You're as sick as your secrets? I mean, the family seemed to have a little something going on. Earlier today, the prosecutor and an alternate juror agreed on why the jury refused to convict Anthony: They couldn't prove how Caylee Anthony died.
Russell Huekler, one of five alternate jurors who were present for all the testimony and sequestered along with the 12 other jurors, said today that he would have delivered the same verdict and that he was shocked by the public outrage over the trial's outcome. They didn't show us a motive. I'm sorry people feel that way. These were 17 total jurors. They really listened to this case and kept an open mind.
Top 9 Moments: Casey Anthony Trial. The prosecution was hampered by the fact that Caylee Anthony's body wasn't discovered until six months after she disappeared. She was found lying in a swampy, wooded area. Her body was so badly decomposed that the autopsy could not determine a cause of death and stated only that she was a victim of homicide by undetermined means.
That's the way it goes. I think I mouthed, 'Wow' five times. One of the most powerful pieces of evidence, he said, was the photo of Caylee's decomposed skull with the pieces of duct tape where her mouth and nose would have been.
Huekler said he believed Caylee's death was just a horrific accident and that Casey Anthony was a good mother. Huekler said the lack of physical evidence that Caylee was murdered overwhelmed the circumstantial evidence of Casey Anthony's many lies and her hard partying in the 31 days when she knew her daughter was dead but didn't tell authorities.
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Science Time. The Oklahoman. Style InStyle. Sports AFP. Celebrity Yahoo Life. Health The Burlington Free Press. Sports Patriots Wire. Anthony's attorneys say the girl drowned in the family's pool. They have said Anthony panicked and that her father, a former police officer, decided to make the death look like a homicide by placing duct tape over the child's mouth and dumping the body in some nearby woods.
George Anthony has denied that. Prosecutor Jeff Ashton told the jurors no one makes an innocent accident look like murder. Nothing has been presented to you to make that any less absurd," Ashton said. He also spent significant time reminding jurors about forensic evidence that he said links Anthony to her daughter's death, including the smell and chemical signature of decomposition in her car.
Casey Anthony is charged with first-degree murder and six other charges. If convicted of first-degree murder, she could be sentenced to death or life in prison. The jury was chosen from the Tampa Bay area because of pretrial media coverage and have been sequestered in an Orlando hotel.
They listened to 33 days of testimony and another two days of closing arguments. Lead prosecutor Linda Drane Burdick followed Ashton, telling the jurors that prosecutors presented every piece of evidence they promised in May during opening statements.
Without saying it, she was pointing out that defense attorneys never presented direct evidence backing up their contentions that the child drowned. She then hammered on the lies Casey Anthony, then 22, told from June 16, , when her daughter was last seen, and a month later when sheriff's investigators were notified.
Those include the single mother telling her parents she couldn't produce Caylee because the girl was with a nanny named Zanny — a woman who doesn't exist; that she and her daughter were spending time in Jacksonville , Florida , with a rich boyfriend who doesn't exist; and that Zanny had been hospitalized after an out-of-town traffic crash and that they were spending time with her.
They lie. They avoid. They run. They mislead, not just to their family, but the police. They divert attention away from themselves and they act like nothing is wrong. That's why you heard about what happened in those 31 days. Burdick concluded the state's case by showing the jury two side-by-side images.
One showed Casey Anthonysmiling and partying in a nightclub during the month Caylee was missing. The other was of the tattoo — which meant "beautiful life" — she got a day before her family and law enforcement first learned of the child's disappearance. Anthony sat stone faced during much of the prosecutors' arguments, but occasionally shook her head in disagreement and spoke under her breath. Defense attorneys claimed Anthony's lies and erratic behavior were brought on by her grief over her dead child and the sexual abuse she suffered as a child from her father.
George Anthony has denied that allegation, and the judge said no evidence has been presented to support it.
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