I'm going to copy paste what I said before and elaborate a bit.Caramel Frappe said:You know what makes it worse? That the mom within the month of her daughter being 'missing' was out partying. Yeah, explain that to the courtroom please. Oh wait, it doesn't matter because she was found innocent even though she lied and some evidence was obviously strong enough to prove she's guilty.
Also, love your Avatar it owns. Personally, I think she did something to convince the jury or perhaps the judge about letting her go. I sense something wrong with this case, which I like to call 'Making a Deal'. This deal let her go, but what's the catch? Doesn't matter to me, for I am very upset that she got away with it especially with the obvious facts. I'm actually with you on how you feel my friend.
What I'm trying to say is that I hate it when the media ends cases like this before they even begin. Please, try to imagine if Casey Anthony was somehow innocent. She probably isn't but imagine she is. She now has to live with one eye over her shoulder, in fear of getting stabbed in the back at any given time.
The evidence against her was circumstantial at most. Nothing concrete existed, but the way the mass media twisted it, this was an open and shut case that she managed to worm out of through sheer bitchery. The legal system may be fucked yes, and we may go by the insanely stupid guidelines of "Letting 1000 guilty men run free rather than one innocent man go to jail", but that's just how it is.
Could it have been exceedingly obvious she committed the crime? Yes. But the jury has the task of potentially killing this woman. Their decision wasn't about what this woman did, but rather if there is enough evidence to prove that this woman did it. I'm almost positive many of them were convinced she did it. However, sending somebody to their death because of what you think isn't how our justice system works, it's about what we know. Not one of the jury was convinced that there was enough evidence to prove without a shadow of a doubt that she did it, and frankly, had I been in that courtroom with them, I would have agreed.