is best suited for another _thread_. [Like this one I just started, for instance.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=13993140#post13993140)

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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:** [July 6, 2011, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-biggest-factor-in-casey-anthonys-acquittal-was/587996/83 "2011-07-06T18:44:45Z")

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> [@Leaffan](#):
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> Originally Posted by Kolga View Post  
> I simply linked to YOUR OWN WORDS that seem to strongly imply that you believe George allowed Caylee to drown. YOUR OWN WORDS. I didn’t misrepresent YOUR OWN WORDS by linking to YOUR OWN POSTS.The second post I linked to says this:  
> Those words strongly imply that you believe (or at least, believed at the time you posted those words) that George allowed Caylee to drown, or was at least negligent enough that Caylee drowned under his watch.
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> Quote:  
> When George found Caylee, he knew from experience that resuscitation would not do one bit of good.

1. You are continuing to mislead, and to misquote, and to give false accusations.

2. I never said George “allowed Caylee to drown”. YOU did!

3. There is a difference between imply, and infer. I suggest that you learn the meanings of the words that you use.

4. You are not debating or trying to understand the topic, you are trying to make accusations and argue about people who post. If you want to talk about me, then join my fan club, or take it elsewhere.

5. I have ALWAYS!!! made it perfectly clear from the beginning of the trial, that I have no idea how or when Caylee died, and apparently , the jury agrees with me. Your motives are illegitimate and a violation to try to suggest that I know how Caylee died.

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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:** [July 6, 2011, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-biggest-factor-in-casey-anthonys-acquittal-was/587996/84 "2011-07-06T18:48:18Z")

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> [@Bloodless\_Turnip](#):
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> Saying that George had the expertise to cover it up (being a retired LEO) and that he had motive for covering it up - since he was babysitting the child and didn’t have a fence or cage installed around the pool - is pretty much saying that you think George was involved.

" George had the expertise to cover it up (being a retired LEO) and that he had motive for covering it up - since he was babysitting the child and didn’t have a fence or cage installed around the pool " … or left the ladder up, or left the sliding door unlocked, or left Caylee unattended, or had a very long extensive history of burying dead things in plastic bags and duct tape, was the owner of the duct tape, was seen with the duct tape, etc. etc, etc,

Draw your own conclusions.

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**Author:** ![voltaire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voltaire/32/313_2.png) [@voltaire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voltaire)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2011, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-biggest-factor-in-casey-anthonys-acquittal-was/587996/85 "2011-07-06T18:53:20Z")

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> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#):
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> I gave you one in the other thread. Here’s [another](http://www.local10.com/news/23029078/detail.html).

Touche, sort of. (And I actually remember this case, as it was in my area) This was in a public place where she left a _group_ of swimming kids she was supposed to be watching and was off getting drunk. Not sure how it turned out, but I doubt that there was any hard-time in jail involved.

And as for the bathtub incident, that was a months old baby knowingly and willfully left in the bathtub alone. A case where a child wanders off and drowns when the guardian didn’t know they were swimming or in danger of drowning is much less likely to be charged with any negligence.

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**Author:** ![Kolga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e56c9b/32.png) [@Kolga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kolga)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2011, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-biggest-factor-in-casey-anthonys-acquittal-was/587996/86 "2011-07-06T18:56:18Z")

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> [@Susanann](#):
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> 1. You are continuing to mislead, and to misquote, and to give false accusations.

We are linking to your posts. We are not misquoting you when we are linking to your word-for-word posts. Misquoting would be posting words you never posted. Since we are linking to your posts, without changing the posts, we are not misquoting you. Nor are we misleading - we are linking to your own posts, without changing them, and then discussing the implications of those posts. We are also not falsely accusing you - we are linking to your own posts, without changing those posts, and then discussing the (rather obvious) implications of those posts.

> [@Susanann](#):
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> 1. I never said George “allowed Caylee to drown”. YOU did!

