Casey Anthony

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The rights of American people have society teetering back in forth of what is right and wrong. Our Florida Court System has society wondering how and why some high profile cases have come back with the verdicts of “not guilty”. Depending on circumstances whether society wants a “not guilty” or “guilty” verdict. Problems arise with the breakdown of our Florida Court System. When you put into consideration of a high profile cases there is still only one clear result, facts and the law. Our nation is brought up with the facts that we are not perfect and can make mistakes.

There are two high profile cases that almost everyone followed. Especially if a person lived in Florida. There were so many emotions from the cases of Casey Anthony and George Zimmerman. Most all people in Florida read and watched TV to follow what new information was brought into the court room throughout the cases. By the time the verdicts were read society was enraged, how can they be found “not guilty”? When looking further into any
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It started out sometime after June 2008 when something happened to Caylee Anthony. For approximately thirty days Casey Anthony did not report her child, Caylee Anthony missing or show that something had happened to her daughter. She continued with throwing more doubt by lying to investigators, parents, and friends. She had said things suggesting that she had a nanny that helped her out to possibly the nanny kidnapped Caylee. The lies kept going by Casey stating that her father, George was holding Caylee’s lifeless body by the pool from an accidental drowning. There were so many lies that by the time Roy Cronk found poor Caylee’s body in December 2008 the investigators didn’t know what to believe. By April 2009 prosecutor announced that they intended to seek the death penalty (Garaas-Johnson

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