Casey Anthony Not Guilty of Murder. Social-Media Trial of Century. Casey Anthony saga called 'social media trial of century' Casey Anthony trial: Cable TV, social media spur Casey Anthony spectacle. The media circus came to town, this time not in Los Angeles but in Orlando, Fla. In a case compared to the courtroom dramas of O.J. Simpson and the Menendez brothers, the trial of Casey Anthony -- if there were any doubts before -- became a full-fledged national legal spectacle Tuesday after outrage erupted over the jury's decision to acquit the young mother on charges she killed her 2-year-old daughter, Caylee, with chloroform and duct tape.
Twitter blazed with righteous anger over what was largely viewed as a surprise verdict and anchors for a host of cable news outlets, which had trumpeted their extensive courtroom coverage particularly as the trial picked up momentum with viewers, could barely conceal their shock -- and sometimes did not even try. "The devil is dancing," said HLN's Nancy Grace, whose vigorous and unabashed pro-prosecution coverage helped lift the central Florida case to national prominence. "There's no way this verdict speaks to the truth. " Casey Anthony Trial Provides Hot Topic for Social Media.
Public Irate, Social Media Explodes with Opinion. ABC News(ORLANDO, Fla.) -- "She can kill her child and get away with it ... but I can't get married to my partner and adopt a child," Mark Walker wrote on his Facebook wall Tuesday mere seconds after Casey Anthony was found not guilty of first degree murder, manslaughter and child abuse. "This is O.J. Number 2," one woman said outside the courtroom, where hundreds of people gathered to protest the jury's decision. In New York's Times Square, a woman reacted tearfully to the trial's verdict: "She killed a little girl. So she gets off and, you know, and she goes home and maybe has another baby that she can abuse and hurt. " Even celebrities joined in the discussion, airing their own opinions of the verdict.
Kim Kardashian, whose father represented O.J. Sharon Osbourne was appalled: "Casey Anthony not guilty?? Such was the reaction from the public after jurors cleared Casey Anthony of the most serious charges against her in the death of her 2-year-old daughter Caylee. The Internet’s response to the Casey Anthony ‘not guilty’ verdict. The Internet’s response to the Casey Anthony ‘not guilty’ verdict (via reddit and Criminal Justice Schools ) Thanks, Walter Kovacs! Trial by Social Media: #caseyanthonyverdict. Casey Anthony Accused baby killer Casey Anthony was found not guilty. According to a jury of her peers, Casey was not responsible for Caylee Anthony’s death. This fact was Tweeted and Retweeted, Facebooked and Refacebooked, blogged and commented on by literally millions of people yesterday. The sheer volume of broadband traffic dedicated to #caseyanthonyverdict was astonishing.
Which begs for the questions: 1) Should we redefine “jury of our peers?” 2) Can we use social media to replace, augment or somehow modernize and improve the current system? The Tweets were so overwhelmingly against Casey Anthony that reading them made me uncomfortable. Most reasonable pundits (not the screaming ones Nancy Grace put on her show) felt that the jury did its job, and that the idea of trial by jury of your peers is still the best. Tens of millions of social networkers disagreed: @thepaolosaurus “OJ’s jurors are glad their 16yr record of being the 12 dumbest people in America is over.”
Social media sites keep Anthony case alive. By Natalie DiBlasio and Luke Kerr-Dineen, USA TODAY Updated 7/12/2011 12:30 PM | Casey Anthony was acquitted of murdering her daughter, but scores of Facebook posts still hound her. facebook.com facebook.com Thousands of members of the social networking site have set up Casey Anthony pages to criticize her, curse at her and even follow her when she is released Sunday. Some pages are memorials to Caylee Anthony, 2, who disappeared in June 2008. A month later, the child's grandmother reported her missing; her body was found in December.
By late Monday afternoon, 16,265 people had pledged to "Wear Purple for Caylee Anthony's Birthday" on Aug. 9. STORY: Anthony verdict doesn't sit well with most At change.org, more than 1.1 million people have signed a petition calling for passage of "Caylee's Law," which would make it a felony to fail to report a child's disappearance within 24 hours. "The level of emotions with this case is so high because it dealt with a child," she says. Florida state Rep. The System Worked. Casey Anthony trial demonstrates that U.S. Constitution still matters in the Social Media Age.
The Casey Anthony trial demonstrates that the U.S. Constitution still matters in the Social Media Age. Casey Anthony was accused of killing her daughter Caylee Anthony who died under mysterious circumstances in 2008. On July 5, 2011, Casey Anthony was found not guilty of killing Caylee by a jury of her peers since the prosecution did not prove its case beyond a reasonable doubt. Even though Ms. The State of Florida lost not because of the not guilty verdict but because they most likely spent several million dollars on a case that did not answer who killed Caylee Anthony. The Sixth Amendment of the U.S. Some may argue that the media won while others may argue that the media lost. Sheppard v. In the Social Media Age, it is easier than in the Television Age to be tried to convicted in the court of public opinion.
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