Why I Hate Casey Anthony ~ Not By O.J. Simpson

by A Household Name

To earn my financial fortune, I toiled hard for many years in numerous high-profile professions--including as a professional athlete, a movie star, and as a TV sports analyst. By contrast, Casey Anthony positioned herself for instant riches by murdering her little girl and then tossing the child's rotting corpse into a swamp. As the years pass, I'll remain hopeful of the fact that many people will always ask me about how I felt, my reaction the moment that I learned of Casey Anthony's "not-guilty" verdict from Orlando, Florida, on July 5, 2011. These words should help put my initial thoughts into Shocked. Repulsed. Horrified. Disappointed. And, yes, I was actually worried that our nation's criminal justice system had somehow failed us. This marked a sharp contrast to my reaction the moment that the California jury rendered a "not-guilty" verdict at the end of my 1995 first-degree murder trial. That time, I truly and honestly thought, "our court system worked the way it was supposed to, because as an innocent man I'm about to go free."

152 pages, Paperback

First published August 25, 2011