“It may have been an unpopular decision, but it looks like the right one to me.”
In what universe?
http://www.angelfire.com/ak2/intelligencerreport/rightwing184.html
Murder is the intentional and unjust killing of another human being.
It is most probable that Casey killed her child, but that doesn’t make it murder. She was an irresponsible party girl who didn’t want her child to affect her ability to party. So she likely drugged her child so that she could party at all hours without having to pay for a babysitter.
Drugging your child like that is neglectful, abusive, and if you overdose the child accidentally or if the duct tape used shifts, so it covers Caylee’s breathing passages would probably be manslaughter.
However, manslaughter is not murder. I think Casey deserved the possible maximum penalty for manslaughter, but that’s not what the prosecution charged her for.
The prosecution charged her with a planned and intentional killing of her daughter and that’s why the jury had to find Casey innocent, because the evidence didn’t support an intentional killing.