George Zimmerman Demonstrated Predisposition For Aggressive, Violent Behavior: "Jekyll and Hyde"

I want to remind everyone some Witnesses, Legal & Behavior Experts conclude George Zimmerman has a Predisposition for demonstrating Aggressive, Violent Behavior. "Jekyll and Hyde"!







Report: Zimmerman described as "Jekyll and Hyde"

An anonymous former co-worker of George Zimmerman, the man who shot and killed unarmed teen Trayvon Martin five weeks ago, told a newspaper that Zimmerman "loved being in charge ... loved the power" and could become violent.

The New York Daily News reported Friday that Zimmerman was fired in 2005 from his job as a party security guard for being too aggressive, quoting a former co-worker as saying that "usually he was just a cool guy. ... But it was like Jekyll and Hyde. When the dude snapped, he snapped."

As the negative reports start to mount, Zimmerman's family has come to his defense.

Robert Zimmerman, Jr. stuck up for his brother to CNN's Piers Morgan Thursday night.

"He prevented his firearm from being taken from him and used against him, and that's called saving your life," he said.

Zimmerman said his brother shot Martin purely in self-defense, after the teenager attacked him last month. "You return force with force and when someone assaults you," he said. "George was out of breath. He was barely conscious.

The last thing that he remembers doing is moving his head from the concrete to the grass, so that if he was banged one more time, he wouldn't be wearing diapers for the rest of his life and being spoon-fed by his brother."

But critics, including Martin's parents, say recently released police surveillance video is proof Zimmerman's a liar. Seen on the tape, Zimmerman had no obvious face or head injuries.

Zimmerman Jr., Thursday night said his brother still had a broken nose. "His nose, I don't know about his head. I mean his nose is still healing. It's not healed.

Martin was buried in Miami. Richard Kurtz, the funeral director who prepared his body said, "We could see not physical signs like there had been a scuffle for fight."

Kurtz said Martin's chest had a gunshot wound, but his body had no other injuries. No marks on his hands from all the punches Zimmerman claimed had battered him.

A special prosecutor's now reviewing all the evidence, to decide whether Zimmerman can legitimately claim he killed to save his own life.


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Trayvon Martin's Attorney Benjamin Crump: "Skittles Candy vs A Gun & Florida's Stand Your Ground Law = MURDER" (Video)

A Bag of Skittles Candy vs a Hand Gun + Florida's "Stand Your Ground" Law = Cold-Blooded MURDER! Arrest George Zimmerman NOW!

There is Nothing "Curious" about Trayvon Martin's Death, nor the Death of Troy Davis. America's BLACK Leaders just lack the Political Will to Protect BLACK U.S. Citizens, especially Young BLACK Males & Fully Enforce Civil Rights Laws.


The Curious Case of Trayvon Martin


“He said that Tray was gone.”

That’s how Sybrina Fulton, her voice full of ache, told me she found out that her 17-year-old son, Trayvon Martin, had died. In a wrenching telephone call, the boy’s father, who had taken him to visit a friend, told her that Trayvon had been gunned down in a gated townhouse community in Sanford, Fla., outside Orlando.

“He said, ‘Somebody shot Trayvon and killed him.’ And I was like, ‘Are you sure?’ ” Fulton continued in disbelief. “I said ‘How do you know that’s Trayvon?’ And he said because they showed him a picture.”

That was Feb. 27, one day after Trayvon was shot. The father thought that he was missing, according to the family’s lawyer, Benjamin Crump, but the boy’s body had actually been taken to the medical examiner’s office and listed as a John Doe.

The father called the Missing Persons Unit. No luck. Then he called 911. The police asked the father to describe the boy, after which they sent officers to the house where the father was staying. There they showed him a picture of the boy with blood coming out of his mouth.

This is a nightmare scenario for any parent, and the events leading to Trayvon’s death offer little comfort — and pose many questions.

Trayvon had left the house he and his father were visiting to walk to the local 7-Eleven. On his way back, he caught the attention of George Zimmerman, a 28-year-old neighborhood watch captain, who was in a sport-utility vehicle. Zimmerman called the police because the boy looked “real suspicious,” according to a 911 call released late Friday. The operator told Zimmerman that officers were being dispatched and not to pursue the boy.

Zimmerman apparently pursued him anyway, at some point getting out of his car and confronting the boy. Trayvon had a bag of Skittles and a can of iced tea. Zimmerman had a 9 millimeter handgun.

The two allegedly engaged in a physical altercation. There was yelling, and then a gunshot.

When police arrived, Trayvon was face down in the grass with a fatal bullet wound to the chest. Zimmerman was standing with blood on his face and the back of his head and grass stains on his back, according to The Orlando Sentinel.

Trayvon’s lifeless body was taken away, tagged and held. Zimmerman was taken into custody, questioned and released. Zimmerman said he was the one yelling for help. He said that he acted in self-defense. The police say that they have found no evidence to dispute Zimmerman’s claim.

One other point: Trayvon is black. Zimmerman is not.

Trayvon was buried on March 3. Zimmerman is still free and has not been arrested or charged with a crime.

Yet the questions remain: Why did Zimmerman find Trayvon suspicious? Why did he pursue the boy when the 911 operator instructed him not to? Why did he get out of the car, and why did he take his gun when he did? How is it self-defense when you are the one in pursuit? Who initiated the altercation? Who cried for help? Did Trayvon’s body show evidence of a struggle? What moved Zimmerman to use lethal force?

This case has reignited a furor about vigilante justice, racial-profiling and equitable treatment under the law, and it has stirred the pot of racial strife.

As the father of two black teenage boys, this case hits close to home. This is the fear that seizes me whenever my boys are out in the world: that a man with a gun and an itchy finger will find them “suspicious.” That passions may run hot and blood run cold. That it might all end with a hole in their chest and hole in my heart. That the law might prove insufficient to salve my loss.

That is the burden of black boys in America and the people that love them: running the risk of being descended upon in the dark and caught in the cross-hairs of someone who crosses the line.

