Casey Anthony Free in 3 Years?

Casey Anthony free in 3 years.

posted by mike thomas on April, 19 2010 11:13 AM


Now that Cheney Mason is on board, that is my bet.

Lawson Larmar is seriously outgunned with Mason and DePaul law professor Andrea Lyon.

Jose Baez will fade into the background as the pros take over this case.

Lamar faces the humiliation prospect of losing and frittering away millions of dollars.

This leads to a plea deal for manslaughter. With time served she is out in under three years.

Casey is out, with plenty of youthful years left to hit the beer bongs and write her bestseller.

And the freak show ends.

http://blogs.orlandosentinel.com/news_columnist_mikethomas/

OMG....... perish the thought!!!! And I don't believe it for a second.

I don't believe it either, Snaz. I just don't see it happening. She may not be headed off to a prison cell for 3 years, but once she gets there she's gone for a long while. JMO....

the state would never take a plea. and the indictment does not to my knowledge include the lesser charge of manslaughter. ..

the only thing i am worried about, is with 2 potentially competent attorney's looking for nothing more than a legal technicality/loophole, that they may if fact find one.

god knows, they have no defense. .. so i guess it will be a LONG LONG game of cat and mouse.

She still hasn't been put to any test of endurance, hasn't been treated like an ordinary prisoner. She doesn't deserve to be in a private cell away from the other evil killers and thieves. So far, the punishment does not fit the crime, and she is getting special treatment. She should not get out of jail ever, and she should be in quarters where others can see and taunt her.

These are the 7 counts against KC as indicted by the grand jury on October 15, 2008:

- 1st-degree murder.
- Aggravated child abuse.
- Aggravated manslaughter of a child.
- 4 counts of providing false information to law enforcement.

The State dropped the original neglect charges....

And I agree, Randi. I don't think the State will offer a plea deal to KC..... she has dragged this out way too long and cost the State way too much to offer her anything now. She had her chance and turned it down.

Besides, I happen to believe they've got the goods on her....

The only plea deal I'm okay with for Casey is life without parole. I don't see the state offering her anything less. If they did, it would be a huge miscarriage of justice.

I was curious how somebody could be charged with first degree murder and manslaughter at the same time, so I read the indictment to try to find out. I always thought manslaughter was unintentional, reckless behavior that caused death, but the way the manslaughter charge is worded, it sounds like there are two possible reasons Casey is being charged with manslaughter:

1. As a result of murdering Caylee, Casey failed to provide Caylee, a child under 18, with the care, supervision and services necessary to maintain Caylee's physical and mental health.

or

2. Casey failed to make a reasonable effort to protect Caylee from abuse, neglect or exploitation by Casey, which resulted in Caylee's death.

If anybody has a different interpretation of the manslaughter charge, please share.

Also, does anybody know if it is normal for somebody to be charged with premeditated murder and manslaughter at the same time?

Here is the way the charge of aggravated manslaughter is worded in the indictment:

COUNT THREE - AGGRAVATED MANSLAUGHTER OF A CHILD (F1-L10)

And the Grand Jurors of the County of Orange, duly called, impaneled and sworn to inquire and true presentment make in and for the body of the County of Orange, upon their oaths do present that CASEY MARIE ANTHONY, between the 15th day of June, 2008 and the 16th day of July, 2008, in said County and State, did willfully or by culpable negligence, in violation of Florida Statutes 782.07(3) and 827.03(3), while a caregiver to CAYLEE MARIE ANTHONY, a child under 18 years of age, fail or omit to provide CAYLEE MARIE ANTHONY with the care, supervision and services necessary to maintain CAYLEE MARIE ANTHONY'S physical and mental health, or fail to make a reasonable effort to protect CAYLEE MARIE ANTHONY from abuse, neglect or exploitation by another person, and in so doing caused the death of CAYLEE MARIE ANTHONY.

I absolutely do not think Casey will be free in 3 years.

I don't think her parents will either.

kh

khintx wrote:I absolutely do not think Casey will be free in 3 years.

I don't think her parents will either.

kh

BBM

From your fingertips to God's eyes........

I love it!!!!

J4A.... without getting into all the legalese that I won't even pretend to understand, I got the feeling the manslaughter charge was as a 'backup' (that's a legal term....) in case the jury didn't go with the first degree murder charge..... I, personally, don't think there will be any doubt in any juror's mind that this is a case of PREMEDITATED first degree murder by the time the State is finished presenting their case.

But what do I know??

This is another commentary piece by Mike Thomas, who writes for the Orlando Sentinel. The article was written last year in April.

Execute Casey? Not a chance - but now she might cut a deal

April 19, 2009
By Mike Thomas, Sentinel Columnist

State Attorney Lawson Lamar says he wants to kill Casey Anthony, which I suppose is one way of guaranteeing she dies of old age.

The odds of Casey taking a lethal snooze are about equal to the odds she'll celebrate with milk and cookies if exonerated.

Even Lamar understands that.

For historical reference, I refer you to Richard Adams, an evil psychopath who brutally beat and stomped his 6-year-old daughter Kayla to death. Lake prosecutors tried, but failed, to get a death sentence against him.

And Adams was much more loathsome than Casey. There was no doubt about his guilt. Kayla's body testified to the horrors of the crime.

Lamar has nothing close to this strong a case against Casey. He has no confession, no cause of death and no indication of premeditation. Evidence consists of Casey's mysterious and indifferent behavior, her compulsive lying, a piece of fairly common duct tape and iffy evidence that there once was a body in the trunk of the abandoned family Pontiac.

Casey's defense team may be headed by JosM-i Baez, a not-ready-for-prime-time Kissimmee lawyer whom I wouldn't hire to defend my traffic ticket. But he is backed by some serious talent, including New York defense attorney Linda Kenney Baden, criminalist Henry Lee and forensic scientist Larry Kobilinsky, a regular on Nancy Grace.

I imagine they will put the prosecution's trunk-sniffing machine -- the one used to indicate the presence of a body in the car -- on the witness stand and make a convincing case it can't sniff the difference between a cadaver, a rotten pizza or a bottle of Chanel No. 5.

And any number of expert witnesses could testify that it's typical for a woman who has lost a daughter to go into shock, forget the mystery nanny's name, grab a six-pack, call up the gang and put off notifying the cops for a month.

You scoff at this only if you haven't seen a good lawyer magnify preposterous notions into gaping chasms of reasonable doubt.

Lamar obviously has to be concerned.

So his best offense has become a good bluff: the death penalty. His office resurrected it last week after ruling it out in December. The official explanation is that "sufficient aggravating circumstances" have come to light.

Like what, more pictures of Casey wrapped in an American flag guzzling beer?

This is nothing more than an old prosecutor's trick.

http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/2009-04-19/news/miket19_1_pictures-of-casey-case-against-casey-lamar