Casey Anthony: Not Guilty Of First-Degree Murder

The jury took 10 hours and 40 minutes to deliver a not guilty verdict to the charges of first-degree murder, aggravated manslaughter of a child, and aggravated child abuse (3). Casey Anthony was found guilty of four counts of providing false information to law enforcement and check forgery (6). I personally don’t agree with the jury’s verdict. There is a lot of evidence pointing to the fact that Casey killed Caylee. First, she didn’t report Caylee missing and lied to her parents on her whereabouts. Casey also lied about leaving Caylee with a babysitter who was never Caylee’s nanny. On top of all the lying that Casey Anthony did to the investigators, the cadaver dogs found the scent of decomposition in Casey Anthony’s trunk and in the backyard

Looking at the time stamps from the searches, they were consistent with the times Casey was home. Cynthia tried to say that it was her performing the searches but she was at work at the time of the searches. Casey was a “party girl”. She was constantly going out and leaving Caylee with her parents so she could be care free. “Inmate Robyn Adams, with whom Anthony exchanged 50 letters while incarcerated, told investigators that Casey Anthony told her that she sometimes used "stuff" to put her daughter to sleep” (9). Even though, this can be considered hearsay, the evidence is in these letters and this inmates testimony. I feel that it would have helped the prosecutions case if they had Casey talk to a psychologist. This would have helped form a profile on Casey as a sociopath and a compulsive liar. “If [the jury] did not see in the photographs of how Caylee was found what we saw, and what other people see, then that's

"I have never been able to figure out a reason why somebody would cover up an accident by putting pieces of duct tape over the nose and mouth of a child and then dumping them in a swamp. When children die by accident, people call for help. That's how it works in the real world. In the fictional world that may be different. But in the real world, people want their child to live and Casey clearly didn't. Every action she took showed that” (10). Throughout the entire investigation, the evidence was all there but the way it was presented in trial and the way the defense attacked it added a lot of doubt into the jury’s mind and that is what caused them to deliver the not guilty verdict.

This case is considered a controversial case. There are a few factors that causes it to be considered controversial. First, was the jury selection. The selection took both sides a few days to determine. There were multiple jurors who were excluded for talking to the media regarding their opinions of the case before the trial. “On Monday, the parties heard from a middle-age options trader with two kids and a bad back. Juror 3397 said he recalls not having "any doubt that she