In Defense of Casey Anthony's Jury

Hate won't do any good to Caylee's memory. If people don't agree with the Jury's decision, it is OK, but it is not right to punish them just because they followed an established procedure and according to their good faith and understanding of the evidence, they came to an unpopular, but honest decision.  Decision that similarly could save you or your loved ones when you are in need of impartiality by a Jury.

Like it or not, the jury's duty wasn't solely to evaluate Casey Anthony's behavior connection to the possible murder of her daughter. The Jury had to consider all the evidence, physical and circumstantial, which could prove motive.
Casey's behavior could be all the disgusting that you want, but that doesn't prove murder. 


Who'd You Prefer to Judge You?
If your destiny or that of someone you care, depended on a group of people deciding if you or your loved one are guilty or not. Who'd you prefer to be in that group to give a verdict?:
a) People who already have their minds up against you?
b) People who are not biased against you, but will have access to friends, co-workers, facebook, Nancy Grace or any TV network who will be trashing you 24/7.
c) People who know very little or nothing about you; who have been evaluated against bias; who will be sequestrated and who will have access for the first time to your case, without prejudice.


They Jury did the Right Call. 

I applaud conscious critics for rationally debating whether the Jury could have weighed the evidence in one way or another, but I don't agree with the kind of critics that just have a vague notion of what happened in this trial, and say the Jury is stupid, brainwashed, dumb or whatever appellative they want to say, simply because  "it is cool to trash anything Casey Anthony, so, let's join the party and have fun". This blog was written with the second kind of critics in mind, the ones that are convinced they have the right to express whatever they want to say just because they watched 15 minutes of a show, then watched the special of a famous "TV Expert", or simply:  "Everyone says she is guilty, so, she is"  and they decided that is the whole and plain truth. That is unfair and irresponsible on their part, because they are expressing an opinion  solely based  in what the networks, friends and family gave them as breakfast, lunch and dinner in a biased way, clearly against Casey, when the critics should have taken the time to have a real and informed background,  before taking the time to express their opinion. The jury in the Casey Anthony trial did exactly what they were expected to do by our Constitution and our legal system. They were objective and clearly based their decision in the evidence and testimonies presented by the prosecution and the defense. 



The Ugly Truth.
The tittle, doesn't make reference to "respectful" and "arguments" based opposers to the Jury's decision, but to the "haters". 
As many other people, I have read a lot of the comments people leave in social pages and I can't believe the high level of hate those pages are loaded with. You only read a couple of comments of people who disagree with the verdict, that are respectful, the rest, are a collection of the worst a human can have inside. After reviewing  those "hate" comments, it is easy to conclude that most, if not all, are from people who don't have a clue on this case; you won't find arguments at all, only hate, hate, and more hate for the sake of it. They needed an excuse to make something out of their boring lives by taking out all the hate and interior garbage they had inside, and Casey Anthony was just an excuse to focus, target and direct all the hate already inhabiting their hearts.

Prejudice Test 

Be honest with yourself with this one (please, really really be honest): 
Can you sincerely say that you followed the trial by the minute? By the minute I mean that you watched all the testimonies and weighed the evidence by yourself, or even went a little bit further and searched the internet in sites like Investigation Discovery to  deepen your knowledge of the evidence.

The answer is automatically NO if you fit in one of the following:

 a) I don't need to follow a trial by the minute, because she is sooo blatantly guilty, I don't need to prove it, 
 b) I only watched excerpts in the night show.
 c) I am very informed. I watched the "blank" show and formed an opinion based on that.
 d) I never heard of this case but a friend from the office told me she is so guilty, so she must be, and by the way, doesn't everybody thinks she has a guilty face?
 e)  I hate Casey so much, so she is guilty. 
 f)   Where have you been all this time? Everyone is saying she is the worst person in the world, so she is it.

Now you understand why a Jury has to be carefully selected? Now you understand why a Jury has to be isolated from the media and basically the world? Because if they were prejudiced, racists, haters, homophobics, women beaters, or had all the misinformation and biased comments from the media, their co-workers, their mother and their dog, they could easily produce a verdict based on everything but truthful to the law.


TV networks should be penalized for manipulating the information in such a way that encourage hate and distrust in our legal system, generating a wave of hate among the majority of the people, who are the ones that trust with their eyes closed  what the media, their co-workers and their mother have to say, without even questioning it for veracity.
The media should inform its viewers how strict the procedure to chose a Jury is; how the legal system works;  how evidence is weighed, and explain in detail how the mechanism to get to the verdict works step by step, so the people who doesn't have a clue about it, won't get a last minute surprise.

The Rule of Law prevailed and despite what the propaganda machine created in the audiences mind, Casey had a fair trial.

Ex-prosecutors and so called legal experts seem to think: "If I win the case, of course I am the best legal mind ever! If I don't win the case, then, the Jury is a group of idiots". They can't accept the reality: Prosecution couldn't come with a convincing argument after three years.

The media  praised the prosecution as brilliant all the time before verdict. After the verdict, now they say the prosecution leveled the bar too high by going for first degree murder. What does it mean? The TV personalities weren't as experts as they appeared? Of course they don't want to accept their ignorance in front of the TV viewers.

Think Before Talking.
Thinking is what differentiate humans from the rest of the creation, but if we just repeat what our friends, our mother or the media tells us as the truth, without taking the time to analyze it, weighing it and getting to a conclusion by ourselves, then we are not different from a trained animal. If we didn't follow that thinking procedure, we are wrong even if we are right, because we didn't come to a conclusion by ourselves, we were acting simply as a repeating parrot.

