Well, Casey Anthony pretty much got off the hook.

I am not going to gripe and bellyache about how she was probably guilty as all hell and the usual yada yada yada about how a murderer is walking the streets and so on. it really isn't fair as twelve good tried and true citizens of the state of Florida have said that she was not guilty of Murder one and most of the other charges.

What I think happened here is simply that the state over reached and tried to get a conviction on a capital case when they had no real hard evidence.

Several years ago there was a rape case that a friend of mine sat on a jury for. The jury failed to hand down a conviction.

A few days after the case was over I ran into him and asked him about it.

He looked at me and said, "Pic, that guy was without a doubt a scumbag that was guilty of something. He truly ought to be in jail so he can't infect the rest of the world. That being said, the entire jury simply felt that the state did not have enough evidence for us to hand down a rape conviction even though we all wished otherwise. We simply couldn't pin the rape charge on him."

I guess that is a part of what happened here, but only a part.

The other part is political. The DA wanted a high profile conviction and decided that a high profile conviction would look good on his record. The DA was likely thinking that a conviction on this case would further his career.

The DA's office overreached a bit and decided to turn this into a high profile case instead of simply plea bargaining with Anthony. Had they done that they would have probably been able to put her away for a while. Instead they decided to turn this into a high profile case and try and convince the jury that she was guilty with a bunch of junk science and circumstantial evidence instead of coming up with hard evidence.

The DA's office rolled the dice and lost.

Incidentally, the day after I spoke of the rape case with my friend the defendant ran into him and started to thank him for letting him off. My friend spit on him and told him he wished the state had done a better job of proving the case. Unfortunately a fight did not break out. The defendant did the smartest thing he ever did in his life. He took off like a shot.

As to what will happen to Casey Anthony?

She'll most likely do something stupid and get nailed the next time. With any luck the state will pull its act together and win a conviction and she'll probably get put away. We haven't seen the last of her.







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