Justice in This Country

03/28/13

Is the justice in this country fading away?

The last couple of weeks we have been talking about the meaning of “justice.” Justice is the moral rightness based on ethics, rationality, law, natural law, religion, and equity. In other words it means fairness.

There are many cases where one might argue that justice was failed to be given. In my opinion justice was not given in the Casey Anthony case. Although some might say that there was justice given because the case went on trial and all, I believe this to be wrong.

In this particular case Casey Anthony went on trial for 1st degree murder and manslaughter of her two year old daughter and was found not guilty after many weeks on trial. To a lot of people out in the world this was like an insult, a slap in the face. Many thought that she should have been found guilty.

I believe that this was unjust to the death of the little girl, Caylee. I think that there was enough information and evidence given that pointed everything toward her being guilty.

To start off, what kind of mother does not report her child missing for a month? Caylee Anthony went missing on June 16, 2008 and was reported missing on July 15, 2008. If Casey knew her child was missing she should have said something and reported it. But of course if she had something to do with the little girls’ disappearance she would not have reported it for her convenience. You would think that Casey would have at least pretended to be sad and worried about her daughters’ disappearance, but there was evidence that showed Casey and her boyfriend Tony Lazzaro partying, drinking, and “having a good time” while Caylee was missing. Casey did not show any sight of sadness or grievance, she showed the opposite, happiness.

There were other pieces of evidence found against her as well. For example, there were some heart shaped stickers found in Casey’s room which matched the one on the dead body of Caylee. It was also said that when her mother, Cindy...