What is your opinion on the Casey Anthony story?

Answer 1

My opinion on the Casey Anthony story is that is one of thousands of family tragedies. There are many, many cases where a child disappears or dies and the parent is the only suspect. For some reason, this case captured the attention of the public, most likely because of the frantic search for the missing child and the last person seen with her and the person responsible for the child's well being would not help the authorities in finding her and kept misdirecting their efforts. In addition, the type of salacious behavior engaged in by the child's mother during the time she was missing is the type of thing that attracts the media and the attention of the public. With most of the facts of the case in question and the unusual behavior of the 'lead character', the story was a great opportunity for the media to spend hour after hour speculating and holding the attention of the public.

I don't know exactly how the child died but however she died, she was in the care of her mother at the time. A lot more can and must be inferred by the circumstances that followed her death. . I believe that investigators and the presecution did an exceptional job with a difficult case. The resources wasted following up Casey Anthony's lies and the time it took to locate the remains of her child made it difficult to prosecute the case. The final outcome rested on the opinion of the jurors who brought their own level of understanding of the evidence that was presented. Not the evidence or, more importantly, not the public opinion that the rest of us were exposed to.

This jury may have thought that she was the great mom she was portrayed and the rest of the evidence was confusing or pointed in too many directions so they didn't weigh it as heavily as her 'good mother' persona. We will never know unless and if the jurors have anything to say about their decision.