If you condemn the Juries' verdict in the Casey Anthony’s trial, move to China, Iran, Burma, or elsewhere, where justice doesn’t even exist!

In today’s (July 7, 2011) sentencing hearing, Judge Perry exercised his duty to the maximum by not condensing four (4) Misdemeanors into one Count, and running the one year for each count “CONSECUTIVE rather than CONCURRENT.” Casey Anthony has been incarcerated for 997 days and when the calculation is completed, she would be credited for time served, and in compliance with the Law, she would receive the benefit of 1 day for every 5 days served. Hence, she would be released in a matter of weeks. People, shut up, go home and find a life, our system of justice worked, the Jury spoke and that is the end of this case.

As for some of the talking head Attorneys on Television, they are Officers of the Court and as such, they should use their 15 minutes of fame to inform an uninformed “Wanton Public.” Yes, educate them, for many in the public their brain is empty but yet they are overflowing with “vengeance blood.”

We Americans, display our ignorance to the WORLD in amazing ways, because people rather listen to these talking heads on Television and Radio, whose only interest is to increase their viewing audience.

A Jury cannot render judgment based on emotion or what some one thinks, they must render their verdict on factual evidence allowed into evidence, during a Court trial. For all the self righteous people who I call “Lawyers in their own minds,” I ask you, what if it was your loved one on trial; would you still want blood despite the Prosecution having not met the burden of proof beyond any and all reasonable doubt?

We cannot have it both ways; it is the Constitution of the united States that a person cannot be convicted unless the Government has proven his/her guilt beyond a reasonable doubt, and on; July 5, 2011, in one of the more tragic cases in America, The Florida Jury Spoke loud and clear in the case of CASEY ANTHONY. Our system of Justice is one of the finest in the world and it dates back to 200, plus years as reflected below:

It is better than 5, 10, 20, or 100 guilty men go free than for one innocent man/woman to be put to death. This principle is embodied in the presumption of innocence. In 1895, the U.S. Supreme Court, in a decision in the case Coffin v. United States, 156 U.S. 432; 15 S. Ct. 394, traced the presumption of innocence, past England, Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome, and, at least according to Greenleaf, to Deuteronomy. [Also, Alexander Volokh wrote a law review article on the issue.]

The Coffin case stands for the proposition that at the request of a defendant, a court must not only instruct on the prosecution's burden of proof--that a defendant cannot be convicted unless the government has proven his/her guilt beyond a reasonable doubt--but also must instruct on the presumption of innocence--by informing the Jury that a defendant is presumed innocent.

Sheriff G Ali