Casey Anthony trial verdict was not a surprise

Casey Anthony

A lot of media people were surprised by the verdict but The Major's wife predicted Casey Anthony would not be convicted because all of the evidence was circumstantial and the prosecution mistakenly went for the death penalty.

Charles Rose, a legal expert and professor at Stetson University, indicated the state did not have enough evidence for a capital murder case.

They did not have cause of death or time of death and they still chose to go for a capital one murder charge. They chose to roll a big dice.

Rose thought the  prosecutors should have gone for negligent homicide. The state would have to prove Casey Anthony wasn't watching the child properly which led to her death. 

An alternate juror Russell Huekler said he didn't think the prosecution presented enough evidence for a murder charge

Apparently the courtroom antics of the prosecution did not set well with the jury either. One of the jurors ignored the closing arguments of the prosecution.

Good Morning America got it right and HLN's Nancy Grace got it completely wrong. Grace's comments were shill and opinionated. See the interview with George Stephanopoulos: 

http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/video/casey-anthony-nancy-grace-reacts-not-guilty-verdict-jury-cooky-14006609

Anthony is certainly "a nutty puppy" who appears to be in need of psychiatric care. The death of her child fractured her family.

Grace should have known better since she has been a prosecutor. The Supreme Court of Georgia has twice commented on Grace's conduct as a prosecutor. 


In a 1994 heroin drug trafficking case, the Court declared a mistrial, saying that Grace had "exceeded the wide latitude of closing argument" by drawing comparisons to unrelated murder and rape cases.

In 1997, the court was more severe, overturning the murder-arson conviction of businessman in the death of his wife. While the court said its reversal was not due to these transgressions, since the case had turned primarily on circumstantial evidence,


The Supreme Court noted "the conduct of the prosecuting attorney in this case demonstrated her disregard of the notions of due process and fairness, and was inexcusable.

Rightardia doesn't know if Casey Anthony is innocent or guilty, but the jury reached the right verdict. In the Us, you are innocent until proven guilty by the state. This is one of the foundations of English common Law which has its basis in the Magna Carta, not the bible.

source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Grace

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Trial lawyers group mails racially charged election flier

TALLAHASSEE — Florida's powerful trial lawyer lobby admitted Wednesday that it was behind an ugly race-baiting flier in a recent North Florida Senate election.

"Morally and politically, it was indefensible," said Scott Carruthers, executive director of the Florida Justice Association, the trial bar group, who said its leaders had no knowledge of it. "I accept full responsibility for not having done everything to stop that piece from going out."

The flier juxtaposed images of the Black Panthers, President Barack Obama, the Rev. Louis Farrakhan of the Nation of Islam and black marchers holding a large ACORN banner. The caption read: "Is this the change YOU want to believe in? Violence and intimidation at the voting booth."

The admission sheds new light on the growing practice in Florida of electioneering groups known as 527s that transfer large sums of money among each other to buy ads to influence voters while concealing their affiliations.

Those tactics exploded in recent weeks in the Senate election after a federal judge struck down a law requiring such groups to quickly disclose their contributions and expenses. Now they can wait until long after the election.

The controversial flier also may have damaged the trial bar's reputation with African-American legislators. Said Rep. Joe Gibbons, a former president of the legislative black caucus: "An apology won't do."

"Armed thugs may try and scare you away from the voting booth," read the text of the mailer, a message still volatile in Jacksonville since the 2000 presidential recount. The city was the epicenter of the recent Senate election in which Republican John Thrasher, a former House speaker, overcame a barrage of trial-lawyer attacks to defeat three rivals.

The mailer included a tear-off absentee ballot request form and was the trial bar's way of building a pool of persuadable absentee voters through a phony political group. The so-called Conservative Voters' Coalition was a 527 political organization acting as a front for the trial bar.

Lawyer David Ramba created the new organization and the trial bar enlisted Republican campaign consultant Bill Helmich to design the mailer.

The money for the mailer came from a trial bar-aligned 527 group, the similarly named Conservative Citizens for Justice, which sent a check for $68,999.53 to pay for the piece to go to 88,000 Jacksonville area homes on Aug. 18-19.

source: Steve Bousquet And Marc Caputo, Times/Herald Tallahassee Bureau
In Print: Thursday, September 24, 2009

See http://www.tampabay.com/news/politics/legislature/trial-lawyers-group-admits-role-in-racially-charged-election-flier/1038739

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