Kennedy, U. Casey Anthony was sentenced Thursday to four years in jail, two days after a jury in Florida found her not guilty of murdering her two-year-old daughter, Caylee Marie Anthony. As Mr. Baez said in the first press conference, its a somber moment. Subsequently, Casey will be released from jail as a free citizen on July 17, Judge Seidlin who has no reason to be subtle boldly spoke his mind today on HLN. Had they not gotten caught up in the media hype perhaps they would not have over over charged Casey Anthony.
He was wrong, and the jury understood that. A criminal trial is never about seeking justice for the victim. If it were, there could be only one verdict: guilty.
From the day I began blogging about the heart wrenching case of the disappearance and subsequent death of Caylee Marie Anthony, I gave it my best effort to keep my blog respectable knowing that I would be despised for speaking out my personal viewpoint. I did NOT think Casey purposely harmed her daughter.
Like the jurors, I wanted to believe it but the evidence was not there. She paid her debt to society for lying. Sue the pants off of the over zealous prosecutors who over charged her and the media who vilified her. I commend Judge Perry for not granting Casey Anthony a true change of venue.
He picked a Pinellas county. The Voir Dire of this trial went through over potential jurors in order to find the 12 selfless citizens willing to be sequestered in a hotel room for a month or more. What more does the public want? From Judge Belvin Perry actions, obviously he knew his star prosecutor Jeff Ashton had over indicted Anthony with first degree murder.
He knew the difficulty it would be to find a death penalty qualified jury. He did his best to compensate for the prosecutors failures by granting as many motions as he could filed by the State of Florida and in turn he cordially helped the prosecution by denying the majority, if not all of the motions filed by the Defense. Befriending George Anthony was not a good idea. Most people would have called authorities immediately. The investigation should have continued leaving no stone unturned before arresting Casey Anthony on first degree murder charges.
Everyday my objective was to get someone else to see this case for what it was. It was a farce. It was a lie. I can accept lies from Casey Anthony but I can not accept lies from elected officials who are supposedly legally knowledgeable and trustworthy nor can I accept mistruths and exaggerations from televised news sources.
State Attorneys Jeff Ashton and Linda Drane Burdick knew they did not have a case against this lying skank yet they wasted tax-payer money in order to please the masses. This is not what our judicial system is about. Many suspects walk free because there is no case. It took 5 years to build a case against him. Today he sits in jail awaiting his day in court. Again the media is making it a difficult decision for any attorney who is asked to represent a defendant whose crime is against a child or any other horrible deed.
We can despise the accused but to malign and disrespect the lawyers of our country who represent them is an atrocity and a direct slap in the face to our 6th Amendment right to fair trial.
There is no fair trial when trained prosecutors of the law accuse a person of a crime and the accused can not find a lawyer willing to take their case in fear of what the media will print in the press. Are there lawyers who are willing to face the alienation of their friends and colleagues because of the person they represent?
Lawyers are now faced with this question. If someone accuses you of a crime, why should the attorney you hire have to endure the wrath of what you are accused of? This is not what our U. Constitution intended. Instead of dishonoring, the media should applaud the attorney who represents a despised client.
They should publicly thank him or her for their fortitude for taking on such a case. The attorney is not on trial. He is doing his or her job and in most cases, a very hard job.
His fight in the media and courtroom antics was near impossible but no one wants to see it that way. Casey Anthony got away with murder. That was a misconception. What we saw was the American judicial system at its finest. There was no evidence, therefore there was no conviction. To Nancy Grace, defense attorneys are the enemy but should they be yours? I think not! She can not relate to the father of Shaniya Davis. Nancy Grace, an officer of the court is now critiquing the way Jose Baez celebrated his well-earned victory.
He has overcome a monumental amount of defamation of his character because of the hatred of his client Casey Anthony but Nancy Grace wants more. I say enough to Nancy Grace! Move on to another case that you can profit from.
Its okay Nancy, we know Jose Baez poetically speaking kicked your ass. There have been warnings and death threats of what may happen to them if they make a step out of their homes. This is the Monster that the news media created.
