2010.05.11 - Casey Anthony Death Penalty Motions Hearing

[darnudes]

Oh my Aston is good, this is a taste of what the defense are in for when the trial gets under way.

 

[beach]

How is this witness helping the defense?

According to the witness, it will be VIP for the defense to prove she is a "good mother". So that is putting the burden on the defense! So DO IT already, defense!

She is NOT testifying like AL hoped, IMHO.

 

[BeanE]

I am in my jammies today. You may all consider me to be scantily clad. I do not object.

 

[gamom]

In this case the issues do have to do if the child was well cared for because she was partying while her child was in her trunk.

 

[Tulessa]

I am in my jammies today. You may all consider me to be scantily clad. I do not object.

Same here.

 

[lisalei321]

Just as a side note most any statistic on the DP and woman is going to blow the defenses gender bias argument out of the window. Just some samplings.

women constitute 1.6% of the total death row population.

In general, both the death sentencing rate and the death row population remain very small for women in comparison to that for men. Actual execution of female offenders is quite rare, with only 568 documented instances as of 12/31/07, beginning with the first in 1632. These executions constitute about 2.8% of the total of confirmed executions in the United States since 1608.

Eleven female offenders have been executed since 1976.

Since 1976 1192 males have been executed in the US. (1203 total executions - 11 females)

http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/women-and-death-penalty

Hope this isn't ot but wanted to toss it out there.

Maybe you should text this info to her, AL's and JB's phones...

 

[mommaearth]

If I were sitting on a jury this would mean nothing to me.

 

[gelfie68]

Hmmm shouldn't a good mother report their child missing? Or work to support said child?

 

[Moe]

I hate this gender bias stuff, it's stupid IMO.

 

[seagull65]

AL: do you feel you can opine here in court that prosecutors can be affected by a gender bias used in media coverage of these defendants?

ER: yes, I feel


JA: objection, I believe this is beyond even the courts very limited allowance of testimony in this regard

Judge: overruled

ER: Let me say that other researchers and I are always faced with the fact that these cases are rare, the number of these cases is small, I can answer any question on the subject but it has to be qualified that the number of these cases is small

AL: have you objserved that prosecutors more or less likely to seek a severe penalty in these cases where there is highly intensive media coverage

ER: Yes

AL: Can you explain what the "good mother defense" is?

ER: It is a strategy in trying cases at the guilt and innocence as well as the punishment phase that if a woman is accused of murdering her child, it is extremely important for the defense to establish that the mother was a good mother, and that the perceived issue of whether she was a "good woman and conventional woman and wife" bleeds over into whether she was a "good mother" and that if the media label the woman as not a "good woman" this carries over into her being perceived as a good mother or not.

There is a drift away from the actual facts of whether the mother provided good care for her child to issues of how the mother dressed,etc.

The "deviant mother", mother who was deviant from the dominant culture's expectation of "motherly" role model, she is at risk of being perceived as not a good mother even if she was a good mother.

 

[whiteangora]

I wouldn't worry too much about anything this woman says, in the grand scheme of things it will not have much impact on the State's position. moo

 

[passionflower]

What she says could go for the father as well...............how about men that kill........this is non sense, IMO.
Sex M/F has nothing to do with the crime............

 

[ohiogirl]

Just as a side note most any statistic on the DP and woman is going to blow the defenses gender bias argument out of the window. Just some samplings.

women constitute 1.6% of the total death row population.

In general, both the death sentencing rate and the death row population remain very small for women in comparison to that for men. Actual execution of female offenders is quite rare, with only 568 documented instances as of 12/31/07, beginning with the first in 1632. These executions constitute about 2.8% of the total of confirmed executions in the United States since 1608.

Eleven female offenders have been executed since 1976.

Since 1976 1192 males have been executed in the US. (1203 total executions - 11 females)

http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/women-and-death-penalty

Hope this isn't ot but wanted to toss it out there.

Good info. Maybe you could email this to the Pros. for their questioning today. Lol

 

[Gnatcatcher]

Same here.

OT - where have you been? I've been thinking about you lately, you've been missing? Hope you're ok!

 

[Oakley]

Prosecution needs an opposing witness to show that, if anything, women by nature of their gender, are more immune to the death penalty than men. And they wouldn't need a long string of 'academic trophies' under their name for credibility. Seems a no-brainer to me.

 

[manatee]

IDK...maybe "social deviant" mothers are more likely to murder their children? That would be a good research question!

 

[ShadowGal]

Prof: Deviant mother may be perfectly good mother, but she will get tagged more than a father who is a good father but a gambler etc

 

[Cher352]

Al pulled a fast one here...I really don't understand this testimony in regards to the motion.

I was under the impression that the motion had to do with JP taking the death penalty off the table.

Right, anyone???

 

[seagull65]

ER: Men also who were having affairs or deviating from societal expectations for a father are at higher risk of being accused of not having been good fathers.

 

[Gnatcatcher]

Cross exam!