tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32362551.post1668549038899194741..comments2023-12-13T16:57:33.142-06:00Comments on Blogodidact: Casey Anthony: Where's the Justice in that?Van Harveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32362551.post-9958118692649933662011-07-07T17:23:07.195-05:002011-07-07T17:23:07.195-05:00Whether or not a Wrong was redressed, or whether o...Whether or not a Wrong was redressed, or whether or not Justice was served, are two very different things. Justice, in the societal sense, is Not morality. It often serves it of course, but Justice within society is the Law applied in such ...a way as to uphold and defend the rights of all, and to do that, as the statue shows, blindfolded to what we believe we might Know. A little girl had her life ripped away from her... that is a moral issue which can never be fully redressed, made right or atoned for by any system of Justice, if that is what is looked for with the question "Was Justice done?", the answer will forever be "No!", no matter the verdict or sentence.<br /><br />We, as a society, Have to adhere to a process which is, to the best of our capability, a system that will address legal issues in the most reasonable, impartial and fair manner which we can achieve. When we carry out that process, correctly, and to the best ability of the court - no matter the result - Justice IS done.<br /><br />We cannot truly know what only God and the guilty do, and to act as if we can, will only guarantee regression towards savagery. Aeschylus’s Orestia should be required reading - as it once was - for nothing else so well describes the inner turmoil, strains and horrors that had to be overcome, individually and as a society, in situations just like this, in order for the West to graduate into a civilized society.<br /><br />A better question might be could we face that test ourselves? Could I be content with the judicial process if that had been done to one of my kids and I was sure I knew who did it? I hope so. I won't pretend to know for sure though. I would however know the system I faced if I failed the test.<br /><br />(Previous comment, and this, carried over from facebook side)Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32362551.post-74605620285155545892011-07-07T17:22:00.714-05:002011-07-07T17:22:00.714-05:00Was justice served and was the jury wrong are two ...Was justice served and was the jury wrong are two different things. A little girl is dead. Justice was not served. Is the jury wrong? That depends on whether you think the prosecution proved its case, not whether you think the mom is guilty. She probably is.Sandi (from FB)noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32362551.post-55107661630369427072011-07-07T17:19:53.378-05:002011-07-07T17:19:53.378-05:00Ben said "Better to allow a guilty man to go ...Ben said "Better to allow a guilty man to go free, than to put an innocent man in jail."<br /><br />Yep. The alternative to that is that you allow the letter and process of the law to be breached to satisfy the whims of men, and in doing that you enable anyone having the power (or anyone willing to bribe them for it), to designate anyone - as they feel the need, urge or whim to - as being guilty. <br /><br />With that the entire system and meaning of Law and Justice are bodily thrown out of court, the Rule of Law is gone, and the say-so of men (soon to be Tyrants) is given the force of law.<br /><br />I'm... gonna say that's probably a bad thing.Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32362551.post-13582642496043916612011-07-07T14:48:05.840-05:002011-07-07T14:48:05.840-05:00I think the prosecution did err in seeking the dea...I think the prosecution did err in seeking the death penalty because they lacked significant forensic evidence of guilt. That being said, how could those jurors find no fault when it came to child abuse? Someone parties when their child is missing? Someone puts their child in a situation where harm can befall him/her? If that's not child abuse, I don't know what is. "Not guilty" on the murder charge may be defensible, but not on some of the other charges.Rosemarynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32362551.post-85826582942440319132011-07-07T13:29:05.698-05:002011-07-07T13:29:05.698-05:00Better to allow a guilty man to go free, than to p...Better to allow a guilty man to go free, than to put an innocent man in jail.<br /><br />A criminal defendant does not have to prove innocence (they do not even have to present a case), rather the prosecution has to prove guilt, beyond a reasonable doubt. If anyone is to blame for the verdict, blame the prosecution for either putting up a bad case, or seeking unreasonable charges.Benjamin Evansnoreply@blogger.com