TO THE STAKE WITH HER!!!!
The first and probably biggest story this week is the Casey Anthony trial verdict.
For those of you who live under a rock, she was acquitted of the first degree murder of her young daughter Caylee, while being convicted only of giving false information on four accounts to authorities. Each count carried a minimum of one year totaling to a minimum of 4 years. She has already served 3 year in prison. After the attorneys decided how much time she should be awarded for time served and good behavior they set a release date of July 13 that was later moved to July 17.
Here is my take on this:
Alot of people have been blaming the justice system and more importantly, the jurors for a seemingly "stupid" decision that the media and most Americans believed made. They of course would rather believe that C.A. was guilty because for some reason, we like to see those kind of things in America. While I agree that our justice systems doesn't have a correct conviction/innocent rate of 100%, this case was fair and I believe the verdict and sentence she received is in sync with the law. While the media (Nancy Grace especially) and the general consensus may "feel" like she is guilty (most of those feelings are based on heavy circumstantial evidence) the accused cannot be convicted on "feelings." If any one is to blame for the acquittal, it certainly isn't the judge, the jurors or the justice system. Rather, the blame falls squarely on the prosecutors. The fact is, they just didn't do a well enough job in proving how Caylee died and under what circumstances. While we may "KNOW" she committed the crime, to convict her of first degree murder and subsequently sentence her to death would have been a complete misuse of the justice system. There was quite a bit of circumstantial evidence, but none that really pointed to exactly the way Caylee died. If they don't know how the murder went down, how can they convict a woman to death? What they had was pieces of evidence that pointed to SOME murder of Caylee but the prosecutors couldn't lead the juries finger to exactly what happened.
ONE DAY YOU WILL RULE ALL THAT THE LIGHT TOUCHES
Staying with the tech theme of my blog, it came out that Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg will take walks through the forest of Palo Alto with potential high-level employees while pitching the idea of working for Facebook. He apparently shows them the apple and HP headquarters and promises that Facebook will one day be bigger then all the companies in the land (Mufasa and Simba anyone?). A lot of the comments I read were hating on Mark Z calling him arrogant, bastard, full of himself, etc. While I don't know him personally, I feel like this is an awesome move by a CEO of one of the biggest companys in America. What CEO takes time out of his day to take you on a walk, give you his pitch, tell you the paperwork is already done and waiting on the desk, and then tell you that money isn't an option? I think it just boasts his leadership and people skills (Maybe that's why he's so good at Social Networking...Wink,Wink...). I do, however, feel his statement of Facebook being bigger then apple and HP to be quite a bit of a stretch. Let's be realistic, Facebook is sitting pretty atop a big 'ole bubble right now (one that's currently growing steadily) but time will eventually pop that bubble (See: Myspace) and Facebook will come crashing down. Enjoy it while you can Marky.
IRON FRENCHMAN
In cool celebrity news, Tony Parker reportedly paid over $5000 to ride this Jet pack over the Mediterranean for the day:
It apparently runs off of the ocean water to propel itself. Too cool Tony. Rich people can do the coolest things. Like taking walks through forests to woo a potential employee...
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