[Talisker]

The jury had manslaughter as a choice though and rejected it.

I didn't know that. What a total miscarriage of justice, then. No excuses.

[Windcatcher]

Lack of evidence. If this was a wrongful death civil suit they might have found her responsible, but for a criminal charge there just wasn’t enough evidence. Did Casey kill her daughter, even accidentally? Did the daughter drown? The evidence doesn’t distinguish. The evidence *does* point to someone hiding the body, but who the heck knows — maybe the family was afraid of being charged with child neglect.

Sometimes a guilty person goes free. That’s how our system is: we consider it much more important to ensure that we don’t convict an innocent person.

[ScottinVA]

The jury had manslaughter as a choice though and rejected it.
I didn’t know that. What a total miscarriage of justice, then. No excuses.

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Not even a child abuse conviction.

[ScottinVA]

Possibly, someday one of those jurors’s lives will be touched by a child murder... and the perp may walk... and they’ll know — personally — what a miscarriage of justice is all about.