Casey Anthony Sentenced 4 Years, But May Be Free Within a Month
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Casey Anthony may soon be going home.
On Thursday, an Orlando judge sentenced Anthony, 25, to four years in prison for lying to detectives during the July 2008 search for her 2-year-old daughter Caylee, who was found dead that summer. Despite the sentence, Anthony could leave jail by late July or early August because she has already served nearly three years in prison and has exhibited good behavior.
In a Tuesday jury verdict that shocked the country, Anthony was found not guilty for Caylee's murder. Despite that acquittal, she was found guilty on four counts for lying to investigators following Caylee's disappearance.
She was also fined $1,000 for each count.
Juror Jennifer Ford told ABC News "we were sick to our stomach to get that verdict...We were crying...It was emotional and we weren't ready."
"I did not say she was innocent," Ford said. "I just said there was not enough evidence. If you cannot prove what the crime was, you cannot determine what the punishment should be."
"I have no idea what happened to that child," Ford said.
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40The face of evil.
I agree totally, with most all of you. She is guilty of at least something, and this jury did not do their job. The News said they were 10-2 for not guilty on murder one right off. Ok. The next lesser charge they were 6-6. In a couple hours all the 6 for guilty were talked into not guilty. There was so much there to look at, no way in 10 hours did they review anything. No notebooks brought in. No second look at videos, photos, or testimony. They did not do their job. Also, to the juror that wants 5 figures for an interview, to you what that guy did in the courtroom and got 6 days for by Judge Perry..
In 10 hours, there is no way in h.ell the jury reviewed over 400 pieces of evidence and every witness since this started in May. With Charles Manson, it took the jury how long to deliberate and he and his followers all but showed them a video? This is ridiculous. 99.5% of cases are based on circumstantial evidence. If she can get off, Scott P. should have gotten off, too. There was no official cause of death because they didn't know and still don't know. Little Caylee will never get justice, and if this chick tries to find the "real" killer, I'm done. Obviously the jury was incompetent because 10 hours isn't enough to go over the defense's case alone. I mean damn. I would have settled for manslaughter or a negligent charge. Something more serious than "lying to the law enforcement." What a joke.
Without doubt there was enough evidence to convict her on the lesser charge for sure. This jury never looked at all the evidence. They said after 5 hours the very next morning they were all dressed up. They wanted home, none wanted to be there 6 weeks, or close to it. They missed the 4th of July, another had a cruise planned. Come on. It was ruled a homicide. Proved it was. She partied and never mentioned it for 31 days. She had as much access to the duct tape as anyone else. If the child died of drowning there is no way to explain the duct tape. I don't know how they can say Caylee drowned yet, she wasn't allowed to be questioned by the prosecution.
Right off the bat the jury knew, that Caylee was dead, and the medical examiner classified the death as a homicide. The defense admitted in opening statements Casey knew all along the child was dead, she had drowned accidently in the pool. That makes the medical examiner, and everyone else a liar. They need to start by firing the medical examiner for getting it all wrong. Sounds ridiculous, because it is, and was right from the beginning.
I want to punch this biotch in the face and wipe that smirk off it. She will get hers, and rot in hell when she does!!! And I hope all the people in the jury that gave her a non guilty verdict enjoy having that poor innocent girls blood on their hands for the rest of their lives, they should be ashamed for allowing this trash to be free after what she did.
Just that smirk alone on her face makes me sick.
The best sentence Jeff Ashton said was "You don't make an accidental death look like a murder"..she is so guilty it is pathetic. I could not have convicted on murder one, but I could have on aggravated felony at least.
That jury never looked over the 300-400 items that needed looking over. Right from the beginning they hardly took notes, and didn't even take the notebooks into deliberation. Manslaughter at least. The fact no one was home the day the searches made on the computer, not reporting it, being the last one to be seen with her daughter alive, borrowing a shovel, disposing of the child the same way her pets were, so much that at least indicated manslaughter or worse. Her attorney tried to get a mistrial twice, does that sound like he was sure she was innocent.
