I agree, I'm so upset about this.

They can't, the juriors found her not guilty of everything but lying, which makes no sense to me.

They found her guilty of lying...but no intent/motive? So she just lies for fun? Right.

wHY cant she be charged with that she wasnt charged with concealing a body

I watched the entire case. I even watched most of the jury selection. I've read all the evidence and watched all the interviews (police and FBI.) I wish the JURY had a chance to have ALL the evidence.

As for the chloroform in the car. ANY remnants means there was A LOT at one point. It dissipates very quickly. No cleaning product would leave any remnant of chloroform.

The smell of human decomposition was in the car. That is a fact the prosecution proved. Now, why didn't other people smell it early on? I have a guess...the smell was faint at first and as the fluid left in the trunk further decomposed, the smell became stronger. At first it was not noticeable to people in or near the car. As it decomposed more, the smell increased and anyone within a few feet of the car could smell it.

I could go on and on and on and on. I don't really feel like it though. People are going to have their own opinions...which they are entitled to. I feel my opinion is educated on the facts of the case...so of course I believe my opinion best.

She also wasnt charged with neglect which it seems they could charge her with now

It's funny, I've seen several movies where the defense lawyer makes you "hate" the client, and calls them a lying tramp, or thief, but then they will say, "Sure you may hate my client, you may think they are the worse piece of garbage that ever lived, but they are not a murderer!!" and it always worked in the movies.

When Baez called her a lying slut, not the persecution, I wondered if he’s was trying to use this type of defense. Like we thought she was guilty because she had multiple boyfriends and partied a lot. That’s not why I thought she was guilty, I thought she was guilty because she lied about what happened to her child, you lie when you don’t want someone to know the truth.

I will add this. I disagree with the motive that the prosecution presented. I don't believe she killed her daughter because she wanted to party. (I believe she wanted to party more than she loved her daughter, but that is not the motive.)

Here is what I think the motive was: She and her mother had a VERY dysfunctional relationship. I've read or watched the police interviews with Jesse Grund (former fiance.) He tells about an argument that Lee said Casey and her mother had right before June 16th. Her mother threatened to take Caylee away from her....called her an unfit mother, etc. There are other witnesses that said the same thing, not just Jesse.

Anyhow, I think she killed Caylee to 1) punish her mother, 2) out of anger that her mother would try to take Caylee away from her...instead she took Caylee away from Cindy, 3) knew there would be LOTS of sympathy and attention to herself if her daughter was missing and then killed by a mysterious person.

There was plenty of evidence to show how dysfuntional this family is. There is plenty of evidence to show the anger Casey had at her mother regarding her mother's and Caylee's relationship. The prosecution decided to go the other route based on her partying for the 31 days.

Bottom line for me: I think she killed her daughter to punish her mother and to take Caylee away from Cindy.

Well, the prosecution couldn't present this without Cindy actually testifying everything you just said...and as you saw Cindy was not about to mention any of that at all.

I was offended when Baez kept calling her a slut. NO ONE ever said that. There was no evidence of that. She liked to party, had boyfriends, etc....the prosecution even said in their closing that it is NORMAL for a young person to do that.

Baez fed them the reasonable doubt card...the jury ATE IT UP. Reasonable doubt is not "NO Doubt"...that is where I think the jury got confused.

I am so angry at the justice system and the jurors right now. But mostly, I am SAD about Caylee not getting justice. We have failed her.

I agree...I noticed the tactic right away. I think he was purposely trying to draw attention to her being this huge liar so that the jury can sit there and say...okay well we know she lies and she lied to the police so that's just part of who she is...and then charge her with lying...and that's it. Obviously worked.

This is exactly what I have thought for a while. Casey was jealous and wanted to punish her mother and father because they showed love towards Caylee,

There's absolutely no proof of neglect. Negligent homicide is the choice they had, that she was negligent and it caused the death of her child. My own personal theory was she used her car truck for a babysitter, this would be negligent homicide. I wish the defense could have learned where Caylee stayed when Casey didn't take her to boyfriend’s houses, and she wasn't with grandparents. I believe Caylee died in the trunk, and decomposed there, I think there was plenty of evidence of that.

I don't think the law allows you to go back and charge her with anything, and really she wouldn't have even gotten 2 years for neglect (time served). Have you heard of this, or is this just what you'd like to see happen?

Yep, you are right. There are so many flaws in our system. I don't know if there is a better way, because letting some things in creates the opportunity for even more problems. It really frustrates me.

The truth doesn't matter. What is allowed in is all that matters. Ugh...so disappointed.

And of course, Cindy could get up there and lie about other things, but she couldn't be forced to tell the truth. Sigh.

Now we're going to have to listen to how brilliant he was, one minute begging for a mistrial, and the next, he's gets an acquittal.

This has been my thought, too. I read that this fight on the 15th was the worst that they had ever had (this came from the aunt and she was told from Cindy's mom)....Cindy even choked Casey. In fact, Cindy's elderly mom blames herself because she feels that Caylee would still be alive if she hadn't told Cindy that Casey was stealing money from the account that was set up for Cindy's father's nursing home care. It's even reported that the neighbors head screaming and obsenities coming from the Anthony's backyard on the 15th. Cindy told her that all of her stealing from people was now a felony and that she planned to prosecute and so did other people. She went onto to say that she would be in prison for years and she would get custody of Caylee.