You said this:

> [@Anyone following the Casey Anthony trial?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-following-the-casey-anthony-trial/583652/173):
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> George owns the swimming pool, it is Georges responsibility to keep it safe from children getting drowned.
> 
> It is George who is responsible to keeping the fence around the pool and the gate closed around the swimming pool.
> 
> It is George’s responsibility to make sure the ladder is taken down so no child can climb up and get into the pool.
> 
> If a child dies unattended in Georges pool because of Georges neglect it is Georges fault… Prison time…and there is your motive for George to do a coverup .

It certainly is true that you do not come out and say, in this post, that George allowed Caylee to drown. But you STRONGLY implied it.

In addition, here is the quote that **Leaffan** took word for word from another post by you:

> [@](#):
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> When George found Caylee, he knew from experience that resuscitation would not do one bit of good.

The implication of that post is that you believe that Caylee drowned, George found her, and since Caylee was in George’s care at the time, George’s negligence allowed Caylee to drown.

One does not have to spell out an accusation in so many words to clearly communicate the accusation.

> [@Susanann](#):
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> 1. There is a difference between imply, and infer. I suggest that you learn the meanings of the words that you use.

I’m using the words correctly.

> [@Susanann](#):
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> 1. You are not debating or trying to understand the topic, you are trying to make accusations and argue about people who post. If you want to talk about me, then join my fan club, or take it elsewhere.

I am pointing out that your statements earlier in this thread contradict many statements that you’ve made elsewhere about this same topic. By posting opinions on a public message board, you’ve tacitly consented to participate in a discussion not only of the topic but also of your opinions regarding that topic. That is actually the purpose of a public message board. You don’t get to dictate the course that a discussion takes.

> [@Susanann](#):
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> 1. I have ALWAYS!!! made it perfectly clear from the beginning of the trial, that I have no idea how or when Caylee died, and apparently , the jury agrees with me. Your motives are illegitimate and a violation to try to suggest that I know how Caylee died.

You have implied, strongly, in numerous posts, that you believe Caylee drowned under George’s care. Such as in this post:

> [@Susanann](#):
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> " George had the expertise to cover it up (being a retired LEO) and that he had motive for covering it up - since he was babysitting the child and didn’t have a fence or cage installed around the pool " … or left the ladder up, or left the sliding door unlocked, or left Caylee unattended, or had a very long extensive history of burying dead things in plastic bags and duct tape, was the owner of the duct tape, was seen with the duct tape, etc. etc, etc,
> 
> Draw your own conclusions.

If this is not an implication your part that George’s negligence allowed Caylee to drown while under his care and that he then attempted to cover up this death, I don’t know what is.

ONCE AGAIN, please list the ACTUAL EVIDENCE implicating George in the death of Caylee.

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**Author:** ![Taomist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/53a042/32.png) [@Taomist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taomist)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2011, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-biggest-factor-in-casey-anthonys-acquittal-was/587996/87 "2011-07-06T18:57:03Z")

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I don’t understand how not reporting her daughter missing isn’t an action complicite with her daughter’s death. She stood by and did NOTHING while her child was missing. At the very LEAST that is a crime of omission on par with not allowing your child to be treated for a disease \<which has been prosecutable\> and is likely, if not provable, evidence that she knew Casey was already dead.

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**Author:** ![Dogzilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@Dogzilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dogzilla)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2011, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-biggest-factor-in-casey-anthonys-acquittal-was/587996/88 "2011-07-06T19:12:58Z")

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> [@Taomist](#):
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> I don’t understand how not reporting her daughter missing isn’t an action complicite with her daughter’s death. She stood by and did NOTHING while her child was missing. At the very LEAST that is a crime of omission on par with not allowing your child to be treated for a disease \<which has been prosecutable\> and is likely, if not provable, evidence that she knew Casey was already dead.

Right, but all that really _proves_ is Casey’s a lying sack of shit, of which she’s been convicted. Not calling doesn’t prove she killed her child, either premeditated or accidentally.

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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:** [July 6, 2011, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-biggest-factor-in-casey-anthonys-acquittal-was/587996/89 "2011-07-06T19:13:33Z")

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> [@Kolga](#):
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> **It certainly is true that you do not come out and say** , in this post, that George allowed Caylee to drown. But you STRONGLY implied it.  
> .