The racial sensitivity of this case is heavy. Trayvon’s parents have said their son was murdered. Crump, the family’s lawyer, told me, “You know, if Trayvon would have been the triggerman, it’s nothing Trayvon Martin could have said to keep police from arresting him Day 1, Hour 1.” Even the police chief recognizes this reality, even while disputing claims of racial bias in the investigation: “Our investigation is color blind and based on the facts and circumstances, not color. I know I can say that until I am blue in the face, but, as a white man in a uniform, I know it doesn’t mean anything to anybody.”

Zimmerman has not released a statement, but his father delivered a one-page letter to The Orlando Sentinel on Thursday. According to the newspaper, the statement said that Zimmerman is “Hispanic and grew up in a multiracial family.” The paper quotes the letter as reading, “He would be the last to discriminate for any reason whatsoever” and continues, “The media portrayal of George as a racist could not be further from the truth.” And disclosures made since the shooting complicate people’s perception of fairness in the case.

According to Crump, the father was told that one of the reasons Zimmerman wasn’t arrested was because he had a “squeaky clean” record. It wasn’t. According to the local news station WFTV, Zimmerman was arrested in 2005 for “battery on a law enforcement officer.”

Furthermore, ABC News reported on Tuesday that one of the responding officers “corrected a witness after she told him that she heard the teen cry for help.” And The Miami Herald published an article on Thursday that said three witnesses had heard the “desperate wail of a child, a gunshot, and then silence.”

WFTV also reported this week that the officer in charge of the scene when Trayvon was shot was also in charge of another controversial case. In 2010, a lieutenant’s son was videotaped attacking a black homeless man. The officer’s son also was not initially arrested in that case. He was later arrested when the television station broke the news.

Although we must wait to get the results from all the investigations into Trayvon’s killing, it is clear that it is a tragedy. If no wrongdoing of any sort is ascribed to the incident, it will be an even greater tragedy.

One of the witnesses was a 13-year-old black boy who recorded a video for The Orlando Sentinel recounting what he saw. The boy is wearing a striped polo shirt, holding a microphone, speaking low and deliberately and has the heavy look of worry and sadness in his eyes. He describes hearing screaming, seeing someone on the ground and hearing gunshots. The video ends with the boy saying, “I just think that sometimes people get stereotyped, and I fit into the stereotype as the person who got shot.”

And that is the burden of black boys, and this case can either ease or exacerbate it.


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Sources: CNN, Guardian.co.uk, NY Times, Wrigley Jr Co., Google Maps

Florida's "Stand Your Law" Enacted Under Jeb Bush; A Legal Excuse To Commit Cold-Blooded MURDER

Florida's Controversial "Stand Your Ground" Law was enacted under former Florida GOP Governor Jeb Bush.
The Law is a Legal excuse to Commit Cold-Blooded MURDER!










Florida Shooting Focuses Attention on ‘Stand Your Ground’ Law


Trevor Dooley stood his ground, brandished his gun and killed a man after an argument over local skateboarding rules in a Florida town.

He argued in court last month that he had a right to do so under the state’s Stand Your Ground law.

Outrage over the death of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, killed by a crime watch volunteer, has focused new attention on the law, which permits those in Florida “to meet force with force, including deadly force” when attacked. As my colleague Lizette Alvarez reports, the Justice Department is pursuing an investigation into Trayvon’s case.

As that investigation goes forward, the law is currently being invoked as a key defense by Mr. Dooley.

The man he killed, David James, had been playing basketball with his 8-year-old daughter in September 2010 when he and Mr. Dooley began arguing over whether a boy on a skateboard had a right to ride on the court, according to an account in The St. Petersburg Times. There was a “physical confrontation,” the police said, during which Mr. Dooley fired the weapon he was carrying, killing Mr. James in front of his daughter.

“You agree you do not want to go to prison for killing David James?” he was asked at the trial, according to televised footage from the courtroom.

“I don’t think I should,” responded Mr. Dooley, who has been charged with manslaughter but says he feared for his life during the altercation with Mr. James.

His lawyers are seeking to have the case dismissed by a judge on the grounds that the Stand Your Ground law permitted him to defend himself with deadly force.

The law extends what has been called the Castle Doctrine — that a person has the right to defend his or her home with force — to apply to people outside of the home, removing the so-called “duty to retreat.” The Florida law explicitly states that no such duty exists in the state. The provision appears as part of the Florida law on the justifiable use of force by citizens.

A person who is not engaged in an unlawful activity and who is attacked in any other place where he or she has a right to be has no duty to retreat and has the right to stand his or her ground and meet force with force, including deadly force if he or she reasonably believes it is necessary to do so to prevent death or great bodily harm to himself or herself or another or to prevent the commission of a forcible felony.
The National Rifle Association lobbied strongly for the change to state law, which was adopted in 2005 and signed by Gov. Jeb Bush. Mr. Bush said at the time that he supported the measure because, faced with a serious threat one’s life, “to have to retreat and put yourself in a very precarious position defies common sense.”

In the years since the law was amended in 2005, there has been a surge in the number of cases like Mr. Dooley’s and that of Trayvon Martin, killed by the neighborhood volunteer, George Zimmerman, last month. A 2010 review by The St. Petersburg Times found that rates of justifiable homicide tripled since the law was passed and that “twice a week, on average, someone’s killing was considered warranted.”

The paper reviewed press accounts of 93 cases involving 65 deaths in confrontations in which the new law could be applied and found that 57 of them resulted in no criminal charge or trial. In seven others that went to trial, the defendants were then acquitted.

In these cases, the Florida Supreme Court recognizes something called “true immunity.” That means, according to Emily Bazelon in Slate, that the assertion of the Stand Your Ground law can be enough for a judge to dismiss a case before trial even starts.

A columnist writing in The Orlando Sentinel said the law made Florida feel “more and more like the Wild West.” But it is far from unique; more than a dozen states have similar Stand Your Ground provisions.

The Orlando Sentinel published a primer on the law last weekend, answering some frequently asked questions including:

Q: How did law enforcement respond to the law?

A: Prosecutors across the state opposed the law before it was enacted Oct. 1, 2005. In the following five months, there were at least 13 shootings in Central Florida where self-defense was claimed. Out of six men killed and four more wounded in the cases, only one was armed. Some Orlando-area police agencies simply stopped investigating shootings involving self-defense claims and referred them directly to state prosecutors to decide.

