As the Casey Anthony trial drew to a close and the masses of angry, bitter people who knew nothing of Casey, her parents or the trial except for what the propaganda ridden media told them I couldn’t help but wonder who would sign the first book deal. Would it be Casey, her loving parents or the vilified defense attorney? It took all of six whole weeks for me to find out that the winner was Mr. Protect and Serve himself, prosecutor Jeff Ashton.
The title, Imperfect Justice: Prosecuting Casey Anthony, sets the tone for the entire book by showing that Ashton is planning on portraying himself as the victim in this very public debacle. By placing the blame on our obviously flawed justice system instead of pointing the finger back at himself and his team of prosecutors, he avoids having to answer to the fact that the jury was correct in their verdict because he didn’t have one shred of credible evidence as to what actually happened to Caylee Anthony. This was evident in the charges that were filed against Casey when Ashton couldn’t even decide if she premeditated her child’s death or not!
I’m not jumping on the Casey Anthony bandwagon, but I do choose to reserve judgment about what actually transpired on that hot June day when her child died. Nobody will ever know what happened except Casey and Caylee and possibly George Anthony if you believe her defense. I do, however, believe that after the outrageous amount of media attention this case caused, undoubtedly because of the hysterical 911 phone call made by Cindy Anthony, the prosecutors office jumped the gun and decided to prosecute Casey without a shred of credible evidence. Ashton’s asinine brainchild of the smoke and mirrors prosecution was a conceited plan to get undue national attention for himself and he foolishly expected that twelve laymen would be stupid enough to fall for it.
So after he fails miserably, Ashton decides to sit back, exploit the death of Caylee even more and write a poor me version of events while twelve citizens who were just doing their civic responsibility, a responsibility that most Americans dread called jury duty, are being harassed and ridiculed across the United States. I just have one question for Mr. Florida prosecutor who coincidentally retired hours after the verdict was read: Mr. Ashton, do you plan to give some of the money you make with this self-indulgent autobiographical account back to the Florida taxpayers whose money you squandered in order to to feed your overzealous ego?
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— go to most recent comments1 - Patricia Butrica
No actually hes donating all the money to abused kids dumbass..
2 - jodi
Why would anyone buy a book from a prosecutor that intentionally mislead the jury with stories of suffocation by chloroform, "84" computor searches for chloroform and organic decomp in a trunk when none of these were true. In fact there was one 20 second search for chloroform after Casey saw the quote "Win her over with chloroform" on her BF's myspace.....she then dumped him. There was no human decomp in the trunk from Caylee or prosectors would have tested the maggots for Caylee's DNA.......he knew better than to prove Caylee was not in the trunk. AND even the children's services report said there was no suffocation.........no wonder the prosecutor did not show the jury that report. Don't pay this man for wasting Florida Tax money!
3 - jaine
"Personal attacks are NOT allowed." Really? The whole article is a personal attack. I hope he makes a billion $$$ on the book...which, the proceeds from, I understand, are to be donated to help abused children? Casey Anthony is guilty; she knows it, everybody knows it - even the big FAIL of a jury knows it. Stop bashing Jeff Ashton. He did not FAIL...the jury did...and Justice for Caylee Anthony is the big loser.
4 - Haley Bare
He may be jumping on the Bandwagon but we all know she is guilty. Not pretending, she just got away with it.
5 - sharon
I will buy His book. He is an excellent prosecutor. The blame lies with a mentally challenged jury. All facts presented were like the writing on the wall. The jury just wanted out.justice from a pathetic jury was not served. Jeff might as well make bucks...the slime defense is and will. Miss Casey is long low and will shine for bucks in the near futurey.
6 - jodi
Nothing has changed with regard to prosecutorial misleading stories since the west memphis 3 were convicted without evidence but thankfully the intelligence of our juries has changed. The Casey Anthony jury proved that we will not be mislead by stor telling prosecutors with no evidence. Caylee drowned in the pool just like most toddlers that die in Florida. The difference is Casey paniced, disassociated herself and covered up ...........and I believe George was involved.
7 - Merry
Jaine,you could not have said it better. I agree 100% with you. Im looking forward to reading his book. Jeff deserves a medal.
8 - who-casey the killer?
Everyone knows Casey killed her baby; either by intentionally killing, or negligence. No matter what, the baby died in Casey's care.
Don't blame the prosecutor. there is no camera when crime happened.
9 - tammy_l
I can't understand why anyone would want to read about a failed prosecution.
10 - Jennifer
I will be proud to buy this book. Jeff Ashton is about the only person I ever saw true emotion while this trial was going on...he really seemed more bothered by the death of this child than her mother, and most certainly the defense. The shock and heartbreak on his face when America learned Casey had gotten away with this crime mirrored what America was thinking, and this ruling will go down in most minds as a sad day for the American judicial system.
11 - MiMomma
For those of you who do not believe Casey murdered her child: Who did? Notice not one person in the Anthony family has asked for any further investigation. That should speak volumes to you! Jeff Ashton passionately fought for justice for Caylee. Please send requests to the Anthonys and defense team asking them to find out who the true murderer is.
12 - Lou
Jeff Ashton did an amazing job prosecuting this case; it's not his fault the jurors turned out to be idiots. He truly cared about what happened to Caylee
13 - Cat Burkhart
Again, another blogger who CLEARLY did not pay attention to the trial but wants to ride on the media sensational topic of Casey Anthony. This article was written either to just get eyeballs on his blog or he is just another ahole w/ an opinion not vetted or researched. Sorta like the 12 DUMB jurors in the case. To BLAME this prosecutor because 12 idiots could not follow the science or chronology and got snookered by a "kiss-ass" defense attorney is ludicrous beyond all measure. Even the comment about George Anthony, "if you believe the defense" shows that this writer got snookered to. If its important to you, which I am sure it is NOT, go back and watch every minute of the trial. You will then see what so much of America saw...this jury was stupid!
