Place Your Bets: Casey Anthony Trial

[Coito ergo sum]

O.k. -- what will be the result?

1. 1st Degree Murder?
2. Aggravated Child Abuse?
3. Aggravated Manslaughter?
4. Providing False Information to the Pigs? (4 counts, I think)

My prediction:

Trigger Warning!!!1! :

Not guilty, not guilty, not guilty, guilty of providing some false information.

On the poll, you have 4 votes - one for each charge.

[Gallstones]

Guilty.

[Coito ergo sum]

Guilty.

She is guilty? Will be found guilty? Both? Which charge?

[Coito ergo sum]

Per my prediction --- not guilty on all charges, except lying to the cops! http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/loc ... 5780.story

Bam!

[Gallstones]

Not guilty because she didn't do it, or not guilty because it couldn't be proven to standard that she is guilty?

[Tyrannical]

Lame.
You can't even predict the death penalty! What a lame poll.

[Coito ergo sum]

Not guilty because she didn't do it, or not guilty because it couldn't be proven to standard that she is guilty?

Always the latter. That's the only determination ever made in a criminal case.

I don't know if she actually did it. But, looking at the parts of the case that I did see, I expected this verdict.

I would also not have been able to convict her, despite the fact that I think she PROBABLY had a hand in the toddler's death.

[Coito ergo sum]

Lame.
You can't even predict the death penalty! What a lame poll.

What do you mean? The poll contained all possible verdicts the jury could have come back with.....

[Coito ergo sum]

After nearly six weeks of testimony, a panel of seven women and five men decided that Ms. Anthony did not murder Caylee by dosing her with chloroform, suffocating her with duct tape and dumping her in a wooded area, as prosecutors claimed. They also did, however, find her guilty of lesser charges, of providing false information to law enforcement officers. The jury did not ask to review any evidence.

When the verdict was read, Ms Anthony, 25, who faced a possible death sentence, cried.

The verdict vindicates the defense, which argued from the start that Caylee drowned accidentally in the family swimming pool and that the death was concealed by her panicked grandfather, George Anthony, and Ms. Anthony.

It also drove home just how circumstantial the prosecution’s case proved to be. Forensic evidence was tenuous and no witnesses ever tied Ms. Anthony to Caylee’s murder. Investigators found no trace of DNA or solid signs of chloroform or decomposition inside the trunk of Ms. Anthony’s car, where prosecutors said Ms. Anthony stashed Caylee before disposing of her body.

The prosecution was also hurt by the fact that nobody knows exactly how Caylee died; her body was too badly decomposed to pinpoint cause of death.

All of this allowed José Baez, Ms. Anthony’s lawyer, to infuse enough reasonable doubt in jurors’ minds to get Ms. Anthony acquitted of murder.

“They throw enough against the wall and see what sticks,” Mr. Baez told the jury, “right down to the cause of death.”

Caylee, a 2-year-old with cherubic cheeks and bright eyes, was last seen June 16, 2008. Her decomposed body was found six months later in a wooded area near the Anthony home. Despite her daughter’s disappearance, Ms. Anthony failed to report Caylee missing for 31 days and created a tangle of lies, including that a baby sitter kidnapped Caylee, to cover up the absence.

The defense conceded Ms. Anthony’s lies but said they happened for one reason: she had been sexually abused by her father and had been coached to lie her whole life.

“I told you she was a liar the first day,” Mr. Baez told the jury.

Despite a vivid portrait of Ms. Anthony’s seemingly callous and deceitful behavior after Caylee’s disappearance, jurors decided that leap from uncaring mother to murderess proved too much.

Prosecutors argued all along that Ms. Anthony killed her child so she could carouse with her boyfriend, go clubbing and live the “bella vita” — beautiful life — as her tattoo, done after Caylee’s disappearance, proclaimed.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/06/us/06casey.html

[Animavore]

Who?

[Coito ergo sum]

Who?

Casey Anthony...you know..the sorta hot in a slutty sort of way, whorebag who was alleged to have chloraformed her kid and tossed her in a swamp.

You're looking for a chick these days, right? Casey is available...nice cans.

[Animavore]

Who?

Casey Anthony...you know..the sorta hot in a slutty sort of way, whorebag who was alleged to have chloraformed her kid and tossed her in a swamp.

You're looking for a chick these days, right? Casey is available...nice cans.

I don't like women with kids, remember?



Oh wait....

[laklak]

The prosecution was severely hampered by almost no physical or forensic evidence. The family played it smart, IMO. They told differing stories, contradicted each other, pointed fingers and basically muddied the waters until no one had a clue what actually happened. I'd have voted to acquit also, from what I've seen of the prosecution's case.

Oh, and I'd do her. I like edgy women.

[Coito ergo sum]

Who?

Casey Anthony...you know..the sorta hot in a slutty sort of way, whorebag who was alleged to have chloraformed her kid and tossed her in a swamp.

You're looking for a chick these days, right? Casey is available...nice cans.

I don't like women with kids, remember?



Oh wait....

Yes...problem solved!

[Tyrannical]

Wow, didn't expect a not guilty verdict.

Just as well though, infanticide is just another form of pro-choice except it gives you the opportunity to kick the tires first so to speak.