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Wednesday, July 6, 2011 | 7:44am
SOUND OFF: Despite Public Opinions, Did Our Justice System Fail Caylee Anthony?
Despite Casey’s histrionics and obvious disregard, did the courts fail Caylee or was there just not enough evidence?
#CaseyAnthony #RIPCaylee
By now we’ve all heard about the shocking end to the case for justice in the death of young Caylee Anthony. On Tuesday, the panel of 12 Florida jurors returned three verdicts of not guilty on charges of first-degree murder, aggravated manslaughter and aggravated child abuse in the nearly three-year-old case against the 25-year-old mother. I don’t think there’s a soul in America save Casey Anthony who is elated by the outcome, maybe her attorney.
But in the end, Jurors argued they couldn’t convict because prosecutors couldn’t prove whether a murder took place. Our legal system though flawed, racist and biased does state that a defendant is innocent until proven guilty. Its not what we know (or earnestly think and can deduce) but rather what can be proved. Too often these public cases are played out like soap operas and reality TV for all to see and we infuse our own emotions, opinions and thoughts into the case.
So while I’m heartbroken that justice certainly wasn’t served for this adorable young girl, taken way too young I begrudgingly ask you to SOUND OFF: In your very OBJECTIVE opinion Did our Justice System Fail young Caylee Marie Anthony?
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The legal term “without a shadow of a doubt” is a fallacy that needs to removed. Anyone, based on what they perceive to be true, can find a perceivably logical reason to have that “shadow of a doubt”. Anything that the defense could use from angels to demons to aliens to long lost/ unknown twin to plain old “It wasn’t me” could cast that “shadow” if a jury were to believe as such, and with that “shadow”, by law, a person cannot be convicted.
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The legal system is at a point where you have clear and concise audio and video, with witnesses and a confession that can be proven to be uncoherced. All has to be presented to jury in the uptmost flawless manner or the person on trial will more than likely walk. And that is something that crosses the color lines.
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I guess the only question now is, Who REALLY did it? Same person who killed Jon Benet Ramsey, Nicole Simpson, Ron Goldman, and Natalie Holloway I guess……..
Maybe we will find out in 15 years or so when the streets start talking…..
OJ?
LOL!!! Maybe???
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But, I meant it in the sense that once the primary suspect in a murder or disappearance is tried and vindicated, justice for the victim seems fall to the wayside.
They always seem to catch them on the First 48. That would have been interesting to see the First 48 on this case.
President Obama did it .
LOL, I’m surprised you didnt blame Bush….
Yea that is true…when a not guilty verdict is given, why doesn’t the case re-open itself or doesn’t it matter?
Lol.I just said President Obeezee bcuz he gets blamed 4 everything from the Economy 2 9/11 to the Shuttle explosion in 1986,to Watergate to Vietnam 2 the Kennedy Assassination to Slavery. As 4 blaming “Hitler-Bitch, he has done so much dirt while he was in office hell he would get away with Murder as well.That’s the real Teflon Don.
I think the decision of the jury was correct.
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First, there is a difference between ‘knowing’ that someone did something and being able to PROVE that someone did something.
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We can all (myself included) look at her and know that she’s guilty, but when it comes down to a trial, I don’t want it decided by people who can ‘know’ our guilt or innocence just by looking at us.
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The system that (for better or worse) protects Casey Anthony also protects me; and we have to occasionally allow a guilty person to go free in exchange for reducing the number of innocent people rotting in jail.
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In this case (for me), it comes down to one simple point: In order to charge murder, you have to prove that the victim was murdered. Without a cause of death, the prosecution was doomed from the beginning.
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I think a larger question is the media’s response to the verdict. The CNN cabal (via their headline news and tru tv stations) were HEAVILY invested in promoting Casey Anthony’s guilt.
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Nancy Grace, for example, was beside herself yesterday, and actually had the nerve to attack the jury by pointing out their individual criminal and other pasts. When the jury announced their unanimous decision to NOT speak with the press, I thought the talking heads were going to explode.
But where is justice within and between the knowing and the proving?. Maybe justice is the act of having a fair trial in front of a judge by a jury of her peers, with legal respresentation, whether some sort of revenge or justice for the victim is doled out or not. Maybe I (or we) dont fully know the true meaning of justice…….
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Maybe it my lack of religious belief on my part. I dont totally believe that there is a “Hell” waiting for Casey Anthony in the afterlife, IF she did in fact kill her daughter.
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Maybe Justice is another one of those terms like Freedom that leads to a debate on semantics. Something too complex and convoluded to be pigeon holed into one act, word, or definition…… Just ranting and trying to understand.
Good points, Malcolm. But just like OJ wasn’t found guilty of murder, but was later found “responsible” for the same deaths… ???!!! … she is definitely responsible for that death. That much is clear.
But that was in a civil suit where Nicole Simpson’s family were attempting to hold OJ liable.
