NOTE: To everyone who thinks Casey was guilty, yet celebrates this as a case where “the system worked”...
Because of our legal system, it is unavoidable that guilty people will go free. I would rather see guilty people go free than innocent people convicted.
But this is not a cause for celebration, and not a fact to be accepted gladly.
It is a tragic and unfortunate reality. Caylee is still dead.
If justice was denied for Caylee (as I believe it was in this case), it is certainly not a “good” thing. If the murderer went free, the system did NOT work. It’s just that we have no better alternative system of justice.
This is the best system that’s ever been devised.
Maybe it’s not time to rejoice as much as accept the solemn fact that sometimes murderers go free.
I ditto your comments and add that the government officials responsible for prosecuting this case did a lousy job.
If anyone is angry because they believe Casey is guilty then they should be angry at those that failed to convince a jury. Just saying Casey was a lousy mother and attempting to get a conviction on emotion is not something I want in my justice system.
As another poster said, the DA could have relaxed and monitored Casey for proof of guilt through wiretaps and other means instead of jumping to random circumstantial evidence needing an emotional jury for conviction.
I, for one, am proud of that jury for not succumbing to emotion and, instead, relying on presented evidence that was horribly lacking. The LE and DA in this case did a lousy job and wasted not only tax payer monies on this joke of a trial but wasted what might have been justice for the little girl, Caylee.
The judge did his part in presenting an impartial courtroom with a proper decorum. The defense did their part in refuting the prosecution’s case. The prosecution did a horrible job in that they both failed to wait for trail until proper evidence could be presented for conviction and in presenting terrible evidence. The prosecution’s presentations on the party habits of the mother have no bearing in deciding if she killed her child. That was simply relying on emotion for conviction.