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| Louise Woodward |
Kenneth M. O’Brien
There is nothing more tragic than the untimely death of an infant or toddler.
It is even more disturbing when such a tragedy occurs under circumstances that are open to question. Under such conditions it is natural for people to assume that there must be an explanation for what happened. Usually this translates into the belief that someone has to be at fault, someone has to be to blame for this tragedy. Such things don’t “just happen.”
It is even more disturbing when such a tragedy occurs under circumstances that are open to question. Under such conditions it is natural for people to assume that there must be an explanation for what happened. Usually this translates into the belief that someone has to be at fault, someone has to be to blame for this tragedy. Such things don’t “just happen.”
It is at this point that emotions begin to outrun facts.
We have seen this phenomenon at its most extreme in the public outcry over the verdict in the Casey Anthony trial.
Society has become infected with a CSI mentality that feeds the belief in the virtual infallibility of forensic science and its practitioners.
Unfortunately, reality is not as clear cut as those dramatic moments when David Caruso cocks his head, slips his shades down his nose below eye level and flashes those steely blues at the checkmated perpetrator.
We have seen this phenomenon at its most extreme in the public outcry over the verdict in the Casey Anthony trial.
Society has become infected with a CSI mentality that feeds the belief in the virtual infallibility of forensic science and its practitioners.
Unfortunately, reality is not as clear cut as those dramatic moments when David Caruso cocks his head, slips his shades down his nose below eye level and flashes those steely blues at the checkmated perpetrator.
