The Nancy Grace reaction to the Casey Anthony not guilty verdict is not unexpected. ″In the end, Tot Mom′s lies seemed to have worked.″ Grace, who hosts a show on HLN, sister network to CNN, is furious that the jury came back so quickly, barely deliberating for a full day, finding Casey Anthony not guilty of the serious crimes of murder in the first degree, aggravated child abuse or even of manslaughter. Only the four charges of lying to the police earned guilty verdicts, each a felony with a maximum of one year in prison. Casey Anthony, who has spent the last three years in the Orange County Jail in Florida, will be sentenced Thursday. Expectation now are that she will be released with time-served, possibly after a quick transfer to a state prison to meet the felony sentencing requirements. A process known as ′touching the wall′.
So why is Nancy so furious? Well, for starters, she was proven wrong! Grace had developed a cottage industry concerning the death of Caylee Anthony. Her cable-TV show featured the story often, especially the last two months since the court proceedings began. She, and many others in the Media, sided quickly with the prosecution and demonized Casey Anthony. For the past three years, they built up the public sentiment that Casey must be guilty and deserves the death penalty.
But all that came crashing down today. While the actual jurors who decided the verdict have not spoken publicly yet, one of the alternates, Juror No.14, Russell Huekler, spoke on the Fox News Channel. ″We don′t know how she (Caylee) died.″ He added that ″It just comes down to probably an accident that the family didn′t know how to cope with…the prosecution failed to show motive.″ Legal analysts more objective than Nancy Grace concur. The prosecution spent three years and millions of dollars building a case based on very flimsy circumstantial evidence that could not support a Murder-One conviction. If Casey could not be proven guilty of that, then the prosecution′s entire case fails, even with the optional lesser charges of manslaughter and child abuse.
Between Media types like Nancy Grace, and the prosecution team releasing video and audio tapes from while Casey Anthony was in jail, the public at large was spoon-fed a one-sided story. Many critics of this point to the British legal system, where the Media is gagged and cannot discuss and hype up a court case until after the trial is over. One can appreciate the wisdom of this after what has just taken place.
So the first big trial of the 21st Century is over and the Nancy Grace reaction to the Casey Anthony not guilty verdict is out. The CNN-HLN legal host of ′Swift Justice′ may say it all for Nancy Grace. Did she ′swift-boat′ ′Tot Mom′ Casey Anthony? Finding her guilty in the case long before any real evidence pointed to such a conclusion? Personally, from what I saw in the little of the trial I actually watched, the prosecution reached too high pursuing a Murder in the First Degree conviction. I am not a lawyer, nor do I play one on TV. But I′ve read enough Sherlock Holmes stories to know that while circumstantial evidence, like the dog that does not bark, may be crucial, it is not substitute for real evidence. There probably will never be any justice now for Caylee Anthony as a result of the prosecution fumbling the ball. If Nancy Grace wants to be mad at somebody, she should focus her anger there.
July 5th, 2011 at 2:48 pm
BTW, as usual, Fox News Channel had the best, most fair and balanced coverage.
Take that, Media-Matters!
July 5th, 2011 at 3:36 pm
I am pretty sure Nancy Grace’s head will explode, (although it sometimes looks like it already did).
By the way, can anyone tell me how she is still on the air?
Anybody?
July 5th, 2011 at 3:43 pm
Nancy Grace is as much of a hack journalist as she was a hack prosecutor. The Supreme Court of Georgia twice commented on her misconduct. The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals said she “played fast and loose” with ethics duties and failed to “fulfill her responsibilities” as a prosecutor. She’s a blow-hard, and little else. I think it’s great she’s being exposed for what she is: a harpy with little regard for anything other than her own opinions.
July 5th, 2011 at 5:40 pm
You say Nancy Grace, I say Melinda Duckett. Grace so humiliated Duckett on the air in her interview and went for the jugular. Duckett is not with us anymore, and many say it was that interview, and Grace just moved on never admitting any culpability with her career making mookalah bucks. Predator and prey. One fed off the other. I would say Grace owes little Caylee some profit sharing.
July 5th, 2011 at 5:43 pm
Regardless of what one thinks of Nancy Grace, a precious little girl is dead & thrown away like trash — her mother is the only plausible culprit. She got away with it & hopefully she will see that wee girl’s face every waking & sleeping moment of her own life!
July 5th, 2011 at 5:55 pm
many of us agree with u Nancy Grace this is an outrage
July 5th, 2011 at 6:18 pm
I am surprised. I thought that mothers were allowed to kill their babies only before birth.
July 5th, 2011 at 7:08 pm
I agree with you Nancy – OUTRAGE AT VERDICT
July 6th, 2011 at 3:28 am
I stopped watching Nancy years ago.
One cant help but notice shes an over zealous contemptuous beetch who seems like she has a sneering desire for anyone with the slightest contempt for law even if its just jaywalking in the Mojave at 6 am Sunday morning.