So you admit that you are lying, misquoting, misleading.

I never ever said or implyed how Caylee died. I have no idea how Caylee died.

As I said many times before ,\*\* the worlds foremost medical examiner, Former Macomb County Medical Examiner Werner Spitz , has no idea how Caylee died.\*\*

# For you to suggest that I said anything else is fraud.

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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:** [July 6, 2011, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-biggest-factor-in-casey-anthonys-acquittal-was/587996/90 "2011-07-06T19:15:53Z")

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> [@Taomist](#):
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> I don’t understand how not reporting her daughter missing isn’t an action complicite with her daughter’s death. She stood by and did NOTHING while her child was missing. At the very LEAST that is a crime of omission on par with not allowing your child to be treated for a disease \<which has been prosecutable\> and is likely, if not provable, evidence that she knew Casey was already dead.

So what? Miss Casey Anthony was not charged with _failure to report a death._

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**Author:** ![Kolga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e56c9b/32.png) [@Kolga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kolga)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2011, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-biggest-factor-in-casey-anthonys-acquittal-was/587996/91 "2011-07-06T19:19:43Z")

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> [@Susanann](#):
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> So you admit that you are lying, misquoting, misleading.

Nope. Nice try, though. Please to be going back and re-reading for comprehension.

> [@Susanann](#):
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> I never ever said or implyed how Caylee died. I have no idea how Caylee died.

Let me explain to you how implications word. When someone (say, a person on a message board) posts coy little statements regarding a person’s (say, a grandfather of a dead little girl) POSSIBLE motives, POSSIBLE culpability, POSSIBLE negligence, POSSIBLE access to some materials that are associated with the death, then makes a disingenuous “draw your own conclusions” statement at the end? That, by definition, is implying something.

Calling it “not implying” doesn’t make it so. You implied George had something to do with Caylee’s death, you implied that said death involved the pool at George’s house and George’s negligence while Caylee was in George’s care. You know it, I know it, the other readers of this message board know it. Continuing to stamp your foot and cry “did not! was not! have not!” doesn’t negate the verbal evidence in this thread and in others, that has been linked to consistently, that you HAVE made implications.

> [@Susanann](#):
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> As I said many times before ,\*\* the worlds foremost medical examiner, Former Macomb County Medical Examiner Werner Spitz , has no idea how Caylee died.

This is an irrelevant statement. We’re not talking about Spitz.

> [@Susanann](#):
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> For you to suggest that I said anything else is fraud.

Report me, then. Since I can back up my statements with links to your actual posts, with your actual words, and am discussion the implications of those words, I’d like to see you attempt to redefine the word “fraud” in the same way you seem to be attempting to redefine the word “implication.”

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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:** [July 6, 2011, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-biggest-factor-in-casey-anthonys-acquittal-was/587996/92 "2011-07-06T19:25:55Z")

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> [@Kolga](#):
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> You have implied, strongly, in numerous posts, that you believe Caylee drowned under George’s care.  
> .

What I said in earlier posts of mine was that I dont believe Caylee was murdered by Chloroform.

I think murder by chloroform is very rare, very unlikely, very unusual, and that there is no evidence of it, no sales receipts, no bottles of chloroform, no mixing containers, no cotton with chloroform, and also the FBI testified that chloroform levels in the body and in the trunk were normal and were not remarkable.

I personally think death by drowning is far more likely than death by chloroform. It is my belief that more children in Florida die by drowning than by chloroform, therefore, I find it much more likely that Caylee would have died by drowning than by chloroform, although if the world’s foremost medical examiner Dr. Werner Spitz does not know, then nobody here knows for sure either.

I think chloroform was a total red herring, totally misleading, and in the final analysis after FBI testimony there was no evidence at all that chloroform was related in any way to the death of Caylee.

Therefore, death by chloroform is just not very believable.

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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:** [July 6, 2011, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-biggest-factor-in-casey-anthonys-acquittal-was/587996/93 "2011-07-06T19:29:03Z")

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> [@Kolga](#):
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> This is an irrelevant statement. We’re not talking about Spitz.  
> "

Totally relevant. Dr Spitz and I are in complete agreement.