Casey Anthony was acquitted of all murder charges of her daughter Caylee Marie Anthony. The story is not over. There is talk of lawsuits in the making. Zenaida Gonzalez who happened to have visited Sawgrass Apartments on June 17, is waiting in the wings for Casey Anthony to walk out of the hoosegow. It was Cindy Anthony, the mother of Casey Anthony. Perhaps Mr. Maybe he acted out of greed for the limelight. As he said, there were lots of other people who were seeking out his help so what made the Anthony case so special?
Each and every hour of the day since July 15, they were force fed misleading information and media rhetoric adding more fuel to their fiery demand for justice for Caylee. When someone tries too hard to be my friend, I put up my hand and stop to think. Why is this person trying so hard? Why is the media touting a one-sided story? I knew there was a lie somewhere in the mix and I was right. There was no heart sticker on the duct tape.
I hope something good can come out of case after the acquittal of Casey Anthony. I hope the media in turn decides to become more objective and accountable in their journalism. In this year of , with blogs mistakenly being considered bonafide news sources that the actual news sources become more responsible. The media has under estimated the intellect of the general public. We are able to absorb information and come to our own conclusions.
Perhaps, the news media could be of more service by challenging the general public with facts and asking them to think instead of simply offering their own personal opinion which they assume will be popular. Perhaps this was the lesson Caylee Marie Anthony was placed here on this Earth to teach.
I found the trial in totality a travesty of justice and mockery of the American judicial system as we first witnessed when Casey Anthony was denied her 6th Amendment right to a fair trial. The violation above is apparent. That is apparent. George Anthony, the Accuser who testified to the Grand Jury to have his daughter Casey Anthony indicted was proven beyond a reasonable doubt X2, to be liar, a bum and an adulterer which makes any and all testimony coming from him null and void.
There were no suicide attempts for Casey. Why is it that an immature 22yo is able to accept her punishment? Maybe negligence but maybe not, if both George and Casey were the only two adults who were home when Caylee accidentally drowned in the family pool.
Defense attorney Jose Baez, the Tiger, the tenacious Pit Bull who stood alone at the onset of this case did a remarkable job against not 3 but 5 adversaries, one of which was the presiding judge himself and the other was the media. I laugh out loud with both middle fingers waving as I heard Judge Perry use the term imagined or unimagined as for the extra time Jose Baez needed to gather information to defend his client Casey Anthony from a possible death sentence.
Day 26 was the best day ever for the defense team in my perspective regardless of what the news media reports.
Apparently they wanted him to offer a plea of LWOP aka life without parole and make it easy. Little did they know that they would actually have to prove their case in order to convince the legal experts of America unlike convincing the general public via media sensationalism. Sadly for the Dastardly Duo, they were fooled by popular opinion. You see circumstances are a great when accompanied by solid evidence. They found chloroform.
What a waste of tax payer money that was. To think that they thought a weapon was needed to murder a toddler is not only sad but preposterous. And if the chloroform does fly then they always could check the adhesive of Henkel duct tape to see if that sticks. It seems Dr. On cross-examination Cindy Anthony admitted she told Linda Drane Burdick in about her internet searches. Desperate prosecutors do desperate things.
When the media was begging for a bone, the Dastardly Duo lied claiming it was Casey who searched chloroform when in fact it was her mother Cindy who searched Chlorophyll. We also heard testimony as to the evidence of a trash bag found in the trunk, its contents and how it properly changed hands.
A few experts chimed in with little persuasive information but nothing that I recall as bombshell testimony. Casey Anthony is charged with first-degree murder, aggravated child abuse, aggravated manslaughter of a child and four 4 counts of providing false information to police. From these instructions you can find each prong of the case, or element of the crime, that must be shown by the reasonable doubt standard.
Just surf through. One is known as premeditated murder and the other is known as felony murder. Victim is dead. State will have to put in evidence that Caylee Marie Anthony is dead. The death was caused by the criminal act of defendant. There was a premeditated killing of victim. State will have to put in evidence that this was premeditated.
The decision must be present in the mind at the time of the killing. The law does not fix the exact period of time that must pass between the formation of the premeditated intent to kill and the killing.
The period of time must be long enough to allow reflection by the defendant. The premeditated intent to kill must be formed before the killing. The question of premeditation is a question of fact to be determined by you from the evidence.
