<p>The reason Casey didnt testify was because Baez knew once she got on the stand she would lie and he would be accused of suborning perjury. The defense team should be worried that once Casey is out and starts talking to reporters and others offering her money to tell her story, she will throw them under the bus oh, I never said . that was what my lawyers wanted the jury to think.</p>
<p>Lawyers are not going to fabricate stories on their own for any client and risk being disbarred!</p>
<p>I am sure that the story they told came from their client.</p>
<p>The reason people are so emotional and upset is because this was a defenseless two year old child who probably adored her mother and that child somehow ended up in a garbage bag on the side of the road. There was no connect the dots evidence here - the time factor from when it happened to when Caylee was found was too long. But I think in the hearts of millions of people, they think Casey was responsible for Caylee’s death and most likely Casey will be free on Thursday and that fact alone hurts us all.</p>
<p>Would anyone less than 100% sure that Casey murdered her daughter feel better if Casey was convicted and executed?</p>
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<p>Then they should have celebrated at a private club or someone’s home, not in public immediately after the verdict and so close to the courthouse. It’s utterly tone-deaf and just the kind of thing that gives defense attorney’s a bad time. It demonstrates to the public, rightly or wrongly, that they don’t really care that a little girl died and that her own mother was implicated, but only that their client got off.</p>
<p>^^ well said kleibo…think that definitely explains the anger by some.</p>
<p>at the risk of repeating myself…(after going to bed last night i kept going over it) i think the prosecution made a huge mistake with their catchphrase “no one makes an accident look like a murder”… when they said it in closing i literally said out loud…she would! and they kept repeating it.
i think that planted the wrong message in the jurors mind.(although the talking heads thought it was a great line) .it gave them another scenario that left them with doubt about what happened, filled in some gaps they had, and both sides made such a big thing about her being a liar, they both showed how cindy and george could lie, even on the stand… just another lie? and if you cant tell what the truth is…then the instructions say you can discount any and all of the testimony of a witness</p>
<p>lizard… i dont think “she murdered” her daughter but do think she did something that resulted in caylee’s death… dont think she drowned, but maybe drugged to keep quiet and she gave too much… i think the verdict i would have felt most comfortable with was the one time act (child abuse) manslaughter charge definitely not the murder charges.</p>
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Yes, I agree. But Casey is a liar and wouldnt hesitate to state she never told her lawyers about the alleged abuse or drowning story or anything else they used to confuse the jury. Casey will not take the blame for anything, even if it means throwing Baez under the bus.</p>
<p>I believe the reason Casey didn’t take the stand is because whatever she said on the stand may have been problematic later on in an appeals case, which there was sure to be if she was convicted of the crime.</p>
<p>One negative thing in this outcome is that Casey Anthony, behaviorally, learns she can get away with anything. I don’t know exactly how her child died but she had to have been connected in some way to that death, even simply looking at what was found with the remains and her coverup and lies after the death (and they even ADMIT she was involved in an accidental death…though I doubt the drowning story presented). And so once again, she learns that even horrific acts can be gotten away with. She is basically rewarded for her lying and behaviors. </p>
<p>In some ways, it is too bad they went after capital murder and didn’t try her on a lesser charge. (I realize the jury could have convicted her of lesser charges such as child endangerment or manslaughter, but perhaps once they found her not guilty of premeditated murder, they already felt doubtful about the case beyond a reasonable doubt on any charge.)</p>
<p>soozievt… i think that is true, also think baez had called her a liar so not a good idea to put a liar on the stand…but i also have no problem with her not testifying…she doesnt have to, that’s her right.</p>
<p>Yeah, it was weird that Baez called her a liar because like the little boy who cried “wolf,” once someone lies repeatedly, which she did in this saga, why should anyone then believe the story of the accidental drowning that the grandfather covered up for her and threw the tot in a nearby swamp? I mean how do you claim on the one hand that someone is a liar and then say, “please believe this story…a story that was never mentioned until three years later!”</p>
<p>What a terrible message this sends to young frustrated mothers/ fathers out there!
