The Presumption of Guilt

This great nation was founded by people who had endured the tyrannical reign of people who used the judicial system to suppress their freedom. They had been systematically falsely accused and victimized by a system that made it easy to have someone prosecuted, effectively silencing their voice.

These people were the ones who founded this great democracy! I wonder how these people feel about the Casey Anthony trial?

Do they feel like a murderer walked free or do they feel like the system worked the way it should?

Our legal system is founded on the presumption that ALL PEOPLE are Innocent UNTIL Proven Guilty! However, nearly 400 years after the Pilgrims fled England, the inverse of that is true. Defendants are presumed guilty until proven innocent.

Whenever the legal system performs the way it was designed to and protect people from being imprisoned without sufficient evidence to PROVE their guilt, Americas cry injustice.

Fact is the Prosecution in the Anthony trial should have waited until they had concrete evidence to prove Casey Anthony's guilt, or at the very least tried her for the stuff she was guilty of. They failed.

They felt they could use their power to make an example of her as they have so many others before her. Prisons are filled with people who were convicted on circumstantial evidence and others who have be falsely accused.

I applaud Judge Belvin Perry and all 12 of those Floridians who allowed Ms. Anthony to have a fair trial. Judge Perry sequestered them for the duration of the trial and it undoubtedly protected the integrity of each jurors vote. The media had Casey Anthony on the lethal injection table as the jury deliberated.

The fact is Ms. Anthony is free, and in no way obligated to tell what she knows about how her daughter died. Our system looks to punish people for their involuntary involvement in crimes, when I think it should instead seek to retrieve the information they have that may lead to the real perpetrators arrest...but that conversation should be reserved for another blog. Meanwhile the real murderer is free, whether that person is Ms Anthony or someone she knows only God knows. I'm glad he doesn't rely on our legal system to pass judgement, if he did my ass would be doomed.

It is not my job to judge Ms Anthony, based on the evidence the court presented she could have been guilty, but so could any number of others, and for that reason she is free. I hope she is smarter than Mr. Simpson and tries to lead a quite life in some secluded place...otherwise she will find herself guilty of something dumb like stealing your shit with your name on it.

And to quote the great Forrest Gump..."That's all I have to say about that."

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