She says there was a lot of damning evidence but they did not know how Caylee died... Was the duct tape placed there for decoration? :banghead:
Victims whose remains have gone undiscovered for a lengthy amount of time making the cause of death impossible to determine would never get justice if all jurors used this rationale when deliberating. Unbelievable....I have been quiet these past days, still in shock, but that statement is very upsetting in light of all the cases I have followed over the years... :banghead:
I think these comments by the jurors that have come forward have me more upset than even the verdict itself.
Seriously - and this is MOO - I believe there is an urgent need for national dialogue on the failure of education in teaching critical thinking and logic and the effects of that, combined with the "CSI effect" and avoidance of jury duty, on our judicial system. It is an extremely urgent and serious problem.
Using the faulty logic of these jurors we would all be at immense risk of dying at the hands or many, many murderers, because the burden of proof would be beyond anyone's ability to prove -- at least in the
real world.
Having watched many trials over the years, including in my years working in law firms, this case had some of the most solid evidence and the best prosecution team I've ever seen. Unfortunately, it also had the most shameless huckster and snake-oil salesman.
Even more unfortunate, IMOO, is that it also had the most gullible jurors who seem to have been incapable of separating fact from fiction. They also seem, IMOO, to have been incapable of understanding the facts of their duty, the evidence, and the instructions given to them by the Court.
So many here have already made the point that "reasonable doubt" does not mean (as I heard on a San Antonio radio station yesterday) "shadow of a doubt." No COD is NOT reasonable doubt -- especially when this little girl was found in a trash bag, with duct tape on her face, in a swampy trash dump. And her mother had avoided any questions as to her whereabouts for 31 days (and there's something definitely hinky about
that -- thirty-ONE days -- not a month, not about a month, but exactly 31 days). And, and, and....ad nauseum.
I just about don't know what to do with myself since these jurors started talking. I really wanted to know what they were thinking. I wasn't expecting to discover that the real problem, IMOO, is that thinking wasn't involved at all. :banghead:
Always :cow:
Morals do not exist amongst this defense team. I hope they all have to answer to their children someday who will find out exactly how they helped a killer of a child walk free.
