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[emmagrant01]

Am I the only person who kind of doesn't give a shit about this whole Casey Anthony thing? I mean, hell, how many children are murdered in this country every year? How many of their cases made the news?

I'm not sure why this case got chosen by "The Claw" to be the one this whole country decided to care about, but I have to say I'm glad it's over. The media got WAY too involved in this, IMO. :-P

No offense intended to people who do care. I just... I don't know, feel like the media was trying to manipulate me emotionally on this one. Ick.

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[quiet000001.livejournal.com]

I think it's quite reasonable for people to question the decision of the prosecution to go forward with the case when they did, or to demand that issues be addressed (if evidence was mishandled or something, like with the OJ trial) that compromised the case. It's just so frustrating that so many people are going around blaming the jury. I got on a roll with my rant. :)

I would not, honestly, have wanted to be on that jury either. Even without the media attention, I imagine it would have been a very difficult case for many people to decide, you know?

(That said, I am getting quite annoyed at everyone saying that Casey partying and not telling her friends about things is proof that she's guilty. There may be other circumstantial evidence that leads to interpreting her behavior overall in a certain way, but - everyone deals with stress and grief differently. I would personally not be at all surprised if a young mother with a history of being a party girl reverted to that behavior after her child was killed as a form of escapism. If that's what you're doing, you're of course not going to mention the issue to the people you're partying with - the whole POINT is to get away and Not Think About It, which would be utterly defeated by talking about it so people ask questions. I'm sure many people would NOT respond in that way, also, but I think it's potentially quite a damaging message to send to people in general to say that she must be a horrible baby-killer because she wasn't showing grief in a 'proper' manner.) (Like I said, in this particular instance there are other things going on also, obviously, but I have caught a couple of news stories trotting out 'experts' who are basically saying "she was out partying, she must have done it!" and it's getting on my last nerve.)

(I admit, however, that the issue of grief and stress response is a pretty touchy personal thing for me - my husband died suddenly and young, and I have never been the type to be particularly emotionally open in public, so some of the expectations of how I was SUPPOSED to mourn really grated on me. I mean, I do everything I possibly can in every other situation to avoid crying in public, why would I change that behavior for a funeral?)