We have no idea why this is occurring. There’s a lot going on in the country, and indeed the world, that ought to command our attention. Then again, look at all the attention the Kardashians get.

In any case, back in the day we opined somewhat prolifically about the Casey Anthony trial, which was a world wide frenzy for no particular reason we could fathom even then. We found the whole thing horribly fascinating.

The difficulty that attends Casey Anthony to this day is that apparently there was no conduct by public officials in the course of prosecuting her that gave her a cause of action for damages. She has never been compensated for her ordeal, and so we assume for practical reasons (i.e., lack of funds) she is unable to follow our advice for the “wrongfully acquitted”: leave the country and live obscurely elsewhere.

So here we are 10 years later, and there’s some sort of documentary in the offing that will of course imply that Casey Anthony killed her toddler and went out partying in “hot body contests”. And to gin up even more interest in the spectacle, we are treated to articles like this in our Yahoo news feed this morning.

Not to mention this juicy little tidbit: one of the jurors, who now allegedly regrets his vote to acquit. Note that he has to remain anonymous, even 10 years later. And stories from a jailhouse snitch. We are not making that up.

Apparently, even the jurors should leave the country with a bucket of cash, but we don’t know how that can be done.

The whole fiasco remains an important case study. It demonstrated that pretty young women have a really hard time as criminal defendants because of jury dynamics. It proved that even that can be overcome by a brilliant – and rare – performance by the defense attorney. It showed that mass delusion and the madness of crowds are with us still, even in the age of the individualistic world wide web.

Perhaps most importantly, the Casey Anthony case showed us that a large segment of the population will believe in someone’s guilt once they are in the dock, with virtually no rational reason to believe it. The mere possibility of guilt is more than enough to convince many, many people.

We’ll say it again, as we said 10 years ago. There is virtually no reason to believe Casey Anthony killed her toddler. The jury verdict was courageous and clearly correct, clearly even compulsory.

The end.

Ugh.