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Imperfect Justice: Prosecuting Casey Anthony QUOTES

Imperfect Justice: Prosecuting Casey Anthony QUOTES

1 " Lies are like muscles: it takes practice to make them strong. "

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2 " Those who claim the right to that arrogance without accomplishments to back it up deserve to be exposed. "

― , Imperfect Justice: Prosecuting Casey Anthony

3 " My worst fears from jury selection manifested themselves in the verdict. This jury needed someone to tell them exactly how Caylee died. Piecing it together from circumstantial evidence was not good enough for them. They wanted the answers on a silver platter, but we didn’t have the evidence to serve it that way. It’s not just the verdict that tells me this, but also the manner in which it was reached. The fact that they didn’t request any materials to review. The fact that they didn’t have any questions for the judge. If the statements that the foreman of the jury made to the media are true, ten of these twelve jurors felt that ninety minutes of deliberation was sufficient to fully weigh, consider, and reject four weeks’ worth of testimony that we on the prosecution used to establish that this was first-degree murder. The rest of the thirteen hours of deliberation had been spent trying to convince the two holdout jurors of the decision. "

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4 " Ultimately, it is this piece of the jury’s decision that I absolutely cannot understand: how could they disregard so much evidence showing that Casey had played a large role in Caylee’s death? Looking through the testimonies that we presented at trial, one thing that seems quite apparent is that, either through her own deliberate actions or through some kind of negligence, Casey was involved in her daughter’s death. There is simply too much evidence tying Caylee’s dead body to the car Casey was driving for me to believe that Casey herself was completely uninvolved. "

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5 " I noticed that the defense team had lowered Casey’s adjustable chair more than was normal for a person of Casey’s height. Only her head and shoulders were visible above the table. I was sure it was deliberately staged to make her appear smaller and meeker than she was. But wouldn’t the jury see through those ploys? How smart do you have to be to know you are being played? "

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6 " As I look back on it, I understand that the jury was sequestered and it was a long trial, but they were a rather high-maintenance bunch. There seemed to be a lot of thought and discussion about what entertainment they wanted, which movies they wanted to watch, and which restaurants they wanted to go to. Yet, as we would learn later, when it came time to deliberate, they never asked a single question about the evidence. "

― , Imperfect Justice: Prosecuting Casey Anthony

7 " Lies are like muscles: it takes practice to make them strong. Casey Anthony had clearly been giving hers a lot of exercise. "

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8 " The difficulty for prosecutors was that, unlike defense attorneys, we had to actually believe the theory we were arguing to the jury. Defense attorneys have an obligation to argue their clients' version of the facts or any alternate version of the facts that benefit their client. Their subjective belief in the truth of the version must be disregarded unless there is clear evidence that perjury has been committed. Prosecutors, however, can proceed only if they have a good-faith belief that the prosecution is warranted and that the material evidence on which it is based is true. "

― , Imperfect Justice: Prosecuting Casey Anthony

9 " The word I always use in describing Jose is smarmy: somebody who is slick, underhanded, and doesn't shoot straight. "

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10 " Justice is not just about what gets decided in the courtroom, it's about how we should go about our lives and respect others. And in the end, that's what it really means to remember Caylee. "

― , Imperfect Justice: Prosecuting Casey Anthony

11 " Not only did it make her look worse, it made the defense look as if they didn’t know what was in the best interests of their client. Jose Baez’s lack of experience was showing. "

― , Imperfect Justice: Prosecuting Casey Anthony

12 " Cindy’s reply was “Well, she only did it once. "

― , Imperfect Justice: Prosecuting Casey Anthony

13 " It was a lethally toxic codependent relationship. One person was skilled at lying to others, while the other was skilled at lying to herself. "

― , Imperfect Justice: Prosecuting Casey Anthony