CASEY ANTHONY: what do you think will happen.

[Admiral Buzzkill]

More from the jury foreman:

"Much of the time we were in that trial," he added, "much of it dealt with her actions afterwards. And that's something that, although it is disgusting, it is heinous, we weren't really able to take into consideration with the coming down with the verdict with the indictments."
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They eventually found Casey Anthony, 25, not guilty of murdering Caylee, but guilty of lying to police four times during their investigation.

"We knocked those out right away because the evidence was there," the jury foreman said, referring to the guilty charges.
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"When the prosecution rested ... I was stunned," he said. "I thought there would be more. I really did. And I was waiting for more. ... A lot of us felt that way, that there was not enough evidence to fill in the gray area that we needed to be filled in."

"We don't know the cause of death," he said in a portion of the interview aired Monday. "Everything was speculation."

On the other hand, the prosecution gave details on Casey Anthony's partying, perhaps as a circumstantial case for a motive.

"Motive was not something that we had to prove, or anything," the jury foreman said. "We felt that the motive that the state provided, in our eyes, was just kind of weak -- you know, that a mother go out and do something like that to her child just so she could go out and party. That's what was presented to us."

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That was certainly my take on all the "partying" nonsense presented by the prosecution and particularly for its use as a motivation for premeditated murder: really weak, and of course no substitute for evidence of the crime in question.

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

Since May, at least 17 people have sent money orders to Anthony, according to jailhouse records from the Orange County Corrections Department. Strangers are showering her with more money than her parents. George and Cindy Anthony haven't sent their daughter a cent since May 8, more than two weeks before her trial began.

The donations have increased since Anthony was acquitted in the death of her 2-year-old daughter Caylee last week, the records show.

As of today, Anthony has $472.18 in her bank account, nearly $200 more than what was in her account the day she received the verdict. One stranger donated $100 this week.

The average balance in an Orange County jail inmate's account is $36.30.

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She's being sued for at least $100,000, which of course she hasn't got.

 

[Robert Maxwell]

Have the marriage proposals started yet?

 

[Pingfah]

I think that article rather overstates matters. I wouldn't exactly call $500 being "showered with money"

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

Have the marriage proposals started yet?

Oh, those started ages ago.

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[Admiral Buzzkill]

You know this whole saga really diminishes my faith in...not the criminal justice system, but the sanity of Americans:

Woman Who Looks Like Casey Anthony, Sammy Blackwell, Attacked By Driver In Oklahoma

 

[Pingfah]

What an unbelievable moron. Well, she'll probably do more time than Anthony did

 

[datagal]

You know this whole saga really diminishes my faith in...not the criminal justice system, but the sanity of Americans:

Woman Who Looks Like Casey Anthony, Sammy Blackwell, Attacked By Driver In Oklahoma

People are stupid.

 

[1001001]

And now she's going to appeal her lying to police convictions??

How the hell is she going to do that? Her whole defense was based on the fact that she lied repeatedly.

Whatever...

 

[Locutus of Bored]

You know this whole saga really diminishes my faith in...not the criminal justice system, but the sanity of Americans:

Woman Who Looks Like Casey Anthony, Sammy Blackwell, Attacked By Driver In Oklahoma

People are stupid.

I don't know if it's stupid (although it could be that too) so much as probably being genuinely mentally ill. I mean, confronting someone, following them for miles, and then crashing into them simply because they look like Casey Anthony is a little more involved then some idiot just stupidly venting their frustrations.

 

[Rulius]

The so-called victim in the attack states it never happened.. go figure.

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

Her attorney Cheney Mason told NBC's Today Show today that he's confident in Anthony's safety, but declined to answer questions about where she was.

"She's gone, she's safe and elaborate plans had to be made to keep the people away from her," Mason said. "Her life is going to be very difficult for a very long time as long as there are so many people of the lynch-mob mentality."

Asked about how Anthony was paying for her fresh start, Mason replied that many volunteers have offered their help.

Her notoriety could also help her earn money. Experts who have helped other notorious defendants through rough times say she will have opportunities, but it won't be easy for the 25-year-old, who was found not guilty of killing her 2-year-old daughter, Caylee, but convicted of lying to investigators.

In response to a question about whether Anthony planned to cash in on her fame, her lead attorney Jose Baez told Fox News Channel late Sunday that she has "certain rights as an individual in this country." Attorneys planned to handle Anthony's affairs in a "dignified manner," he said.

"If she decides she wants to speak publicly about it, she'll make that decision," he said.

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Presumably she'll get out of state, at least at first. Severing all ties with her family is probably in both her best interests and that of her parents and brother, however they may feel about it.

 

[Kirk's_Tights]

This bitch would be safer behind bars.

She wants to go out and party but does she honestly think she will be able to do that now? Everyone knows her name, her face, what happened....she is going to WISH she was in jail. Count on her to get beaten to a pulp and hopefully meets the same end she gave her kid.

I saw on TV the other day that she has already been offered MILLIONS to tell her story. That is just sick.

 

[Robert Maxwell]

Don't blame her for being offered millions to write a book--blame the people who will inevitably buy it.

 

[Kirk's_Tights]

Don't blame her for being offered millions to write a book--blame the people who will inevitably buy it.

I didn't blame her, I am disgusted by the people who would both offer it and purchase it.

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

She wants to go out and party but does she honestly think she will be able to do that now?

Does she? I suppose if I'd been a partying type and was just released from several years of prison I might want to tie one on as well. Whether she'll be frustrated by the need for anonymity in relative freedom and comfort after living in a cell is...entirely speculative.

