Moment of Clarity, July, 2011: Casey Anthony Walks
Channel: Kim DeMotte
Date: 20/07/2011

If you're one of the 250 million Americans who watched the saga of missing Caylee Anthony unfold over the past few years, how do you feel about the verdict?

Caylee's Mom, Casey claimed to neither know nor care where her child was for a month.  During that month, she was seen partying around her Orlando area home, seemingly oblivious to her daughter's plight.  

She was arrested for fraudulent check charges.  She was charged with lying to the police, but she did not kill her daughter.  So says the jury of 12 unanimously.

It's easy to get into one's Knower/Judger and proclaim she did it.  It's even easy to go out on the streets and protest violently that the jury didn't get it "right".

But the prosecution did not develop enough irrefutable evidence so that a jury of 12 citizens could put Casey Anthony to death.  That's a choice none of you other 250 million had to make.

Here're some facts.  Since 1982, 8 death row inmates have been put to death who were later exonerated....but it's STILL easy to convict at the water cooler.  

39 more inmates were put to death where new data....not presented at trial... put their capital conviction in doubt.  HANG 'EM!

Juror Number 12 in the Anthony trial felt so threatened by the backlash from the verdict that she quit her job at a local grocery store and moved out of state.

The entire process, was tried in the court of public opinion.  

Talking heads were on night after night convincing us that the prosecutors had it right by pursuing the death penalty: that jurors with all that evidence for what an uncaring slut of a mother Casey Anthony is wouldn't DARE turn her loose.

Only Casey Anthony knows whether or not she is responsible for little Caylee's death.  And she's not offering up any evidence.  

That's our way here in the good ol' U.S. of A.  We cannot be forced to incriminate ourselves.  And we are considered innocent until proven guilty.

But here's my point.  We want to punish.  We want Casey to pay a price for being so despicable.  

Let it go America....move on.  While I would applaud the cause of Caylee's death being discovered, there's no right or wrong in this process of jurisprudence.  

The jurists did their job with the data they were given.  They certainly have my permission to sleep well tonight. 

Sure.  Casey Anthony's not Mother Theresa.  But us carrying on like school children robbed of their recess (righteously claiming right from wrong) only serves to perpetuate our Knower/Judger ire....and we know what that can do to us.

As for as Ms. Anthony?

I love you
I'm sorry
Please forgive me
Thank you. 

I'm Kim DeMotte, Corporate CoDriver and this is another Moment of Clarity.