SouloAngels: @beaconhell Powell kids dying at their crazy dads hands is so sad. Y did soc svcs allow them home visits instead of controlled environment? 3 hours ago from web
The outrage from mainstream news outlets over the Casey Marie Anthony acquittal reveals widespread misconceptions about the rule of law and felony conviction rates. Although Anthony was convicted of providing false information to investigation authorities and is likely to be released early on account of time already served, the most ardent critics of this case would have people believe violent criminals can easily avoid punishment through finagling forensic psychologyassessments and botched jury trials. Not only does this line of thinking fail to take into account the critical role of jurors, but it also overlooks statistics illustrative of a far more rigorous court system than the popular image would suggest.The Role of the Jury
Common is the popular complaint that a jury ‘didn’t do its job’ when an accused criminal is acquitted. However, the duty of all criminal court jurors is to judge defendants based on admissible testimony and evidence presented before them according to the criteria for reasonable doubt, not to to pass judgment to satisfy the whims of outside observers. Perhaps it can be argued that the verdict was incorrect, or even that judgment ought to be weighed by experts instead of laymen. Nevertheless the fact remains that jury members are specifically instructed to judge the veracity of the prosecution’s case, for it is only the prosecution that bears the burden of proof.
Regardless, people often seem to feel juries should be given license to deliver verdicts based on judgments beyond the facts of the cases presented before them. With regard to the Anthony trial, this was made especially by certain commentators who exclaimed that the jury should have ‘connected the dots’ concerning the supposedly suspicious nature of the accused. However, following this mentality would not only violate juries’ aforementioned mandate to limit their considerations to the facts of the case, but would also derail juries’ critical thinking in favor of speculation. In short, this call for speculative judgment goes precisely counter to what juries are lawfully charged to do.
Conviction Rates
Given the unique complexities of each state’s laws and conviction statistics, it at first appears to be a challenge to evaluate the generalization that prosecutors lose too many criminal cases. This perspective, however, falsely assumes that conviction rates are a relevant measurement of prosecutor performance in the first place. Whereas it is the duty of defense attorneys to cast as much doubt as possible upon the arguments of prosecutors, the duty of the prosecution is to bring forth evidence against the accused within the bounds of the law, not do whatever they can to ensure a conviction. The court is meant as a medium in which the jury may soundly come to a fair and legal verdict, not a circus of accusation and unregulated inquisition. To assess the adversarial system of trial on verdict outcomes alone would be disingenuous to the pursuit of justice. At best, such measurements reveal trends without explaining how they occur. Continue reading How Hard is it to Convict Someone?
I don’t think it is any secret that I have been quite disgusted with the true crime audience lately. It’s no stretch to opine that the entire genre needs an enema. Ever since the Casey Anthony case, the meanest, dumbest, most vile people have crawled out from under their rocks to make threats and harass anyone who doesn’t believe that “justice wasn’t done on July 5th” and” And Who’s paying for the Therapy and Learning a new Language ? Does everything come free for this bitch? Sure looks like it !”. These people are IMBECILES. They are not intelligent. Mentally retarded people are more intellectually stimulating than these miscreants, and they bring NOTHING to the table but hate. NOTHING. They cannot discuss this case without wishing ill will on the Anthony family or anyone who supports them. They are filled with so much hate that it consumes their entire lives. All you have to do is look at their Twitter accounts and their Facebook pages. They don’t give a damn about the law. They could care less if breaking the law by filing ridiculous federal charges against Casey Anthony would put other American citizens in jeopardy of having their civil rights violated. They don’t care. They could give a crap about the civil rights of you and I as long as “that bitch pays”. In my eyes, that makes them no better than the person they are shit talking.
They do NOTHING but sit around all day long sending off hate mail day after day, and pinpointing where they think the object of their hate might be. When they think they have her sighted, they report it to some unibrowed eunuch who gets off on seeing his name in binary. No one is even paying attention to any of the other happenings because they are so consumed with hate for Casey. It’s pretty sad.
I’ve decided that I just don’t want to get to know anyone else from the true crime community. Call me an elitist snot. Call me a B. Don’t care. These are NOT people that I want to discuss other cases with because they lack the mental faculties to comprehend the basic tenets of the United States Constitution and the American judicial system. It’s pretty sad that the blood, sweat and tears of our founding fathers are tossed to the wayside all for one case by the booger eating Caylee Groupies. Little old ladies who pretend to be so loving and so kind are really horrid old sea hags who are disseminating vile hate and are no better than those who spread evil 50 years ago because of one’s color. Where do these scumbags even come from? They neglect their own children in order to harass Casey Anthony – that is what is so amazing. Oh, the irony is RICH! One of the forum members said it perfectly: Continue reading Bloodlust Audience
While 4 children were at home caring for themselves, the youngest being FIVE YEARS OLD, this skankbag was off doing who knows what. She left four children — one as young as 1-year-old — at home without adult supervision. The 2-year-old was allegedly found naked, with feces smeared a ll over her body. Police say the 1-year-old was only wearing a diaper, playing with a fork and had a sharp pork chop bone in his mouth.
