<p>“the drowning scenario was unsubstantiated, but then again so was the murder scenario”</p>
<p>Yeah, but the drowning scenario was implausible, and the murder one made perfect sense. I don’t think the jury was necessarily wrong, but these two stories were not equally believable in my book.</p>
<p>This is not very “just” of me, but honestly, I’d be happy if Casey Anthony were dead simply because she’s a despicable human being. I don’t even care if she killed her daughter deliberately. My daughter would be living in a better world if the lady were dead.</p>
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<p>See, that is what is known in mathematics as a non-starter.</p>
<p>Your basic assumption is that you know all of the possible realistic outcomes (Which you don’t). Because of that, then anything that is outside of said set of outcomes must be the truth. What you’re doing is convicting via exclusion based on a false original premise.</p>
<p>Which holds no water.</p>
<p>She researched ‘chloroform’ on the internet. So unless she was writing a murder mystery, I didn’t hear any reason why she’d do that.</p>
<p>can someone refresh everyone’s memory as to how Scott Peterson was convicted???</p>
<p>Actually, Cindy stated that it was her and not Casey on the record.</p>
<p>jsanche32 - are you saying that there was no evidence of child abuse?</p>
<p>Child abuse is just not bruises and beating - it is neglect - and she neglected to care for her child.</p>
<p>I am highly educated in mathematics, dude. Anyway, I admit that Casey being a killer is not the only reasonable conclusion, just the most reasonable. My original statement was too strong and, I agree, not sufficient grounds to convict on a murder charge. The more I think about this, the less I’m surprised at the not-guilty verdicts. I still think she was guilty, but I understand why the jury didn’t convict her.</p>
<p>That does not maker her a murderer.</p>
<p>To the person who thinks there will be a civil suit:</p>
<p>There won’t be a civil suit because no one has standing to bring one on.</p>
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<p>Cindy was impeached on this.</p>
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<p>Careful. If you say that the child’s death is in itself evidence of neglect, then every parent whose child dies is neglectful. It doesn’t quite follow.</p>
<p>Initially, I struggled with whether I felt there was enough evidence to convict her of 1st degree murder. But it does seem that the burden of proof of SOME charges of manslaughter or negligence resulting in a death could have been met. I am terribly disappointed that she is not only NOT paying for SOME kind of crime against Caylee, but will no doubt make a great deal of money off of Caylee. It seems a terrible injustice.</p>
<p>I do get that exercising objectivity is specially difficult when you have an emotional connection to the case. (i…e you’re a mother)</p>
<p>She was without a doubt a pretty crappy parent. </p>
<p>But you just can’t let that information sway you when you look at the facts of the case.</p>
<p>If I were a juror, and the defense threw out a claim of accidental drowning disguised as a murder, to counter the prosecutions’ evidence, then I’d need to see evidence of the drowning to create a reasonable doubt in my mind. Merely saying “drowning” might be what happened wouldn’t be enough for me.
Similarly, the defense might have said “alien abduction” as a defense. Or, they might have blamed it on George Bush. Interesting claims, but I’d want to see evidence. Merely saying it might be what happened doesn’t create reasonable doubt for me.</p>
<p>*can someone refresh everyone’s memory as to how Scott Peterson was convicted??? *</p>
<p>He was convicted on circumstantial evidence…</p>
<p>he had googled the tide pools</p>
<p>He never put his boat in salt water.</p>
<p>3 of the 5 anchors that he had just made were missing</p>
<p>He told his GF that his wife was dead a couple weeks before she actually was dead.</p>
<p>She was found wearing the clothes that she was wearing the night before.</p>
<p>Her hair was found in the pliers of his tackle box.</p>
<p>*Actually, Cindy stated that it was her and not Casey on the record. *</p>
<p>And the computer forensics at her work showed that Cindy lied…Cindy was at work during the time of the searches.</p>
<p>Impeached?</p>
<p>I think you mean she committed perjury.</p>
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<p>I would not want Casey Anthony put to death. For starters, I don’t believe in the death penalty (not looking to debate that issue here). That aside, there wasn’t enough direct proof of the details of the death to warrant the worst charges, but the jury could have found her guilty of lesser charges which would not have resulted in the death penalty. I think she deserved to be found guilty of a lesser charge because I do believe she was involved in the death of her child based on the case presented.</p>
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<p>OK, now THAT is scary.</p>
<p>Not the search. Your mentality.</p>
<p>If you made a list of every word I’ve ever typed into Google or Wikipedia and claimed that as evidence of criminal behavior, you could probably tie me to any crime from ecoterrorism to mail fraud.</p>
<p>Bit it is not the defense’s job to do that,just dispute the prosecutions case…</p>