Casey Anthony - guilty, or not?

[Semantics]

Originally Posted by Scorp

Bullshit, with all those facts so far, she's crazy like a fox. I don't buy any of it. She wants people to feel bad for her with the hopes of pleading insanity. Good thing I'm not on that jury, I'd already have her convicted.

I put her in the same boat as Pamela Smart, OJ Simpson, Scott Peterson, Joran Van Der Sloot, Andrea Yates, and many others that I can't think of right now.

I just wanted to address the difference between Andrea Yates and the others you listed. Andrea Yates was suffering from postpartum psychosis well before she harmed her children. She had previously tried to kill herself because she knew that she might harm them. Despite repeated attempts by Andrea to convince her husband and her psychiatrist and her pastor that she was a danger to her children because she was suffering from a (diagnosed) psychotic condition, she was pressured by them all to go back to her life.

There's a huge difference between postpartum depression and postpartum psychosis. I don't think that her victimization comes anywhere near that of what happened to her poor children, but I also think that she was insane at the time, the people in her life knew she was insane and didn't help, and that she falls into a different category than the others.


I think Casey Anthony has tried to set up the stage for sympathy based on alleged past abuse and mental illness, but it was a failure.