Casey Anthony

Casey Anthony was put on trial for murder on May 24, 2011. The trial lasted six weeks, from May to July 2011. Prosecutors were seeking to give Casey Anthony the death penalty and allegedly claimed that Casey murdered her daughter so she would not have any parental responsibilities for the child. By managing chloroform and applying duct tape onto the child’s mouth, Casey Anthony murdered her own baby. Casey Anthony’s defense team tried to argue against the charges by claiming that the child had drowned on accident in the family's swimming pool on June 16, 2008. The defense contended that Casey lied about this, along with many other issues, because of a dysfunctional childhood. They claimed that she had endured sexual abuse by her father. Casey Anthony’s defense did not present any evidence however on how Caylee died, or any evidence that claimed that Casey was sexually abused as a child, but yet they still challenged every piece of the prosecution's evidence. During her trial; Casey did not testify.

No longer is this freedom vs. cause, but instead it is now viewed as caused vs. constrained. Caused is certain conditions obtain and something happens. Constrained is certain conditions obtain and something is compelled or forced to happen. Ayer uses an example of a common thief and a kleptomaniac to illustrate his point. He states that a thief makes his own decisions when stealing. The thief can stop himself from doing such crime and choose not to steal. The thief is then faced to be dealing with cause where freewill and moral responsibility apply. While a kleptomaniac suffers from such disease in which he has no choice when it comes to stealing. He is then faced to deal with constrained where freewill and moral responsibility do not apply. Both of these take place while containing determinism. So cause is part of freewill and not the opposite.

Casey told detectives several lies, including that her nanny had kidnapped Caylee on June 9, and that she had been trying to find her, too frightened to alert the authorities. She was charged with first-degree murder in October 2008 and pleaded not guilty. The prosecution sought the death penalty and alleged Casey murdered her daughter to be free from parental responsibilities by administering chloroform and applying duct tape. The defense team countered that the child had drowned accidentally in the family’s swimming pool on June 16, 2008, and that George Anthony disposed of the body. The defense contended that Casey lied about these issues due to a dysfunctional upbringing, which was said to include sexual abuse by her father. On June 5, 2011, the jury found Casey not guilty of first-degree murder, aggravated child abuse, and aggravated manslaughter of a child, but guilty of four misdemeanor counts of providing false information to a law enforcement officer. She was released on a bond of $500,000 and a Florida court overturned two of the misdemeanor convictions on January 25, 2013.

As the police and the investigators began their search, everything began to get intense. Detectives stated that they found strands of hair that matched Caylee’s hair in Casey’s Car. (Timeline of Casey Anthony Trial, ABC News Internet Ventures). When Casey was released from jail, she was sent right back it for first degree murder ; also she had been telling everyone false information. Everything she had stated was a lie. (Timeline of Casey Anthony Trial, ABC News Internet Ventures).

What is freedom? Firstly freedom can be said to be our ability to act our will without opposition. Secondly freedom can be said to be the ability to have will in the first place. From the first we can see that ability being oppressed when either other's wills and abilities are more powerful than ours thus stopping our will or when external factors such as say the natural order, or the natural world in exp. If I want to get somewhere and there's a mountain in the way I can't make that happen in the original plan . From the second, one have to argue what is free will really? How "Free" is it? Is it only derived from the first when we are able to remove external forces? No longer do we have kings and queens telling us what to

On July 15, 2008, Cindy Anthony called the police saying her daughter Casey Anthony stole her car and some money. Later that same day the police received another call from the same person saying that her granddaughter Caylee Anthony had been gone for over a month. When this was heard, they knew they had a big case on their hands. The mother Casey Anthony was taken into custody and told many lies concerning the whereabouts of her daughter. The police began to investigate and found some interesting things that could very well prove Casey Anthony guilty of kidnapping and murder of her own daughter.

Dr. Voss testified in the Anthony case that the odor on the carpet was in fact the odor of human decomposition and noted his 20 years experience as credentials. The truth is Casey

The Casey Anthony trial involves the death of her two year old daughter Caylee Anthony. Casey Anthony is accused of killing her daughter. Casey Anthony claims her two-year-old Caylee Anthony is missing On June 9, 2008 in Orange County, Florida. Anthony later tells police she dropped Caylee off at a babysitter's apartment. The name that Casey had given to the police officers was Zenaida Fernandez-Gonzalez. On June 16th 2008 was the last Caylee grandparents saw her alive. Casey didn’t give her parents any details about nothing. Later on in July of 2008 a post from the internet allowed Casey parent to locate the car which had been towed. There was a foul

One major argument of the the philosopher Friedrich Nietzshe against free will it is self contradicting. He says “If human actions result from choices, which in turn emanate from the will, and, supposing that the will is determined by human nature, human actions are not caused by the agent as such, but rather are conditioned by the way the agent is” (Grillaert 1). Everything has a cause. When we make a choice, we do so for a reason. If we freely choose one action instead of another then the causes of our choice are the determining factors.

In the “Introduction to Free Will” Robert Kane explains freedom of will is having nothing preventing a person from making their own choice or decision with full freedom (6). There is an inevitable relation between accountability, free will, and personal responsibility. According to free will, individuals are able to make their own decision regardless of outside or higher powers. Therefore, free will would make Cosby accountable for his actions because he chose to commit the crime and was not force to by external powers.

The problem with free will defense is that it only addresses moral evil, the evil committed, on purpose by

No, as Alvin Plantinga states, “free will and casual determinism are logically incompatible.” Flew tries reconciling a world where free will and casual determinism co-exist. By definition, free will is when a human can choose to, or refrain from an action at his or her’s own discretion. In Flew’s world - freely choose and causal determinism, the human is forced to choose and is not entirely free. Flew uses the word freedom in a nonstandard, unordinary way. In addition, “whether Flew is right or wrong about the ordinary sense of ‘freedom’ is of no consequence; his objection is in an important sense merely verbal and this altogether fails to damage the free will defense.” In summary Flew ties to argue free will defense by a nuanced meaning of freedom not by logic. When the word is uncovered for what it is, the logic falls

Some people subscribe to the notion of “soft determinism” (William & Arrigo, 2012). This suggests that a person’s choices are determined by both free will and determinism (William & Arrigo, 2012). Many people simply cannot accept that their free will to make choices could be removed completely (William & Arrigo, 2012). They also accept that determinism factors can play a role in the choices people make (William & Arrigo, 2012). In order to determine if Aileen was morally and legally blameworthy, the extent of her life’s influences would have to be considered (William & Arrigo, 2012). I would be less inclined to hold Aileen accountable for things she did as a young juvenile based on her age and the horrific home-life Aileen was subjected

Free will defense is an argument that tries to make evil compatible with the existence of God. God is said to have given humans free will, and humans do not always use that free will for good things. Sometimes evil comes out of it, so therefore the evil in this world is said to be sparked from free

Freedom can be described as being spontaneous. A free act is unconditioned. Freedom is in fact, another kind of causality. The categorical imperative is something that has an end within itself. The categorical imperative can be achieved with a “free” act. The rationale that everything is causally determined says that morality is impossible and a sham. However, Kant argues that morality is somewhat possible if someone does a moral action in a “free,” unconditioned way. However, the freedom causality has never been observed because it is nearly impossible to understand someone’s motives. However, it could exist at least in theory.