Has justice been served?
L.A. Times
2013/01/25 22:00:00
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A Florida appellate court has thrown out two of the four convictions of Casey Anthony, the woman who was acquitted of killing her 2-year-old daughter but convicted of lying to detectives seeking to find out what happened to the child. In a 15-page ruling released on Friday, judges on the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals effectively agreed with Anthony’s lawyers that two of the misdemeanor charges should be dropped.
The nation was riveted by the story of Anthony and her daughter Caylee, who was last seen in June 2008. Caylee Anthony was reported missing by her grandmother, Cindy, in mid-July. Casey Anthony, after initially telling investigators that the child had been kidnapped, was charged with first-degree murder in October 2008. Caylee's skeletal remains were found with a blanket inside a trash bag in a wooded area near the family home in December.
After a celebrated trial fueled by cable television reports and social media, a jury on July 5, 2011, acquitted Casey of first-degree murder, aggravated child abuse and aggravated manslaughter of a child. The jurors found her guilty of the four misdemeanor counts of providing false information to a law enforcement officer. With credit for time served, she was released on July 17, 2011.
The nation was riveted by the story of Anthony and her daughter Caylee, who was last seen in June 2008. Caylee Anthony was reported missing by her grandmother, Cindy, in mid-July. Casey Anthony, after initially telling investigators that the child had been kidnapped, was charged with first-degree murder in October 2008. Caylee's skeletal remains were found with a blanket inside a trash bag in a wooded area near the family home in December.
After a celebrated trial fueled by cable television reports and social media, a jury on July 5, 2011, acquitted Casey of first-degree murder, aggravated child abuse and aggravated manslaughter of a child. The jurors found her guilty of the four misdemeanor counts of providing false information to a law enforcement officer. With credit for time served, she was released on July 17, 2011.
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Top Opinion
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BigFig#9 2013/01/26 00:18:52Yes
+25She's probably 'guilty' but a jury of her peers found that there was not evidence beyond reasonable doubt so unless you're willing to say that the British Bill of Rights and all that has followed after in the West was flawed then you have to say that justice, perhaps imperfect justice, was served here and in the OJ trial and in any other flawed decision. Like democracy, trial by jury is the worst system in the world except for every other system. (Thank-you Winston Chuchill.)
And because of the feminist movement, women no longer get the death penalty which is what this woman deserves, not life.
However the left thinks like HILLARY does.
Then Hillary contradicted herself by saying, "We have to catch who did it and find out what happened!" Well, if it makes no difference, why do we have to find out what happened? I hate these people!
We will not Tire
We will not Falter
and
We will not Fail.
This EVIL Man will NEVER be allowed to Destroy our Constitutional Republic.
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BRING IT!!!!!!!
we are not a bunch of robots who fall for anything the media puts out. most of us know how to discern facts from media sensation. and the FACTS show Casey was responsible for the death of her daughter, and it's as plain as the nose on your face, the jury got it wrong.it's happened before and it will happen again and why you aren't outraged by that verdict IMO, is mind boggling.
I'd like to see her in prison, but not so bad that I think defying the constitution makes any sense.
We dont agree on much but we sure do on that!! LA Times never gives an "undecided" or "other" option.
I think the prosecutor in this case let the press coverage rush him to charge her before the evidence was developed and if he did he should be fired. It's also possible that the jury did have all of the evidence (A lot more than any of us had) and it showed that she didn't do it. My opinion is that she's guilty, but it isn't as well informed as the opinions of the jurors. It's dangerous to assume we know everything from what our lazy press chooses to print.