Not Guilty! Wow

..yes, and the case was bungled to death

DA over-reached for whatever reason. The longer the case went, the more obvious it became that they were tilting at windmills. I honestly don't see how anyone who went only by the evidence presented at trial could have found her guilty of murder.

I guess she could support herself by competing in more hot body contests. Ugh! Somebody will support her simply for the notoriety. Eric and Lyle Mendez met and got married while in prison for killing their parents. Only in America.....

At least once she is free, she can begin her search for the real killer.

She can "write" a book and people will buy it.

I disagree. The burden of proof must go beyond reasonable doubt. The defense's "reasonable doubt" would have you believe that both Casey and Dad new of the "accidental death" but had no inclination to tell anyone...not the cops, not even other members of the family...but instead made up a lie about a kidknapping. And the defense never touched the chloroform evidence which I guess is just suppossed to be coincidence. Their explanation goes beyond any sense of REASON. OJ SImpson had a better defense than this chick IMO

Sorry, PJ, WRONG.

Is it reasonable to beleive that Casey was guilty of SOMETHING, be it 1st degree muder, manslaugher, aggravated child abuse, neglect of a dependent resulting in death..........YES. But "sense of reason" is not the applicable standard.

Did the prosecution prove any of this beyond, and to the exclusion of, all reasonable doubt? NO.

That is the standard in any criminal prosecution, and it has served us well over the years. Have some guilty people gotten away over the years with crimes because of this heavy burden of proof on the government? YES. Have some innocent people been exonerated over the years of crimes they were accused of because of of this heavy burden of proof on the government? YES.

I will take the system we have now any day of the week, and twice on Sunday, over the straight-to-execution crowd (and I do not include you in the latter, PJ).

The defense to doesn’t have to prove anything they just have to be able to cast doubt on the prosecution's case. The evidence in this case was very weak. A lot of the things that had been sensationalized in the media turned out not to be true or not provable. For instance the prosecution could produce no evidence of the heart shaped duct tape that the media loved to talk about and the bad smell that came from the trunk was doubtful because there was also a bag of household garbage that had been there for so long that it was infested by maggots.

I watched the DA's bizarre press conference where he first seemed to take a victory lap, and then said the reason we didn't win is because it was weak case as we had no physical evidence. Which tells me a plea should have been offered as Paddler said. He did mention the high costs of the trial to the taxpayers many times which makes me wonder if they didn't cut corners especially with the expert witnesses.

Maybe Whitey will get a jury trial in Boston with similar results.

Just shows that even no good sluts can get off if the DA doesn't do it's freaking job.