Nancy Grace and Casey Anthony
In a verdict that surprised everybody in the Orando (Florida courtroom) jurors acquitted Casey Anthony for murdering her two-and-a-half-year-old daughter Caylee Anthony.
Casey Anthony was let off from first-degree murder, aggravated child abuse, and aggravated manslaughter.
However, she was convicted for four misdemeanor counts of providing false information to law enforcement officials.
The jurors, including five men and seven women, who heard testimony in the month-long trial and took nearly 11 hours, said: “We, the jury, find the defendant not guilty.”
Had she been convicted of murder, then Casey Anthony would have either got a death penalty or life in prison.
Jurors gave this shocking verdict after hearing 91 witnesses and 30 days of testimony, with stunning revelations, disturbing evidence and even more disturbing behavior.
- Nancy Grace.
According to the Huffington Post, Nancy Grace of the Nancy Grace Show on CNN is personally appalled at the verdict in the Casey Anthony trial.
It seems to me that an appropriate response to a headline like this is profound indifference. Who cares what Nancy Grace thinks about the Casey Anthony case?
Of course, lots of people do care. I know because when I was combing through the day’s news items, “nancy grace casey anthony” was the number one trending search on Google this morning.
Before we get into the nuts and bolts of Nancy Grace’s opinions, however, and why they matter to people, let’s run through the Cliff’s Notes of the Casey Anthony trial – just in case you haven’t been following it.
Anthony (25) was accused of knocking out her 2-year-old daughter (Caylee) with chloroform, suffocating her with duct tape, stashing her in the trunk of her car, then dumping her in the woods.
The defense claimed that Casey Anthony, who lied about several details regarding the disappearance of Caylee, came from an abusive family and that her father covered up Caylee’s accidental drowning in the family pool by dumping her body in the woods.
On Tuesday Casey Anthony was found not guilty of all charges except lying to the police.
Nothing about this case is clear. There are no good guys. The grandparents are clearly as bent and narcissistic as their female offspring. All of them do their best impersonation of human beings, but end up looking little better than mirror-gazing monkeys miming outrage and remorse.
Something is clearly missing in that family.
In a just universe Casey Anthony would have been genetically incapable of reproduction.
If conscience was truly universal, or even better, God-given, then she and her family would never sleep peacefully again.
Unfortunately, it’s not a just universe, and nothing is God-given save what we give God.
Enter Nancy Grace.
Headline News has been so wrapped up in the Casey Anthony case, it wasn’t enough to witness the verdict mid-afternoon – one had to wait to see how Nancy Grace, who has been violently beating the drums on the case for months, would react.
That the caption under the giant BREAKING NEWS banner across the bottom of the screen began with OUTRAGE gave a pretty good indication where it was going.
She wasn’t just spewing contempt for the jurors – recounting which of them finished school, telling of one who had a rap sheet, who wasn’t feeling proper to judge others. She was acting as if her next move would be to post their addresses and start the vigilantes herself.
‘Tot Mom’ is what she called the acquitted. She spat out the term as if she meant to say ‘tart mom.’ The way she kept saying it (tot mom, tot mom, tot mom) it began to sound like the name of an Asian dictator, from Tojo to Pol Pot.
Tot mom, tot mom, tot mom.
Grace surrounds herself with similarly loud lawyers, cordoned off in little boxes in the margin of the center square (to block!); her huge head with its helmeted hair, twice as big in the center of them, as fearsome as the Wizard of Oz spitting fire on Dorothy.
It wasn’t exactly a diverse group of attorneys; all were echoing the Grace party line and howling of the perceived injustice.
But even when she asked them questions, there was never any proof she actually listened to the answer. She’d let follow-ups drop, go onto the next talking head, and not listen to that answer either, as she waited for time she could return to her own rant.