It started with me doing preliminary casting for the inevitable Lifetime Movie (maybe a mini-series would do a better job of feeding this voracious audience at this point?). I was calling Alyssa Milano to play the most unpopular individual next to Bin Laden, Ben Affleck with a stash and goatee to play the accused molester brother, Edie Falco to make us sob for the grieving grandma, and my fellow tweep, @Paul_DPW threw out James Brolin as the accused molester father/accused adulterer with a total hag/accused dumper of his own granddaughter's body. And you think you had a tough week.
The more I watched the trial, the more I thought, what a pack of buffoons trying this case. Who didn't want to punch Baez in his smug, fat face? And why was Linda Drane-Burdick being hostile to everyone, including her own witnesses (an excellent example of why so many people have misgivings about female litigators). This is the best that Florida has? Poor Florida.
More than that, why did the state bring this case against Casey Anthony with no hard evidence... at all? And didn't they know first-degree murder was a long shot on circumstantial evidence? Given that, they could have at least made an effort to try to prove that Caylee was in the care of her mother Casey at the time of her death... never saw that brought up at trial, making the second count of aggravated child abuse off the table as well. Oh Florida!
Do I think she's responsible for her daughter's death? Probably. Do I agree with the verdict? Absolutely. There was no evidence directly linking Casey to Caylee's death and we should all be grateful that we live in a country where trials are not decided by emotion, but by facts. This very unpopular decision was the correct one and I commend the jury for having the courage to uphold the law as it was written.
If you want to be angry at someone, be angry at the prosecution. Their evidence was simply insurmountable... and christ, I don't have a JD and I saw that all day long.
And let's face it, everyone who's throwing an emotionally-raged fit over a woman they've never met, will be the same people tuning in to watch the Casey Anthony reality show on TLC, "You're Killin' Me, Casey!"