Q: Can an unarmed person legally pose a deadly threat?

In case after case during the past six years, Floridians who shot and killed unarmed opponents have not been prosecuted. Former National Rifle Association President Marion Hammer, a major force behind the law’s passage, cited her own size and age in 2006 interview with the Sentinel about what she would do if confronted by a younger and larger aggressor.

“I’m 4-foot-11. I’m 67 years old,” she said. “If you came at me, and I felt that my life was in danger or that I was going to be injured, I wouldn’t hesitate to shoot you.”
The law may explain why local police did not charge Mr. Zimmerman for killing Trayvon. But further details may cast doubt on the circumstances of their encounter and whether it would fall under the law’s provisions.

A female friend of Trayvon talked to him by cellphone moments before he died. “He said this man was watching him, so he put his hoodie on. He said he lost the man,” the girl told ABC News. “I asked Trayvon to run, and he said he was going to walk fast. I told him to run but he said he was not going to run.” A call to 911 by Mr. Zimmerman also appeared to indicate that he followed Trayvon.

Ta-Nehisi Coates wrote on his blog for The Atlantic magazine that “the more I see of this, the less I think ‘Stand Your Ground’ will save Zimmerman.”


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Sources: ABC News, CNN, NY Times, PBS, Youtube, Google Maps

Brookly Jewish Community Rocked By Leiby Kletzky's Murder

Child's grisly murder shocks Jewish Brooklyn neighborhood

An 8-year-old's grisly murder would shock any community, but there's an added layer of astonishment in this neighborhood because the alleged killer appears to hail from the same close-knit religious community as the victim.

On Thursday, New York police charged a 35-year-old man with the killing of Leiby Kletzky, an Orthodox Jewish boy, after officers found human remains in the man's refrigerator and a trash bin.

The alleged killer also appears to be an Orthodox Jew who lived relatively nearby to Kletzky, according to community members.

"You can't possibly describe how tragic this is and how upset people are this boy was murdered by a person living in the community, who shares his religion and his neighborhood," said Ezra Friedlander, who lives in Borough Park, the neighborhood where Kletzky went missing on Monday.

On Thursday, Levi Aron was arraigned on first degree murder and kidnapping charges in Brooklyn in connection with Kletzky's death.

"It would have been extremely scary if a terrorist would have come into the community and killed a boy, but when it's one of your own you feel even more vulnerable," said Friedlander, a public relations executive who represents many Orthodox Jewish clients.

"The level of fear that mothers and fathers and children here are experiencing is something that I never witnessed before," he said.

Kletzky was supposed to meet his parents after walking seven blocks from his summer day camp, but became lost and asked the suspect for directions, New York Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said.

Menachem Freed, a 37-year-old Orthodox Jew whose 9-year-old son was Kletzky's classmate, said the community prides itself on its faith-based unity.

Borough Park is composed mostly of Hasidic Jews and non-Hasidic ultra-Orthodox Jews of Eastern European descent.

"We all believe in the same ideas," Freed said, standing outside his son's preschool, where he showed up Thursday to help children deal with the murder.

On Monday night, Freed and his family had joined with other Orthodox Jews from the neighborhood to search for Kletzky.

The neighborhood's Jewish security patrol force - called the shomrim - searched for the boy through the night.

Working from surveillance video that showed Aron entering a dentist's office Monday while Kletzky waited for him across the street for seven minutes, police arrived at Aron's residence at 2:40 a.m. Wednesday to ask about the boy's whereabouts.

The suspect pointed them to the kitchen, where blood was visible on the freezer handle. Inside the refrigerator was a cutting board with three blood-spattered carving knives, Kelly said.

"A lot of people were saying that they would think differently about what they would allow their children to do," said Josh Nathan-Kazis, a staff writer for the Jewish newspaper The Forward, who is covering neighborhood reaction to Kletzky's murder.

"When you're there, it feels like a small town: Everybody knows each other," said Nathan-Kazis, describing Borough Park. "The fact that the alleged perpetrator was more or less from the same community, it's like they don't know who to trust."

There are questions about how active Aron was in the Jewish community, but pictures of him that have surfaced show him in traditional Orthodox Jewish dress.

Still, Nathan-Kazis said that rumors had begun emerging in Borough Park's Orthodox community that portrayed Aron as something of an outsider.

One such rumor suggested that Aron is a Sephardic Jew - meaning of Spanish of North African descent - unlike most Borough Park Jews, who are Ashkenazi, or of Eastern European descent.

"You could see the community struggling with the fact that the suspect is Jewish and lived nearby and at the same time protect a sense of safety in the community," Nathan-Kazis said.

Thousands of Orthodox Jews turned out for Kletzky's funeral on Wednesday.

On Thursday, community members organized an effort to initiate a Torah scroll in Kletzky's name.

"It's an extremely lofty way to elevate someone's memory," Friedlander said of the scroll. "Not every person has a Torah in their name."


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Casey Anthony 's Mostly White Jury Now Talking For Money! (No Justice!)

So Although The Mostly White (10 Whites) Casey Anthony Trial Jurors Amazingly Could NOT Find Enough Evidence To Convict Her For Murdering Caylee, Some Of Them Haven't Wasted Any Time Offering Their Story Interviews For Big Buck$.

How Sad!

What A Disgrace That These 12 Supposedly "Reasonable" Adults Would Allow A Mother Who Killed Her Child To Walk FREE Without Even Convicting Her For 2nd Degree Manslaughter, Are Now Considering Selling To The Highest Bidders, Their Reasons For NOT Holding Casey Anthony Accountable For MURDER!

Some Of The Jurors Were Parents.

However If You Can So Easily Acquit A Child Murderer Versus Using Common Sense & Accepting The Excellent, Intelligent Evidence Presented By Prosecutors, Then I Question What Kind Of Parents Are They To Their Own Children?

You Know I'm Now Beginning To Think That Most Of The Jurors Served Just For Future Monetary Gain.

GOD Help Us!

I Hope NONE Of Those 12 Jurors Are Able To Rest At Night For A Long Time.

And Any Network Or Media Organization Choosing To Pay Them For Interviews Deserves To Experience Lowered Ratings Or Lose Advertising Sponsors!