14 - Bee
I will buy this book. Jeff Ashton fought for justice for Caylee and Casey got away with murder. The Judicial System failed Caylee.
15 - PerfectJusticeAston
I'm glad he is telling his story and donating the proceeds to abused children. If it protects innocent children, I say a big Amen!
I have my copy on pre-order at Amazon.com, such a blessing that I can contribute to a cause. Caylee's death will not be in vain.
I hope Aston sends Casey, and those that helped set her free a copy for Christmas!
16 - Renee in SF Bay
Finally we'll know the closest thing to the truth by what happened behind the scenes of this case that were not allowed in the courtroom. Kudos to you Mr Ashton for having the courage to do that!
17 - Cindy
Do you really think that the book written by Casey Anthony will be the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth so help me God? C'mon.
18 - Ashton
Don't say there isn't a shred of evidence. There was a mountain of solid circumstantial and physical evidence against her. The jury had a ridiculously ridged interpretation of what reasonable doubt means. They were the ones who dropped the ball.
19 - IntegrityR
Most of America didn't watch every moment of the trial. Most of it was held during working hours and was very time consuming. What most of America saw were the sound bites that the mediea wanted them to see; information they wanted the public to know. But anyone who read all the discovery and watched every minute of the trial knows Ashton presented no evidence. It will be interesting to see how Ashton covers his derriere explaining how he knowingly provide false information, such as 84 searches for chloroform, when in fact there was only one.
20 - PerfectJusticeAston
Cat Burkhart, you are correct, it is to draw attention to his/her blog. As you can see, there are ads all over the place.
Oh, the amazon link above will give the blogger a commission if you go through it to pre-order. Go directly to Amazon.com.
21 - Shirlee
12 Brain Dead Jurors would be a better title for the book.
22 - Razzy
I will most 100% buy Ashton's book. It is the only book I will buy. I will most definitely not buy books that are full of lies, which will be by Bozo Baez, Mumbles Mason, SINdy and Georgette Anthony, and Laughing Boy Lee Anthony, and the Most Hated Woman in America (love it!!!), Pathological lying, Narcisstic, Skank, Baby Killer, Convicted Felon, Casey Anthony. There's no way in H*ll I would contribute a penny of my hard money to these blood money grubbers. There was no evidence that Georgette molested Casey, no evidence that Kronk body snatched a dead baby and hid it for months hoping for a big $$$ payout. Killer Casey and her DUH-fense team are full of BS, and it looks like the BS from them will keep on coming. BOYCOTT ALL THINGS ANTHONY AND HER DEFENSE TEAM!!! The only thing these people understand is $$$, what better way to get back at them by not contributing any of your $$$.
23 - CJ
For the dull minded poster who sees Jeff Ashton as the bad guy here, you should be the one to read the book. It seems you need an education regarding circumstantial cases, inadmissible evidence, jury instructions, ethics, constitutionally protected rights, and reasoning. Interesting that lacking any proof what so ever you declare Ashton guilty of "self serving conceit" and " presenting not one shred of credible evidence, in order to get nation wide attention for himself" and being responsible for costing the Florida tax payers so much money. Sorry, dude! You are soooo dumb. It was Casey's lies that cost the Florida taxpayers and they are paying for her defense as well, due to her indigence. Now normally there is a court appointed attorney when a defendant can not pay. Not the case with with Anthony who had a team of lawyers billing the state. And she continued to cost the state more by appealing the ruling that she return to serve her probation sentence. This, even though her lawyers knew of (but hid) the terms handed down in actual order. It is Baez making a mockery of our justice system that you should be criticizing, swamp head!
24 - Shawnee Burns
Here goes another one of Jose Baez's interns spouting off at the mouth, or could it be one of his mail order brides. Truth is Baez and his team are the ones who were unethical...through paying a computer analyst to look at all of hits on facebook and other social media sites they found it easy to blame George instead of the correct person being CASEY ANTHONY. A mother killed her helpless child and someone should write a book about it. Who better than Jeff Ashton...I hope he rolls in dough-no one better deserves it. I have already pre-ordered 15 books-one for me and 14 for family members...GO JEFF, and all of you haters are just JEALOUS :)
25 - JALDB
Wow. Just wow. I really think some people need a video tape of the murder to believe it was murder and would even THEN question it. Circumstantial evidence is credible evidence. DIRECT evidence hardly ever exists. The smoking gun is rare. This jury, judging on the few that spoke out, just didn't pay attention. Plain and simple. In my opinion they were waiting that entire trial for Baez to back up his molestion claims and didn't really listen to anything else. He never did. Not a SHRED of CREDIBLE evidence to back up those ridiculous claims was presented. No matter what you think of G. Anthony. Who had custody of that child, that car, those clothes? Who lied for 31 days? You gotta ask yourself, why did she lie? This was her own flesh and blood. She gave birth to this person and she lied for 31 days? To protect whom? HERSELF, that's who. The words of her own mother will live on forever..."...smells like a damn dead body has been in the car". Her own mother, who from then on fought and lied to protect her. As G. Anthony said 1+1 = 2 sir. They know and the world knows that Casey killed her own kid. I am sure there are people that watched this trial gavel to gavel. I didn't, but what I did watch and read and hear, there was more than enough proof. MAYBE it wasn't premeditated as I too thought the chloroform argument was WEAK, but it was definitely MURDER. I will read this book but you know what book I would pay BIG MONEY to read....a book by any juror that does the research they were forbidden to do before the trial and then has the GUTS to come out and say they were wrong. That's a book I would stand in line to purchase.