The Casey Anthony trial was finally brought to closure on July 5, 2011. The verdict surprised 'most' people according the media. The media conveyed a tone that seemed to portray that Casey was guilty before proven innocent. Many news anchors seem to look at Anthony as a failed mother whom had done the unthinkable in killing her daughter. Unfortunately regardless of the political bias of CNN or FOX the question that seemed to most frequently debated was whether justice was served. Our legal system is not designed to test the morality of an individual's actions or if the person is 'right'. As eloquently stated on Fox primetime show Huckabee, Alan Dershowitz exclaimed that our legal system is only set up to test the legality of a case, and not constituted to align with 'the court of public opinion'.
Dershowitz defending American Court System
Victimizing a jury is akin slapping the police officer who found and returned your tricycle. The officer has done his job by finding a lost item. If that tricycle that he returned now has marks and scratches on it that is not the officer's jurisdiction. But if the theft victim procedes to slap the officer then that person is inferring that it is the cop whom is responsible for the damage to the bike.
My point is here that if you are having trouble swallowing the Buick sized pill that is the Casey Anthony Trial try this... find fault with defendant. The defendant is the one who was put in this trial for the alleged actions she took against her daughter. Do not pin the tail on Joe the baker or Mary the hairstylist. The jury came to what they felt as an acceptable and rational conclusion to the case.
There is one more aspect that I would like to tackle... The CSI factor. Yes it is true that Law in Order and CSI along with the three dozen other crime shows on basic cable do draw in ratings and are quite popular among the general public. But to say that the Jury refrained from dishing out the guilty verdicts because of allegiance to hard-core evidence and DNA justification is just ludicrous. As Glenn Beck my favorite crazy man with a chalkboard says, [The American People are not Homer Simpson]. When I watched Transformers I didn't suddenly believe that my toaster will eventually take on a new life. Regardless of 'collaring', blue or white or their education Harvard or Community College it only takes focused thought to draw the necessary connections in order to reach a verdict. Law and Order is a great show and I am always satisfied that the entire case can be fit in between dinner and homework. When a jury is sequestered in a hotel for over six weeks and faced with choice of slapping a human being the the death penalty Jack McCoy, Olivia Benson, and D.A. Branch are a mere afterthought.
Anthony could very well become a millionaire with book deals, interviews, and talk show appearances. This is another trait that has outraged the public, but ironically the members of the infamous court of public perceptions will help propel her to CNN and the New York Times Best Seller List. Hey Public! if you are distraught over justice not having been served in this case do yourself a favor and continue playing cards you originally dealt, if you think that a murdering is walking free dont ferociously flock to Barns and Noble.
Maybe it is the Supreme Court that has it right, no cameras in the court room period. Chief Justice Clarence Thomas has never been a proponent for introducing cameras into the court room because it prohibits the media and press from creating a mockery of the supreme judicial system. Justice Thomas may be right, protecting the American Public from consuming predigested clammer form national news outlets is a sure advantage.
If the Casey Anthony trial was not televised and all we got were those creepy watercolor court paintings, well we would all still be watching Law and Order.
"It is better for ten guilty people to walk free than for one innocent person to be convicted"
