Casey Anthony

[Mutatis-Mutandis]

Well, I guess I'll open this can of worms. I'm wondering what people thought of this "trial of the century." I also have no idea how big of a deal this was outside the US.

I wasn't one of the people obsessed with this trial, watching it on TV nonstop or becoming outraged by her being found not guilty (the extent of my susrprise was me saying "wow" in a rather undramatic fashion). I get a kick out of the protestors and people crying.

Stil, I was surprised by the verdict, but after thinking about it, it made sense. They couldn't even prove Caylee Anthony was murdered. If the prosecution couldn't even prove a murder took place, how can the prove Casey Anthony is a murderer?

[Shalot]

I didn't follow the trial either. I did hear my coworkers talking about it. Everyone was so sure that she would be convicted. One guy said that if they didn't get her for first degree murder it would second degree... and then everyone had their radios at their desks turned up so I got to hear the verdicts and then everyone's reactions...

I guess my thought is that if they couldn't prove it, then they can't convict. That's the law. And I wasn't there, I am not inside that woman's head, and she's the one who has to live with herself if she did do it. And it's not my place to judge or condemn. Of course, when you're at work and the popular consensus is that "she done it," then it's best to keep your mouth shut and put your earbuds in. If someone presses you for your thoughts, a comment about "that poor baby" might be the best way to go. (and yeah, I know that proper grammer is "she did it." But if someone says "she done it" it's best to keep the conversation short and sweet)

[Mutatis-Mutandis]

They should have charged her with child neglect or something and then given her the maximum sentence. It's the best they could have gotten with the evidence they had (which had absolutely no physical evidence connecting Casey to the murder).

I'm not saying she didn't do it, though. I'm inclined to think she was a horrible mom who tried covering up her child's accidental death, or maybe she did do it. She definitely did something wrong.

[Delta40]

Trial by media gets nobody justice. As somebody who has done jury duty, it is a very difficult task and media sensationalism causes a great deal of harm as well as bias. This means innocent lives are ruined and guilty people get off.

A good example of trial by media in Australia is the Lindy 'A dingo took my baby' Chamberlain case.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azaria_Chamberlain_disappearance

[JuniperWoolf]

The housewives who are constantly sitting at the same table every single hour of every single day at our town's only coffee shop were bleating about it for weeks, which made me instantly bored with the whole situation. Summation: don't care.

[The Atheist]

Well, I guess I'll open this can of worms. I'm wondering what people thought of this "trial of the century." I also have no idea how big of a deal this was outside the US.

Outside USA, I'd be surprised if 1% of people knew the name. The only reason I know about the case is because I hang around with so many Yanks.

Looks like a very bad case of cops going into court with no evidence and hoping for guilty verdict because she's an unsympathetic figure.

[Alexander III]

I have heard a bit about the case, but I don't seem to understand why it is the "trial of the century"? I mean mothers kill their children all the time - ok when I say it like that it sounds fatuous, but parents killing their children is not very uncommon.

[OrphanPip]

The prosecutor screwed up, he tried to get her for a crime he had no proof of. The child was missing for a month by the time the grandmother finally reported it. I think it highly likely that Casey Anthony killed her, or possibly the child died through neglect or an accident and she tried to cover it up.

I think the case was interesting to so many people because of Casey Anthony's ridiculous behavior and her outright lying at every step of the investigation. She couldn't have made herself look more guilty if she tried.

[Delta40]

Outside USA, I'd be surprised if 1% of people knew the name. The only reason I know about the case is because I hang around with so many Yanks.

Looks like a very bad case of cops going into court with no evidence and hoping for guilty verdict because she's an unsympathetic figure.

I had never heard of the Casey Anthony case until I read this thread. However we all know about the murder of 10 year old Zahra Baker because she was Australian.

http://www.abc.net.au/pm/content/2011/s3183064.htm

[Calidore]

The prosecutor screwed up, he tried to get her for a crime he had no proof of. The child was missing for a month by the time the grandmother finally reported it. I think it highly likely that Casey Anthony killed her, or possibly the child died through neglect or an accident and she tried to cover it up.

I think the case was interesting to so many people because of Casey Anthony's ridiculous behavior and her outright lying at every step of the investigation. She couldn't have made herself look more guilty if she tried.

It's ironic that as often as corrupt/incompetent prosecutors seem to have no trouble getting juries to convict innocent people on flimsy evidence, they can't do it when a case is pretty much handed to them on a silver platter.

[The Atheist]

I have heard a bit about the case, but I don't seem to understand why it is the "trial of the century"?

Very few defendants look like Casey Anthony.

[Mutatis-Mutandis]

She's not that hot. Without the nice rack she wouldn't even be a 5.

[The Atheist]

She's not that hot. Without the nice rack she wouldn't even be a 5.

:lol:

I'd never even noticed the "rack" and she's not remotely my type, but she is certainly a vast improvement on every other defendant in child-murder cases I've seen.

[tonywalt]

I just hope they find zanny the nanny. Creative lying there....