The jury has been vilified as I will be vilified because of this blog by people who are so blinded by hate, prejudice and misinformation that they think they are right, or worst, some blatantly know they are not right, but they join the party just to have some fun or they are so mean and bully that it feels so good for them to take the Jury as a Punch Bag to liberate their own frustrations, if that is the case, then it was positive because the Jury was a free Psychiatrist for them.  As KeithD in a CNN blog commented:  "The cult-like lynch mob mentality in this country is scary".

Prosecution had 3 years to prove Casey Anthony was guilty, and they couldn't come with one single conclusive evidence, but the critics think they are smarter than the Jury just because they followed the case occasionally, when they had time, or maybe never and in addition they have the best argument of all: "Everyone in the media say so". Bravo, you thinking minds.

Jury's Six Weeks
Jury members spent 42 days of their lives, sequestrated, with no other mission in life than  revising and weighing evidence, testimonies. Listening to both prosecution and defense. Assuming they slept for 8 hours each day, then they dedicated 768 hours of their lives exclusively to this trial. They had no influence from the outside world. This was a selected jury of unbiased thinking people. 
In those 6 weeks, how much of time did the Jury haters dedicated to this trial? 700 hours?, 500?, 100?, 24?, one hour each night watching the excerpts contaminated by the biased opinion of the host in their favorite show? Or maybe Jury haters just watched a few hours in the last couple of days? What about the ones that based their critics on nothing more than an opinion of a co-worker, spouse or mother?

The Jury: A Few Good Ones.   
Any way  you look at it, Jury members had a huge advantage on anyone apart of themselves. This is a super qualified group of people, tested against bias, racism, hate, and anything that could influence their decision to anything  other than the truth. They had access to each and every piece of evidence available. They had enough time to check it, study it and weight it. Did haters do that? Of course not, they are not even interested, because their only motivation is hate. Haters don't  need to prove nothing, because for them it is so super obvious Casey is guilty, they don't need to prove it, because according to them, it is not necessary. They will repeat as parrots: "Casey is a party goer; chloroform; duct tape; odor in the trunk", therefore she is guilty, no more evidence is needed, kill the bitch!!!

Do you think that this jury was so lazy as the  majority of the critics, that their only job was to see a couple of pictures of Casey partying as enough evidence to declare her guilty?

People are literally taking Casey and the Jury as a punch bag to release all the frustration that comes from not knowing what really happened to little Caylee. But what bothers me the most, is that a large percentage of the people is being so unfair and cruel, without  knowing the real cause, they might think"Everyone hates Casey, I don't know why, but I hate her". 
How many of the people who is going crazy against the jury, can say with certainty the real reason why they are so sure the Jury was wrong. They don't really know, and they don't care to know it.

Jury Haters Quiz
How much time Jury Haters dedicated to the trial?   
How many of the Jury Haters were impartial when weighing the evidence?
How many of the Jury Haters already defined Casey Anthony as Guilty, even months before the trial begun?

Objectivity 
Think for a second, without passion, and you will have to agree with me that the media is evidently biased against Casey from day one. I dare you to name one (just one against hundreds of shows and specials), dedicated to Casey not being guilty of premeditated murder...(crickets chirping)  I hear no answer. Because there is not, just sporadic comments every now and then.

Don't you think that it is possible, just possible, that some or all of the exacerbated hate could be partially or totally influenced by the media?

We must be thankful to the Jury, because they did all they could to be impartial and bring the truth to light, no matter what the charges were; no matter what the people or their families would think. They revised the evidence, they weighed it and they consciously concluded this was the only outcome possible. And we must accept it or not without hate.

Thing to do (Yes, just one):
I am not telling you to spend 800 hours inspecting and re-running the trial in its entirety. But at least take the time to revise the main evidence. It is easy to find it online. Then take another time to weigh it for yourself.
  
Media Media Media
The networks and their so called "Experts", spent years, trying to convince the audience that it was so obvious Casey Anthony was guilty, that they didn't take the time to weigh the validity and possible impact of the evidence on the outcome. Famous attorneys, prosecutors, advisors, explained all the factors, why she was  logically going to be found guilty. During the trial, the media's big mouth applauded each thing that favored the prosecution, as a magnificent thing.
 After Casey Anthony's verdict, the TV networks were exposed. They showed how far from the legal knowledge they were. They sold the audience a completely different story from what the Jury and the other protagonists in court were living. They made believe their viewers the evidence against Casey was so compelling, she was going to be hammered, when in reality the legal community was had a completely different opinion. The networks deceived their audience, not because the verdict contradicted the general opinion of the networks, but because, they manipulated the truth of the evidence. But wait, media is not supposed to be biased, so what are they doing now? They are trying to win the case out of the court. They manipulated the opinion then and they are manipulating the opinion today. They want you to believe, something really wrong happened here, and at the same time, they are asking the people not to take justice on their own against the Jury or Casey.



Disclaimer: I am not a legal expert. This is a blog to express my discrepancy with the media, because I think the Jury in Casey Anthony's trial is being unjustly  vilified by the people, and I think this is the result of the exaggerated bias the networks had spread over the country against the Jury. All this hate is going against the memory of adorable Caylee Anthony, and against the spirit of the law.