Casey Anthony Acquitted of Murder

I am floored by this verdict!

http://www.cnbc.com/id/43643161

31 days your child is missing and you never report it...It has smelled fishy from the very beginning.

...and Jeff Ashton just announced he will not prosecute any more cases because he is retiring.

I agree with the defense in that they may speculate that she did it but they cannot  prove it. I think it is dangerous for everyone if we convict people because it points to them.

DW says she is not smart enough to have done this and not left tracts, like DNA.

I had never heard of Casey Anthony or the case until I arrived in the US a couple of weeks ago, but I've been following what I can of it since I've been here.

I can't believe they reached that verdict so quickly, after less than 2 days of deliberation !

I did jury duty in the UK last year and our fairly simple 4-day trial took us 10 hours of deliberation and we still couldn't come to a majority verdict (the case went to a re-trial), so I was expecting the Casey Anthony jury to be in deliberation for at least a few days, especially as there was so much information to go through.

I get that the evidence just wasn't there to be able to say 'Guilty' beyond a reasonable doubt, but there was definitely something fishy about the whole thing... and I can't believe she'll probably just walk away a free woman in the end!

I think had they found her earlier there would be DNA evidence left behind. Verdicts like this make my blood boil.... She should at least be charged for neglecting that child. 31 Days!!!!  If I couldn't find my kid after 31 minutes you bet my ass would be calling the police.   I hope there is justice for this poor little girl soon.  

DW says she is not smart enough to have done this and not left tracts, like DNA.

My understanding was that there was no real DNA left.  She had been rotting, eaten by wild animals and under flood waters for an extended period of time...they basically just found a few bones and the skull.

Of course the fact that she was out clubbing, getting drunk, posing for pictures with huge smiles with all her friends, getting a tattoo (that said 'Beautiful Life' no less) all while her child was "missing"...oh no wait, her child had drowned and then they were scared they would be arrested for that accident...so then they put duct tape over her mouth and dumped her body on the side of the road...oh no wait, she was in the trunk of the car for about a month or so (long enough that someone complained about the smell)...oh no wait, her mom was looking up chlorophyll because the animal ate a plant...no someone wanted information about breaking a person's neck on google...no wait, the dad sexually abused her...but she was kidnapped by the babysitter...no, the mom worked at Universal Studios...oh wait, that was a lie to, my bad...

Can you keep up? 

I am glad they found her not guilty.  I have no idea if she did it and she completely acted suspicious but the evidence wasn't there and the prosecution did some completely dodgy things.  I am surprised that the jury acted as they did but I am glad I cannot be accused of something and be found guilty on that type of evidence.  Yes I appreciate she may be guilty walking free but that is better than innocent people being found guilty on flimsy evidence.

I am glad they found her not guilty.  I have no idea if she did it and she completely acted suspicious but the evidence wasn't there and the prosecution did some completely dodgy things.  I am surprised that the jury acted as they did but I am glad I cannot be accused of something and be found guilty on that type of evidence.  Yes I appreciate she may be guilty walking free but that is better than innocent people being found guilty on flimsy evidence.

Same.  What happened to that child is deplorable, and the way this woman handled whatever happened was equally as deplorable.  It all stinks.

However, there are far too many people in prison who are there because "It's obvious they did it, it points to them" rather than there being irrefutable proof that it was them.

People won't like this, but I'd rather a guilty person go free than an innocent person go to prison.  I'm of the mind that if this woman did it, she'll get hers eventually.  Look at OJ Simpson.  It's practically the same thing.  He certainly got his.

I agree with the last few posts.  It's horrible this happened, but it would have been more horrible to convict on bad evidence. 

I have no idea whether she killed her child.  From what little I have read, the evidence doesn't seem conclusive.

Therefore, my only conclusion to the question of "did she kill her daughter?" is "I don't know"

however, I'd follow it up with this: "Neither do you."

There's been a lot of soapboxing and punditry in the media based much more strongly on what people reckon than what they know.

I agree the evidence wasn't there to fully convict.

I do think that a child is neglected and then the child ends up dead - should get more then some lying counts and time served.

Considering it was 31 days and never reported and kept living life and she ends up dead - this is so sad.  If it wasn't her parents then I feel bad her parents couldnt protect her or report it. hmmmm

I guess as a parent your job is to protect your kids from all evil as much as possible.

Karma

So, no signed confession... and she manages to come up with some outlandish story about a pool drowning (and Daddy was a child molester, blah blah blah)?

My goodness, let this poor lamb free.

Yeah, I don't think anyone's calling her a innocent lamb or saying she definitely didn't commit murder or wasn't guilty of some sort of involvement.  It wasn't proven, and cases aren't meant to be tried in the media with a jury of the multitudes getting testimony from tabloids and cable news networks.

Maybe I am wrong, but you're free to point to anyone's post saying she deserved to walk free because she obviously was without guilt in the concrete sense rather than this being a case where the prosecution either failed to do their job or didn't have enough evidence to prove their case..  

Of course, this would be a totally different story if she was fat, ugly, poor, not-white, or any combination of those "faults".  She'd have been sent upriver, and I doubt anyone voicing concern over the strength of the evidence would have been heard.  There are too many people serving time/facing death in the States based on bad evidence to say that that wouldn't have been the case.

The American justice systems sucks.....I know first hand how bad it is but will not go into detail here......the only ones who truly know what happened to that little angel are her mother, grandparents, and God or whatever entity they believe in........

I gather from what I heard from TV commentary last night that the jury knew more than what we heard from Nancy Grace et al. 

Thank you for your posts.
I think the prosecution messed up big time because they went for the murder/death penalty.
It is really sad that this beautiful little girl is dead, maybe by accident?
I agree CA did some strange things.
When I worked as a volunteer for the police department I saw people who locked their sleeping children in the car because they were only to be gone for a minute and fortunately passer byes contacted the police when the saw the kids crying.
The mothers looked like normally responsible people who made dumb decisions.
Casey had a history so maybe she should not be included as normal.