The children were seen eating cereal off the floor, and when police questioned the 5-year old, she said she was “babysitting” the other children while skankburger was at work. However, the 5-year old didn’t know her mother’s NAME or the names of other relatives to contact them to take the children. Please explain to me why this child didn’t even know her mom’s name? Answering my own question here…this is a woman who has no business having children. Someone who takes no time with her children and obviously doesn’t give a rat’s butthole about their safety.
Law enforcement couldn’t find Evelyn Smith for DAYS after removing her children from the FILTHY home they inhabited. While they searched the home they also found almost 10 grams of suspected crack cocaine in a shoebox on top of the refrigerator. These are REAL living children who needed help. Real, living children who could use clothing or even food, and I can’t help to continue going back to the idiots who are STILL harping about the Anthony case — what exactly are they doing for REAL, LIVING CHILDREN? Oh, that’s right…NOTHING. They would rather pretend to be decent people. Continue reading Oh, Anthony Haters!!!
Hello Beaconhell readers! I think I can speak for both Princess and myself when I say we are so very glad to have you here.
In any case, I am just testing the waters this evening as Princess has invited me to be a contributing writer here on the BeaconHell blog and I am honored and humbled to accept her invite. Knowing Princess as I do and how well she blogs and writes I obviously have a lot to live up to.
So with that said, I hope in the near future I will somehow find the inspiration needed to post something that you will all find not only interesting enough to read, but to perhaps even comment (or shit) on…
I should have figured as much that when Jeff A$hton announced his new book Imperfect Justice: Prosecuting Bumbling Casey Anthony, that the freaks4Caylee would be peeing themselves with delight; however the amount of phallic stroking that they are doing is downright disgusting! What happened to the shrieks of no one should be profiting from Caylee’s death? Is it “no one should be profiting EXCEPT the people who who have no familial connection to Caylee and surely NOT the family that KNEW and loved her?” You know…her RELATIVES? Or are the Many Mommies of Caylee Anthony going to get in on the action because after all, aren’t they her pretend e-mommies?
Here is my issue. For weeks the mental midgets have been going on and on about boycotting this and refusing to watch that because the Anthony’s might get paid for interviews. Or the fury of the douchetards when it was rumored that Casey might write a book – now that was something else! BUT…when Jeff A$hton – the man who LOST the case because he overprosecuted and failed to present facts in a manner to satisfy the burden of proof BEYOND A REASONABLE DOUBT proclaims to have written a book, and suddenly all of the muumuu clad harpies are wetting themselves to announce to their fellow douchenozzles that they are pre-ordering the book and cannot wait to read it. Oh *swoon* and a *snap*! However, during the rumored Anthony book deal there were shrieks of blood money and death to the Anthony’s. How can this be? The level of hypocrisy is astounding.
Explain to me how this money making endeavor is not unlike the Anthony’s or anyone else for that matter making money off of this case? Whether people agree or not, the family is the only entity that should be profiting from Caylee Marie Anthony. A$hton obviously (in my humble opinion) had this book planned long ago. Had to have – it’s already written. No doubt he was sniffing the greenbacks back in June as he delighted in the idea of sickening the courtroom with the smell of Caylee’s decomposition in a can. Continue reading Can’t Have It Both Ways
How long has it been since Casey Anthony was found NOT GUILTY? I’m sure one of the freaks4Caylee will have an exact tally right down to the millisecond if I look for it. It is disturbing to me how OBSESSED these people are. Honestly, I believe that there are some that need psychological intervention. For three years of their lives they lived, breathed, and crapped Caylee Anthony. When they didn’t get the verdict that they were so SURE of – well, they are all now screaming like stuffed pigs and petitioning the federal government to press federal charges against Casey and begging the EPA to investigate her for farting the wrong way. It’s OVER, people! OVER!
So tonight, I’m cruising youtube and find this little doozie. Here is the thing that bothers me — if you are going to opine about something there is NO REASON WHATSOEVER that you should not at least research the topic and know what the heck you are talking about, but that’s what these people have been doing for weeks/months/years. Talking out of their butts and making libelous comments about others.
