For the past 3 years, the tabloids and the 24 hour cable stations put Casey Anthony on trial and convicted her in the court of public opinion. The so-called court watchers for the networks proclaimed on a daily basis that the Florida prosecutors were doing an excellent job, while also dubbing Casey’s defense lawyers as dim wits.
Well, the media is left with egg on their faces because a Florida jury found Anthony not guilty of the most serious charges. The prosecutors failed to do their job-prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Anthony did the crime.
Let’s remember how often the so-called experts are wrong!
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A Florida jury has cleared Casey Anthony of murdering her 2-year-old daughter, Caylee, bringing to a close a case that has captivated the American public for more than three years.
Anthony, 25, wept after the clerk read the verdict, which jurors reached after less than 11 hours of deliberation over two days.
She was charged with first-degree murder, which could have brought the death penalty if she had been convicted, but the jury, after a trial lasting more than a month, found her not guilty on all charges related to Caylee's death, including aggravated child abuse and aggravated manslaughter. She was convicted of four counts of lying to investigators and could receive up to a year in jail for each count when Judge Belvin Perry sentences her Thursday.
She likely will get credit for spending much of the past three years in jail waiting for trial, so it's possible she could be released as soon as later this week.
After the verdict was read, Anthony hugged her attorney Jose Baez and later mouthed the words "thank you" to him.
Prosecutors sat solemnly in their seats, looking stunned. Prosecutor Jeff Ashton shook his head slightly from side to side in apparent disbelief. Across the room, Anthony's father wiped tears from his eyes. Without speaking to Casey, he and his wife left the courtroom escorted by police as the judge thanked the jury.
"We felt very strongly about our case. We always felt that (the prosecution's) case was built on nothing," defense attorney Jose Baez told Fox News' Geraldo Rivera. "The jury saw through all of the fantasy and forensics and saw through a lot of the lies presented before them."
"While we're happy for Casey, there are no winners in this case," Baez told reporters shortly after the verdict was read. "Caylee has passed on far, far too soon. And what my driving force has been for the last three years has been always to make sure that there has been justice for Caylee and Casey, because Casey did not murder Caylee. It's that simple."
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How wrong were the experts? This wrong here
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