Everyone knows her name, her face, what happened....she is going to WISH she was in jail. Count on her to get beaten to a pulp and hopefully meets the same end she gave her kid.

I favor living in a nation of laws, not one of hysterical and brutal mobs.

You know there was an awful story last week about a little boy in New York who never made it home after attempting a seven block walk...I won't dwell on the details any further. Presumably the lack of a national obsession with this terrible murder is partly based on the fact that someone was quickly arrested, confessed and anyone who's paying attention is pleased to assume that "justice will be done." Justice, however, means nothing to either Caylee Anthony or Leibby Kletzky now...there are only the living, and the dead.

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

Casey Anthony all over emotional map: lawyer

Casey Anthony hasn't been spotted since her release from jail early Sunday but her civil attorney Charles Greene says she is an emotional mess following her acquittal in the death of her 2-year-old daughter Caylee, CBS News Correspondent Karen Brown reported.

"Ms. Anthony right now is happy. She's sad. She's anxious. She's optimistic. She's worried. She's scared. She's uncertain. She's hopeful," Greene said.

Greene met with Anthony several times leading up to her release.

"We probably both like each other and I found her, as other people have commented, very easy to deal with. Very smart. Always professional," he said.

Greene will represent Anthony in three pending civil cases, including a defamation charge brought by Zenaida Gonzales. Casey falsely claimed a woman of that name kidnapped Caylee.

"The civil proceedings all involve discreet, narrow issues," Green explained. "The issue in this lawsuit is not what happened to Caylee."

Though it's a question much of the public wants answered, for Greene, it's about defending her in these civil cases and helping Anthony reintegrate into society after more than 1,000 days in jail.

Greene said, "She is a virtual Hester Prynne of our society with a scarlet letter, a well-known face. So she is still in many ways confined."

And the scene of Anthony's release, as described by former prosecutor Beth Karas, a correspondent for CNN's "In Session," seems to show how confined Anthony really continues to be -- even as she tastes freedom for the first time.

Karas said the situation was "surreal" outside the Orange County Jail.

"There was a crowd of several hundred people," she recalled. "We were facing the front of the jail. The booking and release center, which is where she ultimately came out of. And I had just averted my eyes from the door to sort of move along the crowd and watch when she came out and jumped in a car. And I saw the caravan passing and I just stood back as I watched the crowd surge toward the caravan of cars. They were barricaded by a fence; they couldn't actually get to the car. But people went out into the street and there were mounted police officers keeping the crowd back. And some people in the crowd were yelling 'killer, killer.' People had signs. And it was just surreal as I saw this reaction to this woman who, you know, is trying to get her life back. It was strange."

Karas said she doesn't have an idea of where Casey Anthony might be, but shared speculation that she may have left on a private plane, according to reports.

"There were reports about two planes taking off from the Executive Orlando Airport, which is where private planes will take off from. The car she was in was reportedly seen going to the downtown office of her attorney Cheney Mason. But then people lost sight of it. Did she leave on an airplane? No one knows. There was one at 1:00 in the morning and one at 3:00. The 3:00 a.m. flight had no flight plan and a woman was seen running to the plane, but no one knows for sure."

 

[Kirk's_Tights]

^ The saddest part (about her emotions) is that it has nothing to do with her kid being dead and everything to do with her knowing she is a marked woman.

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

<Mr. Mackey> Um, lynchings are bad, 'mkay? </Mr. Mackey>

I must confess to being far more fascinated by the trial and its aftermath than I ever was by the media circus surrounding what was a horrific but all-too-familiar kind of crime against a child - not "normal," whatever that means, or perhaps even common, but OTOH not really rare. There will be another bloody bus along for Nancy Grace and the Perpetually Indignant to hop aboard, any time now.

 

[PurpleLady]

This bitch would be safer behind bars.

She wants to go out and party but does she honestly think she will be able to do that now? Everyone knows her name, her face, what happened....she is going to WISH she was in jail. Count on her to get beaten to a pulp and hopefully meets the same end she gave her kid.

I saw on TV the other day that she has already been offered MILLIONS to tell her story. That is just sick.

It's this type of attitude that makes me sick to my stomach and so very sad about some of humanity. One woman has already been attacked just because she looked like Anthony.

I don't know how to use the multiple quote, but I did read all the comments throughout this 19 page thread. To those of you who wrote comments about use of your gut feelings or common sense or your feeling of horror at the end result I pose these questions.

Do you really want one of your neighbors to be able to decide you might be guilty of a henious crime and say I feel it in my gut that this guy is guilty of such and such and deserves to die or be beaten up? Or to use his common sense rather than the legal standard of guilt to determine your guilt or innocence?

The justice system is not infallible. Wrongs do get committed, but it's America's chosen system. It's one of ways that separates us from the animals. Innocent until proven guilty.

I would also like to point out because the prosecutor charged Anthony with first degree murder she was held in custody for three years. No bail on that type of charge. And as others in this thread have pointed out that degree of murder was a charge that was very flimsy to begin with what with the elements that had to be proved. The prosecutor has all the power to decide what to charge an individual with.

What the public never focuses on to be outraged about not guilty verdicts in children's death caused by neglect, abuse, carelessness or plain stupidity is no license or training is required to have a child. No parenting classes are required. No nutrition classes are required.

I mean come on you have to have a license to drive a car, you have to have a license to own a gun, you even have to have a license to fish. Anybody can make a baby, but not all can be a good parent.

Bottom line: A small child is still dead whoever killed her. A horrible end for anybody so instead of focusing your outrage on a not guilty verdict, focus it on what we can do to help the children of the here and now and the future.