"(This) always seemed like a wrong decision to me, given the ... absence of a cause of death (and) a time of death," Toobin said. "To make this a death penalty case sounded to me like the prosecutors had been spending too much time listening to people on cable news being outraged about the case rather than evaluating the evidence in the cold light of reality, and I think that was where the media influence was, more than in how the jurors behaved."
Like a jilted lover, after a three year affair, attorney/media pundit Nancy Grace, angrily opined, " "as the defense sits by and as their champagne toast after that not guilty verdict, somewhere out there, the devil is dancing tonight."
Well, the jury came to a decision in spite of the Media lynching in advance.
One of Anthony's lawyers, defense attorney Cheney Mason gave the press the finger, and declared,
"Well, I hope that this is a lesson to those of you have indulged in media assassination for three years. Bias, and prejudice, and incompetent talking heads saying what would be and how to be. I'm disgusted by some of the lawyers that have done this.
And I can tell you that my colleagues from coast-to-coast and border to border have condemned the whole process of lawyers getting on television and talking about cases that they don't know a damn thing about and don't have the experience to back up their words or the law to do it. Now, you learned a lesson."
I hope my concerns are unfounded. They would be if jury trials were only for individuals who commit crimes. But the driving factor, if there was an effort to cut back on jury trials, would be corporate crime-- coal mining companies that cause deaths, oil companies that destroy ecosystems.
If there's an effort to kill or weaken the jury trial, front groups will use Casey Anthony as its poster-child, but behind the scenes, corporations will be funding one more way to weaken ways the middle class and consumers can exact accountability from the ever growing collection of too-big-to-fail corporate behemoths and rogue multinational companies that have as a major goal, evasion of regulation or accountability.
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