To me this is evidence. #1 - Not reporting your daughter is missing for 30 days.What mom does that? #2 - Partying within that 30 days. What mom does that? - #3 - Foul Smell in car #4 - Lies about the Nanny (she gave at least 3 different names and said the police had a hard time with spelling the name correctly, yeah right). #5 - Body found with duck tape around mouth even though she said Kaylee might have drowned in the pool. Why the duct tape then? Lies, lies, lies.
One juror demanding 5 figures for an interview. I agree, they didn't talk it over enough or really examine the evidence. On the 1st degree murder it was 10-2 for not guilty, but on the felony assault it was 6-6.
Oh, and the prosecution's case was apparently strong enough that the defense would contradict themselves about how the tape got there: George did it, no, it was probably Kronk (desperate much?) An intelligent juror combines the evidence and methodically compares what the prosection has put forward and how the defense pokes holes. They must determine if what the defense says elicits reasonable doubt. The jury could not have been methodical (there were 300+ pieces of evidence). I truly believe they just wanted to go home since a conviction would have meant being sequestered longer and one juror had a cruise scheduled for July 7th (known since selection.) Was there peer pressure? The jurors cried and were sick to their stomachs about this decision they refused to spend much time deliberating. Why is that? Many questions here.
@Gregg, I agree with you. It is a really sad case.
Sorry, Sally, I am no idiot, thank you. No, there was no hard evidence in this case, just like the Laci Peterson case (in which Scott was convicted) however, that doesn't mean there was no evidence linking Casey to the crime. The jury didn't bother to address the fact that someone put duct tape on the baby at the time of her death. They needed to look at who was directly linked to that duct tape. The claim of the defense is that her father (and Casey!) found Caylee drowned and for some unknown reason put duct tape on a dead baby's mouth and nose, and threw her in the swamp. They needed to then look at the actions of both the "guilty parties" after Caylee disappeared. Grandpa taped up a missing child poster linking him to the duct tape and went all over the country trying to promote finding his missing granddaughter. Casey, after partying and sexing for a month was never concerned about Caylee and made that quite clear from jail where her only concern was damage control to try to save her relationship with Tony, then when he was too disgusted to stay with her, kept whining about herself; Caylee was always an afterthought. There was human decomposition odor and lab evidence in the trunk of a car that George never had access to. "How to make chloroform" was found on the pc. I realize that the defense has no burden of proof, but Casey has now told the third lie about how Caylee disappeared, the third lie being how she died. The defense wanted the jury to believe that "Caylee died in the swimming pool" which he stated in the opening statement, but then in his closing statement, he said "we may never know how Caylee died." Really? Deceptive much? If the jury would have taken a few notes maybe they could have used their brains. Very respected ME, Dr. G said that manner of death was homocide! HELLO!! If Caylee truly drowned, George would have called the cops, DUH.
At very least it was manslaughter. This jury wanted to go home. Ten hours deliberating. Of the Ten..Two-Three for paperwork, and eating, br breaks etc. They rushed to judgment.
I am in shock over this verdict. I can believe the jury did not see a crime was committed. A little girl is dead. Monther last one with the child, duct tape found and baby in a garbage bag. Disposed in the woods. A crime was committed and the mother who did it just got off. Hats off to the jury that is obviouly blind. Follow the dots.
oh yeah this b**** looks so miserable that now that she's free her daughter that she "didn't kill" won't be there y r u smilling f***** c***. omg!! 1,000 for each count is that how nuch this baby life is worth to the system? is sad that we can't do nothing n is what it is.
I agree, somewhere, a village is missing 12 idiots.
Disgusting. I have so much anger about everything that has to do w/ her and this case. When she goes back to partying, hopefully the wrong guy will pick her up and that will be the end of her.
Cute Casey Anthony looked lovely in court today, with her long, lustrous soft brown hair long & loose, falling to her slender, shapely waist. She should have been released from custody today, but loathsome toad Belvin Perry had to be vindictive and venomous for the cameras.