Originally Posted by
Andrew Maxwell
I'm not shocked at all. The prosecution did a terrible job. They tried to paint the picture that she killed her daughter so that she could party and drink, and they built a a case of circumstantial evidence around that ridiculous premise. They were so desperate to prove that she premeditated the murder and that it was murder in the first degree, that they passed up on the murder in the second degree or manslaughter charge, which she probably would have been convicted of. The prosecution was more interested in making a name for themselves in a big, high profile case on national TV then they were in seeing that actual justice was served.