Like many people I feel that Casey Anthony should just fade into the woodwork, and hope that she will do just that. Although I think the the possibility of a book deal, reality tv, movie or Lifetime movie will be too much for her to turn away from. Since I am someone who just wants her to fade away, this is going to (hopefully) be my farewell on this subject.I say hopefully because sometimes I can not respond to a post on Fb or an email or a tweet (and now a Google+ post) but sometimes my over opinionated self cannot help but respond. But I am going to try to put myself into a Casey Anthony no speak/type zone after this.
I think most of the country has an opinion on this topic and it appears that a lot of the opinion is that Casey Anthony is guilty of more than just the charges she was found guilty of. I definitely feel that she played either a direct or indirect role in the death of her daughter or at the very least a role in the cover up. Like a lot of people, I lean towards thinking she had a direct role in Casey's death. The likelihood of us knowing for sure is very slim.
I wanted to blog about the verdict. I know a lot of people are still mad at the jury (on juror is reportedly in hiding over this). But the fact is the jury had reasonable doubt. It was the job of the prosecution to make sure the jury had no reasonable doubt. The prosecution did not do their job. Was it their fault? Did they bring the case too soon? Or did the defense simply use whatever they could come up with to create reasonable doubt? These are some of the questions that I'm sure the prosecution will be pondering. The simple fact is that whatever was the catalyst for their being reasonable doubt, the jury did their job.
Do I like the verdict? Hell no! I wanted to scream and cry at the same time when I watched the verdict being read. And I was pissed at the jury in the beginning. Then I looked at the facts. A lot if not all of the evidence was circumstantial. How can we convict someone when there is not only reasonable doubt but there is also no concrete evidence? I hope and pray that Casey Anthony never decides to have children again. There is no guarantee that the same thing will not happen again. I hope it wouldn't and I hope that if she does decide to have children again that she does so when she is mature enough to handle the responsibility. I know a lot of people feel that she should not be allowed to have children again. Well, no one has any control over that but her. She was found not guilty of the more severe charges and she paid her dues for the charges she was found guilty of. Trust me when I say I wish that woman did not walk out of that prison today.
I wish there was justice for Caylee, and I don't think there was. As much as I don't believe that Caylee didn't get justice, I do believe the justice system worked. At least it worked the way it was supposed to. We would like to think that our justice system is infallible. Unfortunately it is not. But it is one of the best justice systems (if not the best) in the world. We can't expect perfection from anything or any person. Sometimes innocent people go to jail and sometimes guilty people go free. I'd like to think that the numbers are very small in both of those situations and that most of the people who go free are innocent and most of the people who go to jail are guilty.
My biggest hope right now is that people do not help Casey Anthony profit from this. I hope that most people won't buy any book she writes (and I mean that she writes. If your like me you love true crime books. If someone like Ann Rule were to write on the crime and trial, I may buy it) or goes to see any movie that comes out about her (goes to the theater if it is a major film or watches it on tv if it is a tv movie) or in any other way helps her profit from this. There is a part of me that hopes that she did not do this, but the biggest part of me feels she is guilty as sin. Problem is we don't convict people on feelings or intuition. We convict on evidence. Either way, in my opinion, she should not profit from the death of her daughter.
Ok, that's it from me on this topic. Remember, like with anything I write in my blog it is just my opinion.
Janet Lee Smith
07/17/2011