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Who is going to file the civil suit for Caylee? The whole family was on Casey’s side.
I agree with Malcolm in the since that we have to give to receive. I don’t think there’s Any thing wrong the process of our justice system, I think some of the conclusions or punishments are what need to reconsidered. It’s f@#ked up how you can be convicted on conspiracy with no worthy evidence for trafficking for 30+ years and a white chicks daughter found in her trunk suffocated, proven to have lied on several counts about where she was, phone Cal’s etc. Be found not guilty. If she’s Innocent then Meech is innocent IMO. Logan, sheen and any other Hollywood Caucasian have get out of jail free card. What if Logans situation was Kelsey Palmer’s. Black ass? How easy do you think she would’ve got it?
Aye my bad Keke Palmer
Everyone has their opinions and thats basically it. We will never know what really happened. Sad but true. Do I think the system failed? Its 50/50….everyone is innocent until proven guilty and whether we want to believe that Casey did it, whether we suspect that she murdered her child, we don’t have the proof. I mean, there are certain facts that I thought would have gotten her a guilty verdict but I guess I was wrong. I believe she had something to do with her child’s death, it just sucks that we can’t prove anything about it. I guess if you’re the defendant then you would be happy as hell but what about the victim? Caylee did not receive any justice. I think something bad will happen to her mother. Some upset civilian will take justice into their own hands…..mark my words.
ALL OF YOU PROVE VALID POINTS, KNOWING AND PROVING ARE TO DIFFERENT THINGS, HER ACTIONS DID SPEAK VOLUMES, NOT REPORTING HER CHILD MISSING UNTIL 30+ DAYS, THE SMELL OF ROTTING FLESH IN THE TRUNK OF HER CAR, PARTYING AND NOT GIVING A FUCK AND OF COURSE, LYING AND BLAMING A LATINA LADY BY THE NAME OF ZENAIDA FOR HER CHILDS DISAPPEARANCE, BUT THE PROSECUTORS COULD’NT PROVE SHE DID IT, SAD, BUT TRUE, EVENTUALLY SOMEONE WILL TAKE ACTIONS INTO THEIR OWN HANDS OR MAYBE THIS BITCH’S CONSCIENCE WILL GET TO HER AND SHE’LL KILL HERSELF, ONE DAY THE TRUTH WILL COME OUT, ON A DIFF SUBJECT, JUAN, YOU SHOULD DO A POST ON FRATECIDE AKA DEATH BY FRIENDLY FIRE IN THE MILITARY, ITS SAD AND SHOCKING AND I’M NOT SURPRISED BY THE WAY THE GOV HANDLES IT.
What up bro! I’ve never heard of that term but I have always wondered about “friendly fire”. Never heard of anyone dying from it though….gotta do some research now.
Alanzo to JAKE…”IT’S NOT WHAT YOU KNOW, IT’S WHAT YOU CAN PROVE…WHAT CAN YOU PROVE JAKE!!!
Exactly
One of my fav Denzel movies as well…. Evil Zel at his best
I think everyone has great opinions and a great deal of insight on whats going on out here in this crazy place we live… We all know the child got killed, by whom and why, we will never know… She got off, OK, i mean OJ got off, so we’ve seen this story before, what caught my attention was how it was unanimous, not 1 person found her guilty… So, i’m thinking to myself, there has to be some major major holes in this case for not 1 person to even think she was guilty….. you can blame it on the prosecution, for them not connecting the mother to the death, i’m not sure, but like “DaddeJ” said above.. it’s what you can prove
If this kid or the Mother was a person of color, or if they were not “atractive” by media standards. If there werent all the cell phone pics to look at. Or if there were no cameras in the courtroom. We would not be writing about this right now. The media is as guilty here for all of this as the Family that worked together to cover up this kids death.
As much as I hate it, I have to agree with my man “stpony.” All you heard on the news reports was “adorable, cute, little angel, and how beautiful “little Caylee was. IT DOESN’T MATTER!! If she was a one legged, cross eyed, buck-toothed little shit of a girl….what happened to her, and how it was handled is inexcusable. Our society needs to stop placing a person’s worth on how they look. The better a person looks, the more we allow them to “get away” with. We defend their deficiencies as people by labeling them as character or eccentric, instead of calling them what they are….ASSHOLES! (ie…Kardashien/Hilton/Sheen/Ritchie/Kennedy’s/Palin…) I live in Az, there was a married couple a few months back, taped their 3 or 4 yr old to a chair, and locked him in the closet…for DAYS! Parents looked like a picture from “The people of Wal-Mart”….barely made the local news…..like Dap said in School Daze……”WAKE UP!!!!”
That’s Strong, Bruh! Cosign 100%
Casey is a killer and the system failed Caylee.Shame on her lawyers for partying it up after the killer gets off. sick. How can they sleep? Hope they choke on the money and fame!