This is the first trial I have ever watched. For the past several years I've been keeping an eye on politics, so the whole Casey Anthony thing was barely even a blip on my radar. I saw the occasional news clip of Casey being moved from home to jail, or jail to home, or a clip of CA and GA fighting off the protesters/media, but I didn't know much. My mother called me on the 2nd day of trial and said I should watch because she thought I would really enjoy it. I read a lot of true crime books. I've always found it fascinating. You know, what makes a seemingly normal person kill their mother and hide the body in a 5 gallon drum in the back of a rented storage unit? Or kill 30+ children and hide them in the crawlspace of their own house, then go on day by day with their normal everyday routine? What makes a mother smother her own baby, only to turn around and get pregnant again, and smother that one, and keep doing this 8 times?? And equally mind-blowing is what makes them think they can get away with it??
So here I am, over 2 months later STILL pouring over interviews and reports, STILL re-watching testimonies. I know in my core she killed that baby. IMO, the prosecution was great! I think it was a huge detriment to the trial process that the Anthony's were allowed to sit in the courtroom if they were also going to be witnesses. It seemed to me that the longer the trial went on, the more their testimonies degraded. And I think the DT was slimy, which I have proven to myself over and over by fact-checking JB. It's almost insulting the way JB obfuscated facts to discredit extremely valid testimony. I'm truly surprised at how blatantly shifty this trial appeared to be. Between JB's "Do now, ask forgiveness later" defense strategy, the lack of following through on any punishment for perjury against CA, and the obvious lack of understanding the jury had of the instructions, I'm uncomfortable with the results of past and future criminal trials. Granted I've only watched this one trial (I've been called for jury duty 3 times, never been picked), so maybe this was the exception and not the rule. I certainly hope so. But if it's not, it's no wonder we have innocent people going to prison and guilty people walking free. It doesn't seem to be about the truth at all, but about how you play the game. And THAT is seriously messed up. I don't think 'the system worked'...I think the system is broken...for the innocent and the guilty both. MOO