Orange County Sheriff’s Detectives Continue to Taint Prospective Jurors in Casey Anthony Case
Orlando, FL - The Orange County Sheriff’s Department released more "evidence" from their case against Casey Anthony this week. After a review of all the information, it has been determined that most, if not all the released information, would not be admissible as evidence against Ms. Anthony in court.
It appears that this is just another attempt on the part of the Orange County authorities to manipulate the justice system by releasing information to the public that would cause potential jurors to convict Ms. Anthony in their minds even before being selected to serve as jurors. The authorities also seem to be promoting a form of vigilante justice by not protecting the rights of citizens to live in peace, without the threat of violence.
Vigilante justice has been outlawed since the Constitution was written. The Founding Fathers believed that a person should be considered innocent until PROVEN guilty beyond ANY reasonable doubt and that such proof should be presented in a court of law and that the accused has the right to face his/her accuser. The burden of proof is placed squarely on the accuser and not on the accused. The evidence must be obtained legally and must be relevant to the charges leveled against the accused. Information that is not relevant to the charges cannot and will not be weighed when considering the case. The case is to be decided by an OBJECTIVE jury of peers that have not been tainted by irrelevant information, rumor or innuendo.
Orange County Detectives figure that if they can build enough outrage against Ms. Anthony in the community, they can convict her no matter how flimsy their case is. They accomplish this by releasing irrelevant information in a context that is sure to incite the public to the point of near riot. They insinuate that because the accused has not done or said what they want, they are indifferent and therefore must be guilty.
Do you think they ever stopped to think that someone might not want to cooperate with authorities that they deem to be untrustworthy and/or corrupt? I doubt it.
Just this week, I had a discussion with some people at the supermarket in my neighborhood concerning this case. Most of the employees at the Publix Market on West Rd in Ocoee, Florida, were adamant in their opinion that Casey Anthony was guilty of murder. I made them a bit angry by my comment that people such as them are what is wrong with this country. In essence, this was my argument:
This is a country that was founded on the Constitutional form of government. The Constitution of the United States states that this is a country of laws and that those laws should govern our society. It further states that anyone accused of a crime has the right to face an impartial jury of their peers and to face their accuser in a court of law. They have to right to hear the evidence relevant to the charges against them and to present their own evidence to support their innocence. The jury is charged with weighing the evidence presented to them and to find the accused innocent unless that evidence PROVES BEYOND ANY REASONABLE DOUBT the guilt of the accused.
Patriotic citizens of this country should uphold these principles and anyone who assumes guilt of any individual based rumor and innuendo outside the courtroom is not the kind of person I would want my children to exposed to. I want my children to grow up to respect and obey the Constitution that our Founding Fathers, in their wisdom, put on paper to found this Great Nation.
We are a nation of laws. I think it’s time we demand that the people who have sworn to "protect and defend the Constitution of the United States of America against all enemies, foreign and domestic" uphold and obey the rule of law in this country. The authorities in this country should be held to the highest standard and jury tampering is not among those standards.
I say, "Orange County, Florida,: If you can’t do the right thing, step down and let others do the job who can play by the rules"!