07-25-2012, 02:01 PM
Civil court means civil remedies, i.e. money, not jail. Good luck collecting anything.
If the state knew it had a weak case it shouldn't have gone for death. I think that kind of hubris -- saying it's a slam dunk and that you have enough black and white, clear evidence to ask for someone's life, and then it turns out you don't - is imo what backfired in the casey anthony matter. Had they gone in with a slightly lower bar, I think they would have had a different outcome.
If the state knew it had a weak case it shouldn't have gone for death. I think that kind of hubris -- saying it's a slam dunk and that you have enough black and white, clear evidence to ask for someone's life, and then it turns out you don't - is imo what backfired in the casey anthony matter. Had they gone in with a slightly lower bar, I think they would have had a different outcome.