Priceless.
As you might guess I’ve paid more attention today than I have to this story in three years. What has me fascinated right now is just how crazy Nancy Grace is and how irresponsible CNN is for letting that lunatic on the air. The attacks on the jury for being cowards for not talking to the press show an incredible lack of self awareness given the likely reaction from people like her and the people she has influence over.
I’m not quite sure how a case like this was filed as first degree murder when there apparently was no direct evidence of when the death occurred, how it occurred, or where it occurred. Was the mom involved? Probably. But probably is reasonable doubt. This notion that no parent would ever do such a thing as dumping the body misses the point. The mother and her family are quite clearly fucked up. Fucked up people do fucked up things. To convict someone that fucked up you still need evidence of what specifically they did. Pointing to the woman and saying she’s obviously crazy and a bad mother isn’t evidence of a murder.
One other thing–why always in Florida? Why?
Why is it that the media goes nuts whenever a person they perceive is guilty is found not guilty but never utters a peep when someone they know is innocent is found guilty?
Far more occasions of juries convicting on little or no evidence occur regularly in this country than do the occasional OJ or Casey Anthony verdict.
But those people are scary brown people and probably deserved it anyway…
It’s a bizarre populist outrage based on ignorance and rage. Watching Nancy Grace is both appalling and hysterical–not unlike watching a televangelist.