After one of the most controversial verdicts in the history of the United States since OJ Simpson, Casey Anthony was released from jail early this morning. She was acquitted on murder charges on July 5, and it has caused much of an uproar throughout the country. Recently, her legal team has received death threats because of the verdict. A crowd of more than 100 people were outside of the facility she was released from. Many outside yelled slurs such as "baby killer," amongst other things.
Check out the article from the Miami Herald:
ORLANDO, Fla. -- Casey Anthony walked out of jail a free woman under heavy guard early Sunday, facing shouts of "baby killer" from a heckling crowd less than two weeks after she was found not guilty of murder in the death of her 2-year-old daughter, Caylee.
The 25-year-old woman, whose acquittal shocked and enraged many around the country who had been following the case for months, left an Orlando area jail at 12:14 a.m., swiftly boarded an SUV and rode out of public view.
A crowd of more than 100 people surged against the orange plastic police barricades as the vehicle left. Some yelled "You suck!" Mounted patrolmen and police cruisers blocked the street outside the jail so Anthony's vehicle could drive onto a nearby highway ramp unobstructed.
"A baby killer was just set free!" shouted Bree Thornton, 39.
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News helicopters followed Anthony to a covered parking garage at an Orlando office building where one of her attorneys has offices, but reporters then lost track of her.
A short time later, amid the crush of media attention, there was police activity as two vehicles pulled up to a twin-engine private jet at Orlando Executive Airport, but no one saw Anthony get out and onto the plane. That plane took off shortly after 1 a.m. Sunday for Ohio, the home state of Anthony's parents. But an official there said that aircraft was only carrying golfers back from a Florida vacation.
Anthony, it seemed, had vanished into the night.
Anger over Anthony's July 5 acquittal has spilled onto social media sites and elsewhere. Her legal team said on Friday it had received an emailed death threat with a manipulated photo showing their 25-year-old client with a bullet hole in her forehead.
Caylee Anthony's remains were found in December 2008 near the home Casey Anthony shared with her parents. Prosecutors alleged that Anthony suffocated her daughter with duct tape because motherhood interfered with her desire for a carefree life, but her lawyers said the girl drowned in an accident that snowballed out of control.
Some of the jurors who acquitted Anthony said they believe she bears some responsibility for her daughter's death but that prosecutors failed to prove that she murdered the child.
Anthony had remained in jail to finish a four-year sentence for telling investigators several lies, including an early claim that Caylee was kidnapped by a nonexistent nanny. With credit for the nearly three years she'd spent in jail since August 2008 and good behavior, she had only days remaining when she was sentenced July 7.
Anthony left jail wearing a hot pink Polo T-shirt, blue jeans and sneakers, with her attorney Jose Baez at her side. She was given $537.68 in cash from her jail account to begin her new life.
Her hair in a bun, a somber-looking Anthony quietly said "thank you" to a deputy sheriff waiting to escort her outside, and then strode with Baez to the vehicle as two deputies armed with semi-automatic rifles walked behind. Baez held the back door, she climbed in and the SUV drove off amid camera flashes.
Anthony had a handful of supporters in the crowd.
"I'm for Casey," said Kizzy Smith, of Orlando. "She was proven innocent. At the end of the day, Caylee is at peace. We're the ones who are in an uproar."
One man carried a "Casey, will you marry me" sign. But her backers - at the jail and across the country - appeared to be vastly outnumbered by her critics.
"She is safer in jail than she is out here," said Mike Quiroz, who drove from Miami to spend his 22nd birthday outside the jail. "She better watch her butt. She is known all over the world."
3 comments:
Citizens either forget or just do not know how the justice system works. Without getting into a lengthy diatribe one the subject, just two points: 1. everyone is innocent until proven guilty and 2. the burden of prove is on the prosecution. In this case the evidence wasn't there to connect this sad death to the suspect on trial and that's all on the backs of the prosecution. The jury did the right thing whether in their hearts and minds they thought she was guilty does not matter; the proof has to be there. Let's not overlook the fact that this was a death penalty case, so you better be sure that the proof is 100%. Better to let a person walk than spend the rest of your life thinking that you might have let an innocent person be murdered by the state; and that list of innocent after the fact of being put to death is a lengthy one. Who can honestly say that they could do that? The bottom line is that it's just an unbelievably tragic event.
I agree with 100% of what you said. It is a tragic case no doubt about it, but everything you said is correct.
That damn Justice isnt blind.LOL. But like the previous poster said, the burden of truth is on the prosecution and becase they didnt charge her with enough counts, she walked. I honestly do not believe she killed the baby, but I DO in my heart believe she isn't 100% innocent. She knows what happened. But hey, Karma is STILL a "female dog."
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