All they had to do was provide a reasonable doubt.

I can not believe I am writing this post.  I can not believe that just over a month after Casey Anthony was found not guilty of murdering her daughter we are STILL talking about her.

But we are.

Ok maybe not we.

But there are people out there who will. not. let. it. go.

I’ll admit, when the story first broke,  I was firmly in the She’s-guilty-as-sin camp.  The more she lied, the more she was arrested, and released, and brought in for questioning, and the longer Caylee stayed missing, the stronger my belief in her guilt grew.

And then, the trial started.  I watched what I could, considering I was working.  I followed it on Twitter, I read news updates, I stayed informed.  I know that Casey’s attorney was the laughing-stock of the legal world, and that his attempt at a defense caused people across the country to laugh.

Guess who’s laughing now?

All he had to do was provide a reasonable doubt.

Let me repeat that.

All he had to do was provide a reasonable doubt.

A reasonable, believable, alternative situation that resulted in Caylee’s death. One that didn’t involve Casey killing her.

Falling into the pool and drowning?  Works.

They didn’t have to prove Casey DIDN’T kill Caylee.  They didn’t have to prove her innocence.  They just had to provide reasonable doubt.

And they did.

The prosecution did a piss poor job of proving its case.  Mainly because there was not enough evidence to convict Casey.  Look, the bottom line is we have no idea how that baby died.  Is it sad? Sure.  Did Casey hamper the investigation? Absolutely.  Did she lie to the police and the detectives? Without a doubt. And she was convicted of that, and served her time.  But did she kill her daughter?

We don’t know.

And that right there is the absolute bottom line.  We can NOT say that Caylee was murdered because we don’t know how or when she died.  And because we have no way of knowing the cause of death, we can not say Casey had anything, ANYTHING at all to do with it.

All they had to do was provide reasonable doubt.  And they did.