Wednesday, October 5, 2011

The news is just that new...

Nancy Grace is a controversial intelligent woman who is an attorney by profession and TV personality who is now trying hard to become a competitor on Dancing with the Stars.
Dear sweet proven to be innocent this time, Amanda Knox, is a twenty-four year old, young, bi-lingual student of a woman with a horrendous recent experience of being incarcerated for the last four years in a foreign land, Perugia, Italy.
And yet, these two women who more than likely do not know one another at all personally, and I am just taking a guess here, seemed to have very different takes on the same moments of what Ms. Amanda Knox went through prior to her arrest, her trial and then her imprisonment for those four years.
Ms. Grace believes Ms. Knox to be guilty, although the Perugia courts found her innocent on appeal.
And to Ms. Grace’s thoughtful condemnation of Ms. Knox’s acquittal due to her appeal process is quite baffling to many of us American citizens who thought we saw the correct procedure play out.
Why we watched it quite carefully with amazement of their way of handling such cases as murder in this land that many of us did not know a thing about their judicial system and how it would work or not work. To us it was fascinating to any who wanted to know how the rest of the world does what we here still have so many difficulties with… our courts and prosecution of our alleged criminals.
And how contrasting are the reactions of Americans if you even think to compare the way we felt about Casey Anthony also incarcerated, but for three years and this other young woman of approximately the same age, Amanda Knox also accused of a murder and at one point found guilty and sentenced.
What does it say about us as a nation that a woman who is immediately found not guilty and is not trusted and treated with hate and her life is threatened by those haters and a woman who is found guilty is admired and revered?
Curious, I am just saying and of course their cases were not at all the same; except that they were both accused of murders.
Amanda is considered more intelligent and better educated and more forth coming in handling herself and her opinions in as far as her case went, while Casey in comparison is considered rather dull and not considered at all that bright and closed mouth and not helpful at all in her own case…
Does justice come down to personalities?
I sure hope not!
But if being more likable means that you can get away with a crime than… that gives us all something to think about…hmm?
Sort of like the old joke of the ‘used car salesman’ selling that lemon to you because he spoke the way he did, huh?

So sorry if this seems way off the deep end to so many of you out there but internationally or here at home to me it is so confusing how our justice systems work in regard to getting the right person put away for the crime, and I just wonder if we will ever get it right?
Just the other day a man in Chicago was released who’s DNA after twenty-one years of incarceration was finally proven innocent… so much more to think about…hmm…
So the next time you are called to jury duty and you get chosen and want to be there remember it is an amazing responsibility to determine what is the answer and do it with absolute care and listening to all the facts not those flowery interpretations of those facts and chose your final decision with impartiality but knowledge of those facts, that’s all I have to say…

Oh yeah, good luck with that!

On that more serious than I wanted to be bit of what’s on my wee brain tonight allow me to be the first to wish you all a very good night and to ask you to kindly count all your blessings and suggest for you to share those overages and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, ya hear?

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