In The Meantime I Think Court Systems On Both The Federal & State Level, Should Consider Enacting Laws Which Require That Sequestered Jurors For Life Or Death Penalty Cases Receive One Day Of Training Before The Actual Trial Proceedings Begin.

Training On What Reasonable Doubt Is, etc.,

What A Shame!

Great Job Jeff Ashton & Linda Burdick!

The Evidence Was Crystal Clear! It Was The Jury Who Dropped The Ball.




Casey Anthony Juror: Ask Me Anything ... For a Price


One of the jurors in the Casey Anthony trial has decided to go public with his side of the story -- but TMZ has learned, he's not talkin' ... unless the price is right ... and 5-figure offers are already pouring in.

A publicist for the unidentified juror is sending a letter to media outlets, claiming, "Our client -- a married, college-educated, 33-year-old white male with two young children -- is willing to consider granting one or more media interviews so long as the opportunities are paid."

We're told the juror has already received multiple offers from big news operations, including at least one major network. Sources tell us ... the high offers are in the "mid 5-figures."

Paid interviews are a hazy moral territory for obvious reasons -- and the publicist, Rick French, admits, paying for sit-downs is "always a sticky subject and believe me, I understand the delicacy of this type of negotiation."

But French insists ... sticky or not, his client ain't budging -- "He will not entertain any offers that don't include compensation for a myriad of reasons."








NO JUSTICE FOR CAYLEE: We, the jury

The 12 jurors who acquitted Casey Anthony of murder yesterday chose not to speak to reporters and they were not identified by name. To guard against bias, the jury was selected not from where the crime took place, in Orange County, Fla., but in neighboring Pinellas County. They were sequestered in an Orlando hotel for more than five weeks.
Here is what is known about them, their comments from jury selection and the charges and penalties that had to weigh against Anthony.

Juror No. 1
White woman in her 60s, retired, believes in the concept “innocent until proven guilty,” condones the death penalty. “I value life. I also value the criminal justice system as it has evolved.”

Juror No. 2
Black man in his 30s, information technology technician, has 4-year-old daughter and 9-year-old son. Didn’t want to be on the jury. Opposes the death penalty. “God is the one that makes the final judgment.”

Juror No. 3
White woman, 32, single, lives with parents, attending nursing school. Only juror who said she’d never heard of the case. “My ignorance works in my favor at this point.”

Juror No. 4
Black woman, about 40, doesn’t watch the news. Has no opinion on the death penalty.

Juror No. 5
White woman in her 50s or 60s, retired nurse, has son and grandson, has heard about the case but formed no opinion on it. “I guess I believe in the death penalty. I’d have to know a lot of facts before I really considered it.”

Juror No. 6
White man, 33, chef, married with two children. Didn’t want to serve on the jury. Could recommend death sentence. “If the law dictated it, I would be able to follow it.”

Juror No. 7
White woman, 41, divorced, no children. Recalls hearing “something about Universal [Studios, where Anthony falsely claimed she was working] and a baby sitter.” Didn’t want to serve, but said she would because “It’s how I was raised.”

Juror No. 8
White woman in her 50s, service representative for Verizon, heard little about the case, says she has moderate attitude about death penalty.

Juror No. 9
White man, 53, never married, semi-retired, is caregiver to a stroke victim. Supports the death penalty “in the proper situation.”

Juror No. 10
White man, 57, billing representative for Verizon, never married. Remembers hearing about a “young lady accused of killing her child.” Says the death penalty is “a necessary option.”

Juror No. 11
White man in his 30s, teaches physical education and health, said case was talked about in his school’s teachers lounge, with most saying Anthony was guilty. Said voting for the death penalty would be difficult. “I guess I could consider it, but having to make that decision would be very tough for me.”

Juror No. 12
White woman between 35 and 45, married, has two children. Previously worked at day care center. Adamant supporter of the death penalty and eager to serve on Anthony jury. “My kids think I’m a great mom,” she said on her juror questionnaire.


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Sources: CNN, Fox News, The Daily, TMZ, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, Youtube, Google Maps

"Caylee's Law" Movement Sparked By Casey Anthony's Release! Felony For Lying

Online Petition for 'Caylee's Law' Goes Viral


Many avid followers of the trial of Casey Anthony, the Florida woman accused of murdering her 2-year-old daughter Caylee, were incensed by Tuesday's not-guilty verdict. Unlike most others, though, Michelle Crowder did more than just fume about it.

By dinnertime, Crowder had hopped on the social-action site Change.org and launched a petition, aimed at President Obama and members of Congress, calling for a federal law that would make it a felony for parents to fail to notify police within 24 hours of a child's disappearance or within an hour of a child's death. Casey Anthony waited 30 days before reporting Caylee missing — one of several bizarre behaviors to which many pointed as evidence of Anthony's guilt.

A jury found Anthony not guilty of murder but convicted her of lying to police in the investigation of her daughter's death. Casey initially claimed that Caylee was kidnapped by a nanny, which spurred a nationwide search before the girl's skeletal remains were found in the woods near the Anthony family home six months later.

Within hours on Tuesday, more than 15,000 people had signed on to Crowder's petition, "Create Caylee's Law." The popularity of the petition prompted an e-mail from Change.orgto Crowder, an unemployed mother of two in Durant, Okla. "Every time I refreshed it, I saw more and more people were signing on," says Change.org communications director Brian Purchia. "Late last night, I e-mailed her that this was the fastest-growing petition we've had on the site."

Close to 5,000 people were adding their names each hour, and by early evening Wednesday, the petition had amassed 150,000 names. That puts it well on its way to overtaking the site's previous record of 170,000 supporters who signed on to a campaign to end corrective rape — in which lesbian women are raped to turn them "straight" — in South Africa. That document attracted the attention of the South African government, which has established a task force to address the problem.

Indeed, less than 24 hours after Crowder began her petition, legislators from at least two states, Oklahoma and Florida, expressed their intentions to sponsor bills that would require parents to report missing children swiftly.

