<p>“It is going to be interesting if (when) all the Caylee’s laws pass. I guess it will actually have mixed results. If a parent has freaked and not reported a missing child within 48 hours, I guess this will provide incentive to further delay/never report the child missing and dream up a lie about when was the last time they saw the child.”</p>
<p>I do worry about that. It is important to create new laws very carefully so that they accomplish the purposes they were intended for.
Right now, there is a lynch mob.<br>
If the prosecution had done a better job, and the possible the jury had been more diligent, maybe there wold not be this lynch mob- there would be a guilty verdict of some kind OR the case would have been more compelling in her defense.</p>
<p>Ah, yes, pass a new law! That always is the answer. Not.</p>
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<p>Lynch mob mentaility? Seems to be around where I live. Interesting how much harder US society is on the moms. Also, I’ve been surprised at the total disrespect many have verbalized for the jurors. I don’t think we’ve seen the last of people like juror 12 who say take ME to jail but I’m not going to serve on a jury.</p>
<p>How is this a false report? Her child was technically missing. Worst case she is still only on the hook for a misdemeanor for the false statement statute I previously listed.</p>
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<p>This is not quite true. Only police officers and certain workers licensed by the state are subject to these types of mandated reporting laws. Parents are NOT required to. Consider all the cases where parents refuse medical treatment for their children and don’t go to jail. Even when the children die. </p>
<p>Plus you assume she didn’t know she was dead after drowning OR that she wasn’t already dead from some other reason. You are assuming this based off of the fact that her defense was that she drowned. </p>
<p>Your assumption is false. This was her lawyer’s statement. If the state were to bring charges she would merely deny that she drowned and state she was already dead. She did not personally state that she drowned. It was an alternative theory. The state would have to prove that the child was in some sort of imminent danger and that the parent was in a position to call and then didn’t. Good luck with that.</p>
<p>Trial attorneys generally don’t ask witnesses questions unless they think that the answer would help their case in some way. Obviously he would have denied it. The question is what his demeanor would have been in the course of denying it. (My understanding based on post-trial juror comments is that George Anthony’s witness stand demeanor did NOT help the prosecution’s case, and in hindsight I think that was something the defense anticipated)</p>
<p>I agree that bad cases make bad laws. There were appropriate charges for this crime. I don’t see the need to craft new ones after that fact that will be hard to enforce and won’t stop crazies like Casey from dumping their murder victims in hopes that the evidence rots.</p>
<p>I read today that one of Casey Anthony’s lawyers (Cheney Mason?) said that too many bridges have been burned for Casey to have a relationship with her parents, but that maybe Casey and Lee will have a relationship in the future. Is he kidding?! I cannot imagine Lee Anthony giving Casey the time of day at any point in the future. Why would he want to have anything at all to do with her – and why would she want to have anything to do with him, since she said he had sexually abused her and her attorneys inferred Lee might have fathered Caylee?</p>
<p>Who knows?! They are a strange bunch. It will be interesting to see how it plays out, but honestly, I can’t even begin to try to predict the behavior of these people.</p>
<p>Seems that the jurors felt that ole George (and possibly) Cindy weren’t trustworthy and reliable witnesses. Did it come out at trial whether George and/or Cindy had keys to Casey’s car at any time?</p>
<p>Juror 11’s comment also addresses some evidence that has not been seen outside of the courtroom which I guess means it was not shown on the TV. With that being the case, all the arm chair second guessing gets to even be more speculative since the TV viewers did not get to see all the evidence.</p>
<p>whatever4–there is a post yesterday that explains that sexual activity between siblings is not always viewed by them as negative. If Casey related that she had been sexually active with her brother to her attorneys, her attorneys might have used this as “abuse” whether she viewed it that way or not.</p>
<p>George and Cindy were not credible? LOL. This whole family is a freak show. That’s why they created the monster that is Casey Anthony. The bright side to all of this is that this story will fade away when another one comes along, and Casey will hopefully fade along with it.</p>
