Ohio Church Holds Mock Retrial Of Casey Anthony

CLEVELAND -- A church service in Ohio has included a mock retrial of Casey Anthony, the woman in Florida found not guilty of killing her 2-year-old daughter.

WJW-TV reports Sunday's exercise at the In Touch With Christ Christian Center in Cleveland was led by the Rev. Una Keenon, a retired municipal court judge in the community of East Cleveland.

She asked the 12 church members who acted as jurors to consider whether it would be right to send Anthony to death row if she did not kill her child.

The church jury was hung, with eight voting guilty and four voting not guilty.

Bishop Prince Moultry, the church pastor, said the important lesson from the service was to protect children in Cleveland from the same fate as little Caylee Anthony.

Comments

[Rafael Perez]

06:11 PM on 07/24/2011

stupid churches re-enacting court cases, like if that is going to change anything. Stupid christians

[Jetro]

04:13 PM on 07/24/2011

They dress up and go to church and this is what they do? What next will this pastor with too much time on his hands prescribe for his docile congregation on a Sunday?

[Ktbu Lfu]

08:56 AM on 07/22/2011

These people need to get a life.

[Edward Wilkes]

10:14 PM on 07/21/2011

Looks to me that even the lovers on some kinda high cannot come to the right conclusion. I wonder if the churches verdict will accomplish what they set out to do now - (SAVE LIVES OF CHILDREN) as they put it! I think not!!!

[inthedesert]

09:04 PM on 07/21/2011

Whatever...but, I think most people believe that she got away with murder. The Desert Sun(Palm Springs)reported today that she is in hiding in the desert and has signed a million dollar deal to tell her "story". Maybe with the money she can have plastic surgery and change her name cause otherwise....her karma is gonna get her...eventually.

[thehuffingtonposter1]

11:18 AM on 07/21/2011

attempting to speak for God is the greatest of all sin's...

[dgudell]

06:04 AM on 07/21/2011

So why would a church want to be involved in a homicide case??? the media????
Sounds really stupid to me ...Maybe just maybe they should stick to teaching the gospel and leave the media to telling us how and why we should react to a case. AND THEY DO.
Next they will be holding a mock trial on Rupert Murdoch......Where were these holier than thow people when Bill Clinton told America ,that he didnt have sexual relations with that women.
If they want to take up a hobbie maybe they can feed the homless.

[neutralslamm]

10:45 AM on 07/20/2011

Maybe they can do the mock up of where Casey is now, bopping her lawyer, lol. Cant wait the porn movie this %@%$#%$ does next, what a specticle.

[ujustdewit]

10:29 AM on 07/20/2011

Never heard of a church that would do such a thing. Where did they get the informatiion on the case?? News media? enough said.

[IfIonlyknew]

09:36 AM on 07/20/2011

Obviously the church has no faith in God holding people accountable.

[inthedesert]

09:04 PM on 07/21/2011

GOD??

[IfIonlyknew]

10:58 PM on 07/21/2011

There is a book about Him,It is a # 1 seller.

[Ryan Schmidt]

02:31 AM on 07/20/2011

How can any of us say guilty or not? None of us can see that actual trial evidence, testimony, or any real facts of the case...

[neutralslamm]

11:10 AM on 07/20/2011

You have a child that child is missing for weeks, you dont report it, infact you ignore it. You are guilty of SOMETHING are you not? Or should we let it ride due to lack of evidence, lol.

[IfIonlyknew]

12:39 PM on 07/20/2011

That is the way it works.

[Ryan Schmidt]

11:27 PM on 07/20/2011

I agree with you that she's guilty of something, possibly of the murder but the fact is, there isn't much evidence.

And like IfIonlyknew wrote, that is the way it works.

[alle1997]

02:09 AM on 07/20/2011

sounding anything but sure. The jurors said they did NOT believe the forensic evidence, particular­ly the "smell" evidence, www.christianlouboutinuk.us which is not proven science. They went point by point through the prosecutio­ns assertions­, and didn't find merit with any of them. Why are so many people so sure that they KNOW that she's guilty??

[ArjenBoatsma]

08:35 AM on 07/20/2011

Too many people mistake their feeling for the factual reality. If feelings and facts collide, many people go with their feelings.

[Evelyne Holderbaum]

09:19 PM on 07/19/2011

We are not to judge but yet for some reason you all seem to think the jury that JUDGED did the right thing. But, the rest of the world has no right to do exactly what that jury did. The only differnce is the majoirty of the world got it right. When the jury did this I believe with all intentions of making off of it. But, that doesn't matter only that we judge. That's our system isn't it to judge by a jury of your piers well guess what we are a very large jury of her piers and we decide she is guilty. Though I don't believe in the death penatly myself I believe that she should have never been outside of the prison walls. Cause, yes there are thousands and thousands of children that go missing every day and I care about each and everyone of them. But, now I have to care about each and everyone of them living next to her or that she may have another child and do it again. Judge that!!

[quilltr]

08:13 PM on 07/19/2011

What is with these people? Or some of the commenters, for that matter. I just watched a show where they analyzed the trial, and talked to the jurors and the prosecutor. The two alternate jurors also said they would have voted not guilty, and some of the jurors said not only not guilty, but that they thought she was innocent. Even the prosecutor, when asked if he thought Casey did it, hesitated for a few seconds before answering "yes...........yes, I think she did," sounding anything but sure. The jurors said they did NOT believe the forensic evidence, particularly the "smell" evidence, which is not proven science. They went point by point through the prosecutions assertions, and didn't find merit with any of them. Why are so many people so sure that they KNOW that she's guilty?? When people who really DO know all the evidence, think she's not guilty, or at the least that it was not proven?

[neutralslamm]

10:43 AM on 07/20/2011

True, but millions been murdered during the communist revolution, so lets include that also, or should we mention that here. The best thing you can do is instill the average person the ability to protect themselves as it seems institutions have the historical reputation of killing more people than they protect. Thankfully the Founders had the wisdom to see this. God bless the Constitution of the United States of American and the Bill of Rights.

[neutralslamm]

10:54 AM on 07/20/2011

Millions have also been murdered in the name of politics, remember the communist revolutions of asia, russia, southamerica, etc. The best you can do is give the average citizen the ability to protect themselves, politically as was a physically. It seems institutions (including political ones) have the historical reputation of killing more persons than they protect. God bless the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.