On a federal level, however, it's not clear that the proposed statute would be constitutional. The Wall Street Journal's Law Blog reported:

Laurence Tribe, a constitutional law scholar at Harvard, points out that criminal laws usually fall within the realm of state jurisdictions. When Congress does enact them, however, it does so under the Constitution's commerce clause, which applies to cases that significantly impact interstate commerce. Tribe posits that the proposed "Caylee's Law" would fail to meet that test and would not hold up at the federal level.

"This is an understandable reaction to ... a verdict that people feel unsatisfied with, but violating the Constitution would hardly solve the problem," Tribe told the Law Blog. "There is no basis I can see for any congressional power to deal in this broad way with all cases of injury — and perhaps fatal injury — to children."

But Crowder, 30, says she is hopeful her petition will yield fruit. She says she can't know whether Anthony killed Caylee but feels certain that she had something to do with it. Crowder wonders, How could any parent not report her child missing for a month?

After poking around online, Crowder discovered that the failure to report a child missing does not appear to fall under child endangerment, child neglect or obstruction of justice laws. On Facebook, Crowder read a post urging that legislation be put in place. "I saw a bunch of people had agreed, but I thought, Is anyone really going to do anything?" she says.

"I was raised to stand up for what I believe in, and that's what I am doing," says Crowder, whose concern for Caylee and other children like her is made more poignant by the fact that she doesn't have custody of her own two daughters, ages 7 and 10.

Crowders' daughters live with their respective fathers — Crowder was married to one, but not the other — because she says she couldn't afford good divorce attorneys with the wages she earned working in retail and at call centers and fast-food restaurants.

The last she heard, her daughters were somewhere in northern Oklahoma. Crowder lives in the southern part of the state and has no contact with them. "I live my life hoping one day they will find me," says Crowder. Unfortunately, that's more than anyone can say for Caylee Anthony.



Proposed “Caylee’s Law” Generates Virtual Frenzy

More than 98,000 – and counting – people across the country have signed onto a virtual campaign calling for a new federal law that would make it a felony for parents not to alert police of a child’s disappearance.

The online petition, started by an Oklahoman woman less than 24 hours ago on a social change website, comes on the heels of the Casey Anthony trial in which the jury reached a “not guilty” verdict on first-degree murder charges Tuesday. (The jury convicted her on four counts of lying to investigators; she will be sentenced Thursday.)

The petition is the fastest-growing campaign that has ever been hosted on the site and is causing website traffic problems, a spokesman for Change.org told the Law Blog.

It calls for the creation of a new federal statute called “Caylee’s Law” – named after Anthony’s deceased daughter – that would make it a felony for parents not to report the death of a child to law enforcement within an hour of discovering the incident, or within 24 hours in the case of child disappearance.

But some question the constitutionality of such a proposed law. Laurence Tribe, a constitutional law scholar at Harvard, points out that criminal laws usually fall within the realm of state jurisdictions.

When Congress does enact them, however, it does so under the Constitution’s commerce clause, which applies to cases that significantly impact interstate commerce. Tribe posits that the proposed “Caylee’s Law” would fail to meet that test and would not hold up at the federal level.

“This is an understandable reaction to…a verdict that people feel unsatisfied with, but violating the constitution would hardly solve the problem,” Tribe told the Law Blog. “There is no basis I can see for any congressional power to deal in this broad way with all cases of injury – and perhaps fatal injury – to children.”

The proposal stems from details in the Anthony case: Caylee first went missing on June 16, 2008, but her grandmother only notified the police a month later. Trial spectators reacted with anger and disappointment to the jury’s verdict, upset by the prospect that Anthony might soon walk free after spending two and a half years in prison waiting for trial, the AP reports.

In the past hour alone, nearly ten thousand people have signed the virtual petition. Anthony’s lawyer could not be immediately reached for comment.


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Sources: Change.org, CNN, TIME, Wall Street Journal, Youtube, Google Maps

Casey Anthony Walks Next Wednesday! Evil Personified!

How Many People Other Than Myself Noticed Casey Anthony's Evil Smirk Today As She Sat In The Courtroom Waiting To Hear Her Release Date?

She Smiled As If To Say To The World:

"Yeah, I Got Caylee Out Of The Way & Now I'm A Free Woman Who's Getting Ready To Make Bank!"

This Attractive, Young Woman Who Looks Innocent But Obviously Has A Cold Heart Is Truly Evil Personified!

Casey Anthony May Walk Free In The Eyes Of Man But NOT In The Eyes Of God!

All The Money She'll Probably Earn From The Death Of Her Murdered Child (She's The Killer!) Won't Do Her A Bit Of Good.

She Will Eventually End Up Like O.J. Simpson. People Like Her Always Get Their Reward At The Hands Of God Almighty!

Wanna Bet Casey Anthony Will Slip Up Again Just Like O.J. Did?

Except This Time She WILL Spend The Rest Of Her Life In Prison Where She Rightfully Belongs.

What A Shame!

Shame On The Jury That Allowed Her To Walk Free For Having Committed Such A Heinous Crime!








Casey Anthony to be released from jail next week


Casey Anthony only has to stay in jail six more days to fulfill the sentence a judge gave her Thursday on convictions for lying to authorities.

Judge Belvin Perry sentenced Anthony to four years in jail -- one year for each of her four convictions of lying to police -- but with credit for the approximately three years already served and good behavior, her release date was set for next Wednesday, July 13, a court spokeswoman said Thursday.

Denying a defense motion to reduce the four counts to a single conviction, Perry gave Anthony the maximum jail time he could by ruling that the four years be served consecutively.

He also fined her $1,000 for each count. Court papers show she is also ordered to pay court costs and fees totalling just over $600.

A jury acquitted Anthony Tuesday on the most serious charges against her, including murder, in the 2008 death of her 2-year-old daughter Caylee, but convicted her on the four misdemeanor counts of lying to police.

When Anthony arrived in the courtroom Thursday, she smiled often as she chatted with her attorneys.

CNN legal expert Jeffrey Toobin said Perry's decision came as a surprise. "Most people convicted of misdemeanors do not get prison time," he said.

The four lies at issue include Anthony lying about whether her daughter was missing; about 2-year-old Caylee being in the custody of a nanny; about having a job at Universal Studios and about having received a phone call from Caylee.

