Anthony verdict

[veronica_rich]

OK, Florida fen (and others, I suppose) - I kept up almost not at all with the whole Casey Anthony thing, aside from having heard her and her daughter's name once in a while in the news the past few years. (Yeah, you might think this hard to do, but I assure you, there's plenty else in the news to occupy me, since watching certain other topics is sort of part of my job.)

What do you think about today's acquittal?

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[gobsmacked.livejournal.com]

I should add that I am probably greatly influenced by this article:
http://chronicle.com/blogs/brainstorm/innocent-until-proven-guilty/36958
and recent news reports that one state has apparently had to get rid of the death penalty because they executed 13 innocent people in the past few decades.

I am also probably influenced by recent news items in Canada of the reversal of a convinction of a mother previously convicted of killing her child. The reversal was due to the fact that the coroner in the case was so incompetent that it is suspected that hundreds of cases were compromised.