Not GuiltyFollow

Personally, I'm pretty surprised that she was given a not guilty verdict. I understand that most of the evidence was circumstantial, but like the prosecutor said in his closing statements, you don't make an accident look like a murder. That poor little child was murdered, and her mother lied about her whereabouts for 30 days afterwards, and then finally when she couldn't lie anymore gave the old "a **** stole my baby" defense. I believe, under Florida's law, she should have been given the death penalty and fried.

On the other hand, if her lawyer had put up an insanity plea from the beginning (instead of desperately trying to have her deemed incompetent 3/4s of the way through the trial), I probably would have bought it. There is a serious malfunction in a mother's brain that allows her to cause harm and murder her own child. She could have used the tried and true "Satan made my schizophrenic *** do it" line, and I would have bought that a hundred times more than "she accidentally died and my molester father made me hide the body".

Any thoughts on 2011's biggest courtroom controversy?

You people f'ucking amaze me. You ****, whine, moan, and complain at the mere suspicion that an innocent man may be on death row, and when a court verdict doesn't match your esteemed pre-conceived notion after having heard news stories and read a couple of internet reports you find it within yourselves to ****, whine, moan, and complain about that, too.

The (not so) lost art of meta-pissing and moaning.

I was trying to avoid watching much of this, but I did catch a good portion of the defenses closing arguments. Frankly, the defense did a great job taking the prosecution's circumstantial case apart. After watching that I was pretty much expecting a not-guilty result.

I missed the entire trial. For what it's worth, my mother-in-law covered for me by watching every second of it.

I don't know enough about the case to make a guilty/innocent verdict. Is she white and pretty?

I see that we've dropped all premise and are now just using the forum as a sounding board for non-specific hipster rants, eh?

Unlike you, my sphere of people I come in contact with is not limited to ZAM.com. Only two people may have commented on it in your shut-in universe, but I've encountered a great many who fit the bill and fell in with what I was criticizing.

Yeah. This is pretty much where I'm leaning as well. She may have been doing drugs or whatever, kid dies (drowns in pool even?). She panics because she doesn't want to get charged with endangerment, so she conceals the fact that her kid is dead. And the whole thing snowballs from there. A lot of the strange behavior she exhibited can be explained as denial (and would be the same regardless of how her kid died), so there's no proof of anything there.

And that's basically the case in a nutshell. The prosecution just couldn't rule out alternative explanations for the evidence and behavior. They certainly couldn't prove conclusively that it was murder. And the defense did an excellent job of highlighting that fact for the jury.

He says while posting to an off topic forum on a gaming site.

She's no Amanda Knox, if that's what you're asking.

Crossposting from my FB (like anyone gives a ****):

By far the most irritating part of the Casey Anthony verdict is all of the people ******** about how the justice system suddenly became unjust when they didn't get the outcome they wanted in a case that has zero impact on their lives.

Get over it.

Well, that's part of the problem with society. I'm not big on court cases, but I think this happens in every nationally televised court case.

I'm just waiting for her new book. "If I had killed my daughter, this is how I would have done it".