The defense argued Thursday that the multiple charges violate the so-called double jeopardy protections in the Constitution because they all came on the same day, and should be reduced to one conviction. The prosecution argued that Anthony lied at different times on the same date, and that there is no double jeopardy violation.

Perry agreed with the state, and noted that each of Anthony's lies triggered actions by investigators. The jury spoke "loud and clear" in its decision, he said.

In the courtroom Thursday, Cindy Anthony, Casey's mother, watched her daughter walk in and commented to her husband, "Oh my gosh, there she is, she looks so beautiful." Cindy Anthony noted to her husband George that their daughter had let down her hair, after having kept it pulled back throughout the trial. Two HLN producers seated in the courtroom in front of the Anthony parents heard the remarks.

Cindy Anthony also commented that Lee Anthony, Casey's brother, had been strong throughout the experience.

A woman who was in the courtroom later said Cindy Anthony seemed happy and was smiling and looking at Casey, but noted that Casey did not look back at her parents.

Cindy Anthony could face perjury charges for testimony she gave, one of the prosecutors in the murder trial said Wednesday. Cindy Anthony testified that she was responsible for searches about chloroform on the family's home computer, but evidence indicated she was at work at the time.

Prosecutors alleged Casey Anthony used chloroform to render her daughter unconscious and then duct-taped her mouth and nose to suffocate her. They said that she put the child's body in the trunk of her car for a few days before disposing of it. Caylee's skeletal remains were discovered December 11, 2008, by former Orange County meter reader Roy Kronk.

Defense attorneys maintained the child drowned in the Anthony's above-ground pool on June 16, 2008, and that Casey Anthony and her father panicked upon finding her there and covered up the death. George Anthony denied those allegations in his testimony.

Outside the courtroom Thursday, a crowd of protesters holding signs lambasted the jury's decision and the fact that Casey Anthony will be freed.

"Good behavior? There should be no such thing for her," one woman said.

"She's planning her sick novel while her daughter is dead," said another, referring to the fact that Casey Anthony is now free to sell her story and may make large sums of money.

But some people were there to support Anthony -- including one man wearing a sign asking her to marry him.

Florida officials, meanwhile, are asking that Anthony repay the state for the enormous cost of investigating the case.

In a motion filed Wednesday, the state called for a hearing so it can tally up costs and slap Anthony with the bill.

"The efforts and costs of the investigation were extensive and not immediately available and accordingly, the State of Florida respectfully requests this Court to set a hearing within 60 days to determine total costs," the motion says.

The motion cites a Florida law that allows the state to fine defendants in criminal cases to recoup money spent.

Texas Equusearch, a firm that helped search for Anthony's daughter, also wants its money back.

The company said it used 4,200 searchers and spent $112,000 looking for Caylee in Florida after the girl was reported missing in July 2008, CNN affiliate KTRK reported.

Tim Miller, the head of company, told the affiliate he now believes Caylee was never missing -- and he is contemplating a lawsuit.

"This is the money that really needed to go to families that need us," Miller told the television station.

Additionally, Anthony will also have to deal with a defamation lawsuit from the real Zenaida Gonzalez.

At the time of Caylee's disappearance, Anthony told family members and police that the little girl was with a nanny named Zenaida Fernandez Gonzalez. That is one of Anthony's lying convictions.

Later, Anthony claimed Gonzalez had kidnapped the toddler.

Authorities never found a nanny by that name who cared for Caylee. They did, however, find a woman named Zenaida Fernandez Gonzalez, who denied ever meeting Anthony. Gonzalez then filed the defamation lawsuit.


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Casey Anthony Verdict Angers Florida Crowds! No Justice For Caylee!

Casey Anthony verdict shocks spectators at courthouse

A crowd of hundreds that gathered outside the Orange County Courthouse erupted in shock this afternoon after a jury determined that Casey Anthony was not guilty of killing her 2-year-old daughter.

Many of the spectators said they had followed the case since Caylee Marie Anthony went missing in the summer of 2008. The throngs waiting outside the courthouse door, many with cameras and video cameras, had expected a guilty verdict on at least one of the major charges.



"Did they say 'not guilty?'" asked Angela Wright, of Elkhart, Ind., who has been visiting Central Florida with friends on a trip to Disney. "I can't believe it. I'm shocked. Oh my God, I can't believe it."

Some were indignant, certain that the jury had made the wrong decision.

Janine Gonzalez who lives a couple of miles from the Anthony home in east Orange County, was appalled.

"Where's justice for Caylee?" she asked. "Do you mean to tell me that in Florida you can kill your child, toss her on the side of the road and go free? She [Casey Anthony] better move and move to a faraway place."

Others said they were surprised by the jury's decision, but understood it because the prosecution did not present a strong case.

"She is guilty as hell, however, had I been in that jury, I probably would've gone the same way they went," said Lauren Reynolds, of Sanford, who had been camped out in front of the courthouse all morning, waiting either to hear the verdict or get tickets for Wednesday.

"You can't just lock someone up for a long time based solely on circumstantial evidence," she said.

Joe Adamson, an Orlando business owner, praised the decision.

"I think it is really great that we have science, but we also have common sense," Adamson said. "These guys [jurors] didn't buy into science fiction."

The jury deliberated for less than 11 hours over two days before deciding that the prosecutors did not prove Casey Anthony guilty of murder, child abuse or manslaughter. They convicted her on four charges of providing false information to law enforcement.

Meanwhile, outside the main door of the courthouse, a large crowd remained more than an hour after the verdict announcement. Deputies worked to keep the general public away from the front door.

Before and after the verdict, large groups in the crowd chanted: "We want Casey. We want justice!"


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Casey Anthony Walks Free Just Like O.J. Simpson! No Justice For Caylee!

Casey Anthony Case Jury "Not Guilty" Verdict Forms (PDF)


Casey Anthony Case Jury "Not Guilty" Verdict Forms (PDF)






OMG! Casey Anthony Kills Her Daughter In Cold Blood, Dumps The Child's Body In A Florida Swamp But Thanks To America's "Wonderful Justice System" & Outstanding Defense Attorneys Who Know How To Cast Reasonable Doubt Into The Minds Of Jurors, People Like Casey Anthony & Fellow Cold-Blooded Murderer O.J. Simpson, Can Walk Free!

