I accompanied my client and friend to the annual Hotel and Restaurant Show in Orange County Convention Center in Orlando. He is planning to open a restaurant, and new ideas, and the expo was a big help.
After the day of workshops and hours on the Expo floor, we are on our way back. We stop at a new restaurant to look at the design, and in the lobby there is an 8 by 11.5 black and white photo of Kailey Anthony.
We have seen this face so many times on TV, and here it was right here on the shelf, and you suddenly understand that this is not the news on TV, this is real, this is right here.
Every time I watch the news, I am fighting the rising anger against her mother Casey. I understand that I am an immigrant, and what was normal there is not normal here, but I still do not understand how someone can manipulate everybody not for a second, not for a minute, not for an hour... but for months.
Law enforcement is searching for the girl, volunteers from all over, even other states, search for the little girl, and the mother WHO KNOWS WHERE THE GIRL IS keeps her mouth shut.
Maybe I sound stupid, but shouldn't the society have the right to act in the interests of the society and get the answer by medically drugging her (and if you feel that the judge should sign on that, so be it) and get the answer. The truth should not be what the procecutors or the attorneys negotiate. O.J. Simpson is not innocent because they failed to prove that he killed. I sometimes feel that we tend to take the jury's decision for the truth, and it often isn't. Just abstract from everything. Casey knows what happens, and for already over 2 months the girls is missing, and we are waiting for everyone out there to solve the case, everyone except for Casey. Does it seem like reasonable behaviour for adults?
I can imagine the uproar form people. I can imagine that people would say that this is freedom and you can't force people talk. They have rights. Whose rights? Kailey's or Casey's?
What do you think?

Jon Zolsky, your Daytona Beach connection
www.BeautifulFlorida.com
12 Comments on Caylee Anthony. Whose Rights are Protected?
It's a horrible thing that she hasn't been found... or the mother hasn't confessed as to what happened. I'm not so sure I would support them drugging her... but I would support them horsewhipping her if she had anything to do with the disappearance. Hell, call her a prisoner of war and send her to GITMO. :)
I can't say about the drugging part... I have not studied the effectiveness. However you are right, our legal system is not working correctly, and this woman is evil. There should be a very large penalty for obstructing an investigation.
There also needs to be a line for an attorney not to cross. As I understand it (and please do correct me if I'm wrong), if her attorney knows where the body is, he cannot tell the authorities. How does that work with him being an officer of the court???
John - I understand your angst, I also have it. But I am a firm believer in the constitution and part of that states that we are not required to provide evidence against ourself. A drug induced confession would violate the constitution. I sincerely hope Kailey's mother, if guilty (and, under that same constitution she is innocent until proven guilty) is found out and gets life at very hard labor, without privelege of any kind.
The constitution is a two edged sword, it protects all of us, and, unfortunately, sometimes those it protects are not deserving.
Jesse - "horsewhipping"... ha, interesting. I am tired of seeing Casey, and she keeps her mouth shut. It makes me sick
Chris - She really is, and it is sickening
Simon - I am puzzled, what he knows. Has she told him what she did?
Mike - Of course you are right. I was however pleasantly surprised that not a single commenter jumped on the idea. You should be proud that no matter how horrendous the crime might be, the principle kept precedence.
And thank you for reminding me that besides the trees there is the forest. I sometimes lose the perspective
I THANK THAT NO MATTER WHAT THE HELL IS GOING DOWN THATS A LILTLE BODY LIEING DOWN SOME PLACE AND YOUR GOING TO HAVE THE RIGHT TO KEEP THAT TO YOURSELF I DONT CARE THEY ARE ALL HEART LESS AND DONT CARE ABOUT NO ONE BUT THEM SELF THATS HOW I FEEL.IF THEY REALY CARED THEN THEY WOULD OF DID SOMETHING BUT NO THATS NOT HOW THEY FEEL.I JUST WANT TO NO HOW A MOM OUT OF ALL PEOPLE COULD KILL THERE OWN BABY.SHE IS SO LITTLE AND CUTE AND LOVEING.THATS HOW I THANK AND FEEL ABOUT THIS,.
Andrea- Not that I would agree with the statements, but thanks for commenting.
what happened to this little sweet girl is pure evil. I normally don't believe in the death penalty 'but in this case. I say an eye for an eye . May she rot in hell if she is guilty. This family is very dysfunctional.
Teresa - this is a very tragic family. They have lost a little one, parents face now losong their daughter, this is terrible. Imagine having to call the sheriff knowing that this was not going to end nicely, and that the family would be distruaght. And by that time they might thought that the girl was not going to come back.
Casey seems to be a very troulbed girl.