1st post. So glad I found this site. This verdict has made me feel sick and heartbroken this entire week, and I feel like I am finally among people here who fully understand the case!
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I do feel the jury got it wrong. It's hard to just sum it up like that for me, so I'd like to expand on my feelings about this.
Why did the jury get it wrong?
Based on the interviews post-trial, I don't feel the jury understood the character and motives of ICA. Failing that, they then couldn't grasp how this mother could have killed her child. In essence, they failed to grasp that ICA is a sociopath. Her patterns of conduct, the lies, thefts, and even seizures point to this condition. CA has even called her that!
The prosecution could have provided a better and more complete narrative on ICA. I would also like to have seen forensic psychology experts called in to examine ICA and her history. It is my understanding that prosecution was denied the opportunity to have Casey examined, and that the defense was trying to enter in their own experts who had interviewed Casey and who were likely full of wild tales of molestation, so this was fought back by the prosecution and not allowed in based on hearsay. Still, I question why an expert was not asked to look at the history of conduct available and offer an assessment based on that. I am not familiar enough with criminal law to know why this wasn't done.
The jury failed to put the pieces of the puzzle together and it's my opinion they were duped by the defense. I am bothered by the fact they did not ask to review the jailhouse videos, ones that show GA and ICA talking together, that show GA was not involved in a cover-up of Caylee's disappearance. I also think Tracy Conroy should have been called in to testify about the argument she overheard between GA and ICA:
“My first night at the Anthony home, I awoke to George and Casey arguing. He had started questioning her. I really couldn’t make out much of their conversation until he exploded, screaming, ‘Don’t ****ing lie to me anymore! I am sick of your ****ing lies! You have to know where she is! What did you do with her?’ She told him to ‘quit acting like a ****ing cop and that he needed to act like a father.’” In the heat of the argument, Casey and Cindy told George to leave the house immediately and he complied.
Such pieces of evidence could have shown again to jurors that even according to ICA (at that time), of all the A's, ICA was the last known caregiver, not GA. The jailhouse videos even show ICA demonstrating that the drowning story was considered a false one in the jailhouse conversation with CA.
The aggravated manslaughter of a child charge was a "lay-up" and should have been simple to arrive at a guilty verdict. ICA was the caregiver!
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Why did the jurors not pore over the evidence searching for clues to this puzzle? Were they in a hurry to return to their daily lives? I think so.
What bothers me the most is that a sociopath has been set free who could have been and should have been locked up for a long time. She is certain to do damage to more lives. That's because no one else is real to her, it's all a big game where only her pleasure matters. We want to trust people and ICA uses that to do people in.
I am very disappointed in GA and CA for sabotaging this case. They should have simply sought the truth. ICA preyed on their weaknesses to get them to a point where they could be used. CA particularly was shameful, she really sold her soul.
Thanks for allowing me to share my thoughts on the case. :seeya:
