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  • Casey Anthony: Will America Ever Stop Hating Her?

    Casey Anthony.

    The name alone makes mothers grimace and your average bystander shake his head.

    Those who consider themselves “freethinkers” or faithful to the interpretation of American laws will say the reactions to Anthony are unfair for one reason or another.

    Regardless of what such persons say, the fact remains….people hate this woman.

    Anthony has been a public eyesore since she was acquitted of murder and manslaughter charges by a Florida jury on July 5th, 2011.

    The death of Anthony’s 2-year-old daughter Caylee had been blamed on the young mother by members of the public and pundits in the press in the lead up to the verdict.

    It only served to raise expectations she’d be found guilty.

    The outcome stunned the public, which continues to assume that the opinion of citizens and the opinion of juries will link up in major cases.

    Somehow, the fact that these individuals are isolated on purpose continues to be lost on many Americans.

    What Casey Anthony’s jury believed to be true about Anthony did not at all mesh with what the public felt, and felt very strongly.

    In the immediate aftermath of the verdict, members of the public took to social media to voice their outrage.

    The public outcry was intense for weeks, possibly even months, after the case was over.

    In the years since the trial, the level of anger about the Casey Anthony ruling cooled from red hot indignation to lukewarm disgust. This is likely because the public has since moved on to new injustices and controversies.

    Even so, the negative impression towards Anthony has never gone away.

    As Casey Anthony’s name continues to pop up in the headlines periodically, one has to ask: Will the public ever stop hating this woman?

    With the continued negative reaction to her name alone, it seems easy to suggest the answer will be, “Probably not.”

    Anthony simply does not seem capable of presenting herself as a sympathetic character or genuinely interested in doing so.

    At no point does she appear to be a grieving mother.

    If anything, it seems she’s far more ready to capitalize on her infamy than demonstrate that she loved her deceased toddler.

    This interpretation of Anthony has made her a person that, despite being found not guilty in a court of law, is hard to stomach by many who see all the indications that she’s a woman who knows she got away with murder. So long as there’s nothing in her behavior which represents a wrongfully maligned mother, it’s unlikely many will see her as such.

    What do YOU think Casey Anthony would have to do to get people to stop hating her? Is such a thing possible? Comment below!

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  • Casey Anthony Turned Down Plea Deal, Lawyer Says

    Casey Anthony, the Florida woman who was accused and later acquitted of murdering her own 2-year old daughter Caylee in 2008, turned down a plea deal during her trial that would have seen her plead guilty to aggravated manslaughter in order to receive 13 years in prison rather than the death penalty.

    But Anthony adamantly refused on the grounds that she was telling the truth, says her lawyer, Jose Baez. His book, “Presumed Guilty, Casey Anthony: The Inside Story” claims as much as he reveals conversations he had with his client in the early days of her trial.

    “There was nothing in the trial that ever made me think Casey was guilty of anything as related to the murder,” Baez said. “Every single piece of evidence favored us.”

    It was widely believed that Anthony suffocated Caylee, and when a search of the internet history on the Anthony’s computer turned up results related to “chloroform”, they were immediately entered into the trial to be pored over. However, Baez says, there were other searches made on that same computer on the day Caylee went missing; these were related to suicide and “foolproof suffocation”. The searches were made well after George Anthony–Casey’s father–said Casey had already left for the day. Those searches weren’t entered in as evidence during the trial, even though George Anthony tried to kill himself in 2009, which looked to Baez like an act of guilt.

    Those key events lead Baez to believe that George killed Caylee, possibly to cover up the fact that he had sexually abused her; Casey had told her attorney that her father had abused her when she was younger, and she feared he had done the same to her daughter. However, he does acknowledge that Casey Anthony is a person with “serious mental health issues” and is “not playing with a full deck”. He also acknowledges the troubling discoveries that cadaver dogs made during a search of the Anthony home and Casey’s car, saying they noted the presence of a body in the trunk and in the backyard. The only thing that kept prosecution from being able to use that evidence was that the dogs were not allowed to search any other cars.

    In the end, however, she was found innocent of murder, and throughout the many conflicting stories and media speculation one must choose carefully what to believe.

    “I remember after the first not-guilty verdict I reached over and squeezed Casey’s hand because it was a death penalty case and all I was concentrating on was saving her life,” Baez said. “And after the second not-guilty verdict came, I squeezed her hand even tighter and then the third one…I think I may have cracked a bone at that point. I knew right then that my life was going to change and it certainly has.”

  • Casey Anthony Found In Florida, Slapped With Defamation Suit

    Casey Anthony has been in hiding for several months now after the intense and highly publicized trial regarding the death of her 2-year old daughter, Caylee. Although she had to remain in Florida after the trial because of unrelated check fraud charges, no one knew exactly where she was until now.

    Zenaida Gonzalez, the woman Anthony named as her daughter’s kidnapper when police first began investigating Caylee’s disappearance, has filed a suit against Anthony for using her name in association with the toddler’s death. Anthony initially claimed that Gonzalez was a babysitter and had kidnapped Caylee, but in reality the two had never even met. It was brought out during the trial that the story was fabricated, but Anthony still hasn’t said why she made up such a story during a crucial investigation. She was later acquitted of the charges related to her daughter’s death.

    Investigators working for Gonzalez tracked down Anthony in order to serve her papers for the lawsuit, and she will likely have to take the stand next January, something she refused to do during the first trial.

    “Ms. Gonzalez is happy to hear that Casey Anthony finally will be held accountable just like everybody else,” says her attorney.

    (image) Kay???
    @ItsKeenaWeena     Casey Anthony is still living in FL, eh?
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    (image) Paula Bel
    @RealPaulaBel     Casey Anthony Found In Hiding..WAS she in a trunk w/ duct tape & ether like her kid? NO? Then who cares? Try hiding like Hoffa next time
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    (image) Morgan Maxwell
    @morganmaxwell7     I know it’s been about a year…. But it still blows my mind that Casey Anthony was found not guilty. #yesimstillbitter
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  • Casey Anthony: Not Guilty of Murder, Manslaughter

    Casey Anthony: Not Guilty of Murder, Manslaughter

    By now, you probably know the story of Casey Anthony, who was amazingly found NOT GUILTY of capital murder of her 2-year old daughter, Caylee. It’s a sad, but expected ending to a upsetting case that saw Anthony celebrate on Facebook while the investigation was on-going.

    Anthony was found guilty for giving false information on a few counts, but the biggest aspect of the trial — the murder of her child — apparently remains unsolved.

    Needless to say, reaction on Twitter has been swift and loud. Considering the emotions tied up in this case, perhaps Anthony would be best served staying completely out of the public’s eye:

    @JoyceWJ
    Mary Johnson    RT @PublishingGuru: Casey Anthony: Not Guilty http://bit.ly/k7f7Iu via @webpronews SHE GOT AWAY WITH MURDER ! ! ! 4 minutes ago via TweetDeck · powered by @socialditto

    @tschaffer1
    Taylor Schaffer    The only upside to this not guilty verdict is that #NancyGrace‘s know-it-all-of-course-the-jury-will-find-her-guilty diatribe looks silly. 1 minute ago via web · powered by @socialditto

    @AleBedoya17
    Alejandro Bedoya    Did Casey Anthony hire the same Defense team as OJ Simpson!!??? WTF #shocked #Notguilty 3 minutes ago via web · powered by @socialditto

    @Dmvinspiration
    Mr    This is the reason why we need a new justice system prime example the #notguilty verdict 5 minutes ago via Twitter for iPhone · powered by @socialditto

    @Yo_Soy_Superman
    Kal El    Its official, Murder is legal in America! 7 minutes ago via Twitter for Android · powered by @socialditto

    The ire and anger being felt is reminiscent of the original O.J. trial. The difference is, Simpson was never found guilty of any counts. Anthony, on the other hand, was found guilty of obstruction of justice on four counts. Is that the same as being guilty of murder? Of course not, but there’s your difference between the two cases.

    For her guilty verdicts, Anthony faces a maximum of one year in prison for each count, however, she does get credit for time served.

  • Casey Anthony Trial -The Impact of the Online Jury

    The disappearance and death of all children do not get the widespread media attention that Caylee Anthony’s case has received. The media, and public as a whole, have been practically entranced from the beginning by every lie the girl’s mother, Casey Anthony, told, every move the entire Anthony family made, and every detail that has been leaked about the first degree murder trial.

    Has the media gone too far with the Casey Anthony case? Please share your thoughts.

    With Casey Anthony’s trial in its third week, this attention has done nothing but increase both offline and online. Blogs, websites, Facebook and Twitter pages have all been created in regards to the case, and since the trial is being live streamed, Facebook and Twitter posts are being published continuously.

    Here are a couple of examples of what’s being said on Twitter:

    With these types of opinions spreading online, how can they keep from getting into the courtroom? Persuasive communications expert Juliet Huck told us that it would be very difficult to keep the online influences away from the courtroom.

    “When you’ve had a case this long, which we’ve seen in the past, to have been so publicized, and now with more technology than ever before, it is very, very difficult, I think, to get a clean trial,” she said.

    As Huck explained, the combination of audio and visual factors is the most important part of persuasive communications. It “builds up the retention level.” She went on to say that, instead of the traditional 12 jurors discussing the case, there are 12 thousand or 12 million people making up an online jury to debate the case.

    We’ve seen technology and social media influence society both in professional and personal areas, but this case, in particular, indicates that it is influencing our legal system as well. I think it’s clear that social media is here to stay, but does that mean that justice can’t be served going forward?

    “I think technology’s going to play a very, very important part in persuasion into the courtroom,” said Huck.

    She also pointed out that “public opinion is not part of the law.” However, with high profile cases such as the Casey Anthony trial, it will definitely be a challenge to make that separation.

    Is social media impacting our legal system for the good or the bad?