Tuesday morning @ 9 a.m., opening statements will be made in the Casey Anthony trial.
As someone who has followed this disturbing case since I first heard about Caylee Anthony's disappearance, I can hardly believe that the day is finally coming where Casey Anthony's defense will have to explain why she didn't report her child missing.
Technically, it is the state who has the harder case to prove. This is a death-penalty case and personally, I think that is a huge mistake. The anger that people feel about the circumstances surrounding Caylee's disappearance and months later finding her skeletal remains touches so many. The horrible tragedy of a 2 year old child being discarded like trash touches anyone with a heart.
It is easy for us to sit back and judge Casey Anthony. Another young, unwed mother who is suspected of killing her daughter. There are many of them although their cases are not as publicized as the Casey/Caylee Anthony case. For whatever reason, this case drew national attention that had and still has people outraged.
Is there an excuse for Casey Anthony's behavior while her daughter was missing? The only thing that I could think of is that she was unaware that her daughter was missing. Perhaps the story is that she left Caylee in the care of someone else while she took a break from being a mother. We can judge her behavior all we want but just because she was out drinking and acting like many 20-somethings do, does that make her a murderer?
The defense doesn't have to prove who killed Caylee; they only need to prove that Casey didn't. If they claim that someone else was caring for Caylee when she disappeared, do they need to prove this person's existence? In my mind the answer is yes. If Casey's defense is going to be that she left her daughter in the care of someone else and then when she realized that she couldn't find this person and panicked and was scared to say anything- is that a good-enough defense?
I would say that all depends upon what kind of concrete proof the prosecution has. The "odor" of a dead body in the trunk of her car, for example. How do you explain that, if it can be proven that there is a stain and an odor of a dead body? Casey was the last person seen with Caylee. Caylee's body is found months later but prior to that, Casey's car is found and both of her parents (one with a police background and the other a nurse-both familiar with what "dead bodies" smell like) initially said the car smelled like a dead body had been in it. Explain that defense team.
Will this be enough to convict Casey Anthony? Certainly (hopefully) the prosecution has more than that to tie Casey to the disappearance and death of her child.
Will this be another OJ fiasco? Will an overly zealous prosecution "blow" the case? Many are outraged over the behavior of Casey Anthony while her daughter was missing but are we convicting her before we hear her side of the story?
Being American gives us the right to be innocent until proven guilty. No matter how we feel about Casey Anthony- she deserves this right also.
As someone who has followed this disturbing case since I first heard about Caylee Anthony's disappearance, I can hardly believe that the day is finally coming where Casey Anthony's defense will have to explain why she didn't report her child missing.
Technically, it is the state who has the harder case to prove. This is a death-penalty case and personally, I think that is a huge mistake. The anger that people feel about the circumstances surrounding Caylee's disappearance and months later finding her skeletal remains touches so many. The horrible tragedy of a 2 year old child being discarded like trash touches anyone with a heart.
It is easy for us to sit back and judge Casey Anthony. Another young, unwed mother who is suspected of killing her daughter. There are many of them although their cases are not as publicized as the Casey/Caylee Anthony case. For whatever reason, this case drew national attention that had and still has people outraged.
Is there an excuse for Casey Anthony's behavior while her daughter was missing? The only thing that I could think of is that she was unaware that her daughter was missing. Perhaps the story is that she left Caylee in the care of someone else while she took a break from being a mother. We can judge her behavior all we want but just because she was out drinking and acting like many 20-somethings do, does that make her a murderer?
The defense doesn't have to prove who killed Caylee; they only need to prove that Casey didn't. If they claim that someone else was caring for Caylee when she disappeared, do they need to prove this person's existence? In my mind the answer is yes. If Casey's defense is going to be that she left her daughter in the care of someone else and then when she realized that she couldn't find this person and panicked and was scared to say anything- is that a good-enough defense?
I would say that all depends upon what kind of concrete proof the prosecution has. The "odor" of a dead body in the trunk of her car, for example. How do you explain that, if it can be proven that there is a stain and an odor of a dead body? Casey was the last person seen with Caylee. Caylee's body is found months later but prior to that, Casey's car is found and both of her parents (one with a police background and the other a nurse-both familiar with what "dead bodies" smell like) initially said the car smelled like a dead body had been in it. Explain that defense team.
Will this be enough to convict Casey Anthony? Certainly (hopefully) the prosecution has more than that to tie Casey to the disappearance and death of her child.
Will this be another OJ fiasco? Will an overly zealous prosecution "blow" the case? Many are outraged over the behavior of Casey Anthony while her daughter was missing but are we convicting her before we hear her side of the story?
Being American gives us the right to be innocent until proven guilty. No matter how we feel about Casey Anthony- she deserves this right also.
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