In a raffish turn of events, the prosecution now has changed their mind and wants to strap Casey to a gurney, put IVs in her veins and kill her dead. After all this time muddling  through a circumstantial case, they now want to send Casey to Starke.

So what has changed? The word on the streets is that there is no new evidence to the case, but rather a dark and cynical competition between lawyers. People are saying that these lawyers of the prosecution and the defense have thrown the law aside and made things personal. What they are saying is the prosecution is using the death penalty as a tool to have Casey’s lawyer removed.

After trying everything in the book to try to get Casey’s lawyer thrown off, they failed. They failed every time and now want to use the death penalty as a way to bump the defense off lead counsel. They say if it becomes a death penalty case there is no way her lawyer can do it. He’s not a capital case lawyer. God help us if that is true. To see some prosecutor yield the death penalty around as his own personal vendetta to get another lawyer is scary stuff.

I hope this is only some rumor on the streets, but everyone is saying it, even Casey haters are taken back by this theory. Whether this is a theory or a rumor of sorts is beyond me, but I hope that misconduct is not going on. I would like to believe the prosecutor would only try to kill someone if they had a rock solid case and not the nebulous case that has stared us all in the face for so long. This would be terrible and way over the top for any city.

We as free people need to take notice to any governmental official who bastardizes the law to his or her own means. The death penalty is not some strategic technicality that can be used when a prosecutor doesn’t like the lawyer he is facing. If on an even playing field, Casey’s defense is wiping the floor with the prosecution, then that is the way the cookie crumbles. But, to be a sore loser and use the death penalty to circumvent your failures is rapine and not legal by the way.

Someone needs to look back at this case when it is over and see whether there was new evidence that made this a capital case or whether it was prosecutorial misconduct that changed the direction of this infamous case. If we turn our heads to this felonious behavior, if it is found and we do nothing because we believe Casey had it coming to her, then we destroy the very foundation and the building blocks that separates us from communist nations.

Casey revenge is not worth all of us selling our souls. May the truth surface and the tricks stop. May the right to a fair trial exist even in Orlando, Florida.

C. Rich

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