Attorney Seeks To Spare Casey Anthony From Death Penalty

[steelergirl]

No. That's supposedly being released tomorrow.

thnx PP!! another day wasted "waiting" on the doc dump tomorrow looks like!! :crazy:

 

[TinTX]

The timing of this is suspicious. Seems like they want it out there prior to the search this weekend. Must be getting very close to finding Caylee.

 

[LeLe1953]

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/orange/orl-casey-anthony-death110508,0,6113475.story

Submitted by defense to prosecution outlining why prosecution should not seek death penalty, in part reads:

"The crime was not cold, calculated and premeditated. In the months leading up to Caylee's disappearance, Anthony's behavior was described by friends and family as "erratic and not entirely rational."

He wrote that filicide – the act of a parent killing a child – is different than other homicides. The underlying reasons why mothers kill are complex and can be divided into various categories. For example, one type is a parent who kills under influence of mental illness. Another type suggests a parent's motive may be to save the child from real or imagined harm.

Juries are more likely to show mothers mercy. He mentioned Andrea Yates – a Texas mother who drowned all five children – was sentenced to life in prison. Susan Smith, the Arkansas mother who pushed her car with her two children inside in a lake, got life in prison."


Is this an acknowledgement of Caylee's murder??


ETA: Changed thread title that was my question I was asking per request from mod.

That's the first thing I also wondered, was this an acknowledgement. If KC is sticking to her story Caylee was kidnapped, why would he say it was not a cold, calculating, premeditated crime?

What is the defense? Zanie kidnapped Caylee or KC killed her due to mental defect? What he is saying is no surprise. How else do you explain her behavior after Caylee went missing.

Perhaps the jury will be more sympatheic to a mother. I strongly believe in the DP. Mother, father, pedophile....it's all the same to me. I don't care what relationship the person had with the child, if you kill your child, you get the DP. I don't want it off the table. I think guilt /innonence & punishement should be left up to the jury. I hope the prosecution does not make a deal with the devil herself. :behindbar

 

[babycat]

Baez said when this came to trial we would all understand everything.

Now THAT I will never believe....

 

[Elley Mae]

The timing of this is suspicious. Seems like they want it out there prior to the search this weekend. Must be getting very close to finding Caylee.

Welcome TinTX

 

[RR0004]

But wasn't it stated somewhere that Cindy was actually advised to seek custody of Caylee? I wonder if the family plan on using this information (or possibly similar information) to bolster her defense, if that's the case...

Yup...but that happened right before she left the house...which the therapist also advised her (CA) to do (kick her out). So obviously no one saw it as a threat that Casey would leave with Caylee...unless they never believed Casey would.

 

[trac]

Peeing in a parking lot, dry humping some chic at a party, spending your best friends money, buying your mom and dad's house with out a job. That's what they will use in her defense as being out of it. I thought that was normal behavior.

Hate to say it BUT she was wasted, with drunk friends - and when your wasted you do stupid things - peeing in a parking lot, thats what drunk people do - and those were NO friends for letting her do it AND take pictures of it (and she did call those people her friends) - and dry humping some chic at a party, again drunk, stupid and I'm sure egged on by the guys

The rest of the stuff was just her being her - she stole things, she always did, she always lied and such - there is nothing different from now and then

None of this is irrational or erratic or different from how she acted normally

 

[Tuba]

Easy now to understand why Jose was so stroppy at the 911 call Casey made. She was bumptious & officious & a total snot. The call got a good airing. Irrational and erratic she was not. This is not the Casey he wants to present to any jury.

Never mind that many of the potential jury pool will not have heard that call, the prosecution has a copy and can refute any portrait of a delicate unwitting perpetrator by using it.

 

[Chezhire]

:clap:

The timing of this is suspicious. Seems like they want it out there prior to the search this weekend. Must be getting very close to finding Caylee.

 

[TURBOTHINK]

They will be laughed out of court if they go with this defense. Just because someone is a lazy, lying, thieving, good for nothing that can't even take responsibility for her own child it doesn't mean they are mentally ill or legally insane. Casey thought the world owed her a living and didn't want to share any of that with Caylee.

:applause::applause::applause::applause:

You forgot the drugs.............and women are convicted everyday with a lot less evidence.

 

[MarleneM]

They will be laughed out of court if they go with this defense. Just because someone is a lazy, lying, thieving, good for nothing that can't even take responsibility for her own child it doesn't mean they are mentally ill or legally insane. Casey thought the world owed her a living and didn't want to share any of that with Caylee.

