The article that caught my eye in The Christian Science Monitor website called, “Should Casey Anthony have to reimburse state for its failed case against her?”. The story opens with Anthony’s lawyer explaining to a Florida judge that it was in fact “sour grapes” that led prosecutors to make his client pay about $500,000 in expenses connected with her murder trial after she was accused with killing her two-year-old daughter.
“The state wants to charge her the entire cost of prosecution, not the legitimate expenses related to the convicted counts,” Mr. Mason said during a hearing in Orlando. “That has nothing to do with justice,” he said. “It has everything to do with [public] outrage and sour grapes.”
The question I asked myself was if it is proper for them to make her pay a massive amount of money when she was pleaded not guilty. In my eyes she should rot in jail, but we don’t always get what we want; that does not mean she has to actually pay the state back for the whole ordeal. It was their fault in the first place for taking on a case that they obviously could not handle.
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