Below are Alan Dershowitz’s remarks from last week... I didn’t get it exactly right but as well as I could remember it.. Interesting take.
“The prosecutor made the dreadful mistake of charging [Anthony] with first degree murder, essentially asking for the death penalty.” Dershowitz said that made the jury look very closely at the evidence for any conviction.
“We’ll never know as a result of this what happened,” Dershowitz concludes, “because a criminal trial is not a search for truth. It’s not a whodunit. In television there is always an outcome, we always know who did it. But in real life we often don’t know what happened.”
The above was reported in “Here & Now with Robin Young” - whoever that is and I think it differs from what I heard him say on TV...he had a much lengthier reply.