:clap: Best Post of the Day Award :clap:

 

[babycat]

Yup...but that happened right before she left the house...which the therapist also advised her (CA) to do (kick her out). So obviously no one saw it as a threat that Casey would leave with Caylee...unless they never believed Casey would.

Yes...I wonder how long that happened before Casey left with Caylee?

 

[diz39]

Yes but since when do you need diminished capacity defense if you didn't do anything? If your child was kidnapped?

I just don't understand this. There has been no trial yet!!

Is this common practice and I just never noticed it before??

Your guess is as good as mine. I think the defense has realized that they are soooooooooooooo far up the creek without a paddle that they better start looking for a deal. Whether the air samples are too new a technology to be accepted in court, there is a PLETHORA of evidence that they cannot spin their way out of.

 

[trac]

Cindy is an RN for many years-she would know what PPD looks like and I'm sure she would have gotten Casey the medical help she needed to be the "mother of the year" that she said she was. No wait-I'm talking about Cindy(Queen of Denial). Poor Caylee-she didn't stand a chance in that family.

Yeah we think that wouldn't we - she said she didn't know Casey was pregnant - then she said she smelt a dead body in the car, yet it was rotting pizza - among numerous other things

You would think as a nurse she would be able to notice things, I'm thinking she slept through school and didn't learn anything - maybe she went to the Acme Nursing school

 

[Meemom]

I don't know - I have always thought if she was backed into a corner with no way out, she would come up with a scenario very similar to ones covered in that 30 page document. I saw this item on the news and the document discussed 'accidental overdose' and a few other things. I can see her going there, but I am not sure I see her allowing the mental illness, emotional disturbance defense. Unless she convinces herself it is the only way she will be 'free'.

They must sedated CA before this got released...I can't see her going along with a defense of KC is mentally ill....after all, according to CA Caylle is still alive and being moved all over the country and KC is "mother of the year"!

 

[LeLe1953]

It looks like he is probably trying to convince the state to not seek the death penalty. Once they publicly seek it it is harder to get them to back down. It also almost looks like they may be fishing for a mental health defense or a plea deal to take the death penalty off the table. Which I suspect is what the prosecutors really want. As the Andrea Yates case proved, no matter how evil an act, juries will typically balk at imposing the death penalty on a young woman.

:furious: I hope the prosecuter does not take the DP off the table. Caylee's life & death isn't "lets make a deal." Casey already made the deal, with the devil, when she killed that child. I don't think we have to bargain with criminals. Casey deserve the DP, the same she imposed on Caylee. I hope the jury she gets listens to the evidence, all of it, be it by the defense or prosecution. If they find her guilty, I hope they have no issues handing down the DP.

 

[icherish]

Sounds like defense is trying to plea down the sentence without negotiating their end of the bargain! :furious:

 

[Pink Panther]

Your guess is as good as mine. I think the defense has realized that they are soooooooooooooo far up the creek without a paddle that they better start looking for a deal. Whether the air samples are too new a technology to be accepted in court, there is a PLETHORA of evidence that they cannot spin their way out of.

"New" technology does not mean it's invalid. I agree. I think they've thrown the gauntlet...They want to work out a deal.

 

[Pink Panther]

:furious: I hope the prosecuter does not take the DP off the table. Caylee's life & death isn't "lets make a deal." Casey already made the deal, with the devil, when she killed that child. I don't think we have to bargain with criminals. Casey deserve the DP, the same she imposed on Caylee. I hope the jury she gets listens to the evidence, all of it, be it by the defense or prosecution. If they find her guilty, I hope they have no issues handing down the DP.

I think that the only way that they will take the DP off the table is if she confesses or if they assist with the recovery of Caylee somehow.

 

[Lovejac]

My sister-in-law suffered from post-partem depression. It didn't make her go out and sleep with every man she could find, steal money, dance, etc. It was all we could do to get her up out of bed and dressed.

Thank you, Chilly!! As someone who suffered from post-partum depression after the birth of my twins, I can assure everyone here it 'ain't' no party!
Panic attacks when my husband would leave to go to work (mom would come over at 7 am) heck, I was afraid to DRIVE let alone drive to a bar, grocery store, Target for some push up bras. You get my drift. My goal seemed to be just trying to make it through a day and feed, diaper, snuggle my boys!