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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A very sad case.
We all knew she was guilty - but they didn't charge her with things they could prove. They went after C's death and not covering up, hiding, disposing the body.. things they had hard core proof of.
Now well, all I can say is the juror's did their job.
It wasn't their fault that they did as they were told. From what I read, it was heartbreaking for them to make the decision but the law is the law.
The jury didn't weigh the evidence they had.
Couldn't have, they ran out of there after only 10 hours.
They 'shirked' their responsibility.
They let the public down, and gave the system a black eye.
The system is broken too, it doesn't work as well as it should when you sequestor the jury for 6 weeks.
However, they agreed to do it, they should have gone the distance, and nmot run out without deliberating all the arguments presented.
she deserves whatever she gets
i wash my hands of it
i still believe in our judicial system and always will
I don't pity her in the future. her life is forever ruined and she will always be looking behind her shoulder till the day she leaves this earth.
Funny thing about justice... it is served to those who deserve it, in this life or the next. Casey Anthony has been given a life sentence, only her cell will be just a little bigger than 6×8. In a world where child abusers and child murderers are despised by law abiding people and incarcerated criminals equally, who or where can she turn to? Even the most evil folks among us absolutely hate and look down upon people who mistreat children.
She will receive justice... for the remainder of her natural life. And if she is in fact guilty, which I believe she is, her next life won't be pleasant either.
No proof of a next life.
@ Rob,
Keep believing that...you'll burn along with this chick.
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You're right, Lacey, Scott Peterson should not have been convicted either.
The only thing shocking about this verdict is that the jury got it right, and didn't fall for the prosecution tricks of trying to get a conviction by playing to the jurors' emotions.
Scott Peterson TOTALLY should have been convicted! He is exactly where he should be!
I don't think the jury understood "reasonable doubt" and as we hear more from them, I beginning to wonder about several things. Did you see the juror that said she didn't have anything nice to say about Nancy Grace? I'm not a big Nancy Grace fan, but was she motivated to vote for not guilty because she disliked nancy grace? Didn't she have to swear that she was not prejudice from pre-publicity news before she could become a juror? P.S. was she watching Nancy Grace during the trial, even though told not to?
The prosecutors were incredibly sloppy, lazy, incompetent and pompous if they couldn't prove cause of death, motive or pretty much anything else. The jurors did their jobs, fortunately. NO ONE including the accused appears to have any clue who killed the victim. The Justice system is in serious trouble if this is the quality of the prosecutors. Fire the entire bunch. They should never have allowed this case to come to trial until and unless they had the goods. Now the accused has been acquitted, and can never be tried again on the same charges. Obviously something was very wrong with the woman's reported behavior, but that does not mean she is a murderess.
HEY SARAH PALIN HAS AN ANSWER ON HERE.
Nobody to blame except the prosecutors. If they couldn't convince a conservative essentially white jury then they screwed up. There jurors were phenomenal. They kept their emotions in check.
There is one very basic, simple question to ask.
If there is no evidence, then why are they crying? In other words, how do they know enough in their hearts enough to cry over their own verdict if something isn't screaming Casey's guilt?
Our justice system & a jury has spoken.
They had all the info you had & the law. Fortunately, the jury's judgement was not tainted by the biased media opinions rendered by nitwits who are paid to influence YOU.
Sadly, for our country, most make their political decisions in the same way...with incomplete, biased and incompetent analysis.
If your opinion of the Anthony case was developed (for you) by a Nancy Grace, that's sad.
The prosecution didn't approve a capital murder case. And, the TV media should be shamed...all of them who fail to present balanced, factual information.
The evidence was there and it was strong. Jurors again not doing their jobs. Karma will get to them too, not only Casey.
I suppose the only way someone like you would ever understand or care about our burden of proof is if you were wrongly accused of a crime. I sincerely hope that happens.
Agreed, jury ran out of there without even going through the evidence.
They were cooped up for 6 weeks, missed 2 holidays, and ran for the exit.
No way they could have reviewed all of the evidence in 10 hours.
Simply a disgrace to our great justice system.
They let the public down, and gave the system a black eye.
I believe in Karma for CASEY! She is the one who killed her daughter
The jurors are still waiting for the instant replay video of the duct tape bring applied to Caylee. Common sense is seriously lacking here. I've seen convictions in murder cases where there is no body and the only clues at the scene was a little blood. I would think duct tape around the head, covering the mouth and nose might give the jurors a clue.
Not many thinking people have anything nice to say about Nancy Grace. She is a total fraud and a tv actor, making here living off slandering everyone she can. Only the sheepel fall for her after they get their Oprah fix!
We can ALL go on and on discussing this, and many probably will. I have one thing to say on the entire issue and its what i said all along before the trial. None of us know exactly what happened to Caylee, when, why or how. We dont know who was with her in her last moments of life. But i know this: whether you believe in God, or the tooth fairy, when this earthly life is over, each of us will stand in judgment for every wrong deed or word, whether it was murder, adultery, wrong thoughts or a lie. In Gods sight, ALL sin is sin....none greater than another. It would behoove each of us to right the wrongs done in our OWN lives, ask forgiveness for what WE have said and done wrong, get right before God and mind our own business. The task now is to keep this family in your prayers. Much healing and restoration is needed and the perpetuation of hate, and opinions will not add a day to any of our lives, and certainly wont bring Caylee back. However and whyever she died, shes safe in the arms of Jesus now, and thats the destination Im working toward each day. We can all live a beautiful life, daily...its how you choose to react, to the actions of others.Go forth in life, love your own children and families, show kindness, cast aside bitterness, and live in peace. Semper fi.
Amen and God bless you! SEMPER FI from a fellow Marines' (vietnam) sister!
The jury question is supposed to be "reasonable doubt" and not "sufficiency of the evidence." How could they become so confused.
It is unreal that they were able to find 12 of the dumbest , moronic people in Florida to serve as jurors. Were they awake during the trial? There have been murder trials with NO body and the killers were convicted. The one juror said they were sick to their stomachs...GOOD, that is what happens when you let a baby killer walk free. She walks free and gets to make money off her daughters tragedy. The procesutors did an outstanding job, what more could they have done but provided a signed confession by Casey and delivered it to the jurors on a silver platter?!
One of the lawyer "talking heads" made sense, I think, when he mentioned that she was arrested too soon. Apparently, in cases like this, it is not unusual to wiretap, watch, and wait. It sometimes takes years, but eventually the perps often incriminate themselves. Too bad that procedure was not implemented in this very sad case.
There is one very basic, simple question to ask.
If there is no evidence, then why are they crying? In other words, how do they know enough in their hearts enough to cry over their own verdict if something isn't screaming Casey's guilt?