Two jurors in the Casey Anthony trial say they wish the outcome had been different but prosecutors did not present enough evidence to convict Anthony of killing her daughter, Caylee, according to news reports Thursday.
"It doesn't feel good. It was a horrible decision to have to make" to find Anthony not guilty, said Jennifer Ford, who identified herself as Juror No. 3, in an interview with ABC News.
"We were sick to our stomach to get that verdict. We were crying, and not just the women," Ford said of the 12 jurors in the ABC interview.
The tears were still flowing Wednesday as Juror No. 2 (he did not want to be identified by name) spoke to Florida's St. Petersburg Times.
"I just swear to God … I wish we had more evidence to put her away. I truly do … But it wasn't there," he said in an emotional interview with the Times.
Juror No.2, who the Times reported is a black male, married and a father of two young children, said he was the last holdout on the jury who wanted to convict Anthony on a lesser charge of aggravated manslaughter, which would have carried a prison term of up to 15 years, according to the newspaper.
The prosecution's inability to prove who was Caylee's caretaker at the time of her death, Casey Anthony or the girl's grandparents, doomed the manslaughter charge, Juror No. 2 said.
"We truly don't know what happened. Somebody knows, but we don't know," he said in the Times interview.
Ford told ABC that prosecutors left key questions unanswered.
"If you're going to charge someone with murder, don't you have to know how they killed someone or why they might have killed someone, or have something where, when, why, how? Those are important questions. They were not answered," she said in the ABC interview.
An alternate juror, who was present for the trial and sequestered along with the serving jurors, said he would have voted for acquittal, too.
"They didn't show us how Caylee died. They didn't show us a motive. I'm sorry people feel that way. ... These were 17 total jurors. They really listened to this case and kept an open mind," ABC News quotes Russell Huekler as saying.
While those three people have spoken about the case, at least one of the sitting jurors wants money for the behind-the-scenes story.
The man, identified as Juror No. 6, wants $50,000 for his story and has hired a publicist, CNN contributor Howard Kurtz reports for The Daily Beast.
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Seriously they are going to blame the prosecuters? It is awful funny most Americans believe the evidence was there and Casey is responsible for her daughter's death. The jurors are very unintelligent losers!
You have to blame the prosecution. I don't believe that Casey Anthony is innocent, but in America's legal system, it is the prosecution's burden to prove "beyond a reasonable doubt" that the accused is guilty. Especially in a murder case that could bring the death penalty, jurors CAN NOT let emotion drive their decisions. If the proof is not concrete, they can not convict. The jurors did what they had to. The prosecution did not do a sufficient job.
Hate to tell you but parents of kids at least in the US ARE allowed to go out to events. Maybe you should get a low passed saying no parent should ever leave a child alone for more than 1 second or get the death penalty. Also Other than Nancy Dis-Grace what evidence did they have? Did they prove Casey Purchased, Stole, or Made the chloroform? NO! Did they prove that none BUT Casey had a motive to kill Caylee NO. Did they exclude Chloroform being produced any other way BUT from a bottle NO. Any evidence what so ever Casey murdered Caylee? NO. Not even a large insurance policy... Yet you KNOW for a FACT Casey is guilty? Based on what HARD EVIDENCE? I'm talking a Receipt for a Chloroform purchase? A Theft report from a School? Video showing her purchasing anything to make Chloroform? A College Chemistry report card? ANYTHING other than her not reporting this 30 days sooner or Not acting in an approved way?
the jurors fololwed the law – but they didnt follow their hearts or heads...........if I was on that jury I would have ignored the judge's instrutctions and voted GUILTY!!!!!! OFF WITH HER HEAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Duh. Of course it was the prosecution's fault. But behind it is the dum-dum police who ignored a dead body complaint THREE TIMES which let the body degrade for additional months. These are the people who deserve blame.
I am one of those who thought Casey was guilty but was never surprised at the outcome. Poorly informed inflammatory pundits like Nancy Grace whipped the mob into a lynch mentality worthy of the Taliban; but it didn't add a scintilla of evidence. Sorry folks, while I think the American justice system is flawed it's still better than torches and pitchforks, the only tools that seem to be in the shed of many commenters here.
A corpse in the woods covered in duct tape traced to the Anthony is evidence.
Agreed, Belle.
For those of you who are angry about what you believe to be the injustice in this trial, please take your indignant righteous energy - and I am not saying you do not have a right to be angry - and work on behalf of the hundreds of people in and recently released from our jails who committed no crimes as proven by DNA evidence or the confessions of others. The law is not the final moral authority. Money, power, gender and racism play a leading role from drug offenses to divorce court to capital punishment cases. Please do something constructive to change a system that is terribly broken for too many.
No. And you aren't teaching by example. Get off the internet and go help those children yourself.
Justice was NOT served to this precious child that was left in the woods. No one is now held accountable for Caylee's death. Improperly disposed of a dead body. The jury only really deliberated for less than 11 hours with over 300 pieces of evidence. How could a JURY come to a NOT GUILTY without going over the evidence? It is apparent this jury wanted to just go home. Casey Anthony did not report her child missing for 31 days and LIED to the FBI. Led our police officials down many paths to divert the attention away from her with LIES. Please let there be JUSTICE for this child and set a precedence for all the murdered children out there.
Maybe because they were in a better position to view the "evidence"? Maybe because idiots like Nancy Grace (the ethically reprimanded former prosecutor) and her fans promote moral indignation and speculation as evidence?
