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Where she goes will but up to the DOC. It is not up to the judge. Or anyone else.
I don't know how Florida's Dept. of Corrections operates, but where I live, seriousness of offense does indeed play a part in determining where you do your time.
I would believe this the case anywhere, but the decision is not that of the court. There must be a processing review by the warden to determine placement; I would think.
When this is all over, the two lawyers will cash their pay checks, shake hands, slap one another on the back, go enjoy a game of tennis and a drink together.
Prosecutors portrayed Anthony as a young mother who killed her daughter because she got in the way of her love life. "Something needed to be sacrificed, that something was either the life she wanted or the life thrust upon her. She chose to sacrifice her child," prosecutor Jeff Ashton said during his 90-minute argument. Defense attorney Jose Baez said the prosecutors' case was so weak they tried to portray Anthony as "a lying, no-good slut" and that their forensic evidence was based on a "fantasy." He said Caylee's death was "an accident that snowballed out of control."
Prosecutors contend Caylee was suffocated with duct tape by her mother, who then crafted elaborate lies to mislead investigators and her parents. Defense attorneys countered that the toddler accidentally drowned in the family swimming pool, and that Casey in fact was hiding emotional distress caused by alleged sexual abuse from her father. Her father has denied that claim. Judge Belvin Perry ruled Sunday morning that there was no evidence of such abuse and that the defense could not allude to it in closing arguments. Jury deliberations are now expected to begin Monday after the prosecution gives its rebuttal arguments.
Baez began his closing argument by telling jurors they have more questions than answers, including the biggest: How did Caylee die? Neither prosecutors nor the defense have offered firm proof of how Caylee died. "It can never be proven," he said. Baez spent most of his four-hour argument attacking the prosecution's forensic evidence. He said the prosecution's air analysis of the trunk of Anthony's car, which allegedly showed air molecules consistent with decomposition, could not be duplicated. He said no one could prove a stain found in the trunk was caused by Caylee's body decomposing there. And witnesses showed maggots found in the trunk came from a bag of trash that was found there, he said.
"They throw enough against the wall and see what sticks. That is what they're doing ... right down to the cause of death," Baez said. He later conceded his client had told elaborate lies and invented imaginary friends and even a fake father for Caylee, but he said that doesn't mean she killed her daughter. He also attacked Anthony's father, George Anthony, as unreliable. He said that a suicide note that George Anthony wrote in January 2009 that claimed no knowledge of what happened to Caylee was self-serving and that the attempt was a fraud. He said George Anthony claimed he was going to kill himself with a six-pack of beer and some high-blood pressure medicine.
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Plain and simple. The prosecution didn't do it. Is she guilty? Fuck yeah, but of higher crimes then we can prosecute.
Hey Salty - you are on to something interesting here, can you elaborate? I haven't had enough coffee yet!
Trial of the century. She'll walk.
I don't think so
She doesn't deserve to go without giving some kind of accountability, for gorsh sake, but at the same time it's about accountability to what level. Considering the family history and environment through which was her only support given, it distorts what defining lines could be drawn for her role as a responsible individual.
I sense anger...is there something you would like to share with the group?
I wish I had a dime for every time I'd heard someone say 'the system is broken' in the last 5 years. It comes from everywhere. Maybe so. Maybe we are just outdated.
Trial by a jury of your peers, in my opinion, would work a lot better if those jurors were professional jurors. It certainly would in medical malpractice, product liability, and workers' compensation cases. Jurors simply have a hard time tying the importance of evidence to relevant elements of legal concepts. And as science progresses, this will become a greater and greater problem, in my opinion.
I wish I had a dime for every time I'd heard someone say 'the system is broken' in the last 5 years. It comes from everywhere. Maybe so. Maybe we are just outdated.
Trial by a jury of your peers, in my opinion, would work a lot better if those jurors were professional jurors. It certainly would in medical malpractice, product liability, and workers' compensation cases. Jurors simply have a hard time tying the importance of evidence to relevant elements of legal concepts. And as science progresses, this will become a greater and greater problem, in my opinion.
That is EXACTLY what the system is designed to prevent.
Guilty of premeditated murder.