This is where I think Casey's mind was on the 16th.

Oh, about the Chloroform.....it is actually present in human decomposition. This could explain the extremely high amounts of it in the trunk. Either she used it to put her to sleep or it was present because there was a body in there....either way, she's VERY guilty of something bad!

I know...he was flying by the seat of his pants. What ultimately won the case?? Reasonable doubt. Anyone can present reasonable doubt. You just have to get lucky enough for a jury to not really understand it all.

I have also been frustrated with all the people NOW saying that they knew she would be found not guilty. NO they didn't. They are just trying to look smart now.

I don't know how these ppl could have reviewed all of the evidence and compared it to all of the charges in that short amount of time. Not only was she murdered Caylee brought against her (premeditated/first degree), but a count of felony child abuse or attempt to commit felony child abuse - in Florida that constitutes murder in the first degree if the child dies during abuse or attempted abuse. How did they clear her of that?

There was also manslaughter brought against her; that is Caylee's death was in the care of her mother and resulted from her mother's actions/inability to care for or supervise. How did she not get convicted of that?

I don't think this jury understood or took the time to carefully review ALL charges brought against her and what the definitions of these charges were. Perhaps taking some notes would have helped!

Exactly. She decided to take matters into her own hands. Sick, isn't it?

I think what ultimately won this case was the fact that they had a jury that never planned to find her guilty.

They definitely didn't understand (or care to!) because one of the alternates said that he felt the right decision was made because motive was never proven. THAT IS SO FRUSTRATING TO KNOW THAT THEY DIDN'T EVEN UNDERSTAND THIS PART OF IT!!!!!! Sure, a jury likes to have a motive....to make sense of it, but technically they didn't have to in order to prove she was guilty. This was even explained to them at one point. I think that too many of jury members related too much to Casey and her life.....the case for prosecution ended before it ever even began. :(

*sigh*

Right!!! By the way, did you post comments on a you tube video? Your user name reminds me of one there.

Think about this....

on Sunday the jury heard the first part of the closing statement from the prosecution, and then heard FOUR hours of the defense's closing statement. Recess for the day.

Monday the jury came in to court ALL DRESSED UP. This is before they even finished hearing from the prosecution. They also came ALL DRESSED UP on Tuesday...the day they announced their verdict.

These are jurors that always dressed casually in tennis shoes, etc...coming in wearing ties and high heels. They made up their mind about "reasonable doubt" on SUNDAY after the defense made their statement.

It feels like a series of unfortunate events. The jurors did NOT seriously deliberate. I don't think they even seriously listened to the prosecutions closing. They had ALREADY made up their mind.

Just wanted to add: To the jurors...SHAME ON YOU!!! You have Caylee's blood on your hands, in my opinion.

Please, I hope you guys don't take this the wrong way it's not my intention--but it's well documented that death throw is racially and ethnically biased. In other words, non-whites are put on death row at a higher rate than whites (non-hispanics) do you guys feel that may have played a role in it? And PLEASE I am not trying to offend anyone by this so please don' t take me the wrong way!

Absolutely. The system is definitely racially biased. You can argue that it is the minorities committing more crimes, BUT, even if that is true, it doesn't change the fact that it is REALLY hard to convict a pretty, white, young, woman to death row.

The case would absolutely have been different if she wasn't pretty, white, and young.

This is JUST MY OPINION.

A few other things that bothered me....

The defense table SHOULD not have faced the jury. That was SO prejudicial. They had to look at her sitting in a lowered chair, appearing all young and tiny, watching her cry, dressed in pastels and ruffles for 6 weeks. Give me a break.

Also, I do NOT think that there should be media and an audience in the courtroom. It added unnecessary pressure to the jury. Some cases should have a closed court room. They can still televise it, but they jury wouldn't be privy to it.

(I'm sure you can't tell that I am completely worked up over this now!!!! Time for a sidebar.)

What's ironic is that people use that excuse about minoirites commiting more crimes, but yet, who are the majority of people that are serial killers?? Yep, NOT minorites.

(sorry...a bit off topic.)

I agree - why would you not take notes on this complicated case? How can you carefully review facts, data, w/o notes?

No, I haven't commented on youtube.:confused: Poor YTer's are the only ones who get my 2 cents (other than husband and he's glad I'm sharing here so he doesn't get whole 2 cents worth)!

I don't think that her color affected them as much as the fact that a few of them have had their own issues with the law and there was one (possibly 2...can't remember) that dropped out of highschool like Casey. They decided early on that she was a victim within her own family so, again, Casey is not made to take responsibility....more people babying her.

There was someone with a name like gigi or something like that. We pretty much agreed on everything, so I thought maybe it was you.

Yes, my husband is glad that I can come here to vent.

And the jurors not taking notes...that is an outrage. How can they even say they took this seriously??? They should be SO ashamed.