By now everyone and their uncle will have made a comment on the Casey Anthony trial, where the accused was not convicted of a heinous crime, the murder of her daughter. Although all the media hype points to the fact that she must have known something, there was simply not enough evidence to convict her, probably because the body was found so late in the game, albeit months after the original crime.
People are drawing a lot of similarities between her non-conviction and the OJ Simpson debacle. Again, there was a lack of evidence, somewhat exacerbated by Chris Darden trying to get OJ to put on a shunken, bloodied glove found at his house, and Johnny Cochran screaming "If it doesn't fit, you must acquit." Remember all that? If not, you should try to find the transcripts or the videos!
OJ's evidence was compelling, but incomplete, and it was as fresh as the prosecution could muster. Casey Anthony's evidence was just plain old, stale, and too far decomposed/removed, to prove anything except the remains belonged to her daughter. If anything, the prosecutioin proved only that she was a rather unfit mother.
OJ is behind bars now, for a different crime. Casey Anthony will be behind bars for a short time, for lying to police, but she'll have to live with the guilt forever. OJ, I believe, thought himself to be
"doing the right thing" in his mind, and so I doubt he ever felt any regret, if he did indeed do the crime.
This was obviously not a slam-dunk case, and it will be parsed for years, trying to figure out how or what went wrong. The jurors reached the correct verdict. They too have to live with their decision. But for Caley's sake, I hope the real truth comes out, so we as the public, can put aside our anger at this tragedy. We were rather pacified when OJ finally went to jail, albeit not for the original crime, but jail is jail. We have not seen the last of Casey Anthony.
I'm just waiting for the other shoe to drop...on Day 149!
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