Casey Anthony Trial

So, I was at home yesterday, turned on the news, and the anchorman was telling me that in just a little while I would hear the verdict of the Casey Anthony Trial. So I stuck around to see that verdict and to be honest, I'm not as pissed off about it as everybody else seems to be. Allow me to explain why.


First off, I have been following this trial to some degree. I work every morning from 6:30 to 8:30 am and have the opportunity to catch the news in that time. This means that I get the tail end of my local morning news and then I get the Today show. At 7:30 every morning for the past month, the Today show has covered what happened the day before in the Casey Anthony trial. I was aware of the evidence the prosecution had against Casey. I heard sound bites of testimony. I saw the prosecution and defense bicker like an old married couple over things I didn't understand. I saw so many pictures of Caylee and Casey that I have them permanently etched in my brain. What I'm saying is that I was very aware of this case, and a few things bugged me.


I should mention first of all that just before the trial started my sister wrote on Facebook:

I believe that quote helped me to look at the case in a more objective light. Yes, there are suspicious things about Casey's behavior, her lying, her car, etc. But just because you have suspicions doesn't mean you're right. All the evidence I saw in this case was circumstantial. There was no concrete proof that Casey murdered her daughter. And I can tell that I'm not the only person that believes that. Twelve jurors agreed that the evidence the prosecution brought forth was not enough to find Casey guilty of murder, manslaughter, or child abuse.


I think the reason people are so angry is because, first of all, very few people have a complete understanding of what happened in that trial. This trial was going from 9am to 5pm five days a week and 8:30am to 1pm on Saturdays, that's 44 hours and 30 minutes a week. When all was said and done there was over 230 hours spent in court on this trial, just over a week and a half. Are there any of us who had the time to sit down and watch that every day for a month? Were we there for the whole thing, or were we (like me) just getting little snippets on the news every morning and evening along with somebody analyzing it with the preconceived notion that Casey was a killer? I believe that the jury knew what it was doing in this case and that the verdict they arrived at was a demonstration of the justice system working in America.


I closing, give Casey a break, she has had to put up with your vile, hateful, toxic, attitude toward a situation of hers that you know nothing about. Stop treating her like scum and treat her, like my sister said, with respect.


Update: I just found this article from one of the jurors in the case.