I try very hard not to be a “victim blamer” and do always try to look at all sides of a situation before making an opinion about it. I like to be educated about a situation before I make statements. Am I always right? Nope, not even close and a lot of times my opinions are not popular because I don’t tend to agree with something just because everyone else is doing it. I didn’t win the popularity contest over the Casey Anthony case because I maintained that there just was NOT enough evidence to prove guilty BEYOND A REASONABLE DOUBT. But, this isn’t about Casey – wherever she may be, I hope that she is safe and wish that the idiots who are making death threats and wasting their time crying and pretending to love a little girl that they never met, that they use that energy to help living children. Last week a case was brought to my attention on the BH forum and after reading more about the family dynamics, I am really ticked off and am pointing my accusatory finger at the mother of a murdered child. She goes into the MHP Club – MUST HAVE PEEN. Peen became more important than her child’s safety and I just cannot give this woman a free pass for what happened to her child.
Jeremiah Lee Wright of Thibodaux, La., has confessed to the decapitation murder of his cerebral palsy stricken son, Jori Lirette. Jesslyn Lirette is Jori’s mother and allegedly was kicking Jeremiah out of the house – he was also UNEMPLOYED. Supposedly she works and that’s where she was during the day. He slaughtered his son and left his dismembered head at the end of the driveway so that when she came home, she would see her deceased son and “feel stupid”.
The mother of a wheelchair-bound 7-year-old who was beheaded and dismembered wrote when her son was less than 6 months old that his father — now accused in his killing — wanted him dead because the baby was suffering, court papers show. Continue reading Who Protected Jori?
Caylee Anthony has not become the face of missing and murdered children in this country, she has become THE murdered child in this country. The constant coverage of the case makes it seem as if no other child has been kidnapped or murdered since 2008. Everyone seems to have tunnel vision, focused directly on Casey Anthony, and they are intent on making her pay for murdering Caylee. But, according to the American Anthropological Association, more than 200 mothers a year murder their children and three to five children a day are murdered by their parents. ( http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/175093/20110706/casey-anthony-mothers-killing-their-children-casey-anthony-verdict-american-anthropological-associat.htm )
I’m almost positive that of those 200 mothers every year, some are tried and found not guilty. Where is the outrage in those cases that we are seeing in the Casey Anthony case? We haven’t read in the news about any death threats or harassment of the people involved in those cases. What is it that sets Casey Anthony apart from these other mothers that go on trial for murder that she can hold this whole country captive and cause feelings of such hatred? People have chosen to latch on to this case and it’s taken on a life of its own. It’s not about the little girl that was reported missing on July 15, 2008 anymore. It’s about seeing how much hate and rage can be directed at Casey Anthony because the public feels justice has not been served. Caylee’s memory is lost in the midst of it all and those crying for vengeance are too blinded by hate to see it.
The public accuses Casey of being a monster. What do they think they are when they threaten her, harass the people involved in the case and get online raging about what they would do if they came across Casey on the street, all in the name of seeking justice for a murdered child they never knew?
Several years back, a Houston mother was acquitted of murdering her 4-month old son. ( http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=92993&page=1 ) I don’t recall any outrage, any 24/7 HLN coverage or the mother going into hiding afterward. I just have to ask: why? Why was there no anger, no outrage, no publicity?
It’s time to give other missing and murdered children the attention they deserve. Caylee is gone and we cannot help her now. If these people are so insistent on speaking for a murdered child, then they need to realize that you don’t honor the memory of a dead child with hate, rage and vengeance. If you want to become a murdered child’s voice and seek justice for her, justice you feel was denied in a courtroom, you take that energy you put into harassing and hating the accused murderer and put it to good use. You can put your time into helping living children. You can bring your efforts to the searches for other missing children. Two hundred mothers a year murder their children. Three to five children a day are murdered by their parents. There are far too many children in danger for everyone to sit around and dwell on a not guilty verdict that we can do nothing about. We cannot save Caylee. But, if we move on from this, perhaps we can save other children.
Katherine “Kate” Phillips is 4-months old and is missing from her Michigan home. Her father, Sean Michael Phillips, is the last known person to see her. He and Kate’s mother, Ariel Courtland, had an argument on the date that Kate went missing – Wednesday, June 29. At at 1:14 p.m. on that day, Courtland called 911 to report her daughter missing. She advised law enforcement that she and Sean Phillips were in his car with Kate. They stopped at her apartment to get a stroller, and when she ran inside to get it, by the time she returned to his car Sean’s vehicle was gone; and with him their 4-month old daughter.