Giving your child Xanax or chloroform will now be an option to many who would have otherwise not considered this. Of course, the bigger message is being acquitted, and eventually, making millions off this. So disgusting!</p>
<p>Also, if you go by the defense story of the child drowning in the pool and then the grandfather helping to cover it up, wouldn’t you think that an ex-police detective might have buried the child far far away so as to never be discovered? He would know how best to cover it up. I also can’t imagine him agreeing to throwing the child out like trash in a swamp. He even buried their pets better than that.</p>
<p>might have been a totally different verdict if the body had been found sooner… if there was still “tissue” and organs…perhaps they would have seen if water in her lungs for drowning, been able to test for various drugs etc… never caught the whole thing about the utility worker…did he find the body in august when he first called?..heard something about police officer was rude to him or something so he didnt do anything again until december???</p>
<p>I do think it will bother many that Casey profits from this case (lots of bucks for her book and movie, etc.). She did some very wrong things and will make out well from it. Even if you do believe the drowning story (I don’t), her cover up to make it look like a murder, the throwing of the child out like trash (improper disposal of a body), and the lies and lies after the death to lead people to believe the child was kidnapped (even accusing someone by name of the kidnapping when someone exists with that name), and her behaviors following the death of her tot. Even those things alone, if she did not murder her child or the death wasn’t caused from a preventable “accident,” she did so much reprehensible stuff that to profit from it is hard to take for most people.</p>
<p>I also feel sorry for Casey’s parents. They have endured so much, no matter what anyone thinks of the family.</p>
<p>*Lawyers are not going to fabricate stories on their own for any client and risk being disbarred!</p>
<p>I am sure that the story they told came from their client. *</p>
<p>Supposedly that’s true…but it’s hard to prove that a lawyer made up the story…atty/client privilege and all. He said/she said situation.</p>
<p>The reason that it DOES appear that Baez made up (or helped Casey make up) the story is because he was with her all the time for the first 6 months - while Caylee was still “missing.” </p>
<p>Logic would tell you that Casey would have told him the drowning story within a few weeks. Yet…on the morning that Caylee was found 6 months later, Baez was IN COURT saying that Caylee was not dead and was missing. And, then about 60 minutes later the body was found. oops. </p>
<p>And…no atty lets his client sit in jail for 3 years for an accident. No, he goes to the prosecution and they talk about the situation. He didn’t do that.</p>
<p>No, he waited until all the evidence was out there…checked to make sure the story to be presented would “jive”…and then …boom…the “george molested, caylee drowned, george found the body and hid it” story was born.</p>
<p>And…yes…I do think Casey is going to say something that’s going to get them into trouble. They probably will keep her under tight wraps for awhile…only letting her talk with Baez around. And, no way will they want her to be around her parents.</p>
<p>*might have been a totally different verdict if the body had been found sooner… if there was still “tissue” and organs…perhaps they would have seen if water in her lungs for drowning, been able to test for various drugs etc… *</p>
<p>Absolutely. Or, if the body had shown a drowning…no case at all…no charges except for lying and improper disposal of a dead body.</p>
<p>Also, if you go by the defense story of the child drowning in the pool and then the grandfather helping to cover it up, wouldn’t you think that an ex-police detective might have buried the child far far away so as to never be discovered? He would know how best to cover it up. I also can’t imagine him agreeing to throwing the child out like trash in a swamp. He even buried their pets better than that.</p>
<p>Exactly…he would have gotten rid of the roll of duct tape, he wouldn’t have let the body sit in the car long enough to cause an odor, and he would have dumped the body at a further and unpopulated area…which are not tooooo far away. He certainly would not have used the Winnie the Pooh blanket and that family hamper.</p>
<p>Count me in with the people who don’t believe the Grandfather was in on it either. I do think that the Grandmother is responsible for helping to get Casey off though with that whole trumped up testimony about searching for chloroform (even if it was shot down and totally ridiculous) and, even more damaging, the story about Caylee being able to climb the pool ladder. That was obviously a lie made up as a last ditch attempt to save her daughter from the death penalty (which I doubt she would have gotten) and god help that woman if the prosecution can find evidence that the ladder was not in place at the time she said testified that it was because they will likely put her on trial for perjury.</p>
<p>*11 hours to find her not guilty. Think about that for just a moment. That’s how sure they all were. And they had all the facts of the case at their fingertips. *</p>
<p>Well, there were some red flags that they had been “deliberating” long before the trial was over. The fact that they showed up on Sunday (before closing arguments were complete) in suits and dresses, indicated that they (as a group) already knew the outcome and that they were ready to go.</p>
<p>During the entire trial they were dressed casually, but then, they show up all dressed up??? Yes, they had been deliberating all along…the signs are all there.</p>
<p>the make up of this jury was a bit odd…2 weren’t even high school grads…one had a DUI…and there were some other odd things.</p>
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<p>Couldn’t this just indicate that they were being allowed some time that day to attend religious services, but that they wouldn’t have time to go back to the hotel and change between church and jury duty?</p>