I've been involved in numerous FB debates about this case and the jury's performance. What I've seen from far too many people (both liberal and conservative) is that they demand that the jury should have found her guilty on the murder/manslaughter counts - because she was involved, even though they couldn't determine what her involvement was. Every one of them ignore the fact that while the coroner's office determined it was murder, they could not determine the manner (drowning, stabbing, poison, strangling/suffocation, etc.) - this leads me to ask: how then can they determine this was murder if they cannot say how? I'm not asking for specifics, not even a murder weapon. The state fucked up and the victim was justice... It's not the jury's position to fix this mistake, taking that type of approach in our justice system undermines the legal presumption of innocence and places the burden of proof on the defendant. This type of justice system is common in hell holes like China, North Korea, Iran, the USSR, and any other country where human lives are disposed of like a piece trash.
I hope to hell we never achieve the type of justice system those idiots were asking for... they would rather see people like her be convicted at the cost of the innocent. They claim they do not, but when you shift who bears the burden of proof and the evidenciary procedure - that will be exactly the system that will emerge.
