The biggest deciding factor was a couple of lazy cops–
In July of 2010 a meter reader called 911 asking them to investigate some suspect object in the woods… but they failed to do so. In December said meter reader saw that object again and called in again. This time the cops went to take a look and, lo and behold, poor Caylee’s remains.
Those months may have costed dearly to the prosecution.
That is another HUGE factor too. What is this guy’s background prior to this case? Any reason why they shouldn’t have believed him in the first, second or third place?
After all this crap, we still can’t even be sure Caylee was murdered.
I suppose if there’s any Casey interviews, she’ll stick with the pool story?? Excuse me while I grind my teeth. :mad:
The biggest factor was that the jury didn’t hear a whole lot of things that the rest of us heard.
Quoted again for importance.
The prosecution was able to show only that Casey acted in a bizarre manner, mishandled human remains, and lied to police. They couldn’t show how she murdered Caylee, nor did they have nay real evidence of her abusing the child. Anything they had on her would have been post mortem, so maybe you could have gone with desecration of a corpse or something.
The cops bungled it, and the prosecution way overreached. The media had a circus, and Casey will go free, as she should.
You mean, besides the mother telling everyone that her daughter was alive but had been kidnapped?
:smack::smack::smack:
No cause of death. No DNA. The prosecution never had anything to work with. A monkey could have defended Casey and she would still have gotten off. The only good thing that could ever come of this is that Nancy Grace withdraws from society to become a hermit.
The jury did an excellent job. There was no evidence of first degree murder. While it’s highly likely Casey had something to do with the kid’s death, there is no evidence she planned her murder. It was most likely an accident that spiraled out of control.
If she writes a book or gets a book deal, I think this is one time I’d support the internet piracy of her work.
I think the prosecution simply didn’t have a strong case. And I think that is due to incompetence or possibly corruption on the part of the police. I think police corruption had a lot to do with the OJ Simpson case as well.
Let me attempt to un-puzzlify you.
First, there are at least two things going on at a trial–presenting a case to the jury (ie,“factual stuff”) and a whole "nother dimension involving keeping evidence out or getting it in and preserving error for appeal (ie, “legal stuff”). There may be more of a “true chess match” aspect to the legal stuff than the factual stuff.
Second, the lawyers in the case know that achieving checkmate doesn’t matter. So they try to determine the jury’s criteria and manage that to their client’s benefit. So, they aren’t just trying to win a chess match, ignorant of te fact that the jury doesn’t care who achieves checkmate–they know that and work within that framework.
I wouldn’t, simply because I believe that internet piracy can be beneficial to authors and publishers. It gets more people reading and talking about the work, which creates more “buzz” and promotes sales. It could also promote interest in other works published by that publisher, and other things Casey Anthony’s co-author has done (assuming he/she were actually credited).
Fixed your timeline, but your overall point is spot on.
Kronk originally reported tha body about a month before Tropical Storm Fay inundated the Orlando area and flooded out the wooded field where Caylee was found.
Having a cop for a Dad, means she was aware of how to insure that the forensic evidence was unusable. Mom and Dad knew how to muddy the water with conflicting, changing stories, testimony. And Casey knew to lie and lie, adding more confusion to why people thought she was guilty. Leaving the jury without solid forensic evidence, confusing testimony from her parents, and confused as to whether they felt she may have done it due to her being a liar or some other intuitive reason. Throw in a crap lawyer, to enable an appeal and it was all carefully calculated, in my opinion.
I love how people have assumed that George MUST be involved in some way, just because he’s an LEO. People feel completely comfortable insisting that George either 1) killed Caylee himself, or 2) helped Casey either kill Caylee or cover up the death.
I’ll repeat my continued requested (from another thread) for any ACTUAL evidence that George was involved in either killing Caylee or in covering up the death.
I hear ya, but there’s obviously not a lot of evidence that Casey was involved in killing Caylee. I could make a strong case for Casey covering up, but I think she’s not really bright enough to cover her tracks without some advice from Dear Old Dad.
But I will concede that I have no more evidence for my police corruption theory than for anything else.
She didn’t “cover her tracks” at all, in my opinion. She told easily-disputed stories about the whereabouts of her child for a month, stories that were so fantastical that it was only a matter of time that she’d be discovered. There was something in her trunk that smelled of decomposition. The body was near the house instead of in a swamp being eaten by gators.
If Dad gave her advice to do all that as a part of the cover-up, he must have been one of the most incompetent LEOs ever.
Which supports my theory about corrupt/incompetent cops.
Thanks! 
My take on this also.
Plus some of the scientific tests–the canned trunk air–were quite weird.
Couldn’t they retry on some sort of charge as “improper burial of human remains,” or whatever the legal term is?
The failure of law enforcement to locate and examine the body after it was reported. One scrap of physical evidence tying Casey to the body (or to the bags, or to the duct tape) would have made the difference, at least with regard to second-degree murder or manslaughter. They were never going to get her on first-degree murder.