Do you care about the Casey Anthony trial? (how much, crime, claim)

[hothulamaui]

I voted yes, I don't think I "care" is the right word perhaps more descriptive would be interested

[theunbrainwashed]

I don't care at all. I see it on TV I immediately switch the channel. This is like when I was in England last year it was 24/7 about Jo Yeates.

Media viewing numbers are dropping for all the major networks (yes, not just Fox my fellow liberals) and they refuse to air true scandals like the IMF, World Bank, Goldman Sachs having their hand in every presidency, you know, unimportant crap like that. So they want to boost their viewing numbers by taking a random criminal case and making it into a celebrity case.

[Ceece]

Hell no.

[workingwithpain]

Originally Posted by HurricaneDC

I seriously hate these "celebrated cases" as we call them in my criminal justice class. Just becomes a media circus. Plenty of people are killed every year in the US, often including little kids. Why is the media suddenly making a huge thing out of this particular case? I haven't watched a single second of the trial and I plan on keeping it that way simply because these asshats have turned it in to another program to pull in ratings.

What the media does is not the fault of the defendant. I hate these things too; however, it does reveal how little people understand about how the justice system works in this country. And that is IMPORTANT. It is also important that trials are OPEN TO THE PUBLIC and are not conducted in secret and hidden.

I hated all the media around the Scott Peterson trial, too. But it was the same as this, it revealed how little people know about how trials work, how evidence is gathered, etc., on the whole.

[workingwithpain]

Originally Posted by pommysmommy

The parents are whacko but the daughter is a murderer who deserves to die for killing her child.

Not much on learning the facts, are you?

[workingwithpain]

Originally Posted by hothulamaui

I voted yes, I don't think I "care" is the right word perhaps more descriptive would be interested

I agree with you. I think the case is very interesting. There has been so much testimony and so many witnesses who contradict each other. I think this is a somewhat complicated case for the state to prove.

[pvande55]

I feel sorry for the grandparents. But how many other murders never get the publicity. A good argument for not televising trials.

[dreamofmonterey]

At least it knocked weiner off the MSM. ugh...not even pleasant to look at
The MSM and CNN itself is becoming trash for cash mentality, sad bcs in 2003 other than courttv I dont recall MSM having news about lindsay lohan and trash that no one cares about.

[freespirit715]

I'm interested only as far as the information allowed to the jurors. I believe any juror, in any case should have access to every piece of information about the person on trial as to their behavior, what other people think of them, and everything else available online and in newsprint. The way it goes now, they only get the bits and pieces the attorney's want them to have which I believe contribute to the enormous amount of criminals in our prisons today. How unfair to the justice of a murdered child is it to not let the jury see absolutely everything and hear absolutely everything? And how can they make a fair decision based on what indiscreet lawyers tell them. I think our justice system needs some big changes, starting with the Supreme Court who seems to have a missing morality gene.

[carolac]

Since I live here, work in the legal community with these people, know the commentators, yes, I do. Judge Perry, our chief judge, is doing a great job with this trial. Now Nancy Grace, well. . . .