I don't think everybody who kills their kids (or anybody else) is necessarily mentally ill. Some people are just dicks.
CASEY ANTHONY: what do you think will happen.
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Yeah, for a second I considered adding (to say the least), but then decided against it. 
The sad day was a few years ago when a little kid died, very possibly killed by her own mother.
This is just the results of a massive cockup by the prosecution who were out for blood and glory.
Absolutely.
The New York Times succinctly summarized the prosecution's case this afternoon following the verdict:
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After the outrage settles down a bit I think people - or, at least, discussions by legal experts and reporters - will hone in on how vaporous the case against Anthony really was.
That's what has been running through my mind the most this afternoon. Not that it's unimportant that the murderer be identified and appropriately punished, but regardless of who did it a tiny little innocent girl paid the ultimate price for someone else's actions.
The case wasn't strong enough on either side. That said, I think Casey Anthony got away with murder. My guess is that someday soon, she will go out, party and binge drink herself to death. She has thrown her family under the proverbial bus... they will leave her alone and she will decide she is free.
Extraordinarily unlikely, if you know anything about that kind of thing.
Grace's reaction here:
http://www.businessinsider.com/headline-news-nancy-grace-video-casey-anthony-2011-7
of course Anthony can't have a normal life even innocent. not possible
http://www.businessinsider.com/headline-news-nancy-grace-video-casey-anthony-2011-7
of course Anthony can't have a normal life even innocent. not possible
I agree with you. And today is yet another sad day. This was a massive miscarriage of justice.
I'm still not getting why she didn't get at least negligent manslaughter?
The case IMO was analogous to a hit and run driver who killed someone and fled the scene of an accident.
This is one of those days where i really really have to hope there is such a thing as karma. OJ ended up fucking himself up, so i have to hope Casey Anthony does the same thing. She has never really had to account for anything she's ever done (check stealing, credit card stealing....) so i have to hope she'll do something else and karma will bite her in the ass.
I guess we won't know until a juror speaks up. I'm really at a loss. I WATCHED all of the trial. I dont understand how she, the last person with the child, has the baby one day and the next day doesn't. She doesn't report the child missing. She parties for 31 days. When her mother (the grandmother) calls the police she (casey) says Zanny the Nanny (a person who does not exist) kidnapped her. When the police find out there IS NO Zanny the nanny, she says 3 years later (through her lawyer at trial), the baby drowned.
Where is common sense? I don't need fucking DNA to know who killed this child. I've completely lost my belief in our justice system.
If you even believe her side of the story that the child drowned in the pool I'd think there would be some sort of negligence that existed by allowing a 2 year old to hang out by the pool by herself to drown anyway without adult supervision.
Under normal circumstances, if a child dies in a pool, no charges are filed. It is viewed as a tragic accident. Which is why, if that really happened, her father, an ex cop would have called 911. To believe that he helped her dump the body in a swamp......and make it look like a murder? Absurd.
To whoever it was earlier that mentioned the ME and not proving manner of death....please. Her body is found in a swamp with duct tape on her mouth. I think that's murder. That sure as hell isn't accidental drowning.
Correct me if I am wrong, but the jury doesn't have the power to find you innocent of the charge before the court, but guilty of a lesser charge.
To the best of my (possibly flawed knowledge), the jury can only return "guilty" or "not guilty" based on the actual charge being prosecuted.
The jury could have convicted her of manslaughter but did not. To put how outrageous IMO this verdict was in perspective, earlier this year an Arizona self help guru was convicted on 3 charges of negligent homicide by a jury for allowing adults to voluntarily submit themselves in 'Sweat therapy,' in a sauna where they became nauseated, sick and then died.
This tells me that if they want to, juries may lower the threshold bar extremely low for negligence to apply if they so choose.
The charges were first-degree murder, aggravated manslaughter and aggravated child abuse, aside from the counts of lying to police. The jury could only find her guilty or not guilty of those charges.
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