Why I think the jury decided as they did

Did the Anthony jury not care that somebody stuffed an adorable child’s body in a trash bag with duct tape stuck in her hair and then threw her away in a trash dump?

Of course not. Of course they cared. Of course they knew someone had committed some kind of crime against the child, if nothing more than not caring that she died and then disposing of her body in a horrible, criminal manner.

Jean Casarez of In Session claims that the jury has just told murderers they need to bury their bodies well. She says the jury ignored the cadaver dog evidence, ignored the evidence of the remains, and the computer searches for chloroform.

She must not have listened to the same evidence and testimony I did. All the cadaver dog evidence showed was that a body was probably in the Anthony back yard at some point and that the body was probably in the car at some point. The dogs did not tell anyone who died or who put the body in the car and why.

The evidence of the remains proves that someone wanted to hide the body, but there was no forensic evidence of who wanted to hide the body. That the manner of death was homicide is likely, but not conclusive, because no one knows the cause of death—not even the famous Dr. G.

And the computer searches? Only someone completely ignorant of technology could think that was evidence of anything other than curiosity about something someone said on MySpace. The search on “how to make chloroform” came after a MySpace page on which one of Casey’s boyfriends made a remark about winning girls with chloroform.

Casey Anthony isn’t getting away Scott-free. She will be hounded by crazy strangers all her life, by the media all her life, and the odds are that she won’t be able to cope with this even as well as O. J. Simpson did. She needs therapy. She needs to get a life. It’s unlikely that will happen.

Actually, the reason Jean Casarez and all the In Session commentators are appalled at the jury is that they are all former prosecutors, and, frankly, I am sure that all prosecutors and many judges wish there were no juries.

What I don’t understand at all, though, is why George and Cindy Anthony could not bear the sight of their daughter being spared a lethal injection and had to escape from the courtroom before the judge even pronounced her not guilty.

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