On July 15, 2008, Cindy Anthony announced that her two-year old granddaughter Caylee, had not been seen for nearly a month. Also, she wanted her daughter Casey Anthony taken into custody for robbing a car and money. Casey lied many times to investigators and displayed no emotion about her daughters disappearance. On October 14, 2008, Casey Anthony was arraigned by a Florida grand jury on first degree murder, aggravated child abuse, aggravated manslaughter of a child, and four counts of providing false information to a law enforcement officer. Later, human remains were identified as Caylee's on December 11, 2008, in the woods approximately a quarter of a mile from the Anthony residence. On April 14, 2009, the prosecutor disclosed intent to seek the death penalty. Due to the broad attention about the case, jurors were chosen from Pinellas County but the trial was in Orange County where the crime took place. They were isolated during the whole trial (Hails, 2013). At the time of opening statements, the prosecution claimed that Casey Anthony smothered Caylee with duct tape. The defense opening statement alleged Caylee had unintentionally drowned in her grandparents' swimming pool in their backyard. Also, they alleged that Casey reacted strangely because she had …show more content…
The prosecution at that moment introduced time sheets showing that Cindy was at work when that computer search was performed. Graphic photos were introduced to show the scene where Caylee's skeletal remains were found. The chief medical examiner testified that Caylee's death was due to murder, but the cause of death could not be determined. Postmortem hair banding tests determined that hair found in the trunk of Casey's car came from a dead human being. The defense attacked this proof because the method had never been brought into a trial
Crime scene investigators noted signs of a struggle left under Estelle’s nails. After it was already too late, DNA testing determined the skin found under her fingernails was not a match to Blair but rather a match to the other suspect at the time of the original investigation. The expert DNA testimony at Blair’s trial consisted of fibers and hair found in his vehicle, on his person, and at an unrelated park was circumstantial and eventually disproven by DNA
The odor in the trunk of her car smelled of a decomposed body. There was a stained paper towel with fatty acids on it. There was also a presence of chloroform in the trunk of Casey’s car. During the trial, investigation searched Casey Anthony’s car. The hypothesis that Casey Anthony put away her little
The case I pick was about Chad Heins. He was wrongfully convicted of murdering his sister-in-law in northern Florida. Chad Heins was exonerated on December 4, 2007, due to DNA evidence proving that another man committed the crime. On April 17, 1994, Tina Heins was brutally stabbed to death. Chad lived with his sister-in-law and brother Jeremy.
The murderer used chloroform and duct tape to suffocate the 2 year old toddler. And disposed the body in a black trash bag and placed in a forest wooded area. Found within walking distance from the Anthony residence. This can resonate to a conspiracy theory. With all of the facts and research the researchers came up with it is clear that the justice system has failed Caylee Anthony.
When the trial started the prosecution used the approach of Casey being a promiscuous party girl that didn't want to be a mother anymore. That pushed the fact that she was unconcerned about the fact that her daughter was missing and that she planned to murder Caylee. The defense on the other had used elaborate stories that defamed Caseys father by saying Caylee drowned in the family pool and George Anthony help cover up the accident. They also stated the George had molested Casey since she was eight, and her brother would do sexual advances towards her as well, convincing the jury that Caylee may have been a product of
When asking her daughter, Casey, where Caylee was she made many different excuses before finally admitting that she had not seen Caylee in weeks. Police suspected that Casey was responsible for the death of Caylee and after an investigation, Casey was charged
In the Casey Anthony trial, a controversial piece of evidence had been brought up about whether or not the “smell of death” from the trunk of Casey’s car can be linked to and used as evidence in the death of her daughter, Caylee Anthony. The smell that was in the trunk of Casey’s car could have been used as evidence in the trial. Why? Because it would have proven that, her daughter Caylee decomposed body was in the trunk of the car.
It is not until October 14, 2008 that a Florida grand jury accuses Casey of capital murder. Casey Anthony then proceeds to plead not guilty on all accounts. The investigation furthers to find two-year-old Caylee when, horrifically, her skeletal remains were recovered in a nearby wooded
Christopher Simmons was a seventeen year old juvenile from Missouri whom in 1993 along with two of his friends, Charles Benjamin and John Tessmer, planned to rob and murder Shirley Crook in her home (Roper v. Simmons, 2004). On the night the crime was to be committed, Tessmer pulled out of the plan, and Simmons and Benjamin would continue on as planned. The two broke into the Ms. Crook’s home, robbed her, tied her up, covered up her eyes, then drove her to a state park and threw her off a bridge. During the trial, evidence, videotaped reenactment and testimony outlining the premeditated plan, allowed for the jury to easily convict Simmons of the crime. Even though Simmons had no previous criminal record and was a minor at the time the crime was committed,
Amber Heard has been invited to appear in court on Tuesday for illegally bringing their two Yorkshire terriers in Australia last May. The wife of Johnny Depp, allegedly, sneaked the dogs on his private jet when they visited the land down under. The 52-year-old actor first had issues a couple of months ago by not declaring Pistol and Boo to the authorities when they arrived in Brisbane in April. Johnny was on the place to film his new movie, the latest installment for the “Pirates of the Caribbean” franchise.
Andrea Yates was “charged by two indictments with capital murder for the drowning deaths of her children” (Yates, Andrea Pia v. The State of Texas). In January 2005, Yates conviction was overturned when information became present that Dr. Park Dietz’s statement during the trial was false. This led to a retrial and Yates upheld her not guilty by reason of insanity defense. The jury agreed and she was remanded to a mental facility in Texas, until she is no longer deemed a threat to
April Villegas 2/28/2015 Viewing Guide: CJL 3510 - Indictment - The McMartin Trial Prosecutors. 1. The text discusses the prosecutor’s office at work. From the tape, cite some examples of work issues related in the text. In the courtroom is the trial of the infamous McMartin case of child abuse is the District Attorney’s (DA) office.
There was a kid named Casey and she stayed home alone watching tv on Halloween. News bulletin of a killer clown, then somebody came and knock on the door. Then somebody knocked at the door and Casey thought it was a killer clown, but it was Joe the English teacher. Casey knows Joe from school and let him in because she treats her teachers. Joe car broken down and needed a phone.
The prosecution believed that Casey Anthony chloroformed Caylee leading to her death. Casey then drove around with Caylee’s deceased body in the back of her car for days until it ran out of gas and she left it abandoned on the side of a road. Casey then dumped Caylee’s body in the woods 15 houses from the Anthony home for the duration on the summer until the body was found in December 2008. The prosecution also found evidence that they believe collaborates Casey knew that Caylee was deceased by the fact that Casey got a tattoo just days after Caylee went missing on her shoulder that said “Bella Vita” which means “Beautiful Life” in Italian on July 2nd, 2008.
On May 25, 2010 Casey Anthony 's lawyer states to the court and jury that Caylee was unintentionally drowned in the swimming pool of their home , and that Casey and her father had cover it up. The prosecution presented that Casey Anthony did research on chloroform at her home computer but her mother Cindy Anthony 's asserted that it was her that made the searches that implicated her daughter but the records showed that Cindy Anthony was at work when these searches were done. On July 5, the jury found Casey not guilty of first degree murder but she was found guilty on four misdemeanors because she provided false material to a law enforcement officers.