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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:** [July 6, 2011, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-biggest-factor-in-casey-anthonys-acquittal-was/587996/94 "2011-07-06T19:33:14Z")

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> [@Kolga](#):
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> Let me explain to you how implications word. ."

**GO PLAY YOUR WORD GAMES WITH SOMEONE ELSE!!!**

You are destroying this thread.

I will no longer respond to you nor assist in your detractions.

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**Author:** ![Kolga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e56c9b/32.png) [@Kolga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kolga)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2011, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-biggest-factor-in-casey-anthonys-acquittal-was/587996/95 "2011-07-06T19:34:52Z")

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> [@Susanann](#):
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> What I said in earlier posts of mine was that I dont believe Caylee was murdered by Chloroform.

That may be true. But what you ALSO said was this:

> [@Anyone following the Casey Anthony trial?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-following-the-casey-anthony-trial/583652/167):
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> 1. to stay out of prison. The legal commentators on tv have all said that even if Caylees death was an accident, that Casey would still be guilty of a felony. Since it was George’s fault, not Caseys, then it would be George who would be facing hard time in prison, It was Georges pool, it was Georges ladder. It wss probably Georges fault.
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> 2. George is an ex-cop and probably witnessed many many attempt of successful and failed resuscitations, and as such he probably knows at what point resuscitation aint gonna work. When George found Caylee, he knew from experience that resuscitation would not do one bit of good.
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> 3. She has not been sentenced to death yet. There is no point in him revealing what he did yet because Casey might still get off. Finally, it is him or Casey who would go to jail, and he probably likes himself more. If the story is true that he molested Casey, then it would fit that he would rather not go to prison instead of Casey. Besides, even if George admitted to covering up the death and hiding the body, Casey would ALSO still go to prison, so there would be nothing to save Casey from if they would both be going to prison anyway if he talked. If he keeps his mouth shut, then perhaps Casey would not be convicted and they both would get off. Seems to me that George has nothing to gain and he, and Casey, are guaranteed to lose by admitting what he did.
> 
> It is a no-brainer.

> [@Anyone following the Casey Anthony trial?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-following-the-casey-anthony-trial/583652/173):
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> George owns the swimming pool, it is Georges responsibility to keep it safe from children getting drowned.
> 
> It is George who is responsible to keeping the fence around the pool and the gate closed around the swimming pool.
> 
> It is George’s responsibility to make sure the ladder is taken down so no child can climb up and get into the pool.
> 
> If a child dies unattended in Georges pool because of Georges neglect it is Georges fault… Prison time…and there is your motive for George to do a coverup .

> [@Anyone following the Casey Anthony trial?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-following-the-casey-anthony-trial/583652/201):
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> There are never any loose ends if you are right, and in this case, all the evidence says that the child died directly or indirectly because of George, then George took over and hid the body. Casey very well might have been aware(complicit) that her father was taking control, but Casey did not take part in the death at all, Casey did not kill the child, nor did Casey take part in any coverup, nor did Casey hide the body… **George** did it all. (It also would probably surprise me if Cindy knew that George did it - I am not blaming the mother Cindy)
> 
> If you guys want to convict Casey for what her father did, then so be it…I am used to being the only one who sees things clearly.

In the first and third of those quoted posts, you say “It was probably George’s fault” and “If you guys want to convict Casey for what her father did…”

These are not just implications that George was responsible for Caylee’s death. They are outright statements that you believe George was responsible for Caylee’s death.

Look, I don’t know why you insist that you never said things that you obviously did (since we can go back and see your actual posts and the actual words you wrote). Earlier in this thread you claimed you’d never heard of a theory that Caylee drowned in George’s pool, when your own posts imply that same exact scenario.

Maybe you feel that your earlier posts about your beliefs on George’s involvement were too strong, and you wish you hadn’t posted them. Maybe you’ve changed your mind about that belief. I don’t know. But it’s a little odd that you continue to insist you never said things that you obviously did.

> [@Susanann](#):
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> Totally relevant. Dr Spitz and I are in complete agreement.

