Or so says an In Session commentator about the lines of restless public citizens waiting to be given a seat in the Casey Anthony trial courtroom.

Mobs are always blood-thirsty. There’s an endless supply of Madam Defarges knitting in the gallery and shouting their verdict of “Guillotine!”

Apparently lawyers and police officers are as heartless as the common mob, if the In Session commentators are representative of them. According to lawyer Casey Jordan on In Session, Casey Anthony’s tears are unbelievable. Viewers of the show are supposedly making remarks about the amazing, eternally dry tissue Casey Anthony holds and the indelible mascara she supposedly wears.

Well , I watched portions of the trial yesterday and this morning on a 50-inch, plasma, HD monitor, and I have no doubt Casey Anthony’s tears are real. She doesn’t seem to need mascara to look good. Her nose is bright red, her eyes are red, she has red splotches on her face and neck. She often quivers. This is a woman on the edge.

Saying that, I don’t pretend to know what is going through Casey Anthony’s mind to cause this near-panic state. She could be terrified that the medical examiners’ testimony is condemning her to death, but it’s absurd for anyone to claim her tears are not genuine.

I’m also disgusted by the suggestion that the jurors will think Casey Anthony’s behavior in court is fake. I suppose lawyers and police officers always believe a defendant’s behavior is suspect; I guess they would prefer that the defendant not be present in the courtroom where he or she can deceive the jury.

But having been a juror on a criminal jury—a jury of 12 people who were neither lawyers nor police officers—jurors do not care how the defendant behaves. They don’t even care if the defendant “decides not to be present in court,” as was the case in “my” trial. They may care during a penalty-phase trial, but all a juror worries about during a criminal trial is whether or not the prosecution has proved its case so she can vote guilty in good conscience.

Jurors know they must not decide whether or not the defendant proves her innocence or—as in the Anthony trial—whether or not she proves her father molested her. If, by the end of the prosecution’s case the jury isn’t entirely convinced of Casey Anthony’s guilt they may hope to hear testimony and see evidence that actually contradicts the prosecution’s case so that they can feel more certain, but they won’t expect Casey Anthony to prove she did not murder her child in cold blood. At most they will find her guilty of manslaughter.

Mobs are cruel and blood-thirsty. Jurors are not. Especially jurors in a courtroom over which presides a perspicacious, real-worldly judge, such as Judge Belvin Perry, Jr.

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