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Originally Posted by baddog
Shall we put the lack of evidence aside as well? I have heard nothing that makes me think she is a murderer. A lifelong victim of abuse, probably. Lousy mother, probably. Mourns differently than you or I, definitely.
If you have some evidence that I missed, please feel free to present it. Just because Nancy Grace says she did it is not good enough for me.  |
What makes you think she was probably a lifelong victim of abuse?
It's an important part of the trial as the jury was led to believe the same thing.
I'd like to point out that absolutely no evidence to support the sexual abuse was presented at trial. No friend that Casey had confided in about the abuse came forward to testify. No police records of the abuse. No therapists treated her for sexual abuse. Casey didn't take the stand and testify to the abuse. There was absolutely no evidence to substantiate the sexual abuse allegations.
The sexual abuse allegations were made in graphic detail by her lawyer in his opening statement. He is the only one to make the claim and conveniently he enjoys impunity to anything he says in the courtroom.
Baez got up there and shocked everyone with his graphic allegations which were clearly meant to scar the image into the mind of the jury. From that point on the prosecutors had to work to get them back to reality but it was a huge up hill battle and in most respects the damage had been done by Baez's unsubstantiated sexual abuse allegations.
With that in his pocket he knew with the alleged affair witness he would be able to discredit the father and create reasonable doubt even though his claims were unsubstantiated.
As far as the grief goes, the defense brought up a witness that was an expert in grief and got her to testify that everyone grieves in different ways. What the expert DIDN'T do was actually examine Casey to see how she grieves. The expert even said she was unfamiliar with Casey Anthony and didn't know about her until she was called a few days before her testimony date to testify for the defense. I wonder what her opinion would have been if she were actually allowed to examine Casey before her testimony.
The sexual abuse allegation was a shrewd move by the defense that swayed many minds in favor of Casey. Not mine as there was absolutely no evidence presented to corroborate that statement and therefore I choose to exclude it when forming my opinion as to her guilt.
If you find the sexual allegations bogus and take it out of the trial I think it would take away most of the defense and we might have got a much different verdict.