Um…okay? Still not relevant to your continuous implications that George was involved in Caylee’s death.

> [@Susanann](#):
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> **GO PLAY YOUR WORD GAMES WITH SOMEONE ELSE!!!**
> 
> You are destroying this thread.
> 
> I will no longer respond to you nor assist in your detractions.

Fear me, for I am Thread Destroyer?

Look, the thread is about what people thought the biggest factor in Casey’s acquittal was. You’ve claimed a lot of things about what your opinion is on that issue, but some of your statements contradict your earlier statements on this topic. Therefore, this discussion is on topic.

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**Author:** ![beartato](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9d8465/32.png) [@beartato](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beartato)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2011, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-biggest-factor-in-casey-anthonys-acquittal-was/587996/96 "2011-07-06T19:39:50Z")

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> [@Kolga](#):
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> Please list the ACTUAL evidence against George. **Not suspicions or convoluted conspiracy theories**.

You do know who you’re responding to, right?

I mean,

“right”!!!

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**Author:** ![Kolga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e56c9b/32.png) [@Kolga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kolga)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2011, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-biggest-factor-in-casey-anthonys-acquittal-was/587996/97 "2011-07-06T19:48:55Z")

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> [@beartato](#):
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> You do know who you’re responding to, right?
> 
> I mean,
> 
> “right”!!!

Yes!!!

😃

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**Post date:** [July 6, 2011, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-biggest-factor-in-casey-anthonys-acquittal-was/587996/98 "2011-07-06T19:52:58Z")

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I have worked with and been around cons and ex-cons most of my life. Part of the reason for verdicts like this is TV.

We have come to expect DNA to be the master stroke that solves everything. This simply doesn’t happen as much as we like to think.

By hiding the kid for 31 days, DNA and forensics were rendered tainted or suspect to a degree.

So what you have is circumstance. We’re told throughout our lives circumstantial evidence is bad. But it’s how most people are convicted.

Let’s say I am in a room with a hundred bucks. The lights go out and I leave the room. I am now in the hallway and the lights come back on. In my pocket is the hundred dollars.

Did I take it? Perhaps, but it’s certainly possible someone put it in my pants pocket without me knowing about it.

Jurors are now like to ask, “Where’s the DNA?”

Being a woman factors in highly. Scott Peterson is a jerk that cheated on his wife, while she was pregnant. I never saw any really hard evidence to convict him. He was guilty because of circumstantial evidence and people hate men who cheat, much less cheat on their wives while their pregnant.

A woman who forgets to report the accidental death of her kid for a month, is not evil, like cheater Scott Peterson. No, she’s a ditz like Rose Nyland or Chrissie Snow or any other host of ditzy females we see on TV sitcoms

Susan Smith murders her two kids and blames a black guy. She gets life, not death, as she’s a woman.

Scott Peterson was vilified, the fact he had money and was headed toward Mexico, but not actually there means nothing. Young people alter their looks all the time, so did Scott, but this is another case.

I also have seen a lot of people saying she must be found guilty beyond a shadow of a doubt, or be 100% convinced of her guilt. This is wrong. It’s only a reasonable doubt.

Would a reasonable person doubt this? I think any reasonable person would doubt everything her defense said. But the jury was looking not for reasonable doubt but looking for absolute proof.

So you have TV law shows to blame in part. The fact she was a woman, got her sympathy and the fact jurors now are demanding absolute rather than reasonable doubt.

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**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2011, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-biggest-factor-in-casey-anthonys-acquittal-was/587996/99 "2011-07-06T19:56:13Z")

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Based on what an alternate juror had to say this morning, I have to vote for “something else”:

Jury of dimbulbs.

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**Author:** ![Kolga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e56c9b/32.png) [@Kolga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kolga)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2011, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-biggest-factor-in-casey-anthonys-acquittal-was/587996/100 "2011-07-06T19:57:35Z")

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> [@TreacherousCretin](#):
>
> Based on what an alternate juror had to say this morning, I have to vote for “something else”:
> 
> Jury of dimbulbs.

Is there a link? What did the juror say?

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