They had been in an argument and police later found Sean at his parents’ home at about 4 p.m. that day. However, Baby Kate was not with him. 21-year-old Phillips was arrested and remains in jail on a kidnapping charge. Police have found the clothes that Baby Kate was reported wearing that day, but they have not found the child. Searches continue in an effort to locate her, but Phillips refuses to give any information regarding the whereabouts of his daughter.
The progress of the investigation has been hampered somewhat by “self-initiated and directed search teams”. Law enforcement personnel have been diverted away to other areas where individuals have located material that is not connected to the investigation. This is why people should stop trying to play CSI and participate in searches that are sanctioned by law enforcement personnel. I know people want to help, but is this really helping find this baby?
Investigators would still like to speak with anyone that saw SEAN MICHAEL PHILLIPS during the hours of 1 to 4 p.m. on Wednesday, June 29th, 2011. He was reported to have been seen at the Wendy’s Restaurant and near the Birch Lake Apartments during that time frame. Continue reading Missing: Kate Phillips
Last week has come and gone – the verdict was read and no doubt the bevy of muumuu wearing, unwashed old maids blew their collective ovaries when the Clerk announced NOT GUILTY. They were all so sure that “the bitch would fry!” It’s what they were so sure of for three years! All of those sparkly, animated gifs that will now go to waste! Oh the horror of it all!!! Casey Anthony awaits release from jail, and you would think that people would move on, but no such thing is happening. Instead, the coverage continues and those who have wasted three years of their lives doing nothing but follow the case are now scratching their heads asking “what now?“ Nancy disGrace continues to bellow her nightly diatribes of which she obviously has no clue. As a former officer of the court she of all people should know that the accused are innocent until proven guilty, but then disGrace would have lower ratings if she banged that drum.
I blame Nancy Grace and the others in the media who are continuing to beat this dead horse. I have seen HORRIBLE things written by people that I once respected, and this case has caused me to reevaluate the friendships I have with others because I simply do not want to be friends with people who are calling for the lynching of another human being just because they didn’t get their way. That is what this boils down to. People did not get the verdict that they wanted, and rather than do something productive to save LIVING children, they are going to beat their heads and wail in the streets because they obviously don’t comprehend our legal system. They would rather show their asses than do something for living children. Why is that? Why not use the anger that they are feeling to do something for the thousands and thousands of underprivileged children who are in violent homes, or who need mentors and the guidance of an adult? To me, this just proves even further that these people do not care about the plight of missing or abused children. It’s easy enough for them to get online with other simple-minded people to feign outrage than to actually get off of their butts and DO something.
There are bellows of mistrial, jury interference, blah blah blah…but at the end of the day – the system WORKED. I am not saying that it’s fair or that Casey is innocent. I am stating the obvious. Our system is based on the presumption of innocence. The Sixth Amendment sets forth rights related to criminal prosecutions. If people would take a look at this and leave their emotions behind, they would realize that the system WORKED. The Sixth Amendment requires juries to be impartial. Impartiality has been interpreted as requiring individual jurors to be unbiased. A juror must show no prejudice for or against something or someone. At voir dire, each side may question potential jurors to determine any bias, and challenge them if the same is found. To those who watched the voir dire process, each potential juror was questioned and out of hundreds 12 jurors and 2 alternates were chosen. Continue reading It’s Time to Move On
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enema. Ever since the Casey Anthony case, the meanest, dumbest, most vile people have crawled out from under their rocks to make threats and harass anyone who doesn’t believe that “justice wasn’t done on July 5th” and” And Who’s paying for the Therapy and Learning a new Language ? Does everything come free for this bitch? Sure looks like it !”. These people are IMBECILES. They are not intelligent. Mentally retarded people are more intellectually stimulating than these miscreants, and they bring NOTHING to the table but hate. NOTHING. They cannot discuss this case without wishing ill will on the Anthony family or anyone who supports them. They are filled with so much hate that it consumes their entire lives. All you have to do is look at their Twitter accounts and their Facebook pages. They don’t give a damn about the law. They could care less if breaking the law by filing ridiculous federal charges against Casey Anthony would put other American citizens in jeopardy of having their civil rights violated. They don’t care. They could give a crap about the civil rights of you and I as long as “that bitch pays”. In my eyes, that makes them no better than the person they are shit talking.
While 4 children were at home caring for themselves, the youngest being FIVE YEARS OLD, this skankbag was off doing who knows what. She left four children — one as young as 1-year-old — at home without adult supervision. The 2-year-old was allegedly found naked, with feces smeared a ll over her body. Police say the 1-year-old was only wearing a diaper, playing with a fork and had a sharp pork chop bone in his mouth.
Katherine “Kate” Phillips