I was not outraged.
I wasnt surprised.
during the last 3 years I knew that so far they did not know for sure who killed Caylee.
My street sense told me all along as most of us might of felt…Casey killed Caylee.
But with what evidence they had there was no ruling out an accident gone horribly wrong.
If we look at the bigger picture and try to stay away from the parameters they would like us to roam one can easily draw up plenty of possible bizarre occurrences that might of happened in such a dysfunctional family.
Its not that far fetched that it was an accident bred of neglect and the reaction was to keep or hide the body until you can work out what “YOU” think would be a plausable story.
Caylee very well could of drowned at her mothers hands, or lack there of and tried to make it look like a kidnap/murder by putting tape over her nose and mouth.
People have done much stupider things upon finding or seeing a dead body.
I can only imagine finding my child dead.
Someone with a background and record like mine would be a field day Smorgasbord for any prosecution.
I wouldnt be so sure that even after living a fairly normal admirable life for the last 15 years that it would help mitigate the sht I’ve done in my past.
I could panic and end up painting myself in a corner that only shed worse light on me by trying to make it look like anyones fault besides mine thereby only worsening my chances for an objective viewing.
Yeah, a lot of us by feelings alone would think Casey killed Caylee to get her out of the way.
But we cant lock up people based on our feelings.
These arent the streets where I can just crack the fck out of you because I know damn well you’re trying to or did screw me over.
The process of elimination leads me to believe Casey did it.
But, theres still no actual proof that leaves me with 100% removal of any doubt.
I’ve been locked up more than I’d care to explain, but its enough to be glad for the system we have even though I did spend 3 months in jail for a joint. What should of been a slap on the wrist had turned into- Sales of narcotics to a minor.
Possesion with intent to distribute.
All because I’d been selling coke for ten years and the vice squad had repeatedly failed to arrest or convict me. So they took a joint that I’d just bought most likely from a plant/snitch and told the court the opposite.
That I had tried to sell the pot to a kid.
I was looking at some serious time so I left Ca. but returned just a couple months too early to avoid the statute of limitations.
5 1/2 years later the witness and arresting officers were nowhere to be found.But I did have to pay for not showing up in court on a felony. Which in itself is a felony.
Still one cant say I didnt get what I deserve considering the vast amount of crime I did get away with.
But we cant go locking people up, or executing them based on grounds like that.
I dont see Casey murdering her child.
I see a lousy mom who handled her daughter like she handled everything else.
God only knows she could of been hung over, screwing her boyfriend and let Caylee drown and then being the narcissistic idiot she is doing something as stupid as trying to make it look like murder.
And its also not too far removed an idea that in a fit of rage bred on selfishness she did fly off the handle and intentionally kill that little girl.
We have to remember that we only know what we know about these people what the media, prosecution, and defense want us to know about these people.
in the business I’m in I’ve seen a lot of what look like good healthy families actually be the most fcked up dysfunctional families there are.
White picket fence, 9 to 5, 2 cars, 2.3 children, plenty of Wonder bread and soda ina nice clean house.
With a closet holding a ten year collection of p0rn where the original models faces have been removed and family members faces used in place.
What did pi$$ me off was the gleeful celebration in the court room.
What the fck are you so happy about beetch ?
Your daughter is still dead and by all accounts no one has to take responsibility for it.
Which left me with a very bad feeling based on the fact that this piece of sht is either incredibly stupid and never had any business having children or is so removed from love and compassion that shes the center of her own little universe that had no room for Caylee.
And I’m really pi$$ed at all those who watched this to satisfy their voyerism and the media selling it over the top.
Everyone got their ride on the back of a poor little dead girl.
Especially Nancy Grace
July 6th, 2011 at 4:39 am
I had to visit the local jail yesterday
(one of my client’s attorney requested I do a psych profile) I rarely agree to do this since I worked forensic psychiatry and didn’t much care for it.
Inmates in the jail were whooping it up as verdict came in.It was surreal. These guys screaming “Yeah Yeah Yeah She killed her kid and got off…”
I really hadn’t followed the trial very much.
But Caylee is dead and society celebrates a dysfunctional family.
Pathetic.
July 6th, 2011 at 4:45 am
It will be two years on August 19th that I canceled my satellite service and unplugged my TV deeming 99% of the programming unworthy of my time.
Sounds like it hasn’t gotten any better.
July 6th, 2011 at 4:50 am
I agree, Micky, I don’t think that Casey deliberately murdered Caylee. Most likely some sort of accident and given how dysfunctional the whole family is, who knows what happened next? We don’t even know who Caylee’s father is!
The one guy who made the most sense to me as far as court pundits go was Dr. Michael Baden, the forensics scientist. He has been saying from the beginning that there is not a single case of anyone using chloroform to kill a child. That duct-taping someone will most likely not cause death except in very rare cases, usually involving narcotics abusers.