<p>A link to the full transcript of the portion of Greta van Sustern’s interview with the jury foreman which was broadcast yesterday. (Another portion of the interview will evidently be broadcast tonight. The media’s got to stretch tragedy out as best they can, after all, to bring in the maximum bucks.):</p>
<p>[Exclusive:</a> Casey Anthony Jury Foreman on Forensic Evidence and Suspicions of George Anthony - Interviews - FoxNews.com](<a href=“Shows | Fox News”>Shows | Fox News)</p>
<p>i didnt particularly like george or cindy in the clips i saw…but ouldnt have made the leap to they did it…and any of the lies they were caught in ie affair, computer search wouldnt have made me throw out everything else</p>
<p>There are also Statement Analysis of statements made by George and Cindy about the patio that George and Cindy (not Casey) poured in July just before they reported Casey/Caylee to 911. The Statement Analysis was of statements made way back then and concluded that Cindy was sensitive to and hiding something about the playhouse.</p>
<p>Is there any reason to know that Caylee’s body was not buried near the playhouse and then removed to the woods? That patio reminds me of the speculation of where Jimmy Hoffa’s body could be found.</p>
<p>Casey borrowed the shovel from the neighbor on June 18, the suggestion being that there was an attempt to bury Caylee in the backyard. I think that was also the day on which there were numerous attempted calls to the parents. The theory is that Casey was making sure her parents were not home. Burying Caylee in the backyard would go along with plans to blame her parents.</p>
<p>[Cell</a> Phone Pings Help Track Casey Anthonys Movements Over 3 Days Caylee Anthony](<a href=“Private Site”>Private Site)</p>
<p>It was the day before the shovel that Casey was calling her mom. So much for the idea those calls were to make sure they weren’t home so she could come over and bury the body.</p>
<p>If the decomposition in the trunk was that of Caylee’s body, then, under the Casey went over to “set up” the parents by burying Caylee’s body at their house on the 18th theory, the body would have to have been removed from the backyard at some other later time, correct? I’ve never heard any evidence of that.</p>
<p>The very notion of this woman (or anyone else) carrying her daughter’s body around is so disturbing. I keep thinking that poor Caylee did not matter at all. Casey and perhaps others will make money off of this case because there will be idiots who will buy their books, etc. I just hope that people boycottCasey Anthony and deny her this opportunity to get rich.</p>
<p>“It is going to be interesting if (when) all the Caylee’s laws pass. I guess it will actually have mixed results. If a parent has freaked and not reported a missing child within 48 hours, I guess this will provide incentive to further delay/never report the child missing and dream up a lie about when was the last time they saw the child.”</p>
<p>NO ONE thinks a prosecutor is going to prosecute a parent for calling a few hours late. </p>
<p>The point isn’t to create some hardline 48 hour rule that has no flexibility. Besides, any parent who is “freaked out” WILL HAVE called the authorities!!! Because they were freaked out.</p>
<pre><code>The rule can’t be enforced with a hardline because the last time a parent may have SEEN a child may have been 4 days ago, but they may not have realized that the child was MISSING until 2 days ago. For instance…when an EX has the child, then disappears with the child, then obviously the other parent won’t know til many days later.
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<p>The timeline for death notification is also not going to be ruled with an iron fist. If the parent has called family/friends or a funeral home within 24 hours, then obviously there was no effort to “hide” the death. </p>
<p>Authorities are always called when a child is involved in an accident unless something nefarious is going on.</p>
<p>Prosecutors (and police) are scalp collectors. They get a salary but they also get promoted by piece work. Manufacturing maximum crime and guilt is their business. And that is the dangerous and sad society we live in. </p>
<p>Does anyone know why Casey and/or her defense team thought that the whole drowning story was more credible if George participated in the burial? What was the advantage of involving him, since he is after all, a cop.</p>
<p>And one more question. Whoever buried the body - Casey or the pair of them- why didn’t they take a little more time and care, and 1 - bury the body deeper and 2 - find a site further from their house. Aren’t there swamps in Florida?</p>
<p>I agree with Mini’s take on this. The DA just did not do their job well. i look at this as phyrrhic victory for Casey, the Anthonys, justice. I cannot see that woman handling freedom well at all.</p>
The state would have to prove that the child was in some sort of imminent danger and that the parent was in a position to call and then didn’t. Good luck with that.</p>