They sat in that courtroom every day for how many days? The amount of hours deliberating has nothing to do with the legitimacy of their decision.
That's nice, the DA didn't do his home work so we have tormented this girl to the max. I'll admit the case aginst her was bad, but could be explained buy her beeing a nut case. And you would have to be alittle off to kill a child. The DA did everybody a disservice in this case. That's you tax dollar at work. Nowonder we are broke.
I am disgusted by the judicial system, it offers more protection to criminals than their victims are ever afforded.That being said I do understand how this happened. Regardless of how we all feel about Casey Anthony, we have to recognize that the jurors followed the directions given to them at the trial and made their determination by holding it up to the "beyond a reasonable doubt" standard. If there is doubt and it is in any way a reasonable doubt. The law requires a verdict of not guilty. This is a safegard to protect innocent people from being wrongly convicted, like the Masters case in Colorado. He served 10 years for a murder we have since proven he did not commit. Unfortunatly this safegard for the innocent, causes the guilty to go free if the prosecution does not meet its burden of proof. Stop yelling at the jurors they did what they were supposed to do.
Remember the verdict for Robert Blake? There was gun powder on him, the gun was located in a nearby trash can, he actuall went back into the restaurant because he forgot his gun, yet he was found not guilty. The only thing the defense did was make his wife out to be someone that the jury wouldn't mind him killing. It was a wrong verdict. Jury's aren't always correct.
should have been a hung jury since they were not bright enough to connect the dots to come up witha guilty verdict....the jury knew she was not innocent, yet they said not guilty??? Im still floored by this ignorant decision....Even if they believe her lie about Caylee drowning Casey Anthony should have faced a manslaughter charge of some sort for denying her proper help from paramedics...Anyone who agrees with this outcome is clearly dilusional....
What were the dots we're all missing? Pray tell.
The prosecution's evidence was flimsy and didn't hold up to any reasonable investigation. Of course they weren't helped by highly degraded evidence due to police not taking a dead body complaint seriously.
Even the speculative "internet searches" turned out to be false. There was one search that was erroneously reported by the prosecution as "84 times". This was key allegation and it only turned up after the trial they'd gotten it wrong and known about it. Probably had Nancy Grace as an advisor.
How much more evidence was necessary? How was quite obvious, why should not even be considered when it comes to killing a child (surely not a self-defense situation), and the who was lying from beginning to end about everything. Move on, jurors...no use crying over your decision now. Oh, and by the way, God does forgive the repentent sinner and give life in Heaven, but the debt to society, such as a prison term or the death penalty, would still be implemented. No, God does not love evil.
Seriously, you didn't see any evidence? Just keep quiet jurors. I don't think any evidence that will be presented to you by anybody, not even the first class scientists of the world combined, including the archangels and all the saints combined, can prove to you that Casey is guilty. You were simply not capable of seeing, listening, smelling, feeling and thinking! Save us from any more heartbreak and disgust by getting lost and not surfacing again. Your statements add insult to injury. Keep Quiet, the damage has been done. Live with it quietly!
Oh for crying out loud. What evidence directly tied Casey Anthony to her daughter' death?
*crickets*
Yeah she lied. Obviously a liar. She got convicted for lying. Period.
God's judgment is different. You can talk about the last judgment and that's different from judging one on earth whether someone is guilty of a crime or not. You can also talk about God's judgment of sins. But God also tells us believers to point out the sins of our brothers so that they may correct themselves, so that peace and order may be maintained. How then do you distinguish judging, as in condemning, criticizing, destroying people's reputation over judging whether someone has committed a sin or not which needs correction? God is a God of peace and order. It is said, that he recognizes all authorities established on earth. He recognizes governments. He commands believers to respect and obey authorities (Romans 13:1). Thus, if a government has a judicial system, he expects people to abide by them. If the judicial system calls for judging crimes via jury or whatever, he recognizes that too. It is a citizens duty to be a judge when he is assigned to do it. God honors that. So "believers" who think it is wrong to "judge" do not understand God's word. They mislead the world into thinking that God allows injustice and that it is only left for Him to judge alone. Doesn't scripture say this" Do you not know that the saints will judge the world? And if you are to judge the world, are you not competent to judge trivial cases?"(1 Cor. 6:2) – Christian leaders would do better service to the world if they read the Bible correctly. Saying believers cannot judge per se, is very misleading and even gives Christianity a very bad name. it is as if to be a Christian is to be a doormat. Christians are here to reflect God's light to the world. We are to use Scripture for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness (1Tim3:16) If Christians are not allowed to "judge"...then we cannot use God's word to teach, rebuke, correct and train!
For the love of God, Dumb Dozen. Now you're crying to the prosecutors? Have the decency just to shut up about this, will ya'? And if any of you go around scouting for book or interview money, you'll have deserved every bit of 'bad luck' you get!
Juror No. 6, who wants big money to be interviewed, is the chef, I believe. Chef BoyArDumb. (His real name will come out....unfortunately for him.)
Maybe Juror #3 should have waltz herself over the door and asked someone to bring her the evidence she so sought to find and obviously slept through. Since non of them bothered to go over one stinking item, they can cry a river of tears, it means nothing to the public.
Fact is, they were lazy and stupid.
What? so you couldn't use your common sense. Blaming someone else for your decisions is immature.
LOL – nicely put and right on the money.