The most outrageous comment yesterday after the trial was from the stupid sheriff, claiming how proud eh was of his staff, what a great job they did. They blew it! They could have recovered the body in August instead of December had they taken the meter reader seriously.
The prosecutors f’d up and the media types like Nancy Grace cheered them on. In the 31 days they presented evidence, they didn’t spend one minute on at least trying to prove manslaughter. Ridiculous!
July 6th, 2011 at 4:54 am
Yes, Faye, it is sad indeed. America is in bad shape. Between MTV, CNN-MSNBC and Obama, our culture is going right down the drain. Then these same idiots have the nerve to criticize Glenn Beck for exposing real threats radical Islamists as hysteria.
July 6th, 2011 at 4:57 am
FM, I did much the same back in 1993, because I did not want to watch Bill Clinton and his lying tongue. After Waco, I just had enough of it and took a break for about a year or so until the ‘94 elections.
July 6th, 2011 at 5:43 am
C’mon Faye !!!
‘ … Caylee is dead and society celebrates. ‘
Those animals whooping it up aren’t ’society’. That’s why they are in cages.
After the hoopla dies down, the Anthony’s will have to live with whatever the truth is.
July 6th, 2011 at 8:30 am
Not surprised by the verdict. Casey Anthony would have been a hero to the left if she had abborted her daughter from the womb.
July 6th, 2011 at 8:53 am
Question- if thye woman who claims to be caylees grandmother is proven so can she pursue a civil case against Casey
July 6th, 2011 at 11:00 am
The Casey Anthony trial is over. Get over it and move on.
July 6th, 2011 at 11:17 am
Wow, I disagree completely.
Television has never been better, almost to a fault.
I grew up on three American channels and a Canadian outlet with a test pattern by 1:30.
The “Golden Age of Television” was really pretty lame. Only in retrospect do people think it was better then.
And if I do, indeed, like “old” television, well, it is still on.
Heck, I still watch Rockfish, I mean, Rockford, reruns even though I know every line.
Now I have 24 hour news, documentaries, music, movies, sports one-hour dramas on numerous channels, on-demand, time shifting, cooking, history etc.
I have the channel changer so I don’t watch anything I haven’t chosen. The choices have only increased.
What is bad about that?
July 6th, 2011 at 12:06 pm
“Now I have 24 hour news, documentaries, music, movies, sports one-hour dramas on numerous channels, on-demand, time shifting, cooking, history etc.”
and porn
July 6th, 2011 at 12:08 pm
Yeah, I grew up with 3 channels.
Wasnt allowed to ever touch the TV
Saturday morning I got to watch 3 hours of cartoons
PBS was creepy
July 6th, 2011 at 6:27 pm
Sigh…all these legal commentators…mostly attorneys…decrying “innocent until proven guilty” while deciding a defendants guilt or innocence pre-arraignment, pre-trial, pre-verdict, then becoming indignant when the verdict isn’t what they said it should be.
God Bless America…especially the lawyers.
July 7th, 2011 at 3:06 am
buzzbee,
Television’s never been better? On the one hand we do have more channels, more choices. On the other hand, we have more cr@p!
There are days when I can’t find anything decent to watch with 300 or so channels. Thank goodness for ‘On Demand’! Which leads me to predict that Internet-TV, especially services that have large inventories of content, will be the next trend.
July 7th, 2011 at 3:15 am
Micky,
We had better cartoons on TV when we were kids. When you think about it, since there were fewer networks, individual TV series had to pass a higher bar to get on the air. UHF was a good alternative back then, too.
Around here we had ‘The Bill Kennedy Show’, where the former B/C-List actor hosted old movies. At night there was a guy who I would characterize as the Bill O’Reilly of the 1960s, Lou Gordon. He was awesome! Like buzzbee, I could watch the CBC from Canada, too, and take in the hockey, Wayne & Schuster, as well as many British TV shows like “The Prisoner” and “The Avengers”.
July 7th, 2011 at 3:38 am
Heh, here in Hawaii in the early 60s everything was on reel unless it was a live local production.
So everything, the evening news, the paper, was all 24 hours (at least 6 by air) old.
But we still had Saturday mornings hosted by either these two clowns”Checkers n Pogo” or”Captain Honolulu”
Naturally, being way out here UHF was a joke except for student U of H programs.
But yeah, the cartoons were of a higher standard cuz there was no CG where you could just crank em out like today.
Johny Quest
McGilla Gorilla
Silent ones (the music was great, still is)
Bullwinkle
Felix the cat
Snaggle Puss
El Cabong
Hell, I dont think we got fully caught till 23 years ago when I met my daughters mom here on vacation from L.A. She music on tape that I’d never heard here on the radio, or in the record shops. (until a couple months later.
Ah yeah, the old days when the bars stayed open til 4, you could drink at 18 (or younger)…and there was no AIDS.
Nowadays I get up about 2am so I’m on the same page with everyone who 3 to 6 hours ahead of me.
Kinda convenient in a way