No Justice for Caylee...

kevhed72

Holy citing of references Batman! Someone has an opinion based on.....facts!

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Jstas wrote: »

It doesn't even do that. It just finds reasonable doubt of the guilt.

The way the prosecutors handled the case and just the general behavior of the plaintiffs and defendants was atrocious.

I'm not surprised she walked at all. There was lots of evidence but none of it was connected by the prosecutors and standing alone, a pile of unconnected evidence is not enough to convict. There's too much uncertainty. What little evidence the prosecution did have was subverted by the botched testimonies of the Anthony family. The whole thing was a joke.

That doesn't mean the justice system is broken though. It just means that either the Anthony defense attorneys are freakin' spectacular or the prosecution was completely inept. Not enough members of the jury saw enough correlating evidence to absolutely, without a shadow of a doubt, vote guilty. That's the point of a jury. So that more than one person decides your fate and can keep you out of the clink if they have enough concerns to not convict.

Do I think it's bogus that she walked? Yeah, I do. But then again, since the security guy, her father and her mother all denied in their testimony what was in the case and in Casey's testimony then who know who is telling the truth and who is lying. All you need is one vote with doubt to avoid conviction.

The defense did not need to establish innocence. All they needed to do to win was establish doubt. With the conflicting testimonies and incomplete stories, that was pretty simple to do. The justice system didn't fail. It worked. Just not in the way we think it should have.

For once I agree with you. Well said. Sad for little Caylee, though. Mom was probably guilty. It just couldn't be proven.

Chris

tonyb

Unfortunetly this case was tried prior to the actual trial in the court of public opinion by the media. The prosecution going for 1st degree murder was their biggest mistake in my opinion. Just like O.J., unless the evidence is rock solid for murder one, your just hoping for a jury already tilted by the press. Then again, OJ had the best Lawyers money could buy. This is our system folks, if anyone has a better way of doing it, lets hear it.
Up next...Roger Clemens.....ought to be interesting.