Caylee Anthony and Lindbergh cases

[lvbuckeye]

i say we set Casey up on a blind date with Jordan van der Sloot.

 

[jimotis4heisman]

am i the only one who thinks that high profile legal cases (especially criminal) are the worst. not because of the outcomes either.

 

[Bucknut24]

i find it funny the media is upset she could get millions of dollars because of hollywood, interviews, etc...anyone else see the irony in that?


IT'S YOUR OWN DAMN FAULT MEDIA...today's media just pisses me off so much

 

[SmoovP]

i find it funny the media is upset she could get millions of dollars because of hollywood, interviews, etc...anyone else see the irony in that?


IT'S YOUR OWN DAMN FAULT MEDIA...today's media just [censored]es me off so much

Outstanding - and obvious to everyone except the media - point.

 

[Bucknut24]

 

[Muck]

The real question is...Has bigbluebazooka scored her celly # yet?

 

[Gatorubet]

................................................................................................They rapin' er'body

fify

 

[Taosman]

They couldn't prove a murder had been committed. They couldn't prove a motive. They couldn't prove who did it. That's just a bad attempt at a conviction. A total cluster fuck the likes we haven't seen since OJ got off.
Or the alternative theory is the kid died from a accident on somebodies watch and there was a panic and attempt to hide the body. There is no history to prove one way or another. :(

 

[BuckeyeLiger87]

i find it funny the media is upset she could get millions of dollars because of hollywood, interviews, etc...anyone else see the irony in that?


IT'S YOUR OWN DAMN FAULT MEDIA...today's media just [censored]es me off so much

I thought the irony was that the media has made millions off of the death of this little girl. Nancy Grace probably got her shitty lame afternoon judge show because of Casey Anthony.

 

[MaxBuck]

I worked on a murder case about ten years ago where two Mormon kids out evangelizing (not sure if that's what Mormons call it) stopped to pee on a rug in a vacant lot which turned out to contain a burned body.

Maybe that's how the golden plates of Moroni were found...

I think that was the "golden mugs of Peroni." Or maybe not.

What about the air sample from the trunk that showed signs of chloroform and evidence of a decomposing body?

My trunk smells the same way....doesn't mean I killed that particular girl.

Given the amount of discussion of deceased prostitutes and automotive storage space that we've seen here, chloroform in the trunk seems pretty much de rigeur.

... if the kid dies due to inattention it is a bad thing to be sure, and likely criminal, but it sure as [Mark May] ain't Capital Murder either.

Sociopath does not mean crazy killer, just that Casey does not give a [Mark May] about the harm that she may have done...

They couldn't prove how she died or who did it. That's kind of a problem in a murder case.

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Bull[Mark May]. It's called "beyond a reasonable doubt".

Part of why I think capital cases should be held to a standard of "beyond any doubt," and if that standard isn't met the jury should be able to convict without possibility of execution.

Playboy isn't owned by ESPN...yet...is it?

I'd hit it.

The real question is...Has bigbluebazooka scored her celly # yet?

Hey. It's 'Canes time. If you're not killing, you're not trying.

 

[Bucknut24]

I thought the irony was that the media has made millions off of the death of this little girl. Nancy Grace probably got her shitty lame afternoon judge show because of Casey Anthony.

that too

 

[SmoovP]

Playboy isn't owned by ESPN...yet...is it?

Hot, in that 'last girl standing after an all-day, hard-drinking house party that you'd hook up with, get herpes and be desperate to get away from in the morning' kind of way.

 

[Gatorubet]

http://www.dailynews.com/news/ci_17482910

The next Casey Anthony Case????

Trejo is on administrative leave at a west Phoenix school.

So - how do you return to your duties as a middle school music teacher without hearing "Rut-roh!!!" every time you're near the kids?

 

[SmoovP]

Dershowitz shines some light on the Anthony verdict.



'This case [is] about seeking justice for Caylee . . ." So argued the prosecutor in the Casey Anthony murder case. He was wrong, and the jury understood that.

A criminal trial is never about seeking justice for the victim. If it were, there could be only one verdict: guilty. That's because only one person is on trial in a criminal case, and if that one person is acquitted, then by definition there can be no justice for the victim in that trial.

A criminal trial is neither a whodunit nor a multiple choice test. It is not even a criminal investigation to determine who among various possible suspects might be responsible for a terrible tragedy. In a murder trial, the state, with all of its power, accuses an individual of being the perpetrator of a dastardly act against a victim. The state must prove that accusation by admissible evidence and beyond a reasonable doubt.

Even if it is "likely" or "probable" that a defendant committed the murder, he must be acquitted, because neither likely nor probable satisfies the daunting standard of proof beyond a reasonable doubt. Accordingly, a legally proper result?acquittal in such a case?may not be the same as a morally just result. In such a case, justice has not been done to the victim, but the law has prevailed.

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[JohnnyCockfight]

Dershowitz shines some light on the Anthony verdict.

There is a lot to be learned from a brilliant criminal mind like Dershowitz. In reading his article, as in reading Gator's posts here, a great case has been made for the not guilty verdict on the murder charges against Casey Anthony. The case has not been made, however, with regards to the not guilty verdict on the manslaughter charge.

And for those who demand a cause of death, time of death, circumstances surrounding the death, etc. in order to convict, keep in mind that the only reason we don't know those things is because Casey hid the body and then either mislead the authorities or refused to cooperate with regards to locating the body. Reasonable conclusions against Casey can therefore be inferred, and Casey should not reap the benefits of her additional wrongdoing. (Or, maybe two wrongs does make a right).

Also, I wanted to point out this quote from Dershowitz in the article linked above:

For thousands of years, Western society has insisted that it is better for 10 guilty defendants to go free than for one innocent defendant to be wrongly convicted.

This is a maxim that should be held as true, that no matter if Casey Anthony "got away with murder", that it is still a better outcome than an innocent person be wrongly convicted.