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<blockquote data-quote="wkmac" data-source="post: 855390" data-attributes="member: 2189"><p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/anthony-trial-lack-evidence-good-defense-000636253.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #ff0000">Lack of Evidence or Good Defense</span></a></p><p></p><p>I believe it's the former and not the latter. If anything Baez was able to exploit that lack of evidence to the advantage of his case. </p><p></p><p>A child is dead, no argument and as I said in an earlier post, there are no winners in this case and that is still true. But if anyone is at fault for this, if you will, I'd blame the prosecution and the hysterical, emotion driven public. The public allowed itself to be driven by the likes of the Nancy Graces of the world who saw this as dollar signs in bank accounts. The prosecution instead of doing real due diligence like it should relied on shoddy legal work not unlike a lot of it's other legal work and hoping the pure emotion of the case would carry the day. If there was no real evidence to convict then the jury did it's job and I'm thankful to them for doing it. </p><p></p><p>Instead of getting all wrapped up emotionally in this whole deal, maybe the prosecution and investigators may have been better served to have laid back, waited and watched. Let the killer think they've got away with it and then they might have relaxed and did or said something they should not which would expose them. It's a high probability the killer of this child is not some abstract stranger but someone close and therefore is not a threat to larger society in a serial kind of way. </p><p></p><p>The mom may have in fact done this, there is just no evidence to prove it and should that evidence emerge later, because the prosecution and the public's emotional need for blood, the rush to judgement will prohibit a 2nd trial. Then again, the emotional public champions all other trampling of individual rights so I guess double jeopardy could be at peril too.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="wkmac, post: 855390, member: 2189"] [URL="http://news.yahoo.com/anthony-trial-lack-evidence-good-defense-000636253.html"][COLOR=#ff0000]Lack of Evidence or Good Defense[/COLOR][/URL] I believe it's the former and not the latter. If anything Baez was able to exploit that lack of evidence to the advantage of his case. A child is dead, no argument and as I said in an earlier post, there are no winners in this case and that is still true. But if anyone is at fault for this, if you will, I'd blame the prosecution and the hysterical, emotion driven public. The public allowed itself to be driven by the likes of the Nancy Graces of the world who saw this as dollar signs in bank accounts. The prosecution instead of doing real due diligence like it should relied on shoddy legal work not unlike a lot of it's other legal work and hoping the pure emotion of the case would carry the day. If there was no real evidence to convict then the jury did it's job and I'm thankful to them for doing it. Instead of getting all wrapped up emotionally in this whole deal, maybe the prosecution and investigators may have been better served to have laid back, waited and watched. Let the killer think they've got away with it and then they might have relaxed and did or said something they should not which would expose them. It's a high probability the killer of this child is not some abstract stranger but someone close and therefore is not a threat to larger society in a serial kind of way. The mom may have in fact done this, there is just no evidence to prove it and should that evidence emerge later, because the prosecution and the public's emotional need for blood, the rush to judgement will prohibit a 2nd trial. Then again, the emotional public champions all other trampling of individual rights so I guess double jeopardy could be at peril too. [/QUOTE]
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