AHC: Convict Casey Anthony

With a POD no sooner than Day One of the trial prevent Casey Anthony from being found not guilty. Bonus points if you have her found guilty (as opposed to the easy way out of a hung jury) and extra bonus points if she's sentenced to death later
 
With a POD no sooner than Day One of the trial prevent Casey Anthony from being found not guilty. Bonus points if you have her found guilty (as opposed to the easy way out of a hung jury) and extra bonus points if she's sentenced to death later
Highlight the prepations made to conceal the body as well as Casey's demonstrable status ad a chronic liar, regarding her ever shifting and changing story ("We're you lying then or are you lying now, what IS the truth, Miss Anthony, do YOU even know?")

In essance you have to completly discredit her and anything she might allege and proceed on the facts in evidence. this will, I believe reveal her actions as an act of deliberate murder in cold blood of her child and put her i nthe electric chair.
 

GarethC

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Highlight the prepations made to conceal the body as well as Casey's demonstrable status ad a chronic liar, regarding her ever shifting and changing story ("We're you lying then or are you lying now, what IS the truth, Miss Anthony, do YOU even know?")

In essance you have to completly discredit her and anything she might allege and proceed on the facts in evidence. this will, I believe reveal her actions as an act of deliberate murder in cold blood of her child and put her i nthe electric chair.

She didn't take the stand, and so wasn't available to be crucified under cross-examination.

The state's attorneys did do a pretty good job of showing that she was a liar. They didn't prove beyond the jury's doubt that the child was murdered, and by her.

The guy who apparently found the child notified the police of his discovery four months before they actually located her remains. Wikipedia says that he tried to contact the sheriff's office on three successive days before they called him back, and then the sheriff's office claimed to have sent a car to search for the scene described which found nothing. It was not until the meter reader contacted the police again, four months later, that they located what he had described. If they'd actually sent a CSI team to where he was standing, while he was on the phone, the forensic evidence might have been less degraded and perhaps more compelling.

Had the state's attorney sought a lesser charge - manslaughter, or reckless endangerment, say - the jury might have convicted. But going for a capital sentence for a murder one charge in what the state's attorney himself called a "dry-bones case" was always an uphill struggle.
 
Highlight the prepations made to conceal the body as well as Casey's demonstrable status ad a chronic liar, regarding her ever shifting and changing story ("We're you lying then or are you lying now, what IS the truth, Miss Anthony, do YOU even know?")

In essance you have to completly discredit her and anything she might allege and proceed on the facts in evidence. this will, I believe reveal her actions as an act of deliberate murder in cold blood of her child and put her i nthe electric chair.

they did that, and the jury correctly disregarded her erratic behavior and focused on tangible evidence; motive (shaky to none), forensic evidence (non existent) and witnesses (conflicting to none)

They spent hours in the closing arguments going step by step through Casey's lies after the baby's death

Then the defense spent hours in closing pointing out that her scumbaggery was immaterial and there was no actual proof she committed a murder, or even that a murder happened at all (backhandedly saying the baby drowned in the pool after opening the unsaftey latched rear door (which even prosecution witnesses commented on, and the defense showed a picture Cindy Anthony took of the baby opening the door), and that Casey's father covered up the body)
 
With a POD no sooner than Day One of the trial prevent Casey Anthony from being found not guilty. Bonus points if you have her found guilty (as opposed to the easy way out of a hung jury) and extra bonus points if she's sentenced to death later

With the POD being day 1 of the trial, its absolutely ASB; any defense lawyer could have poked that case apart due to lack of evidence


Honestly, the prosecutions whole theory of killing the baby to want to go party lacked anything that could be called motive. Motive by definition has to exist BEFORE you commit a crime. Dozens of witnesses testified that Casey was a devoted mother; and was not disappearing for days at a time or dumping the baby on grandma or abusing her or anything like that. Casey was an amateur photographer and there were thousands of pictures shown of the two of them together; and happy.

They then delved in to ~casey killed the baby because she wanted to be with the new boyfriend~ except the boyfriend testified that he liked the baby, and had explicitly told Casey, and her mother

and the drowning in the pool followed by a panic cover up was never ever explored despite their being witness, photographic and logical evidence that this might have happened. Several witnesses including the initial detectives and Cindy Anthony all testified that the latch to the rear sliding door had been left open which the Anthony family all identified as unusual. The baby had the ability to open the door (there was a photo Cindy Anthony took of the baby opening the door which was shown by the defense to the jury) and lastly the baby loved going in the pool and there were hundreds of pictures of her swimming in it with her mother and grandmother; so it was definently somewhere she would want to go if unsupervised

if casey was wrapped up in something or sleeping or whatever, and the baby opened the unlocked door and climbed into the pool she could have drowned rather easily... casey being 20 and an idiot could very easily have panicked and gone into rapid shock thinking she would be blamed and charged and decided to dump the body (perhaps with the help of her idiot and crazy father)


I think if the prosecution had offered criminally negligent homicide Casey might have plead guilty fwiw
 
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