In the highly-publicized Casey Anthony trial, jurors were presented with evidence for six days a week for six weeks.
Yet it took less than 11 hours to return a not-guilty verdict on all major charges.
The jury also passed on the opportunity to have any portion of the transcript read back to them or have an explanation of the laws concerning the charges against Anthony.
We feel as though the jury may not have taken this case as seriously as it should have.
While it is not our place to decide whether Anthony killed her daughter or not, it is upsetting that nobody is paying for the life of that little girl.
The jury was given overwhelming amounts of forensic evidence in this case and should have taken longer than 11 hours to consider everything presented to them.
One lady interviewed by HLN after the verdict was announced said she was summoned for jury duty, but wriggled out of it as so many people do.
She told the reporter if she were on the jury, she wouldn't have been able to say for sure Anthony wasn't guilty and would have hung the jury.
If Americans would take their civil duty a little more seriously and understand how important their undivided attention is during a trial, we might see different outcomes.
The sad truth is that so many of citizens are apathetic to these situations yet want to criticize the decisions of others.
Another thing that we felt didn't serve Caylee Anthony well was the prosecution's case against Casey.
The prosecutors for state spent much of their time trying to prove a motive for why a mother would murder her daughter.
It shouldn't be the main goal for the prosecution to prove motive, and the character attacks did little, if nothing, to move the jury.
Her lifestyle should not have been what was on trial.
The prosecution also spent hours on end discussing the duct tape over Caylee's mouth.
According to reports, a sticker had been placed on the tape above the girl's mouth, but the fingerprint dusting got rid of that evidence.
We feel like the duct tape in this case was similar to the glove for the OJ Simpson trial.
The thoughtfulness of the stickers was meant to convey a person close to Caylee who loved her was experiencing guilt.
Without that evidence or any DNA of Casey at the crime scene, the prosecution was grasping at straws at best.
Even the computer searches for chloroform, broken necks and death were not strong enough to convince the jury.
Casey's mother took a hit by saying she was the person to search for those things on the Internet.
While speculation has arisen that she wouldn't have lied for Casey had she believed her to be innocent, the seed of doubt was planted in the juror's minds.
No computer searches could be linked to Casey beyond a reasonable doubt, so the only evidence left for the jury was a smelly trunk.
Casey did not get on the stand to defend herself during the trial, something we feel an innocent person would have fallen out of their seat to do.
This is just one of hundreds of similar cases across the country, and who knows how many little children have gone without justice?
The bottom line in this case is the body was recovered too late to find the cause of death, and a lot of evidence was lost in the decomposition process.
We will never know all the facts in this case, and Caylee will more than likely never have justice for her murder.
It is disheartening to see Casey celebrating her "victory" with champagne at a bar.
After losing a small child and coming under character attacks, we would have expected more poise from her post verdict.
All we can hope for is that Caylee rests in peace, and Casey is more responsible with her next child.
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