It will be sufficient proof of premeditation if the circumstances of the killing and the conduct of the accused convince you beyond a reasonable doubt of the existence of premeditation at the time of the killing.
Jury instructions take the actual statutes and place them into a format for the jury to use in their deliberations, as they assess the evidence presented to them. For example, here is the Florida statute for murder which can result in a life sentence or the death penalty which you can see dovetailed into the Jury Instructions for Homicide above : Florida Statutes To prove the crime of Aggravated Child Abuse, the State must prove the following two elements beyond a reasonable doubt:.
Victim was under the age of 18 years. In order to prove that an aggravated battery was committed, the State must prove the following:.
In so doing, defendant intentionally or knowingly caused [great bodily harm] [permanent disability] [permanent disfigurement] or [used a deadly weapon]. Maliciousness may be established by circumstances from which one could conclude that a reasonable parent would not have engaged in the damaging acts toward the child for any valid reason and that the primary purpose of the acts was to cause the victim unjustifiable pain or injury.
Judge Belvin Perry Jr. Now Judge Perry will preside over the trial and its hearings. Email Address:. Drifting across the globe; the world is my oyster, my oyster through a lens. Has he forgotten? And as we all know, George Anthony attempted suicide January 22, Judge Perry added: snipped from Motion Further, upon review of the investigative costs expense reports filed by the OCSO, the Court found that several of these reports were not adequately broken down in order to determine the work performed during the time from July 15, through September 29, These are the OCSO employees who inadequately broke down their reports.
What Will Judge Perry Do? So Sayeth the shepherd, So Sayeth the Flock Apparently, the American judicial system which is said to be the best the world, has taken degree turn in the opinion of the popular realm because shockingly the Casey Anthony verdict was not the slam dunk as most expected.
Linda Drane Burdick perhaps? The Anti-Petition Mission! Are you wondering why Florida would spend our tax dollars to protect a person who for the last three years has: Lied to everyone involved in trying to find her daughter Manipulated our police officers Accused thru her attorney our police for not conducting a thorough investigation Incriminated innocent people i.
I propose a new petition. Jose Baez. In , she obtained three life sentences for Brent Mackinder, who was convicted of raping his 7-year-old niece and then trying to kill her along West Orange Trail. Also in , she prosecuted Derek Pelto, who killed his girlfriend by stabbing her and then striking her repeatedly with a hammer. Pelto was sentenced to life in prison. She was the prosecutor in the case of the State of Florida vs.
Clyde Blount. Blount shot and killed a year-old who he said had been bullying his son. Blount was convicted of manslaughter. McClarty was sentenced to life in prison. She is most well known for being the lead prosecutor on the State of Florida vs. Casey Marie Anthony in for the death of Caylee Anthony. Anthony was acquitted of the murder charges on July 5, Those who have worked with Drane Burdick describe her as resilient, meticulous, driven, dogged and even a bit aloof.
But, they add, a certain amount of emotional distance is to be expected from anyone who has remained sane after 23 years prosecuting alleged child abusers, sexual predators, murderers and rapists. Drane Burdick was one of 23 candidates being considered to fill a vacant judicial seat in the Ninth Circuit Judicial Court in February Ultimately, she was not appointed to the position. Drane Burdick returned to the courtroom in November as lead prosecutor in the State of Florida vs.
Jason Rodriguez. Rodriguez was accused of a mass shooting in an office complex in downtown Orlando, FL that left five people injured and one dead in November After days of complex testimony delving into the mind of a killer, prosecutor Linda Drane Burdick told jurors that the case against the Gateway Center shooter boiled down to one question alone: "Did Jason Rodriguez know it was wrong to kill people? In the opening statements of the widely publicized trial, Linda Drane Burdick described the story of the disappearance of Caylee Anthony day-by-day.
The state alleged an intentional murder and sought the death penalty against Casey Anthony. Prosecutors stated that Anthony used chloroform to render her daughter unconscious before putting duct tape over her nose and mouth to suffocate her, and left Caylee's body in the trunk of her car for a few days before disposing of it. They painted Anthony as a party girl who killed her daughter to free herself from parental responsibility and enjoy her personal life.
Caylee Marie Anthony had been missing for 31 days before police were called.
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