Excuse Me But Where Is The Justice For Caylee????

Oh I Get It!

So If You Are A Cute, Innocent Looking, Young, White Woman Who Cries Fake Tears Before A Jury Or A Very Wealthy Black Celebrity, You Can Kill Someone In Cold-Blood And Walk Free!

If You Live In America That Is.

In Fact ONLY In America!!!

Of Course I Don't Agree However I Will Say This....

Casey Anthony May Walk Free In The Eyes Of Man But She Won't Walk Free In The Eyes Of God!

She Will Pay For Murdering Her Child Because God Loves Little Children & Vengeance Is His.

To Defense Attorney Jose Baez Although He Argued Extremely Well In Casey's Defense, He Too Will Have To Face God Someday.

Does Anyone Remember Mr. Johnny Cochran?

Famous Criminal Defense Attorney Johnny Cochran?

Well Like Mr. Baez, Johnny Cochran Also Defended A Cold-Blooded Killer In A Murder Trial.

Who Was The Client?

Famous Sports Celebrity O.J. Simpson!

Who Was The Victim?

O.J. Simpson's Wife: Nicole Brown!

Everyone & His Grandmother Knew That O.J. Killed His Wife.

Even His Attorney Johnny Cochran Knew.

But Due To America's "Wonderful Justice System" Designed ONLY To Fairly Protect White People & Very Wealthy Black People, O.J. Simpson Walked Free!

Just Like Casey Anthony.

For The Record Being Acquitted Of A Murder Charge Doesn't Mean The Defendant Is Actually NOT Guilty!

Its Just Mean The Defendant Had An Excellent Attorney To Represent Them & A Dumb Jury Which Allowed Them To Walk Free.

By The Way Where Is O.J. Simpson Today?

In Prison Serving A Life Sentence For Another Crime!

And Where Is His Attorney Johnny Cochran Now?

I'll Tell You....He's DEAD!

That's Right! DEAD!

He Later Died Of Brain Cancer.

While I Understand Johnny's Quest To Ensure That His Client O.J. Simpson Was Assured A Fair Trial As A Black Man Living In America, The Irony Is Had O.J. Been A Poor Or Middle Class Black Man Living In America He Would Have Been Sentenced To Death Or Life In Prison For Committing A Cold-Blooded Murder.

By The Same Token If Casey Anthony Had Been A Poor Or Middle Class Black Woman Who Murdered Her Own Child In Cold-Blood, NOT Only Would She NOT Have Been Turned Into A "Celebrity" By Mainstream Media But She Would Have Most Certainly Been Sentenced To Death Or Life In Prison.

So To Mr. Jose Baez & Casey Anthony, Someday You Both Will Have To Face The SAME God I Have To Face.

God Says In His Word "Vengeance Is Mine. I Shall Repay".

The Lord God Almighty Is The Final Judge & He WILL Fairly Vindicate Caylee Marie Anthony's Premature, Unnecessary Death!

For Those Reading This Blog Post Please Don't Think I Am Suggesting Anyone Attempt To Bring Harm To Casey Or Mr. Baez Because I Would NEVER Suggest Such A Thing.

Not Ever!

I'm Just Alerting Casey & Mr. Baez Of The Fact That God Almighty Will Vindicate Caylee's Death.

Because HE WILL! In His Own Time. In His Own Way.

Jesus Please Tell Caylee I Said "Hello".

R.I.P. Little Caylee.






Casey Anthony not guilty of first-degree murder

Casey Anthony was acquitted Tuesday of first-degree murder and the other most serious charges against her in the 2008 death of her 2-year-old daughter.

But the jury convicted her on four misdemeanor counts of providing false information to law enforcement officers.

As the verdict was read, Casey Anthony cried from her seat in the courtroom, breathing deeply as she looked forward. She then hugged her defense attorney Jose Baez and other members of her defense team.

Her father, George Anthony, meanwhile, showed no visible reaction from his seat in the back of the courtroom.

Orange County Chief Judge Belvin Perry Jr. set sentencing at 9 a.m. Thursday for Casey Anthony. She faces up to a year in jail on each of the charges she lied to police.

"There are no winners in this case," Baez told the media afterward. "Caylee has passed on far, far too soon." He said his motivation for the last three years has been seeking justice for Caylee as well as Casey Anthony.

"Casey did not murder Caylee," he said. "It's that simple. And today, our system of justice has not dishonored her memory by a false conviction."



Another defense attorney, J. Cheney Mason, said he hopes the verdict "is a lesson to those of you having indulged in media assassination for three years."

The seven-woman, five-man jury deliberated for less than 11 hours, after a trial that stretched to more than six weeks and featured allegations of sexual abuse, questions regarding Casey Anthony's competence and various theories on what happened to Caylee.

Casey Anthony, 25, was charged with seven counts -- first-degree murder, aggravated child abuse, aggravated manslaughter of a child and four counts of providing false information to a law enforcement officer in Caylee's 2008 disappearance and death.

Caylee was last seen June 16, 2008, but was not reported missing until July 15, 2008, when Casey Anthony's mother, Cindy Anthony, tracked her daughter down and demanded answers regarding Caylee's whereabouts.

Prosecutors alleged Casey Anthony used chloroform to render her daughter unconscious and then duct-taped her mouth and nose to suffocate her. They alleged that she put the child's body in the trunk of her car for a few days before disposing of it. Caylee's skeletal remains were discovered December 11, 2008, by former Orange County meter reader Roy Kronk.

Casey Anthony's defense attorneys maintained that Caylee was not murdered at all. They said the child drowned in the Anthony's above-ground pool on July 16, and that Casey Anthony and her father, George Anthony, panicked upon finding her there and covered up the death. George Anthony denied that in his testimony.

The defense also attempted to cast suspicion on Kronk, the meter reader. Defense attorneys asserted that he had found Caylee's remains months earlier than he claimed and that he hid them before placing them where they were found. He did that, they claimed, just before notifying authorities in an effort to cash in on the high-profile case.

Kronk denied those allegations, according to his attorney. He testified on the stand that after calling police three times in August 2008 to report something suspicious in the woods, a deputy met him at the scene and "chewed me out," telling him he was wasting the county's time. He said he dropped the matter after that until he revisited the scene in December and found Caylee's skull.

