Showing posts with label Jury. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jury. Show all posts

Wednesday, July 6, 2011

JUROR: DA DIDN'T PROVE CASEY ANTHONY'S GUILT

HUEKLER
CASEY Anthony's prosecutor's 'didn't meet the burden of proof' according to one of the alternate jurors who was on stand by during the trial. For six weeks Russ Huekler watched the trial unfold, ready to step in, in the event of one of the other jurors had to withdraw from the bench and he said if he had to deliberate the not guilty verdict would have been the same.
Huekler of St. Petersburg told Fox 13: “I agree whole heartedly. It was the right decision that they made. The prosecutors didn’t meet the burden of proof. We had a lot of reasonable doubt there. They didn’t show us the evidence good enough for a conviction."
The decision, which has been called the most controversial since the acquittal of OJ Simpson, stunned most onlookers, but Huekler, a
teacher said defense lawyer Jose Baez's argument that Caylee drowned made sense to him.
He added that he did think the one time party mom was a liar, but he did not believe the prosecution's assertion that she killed her two-year-old tot Caylee.
“There was some type of horrific accident by the family," he explained.
"Whatever happened I think more than one person knows and I think that was possibly George Anthony. For some reason they made an accident look like a murder scene.”

Tuesday, July 5, 2011

NO VERDICT YET IN CASEY ANTHONY TRIAL

GUILTY?
DAY one and the jury who are potentially going to decide whether Casey Anthony gets the death penalty, took their time and ended with no verdict.
From about midday they debated for almost six hours following the prosecution's closing speeches and instructions from judge Belvin Perry.
Before sending them out the justice reminded the jurors that it is not up to the defendant to prove their innocence, adding that a defendant choosing not to testify it is not an indication of guilt.

"Whatever verdict you render must be unanimous,"he told them.
They will start deliberating again today on the high profile case in which Anthony is charged with murder in the first-degree, second-degree murder, manslaughter, third-degree felony murder, aggravated manslaughter of a child, aggravated child abuse and four counts of providing false information to a law enforcement officer.