Prosecutors pointed to Casey Anthony's behavior during the 31 days before Caylee was reported missing as evidence of her guilt.

 

According to testimony, Casey Anthony was not looking frantically for her missing child as she later told police. Instead, she moved out of her parents' home and stayed with her then-boyfriend, Tony Lazzaro. She also got a tattoo saying "Bella Vita" -- Italian for "beautiful life" -- went shopping, witnesses said. She also partied at Orlando nightclubs and participated in a "hot body" contest at one point, according to testimony.

Lazzaro and other friends and acquaintances of Casey Anthony's testified that at no time during that month did she tell anyone her daughter was missing or ask for help, and she did not seem anxious or sad. When asked where Caylee was, she told them the child was with her nanny, a woman named Zenaida Gonzalez. She told her parents other stories, including that she and Caylee were in Jacksonville staying with a wealthy suitor, Jeffrey Hopkins.

Eventually confronted by her family, Casey Anthony maintained Gonzalez had kidnapped Caylee.

Authorities never found the nanny. They found a woman named Zenaida Gonzalez, who denied ever meeting the Anthonys and later sued for defamation. A man named Jeffrey Hopkins took the stand and said he was an acquaintance of Anthony but that the two had never dated. The wealthy suitor and the nanny were among a host of people Casey Anthony made up, her defense attorneys acknowledged -- her attorney referred to them as her "imaginary friends."



Defense attorneys explained Casey Anthony's behavior in the month before Caylee's disappearance was reported to police by saying that she had been sexually abused by her father from the age of 8 and had been taught to conceal her pain. George Anthony denied that claim in testimony, saying, "I would never do anything like that to my daughter."

Perry ruled just before closing arguments began that there was no evidence Casey Anthony had been sexually abused and prohibited defense attorneys from mentioning it.

The defense also said Casey Anthony behaved as she did because of her dysfunctional family. Defense attorney Jose Baez told jurors his client had made some mistakes and bad decisions, but maintained that was not enough to convict her of murder.

However, prosecutor Linda Drane Burdick told jurors in her closing argument, "There's nothing that's wrong with Casey Anthony that can't be explained in two words: pathological liar."

Casey Anthony's car -- and the odor emanating from its trunk -- was another prong of the state's case against her, made up of largely circumstantial evidence.

On June 27, she abandoned her car at an Orlando business, saying it had run out of gas, according to testimony. It later was towed to a wrecker yard, where it remained until July 15, when her parents, George and Cindy Anthony, received a letter from the tow yard and went to pick it up.

Numerous witnesses, including a tow yard employee and George Anthony, said there was a vile smell coming from the car's trunk. The prosecution alleges -- and a number of witnesses testified -- that the smell was that of human decomposition.

 

A cadaver dog alerted to the possible presence of human decomposition in the trunk. Arpad Vass, a research scientist at Tennessee's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, testified that forensic testing of air samples, carpet, scrapings from the wheel well and a spare tire cover found a handful of compounds associated with human decomposition.

Vass said testing showed chloroform present at a "shockingly high" level on a carpet sample from the trunk. Defense experts who testified, however, disagreed with Vass' findings and found low amounts of the substance, which is present in a number of household cleaning products. However, prosecutor Jeff Ashton pointed out to jurors, none of the experts disagreed that chloroform was present.

Searches conducted on the Anthony computer were another focus of the state's case. Computer experts testified that in March 2008 -- three months before Caylee disappeared -- someone searched for keywords including "chloroform," "how to make chloroform" and "alcohol."

Cindy Anthony took the stand during the defense's case and testified that she searched for chloroform, saying that evolved from a search for "chlorophyll" as she was trying to determine if her dog's habit of eating bamboo plants in the back yard was making it tired.

Prosecutors introduced work records showing Cindy Anthony was at work at the time the searches were conducted. She said she could have left early that day, as she often took comp time from working overtime.

An attorney for Cindy Anthony's former employer took the stand as a rebuttal witness. He brought work records that he said showed that someone using Cindy Anthony's credentials was logged in and using a desktop computer at her office on the days when those searches were done on her family's home computer.

On the defense's contention that Caylee drowned in the Anthony pool, Cindy Anthony testified that Caylee was able to climb into the pool on her own. But she said the toddler could not have put on the pool's removable ladder or opened gates leading to the area. Baez told jurors in his closing argument that Cindy Anthony may have left the ladder up the night before, when she and Caylee went swimming, although she testified she did not.

Jurors heard hours of forensic testimony, receiving crash courses in DNA, hair analysis and chemistry, among others.

Experts testified that a hair found in Casey Anthony's trunk had a band that suggested it was from a decomposing body. The hair was similar to Caylee's, according to forensic experts, but could not absolutely be proved to be hers.

The trial was abruptly halted on Saturday, June 25 -- Perry said on June 27 that Casey Anthony had been examined by two psychologists and a psychiatrist following a defense motion questioning whether she was competent to proceed.

The defense called a woman to the stand who volunteered in the search for Caylee. Krystal Holloway testified that she and George Anthony had an affair. Holloway said that he once told her what happened to Caylee was "an accident that snowballed out of control." George Anthony denied the affair, and prosecutors used Holloway's statement to police to say she was taking George Anthony's comment out of context. According to the statement, Holloway told authorities George Anthony said he believed Caylee's death stemmed from an accident and that Casey Anthony may have covered it up somehow.

Throughout the trial, the pain experienced by Casey Anthony's family was evident. Both her father and mother sobbed on the stand at times recalling their granddaughter. George Anthony also cried as he testified about his January 2009 suicide attempt, which came shortly after Caylee's remains were identified.

Jurors heard testimony about items found with Caylee's remains. A Winnie the Pooh blanket matched the one found in the little girl's room at the Anthony home. The laundry bag that prosecutor Jeff Ashton told jurors served as Caylee's coffin was one of a matching set -- the other was found at the home. And all that remained of the little girl's T-shirt, saying "Big Trouble Comes in Small Packages," were some letters and the stitching around the collar.

Prosecutors pointed out in closing arguments that only Casey Anthony had access to all the items of evidence.


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