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10:48 AM, July 18th, 2011
Zoom newsweek: Your tumblr was/is in Orlando this weekend, for the release of Casey Anthony. Yesterday, protesters marched peacefully from this soggy memorial, in the woods where Caylee’s remains were found. A giant pine tree outside the swamp was struck by lightning the day after the not guilty verdict came down; locals say it was “divine intervention.” (Photo by Benjamin Lowy.)

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Your tumblr was/is in Orlando this weekend, for the release of Casey Anthony. Yesterday, protesters marched peacefully from this soggy memorial, in the woods where Caylee’s remains were found. A giant pine tree outside the swamp was struck by lightning the day after the not guilty verdict came down; locals say it was “divine intervention.” (Photo by Benjamin Lowy.)

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12:18 PM, July 8th, 2011
A group that is kept together for any length of time becomes more and more alike, more in sync, as time goes on. (By the way, this phenomenon is also in play with regard to proximity to the defendant. The longer the jury is in contact with the defendant, the less sinister he or she appears. In this way, familiarity with Casey Anthony turned her from a potential murderer to an abused, perhaps disturbed, but certainly nonthreatening, child.) Add this phenomenon to the natural desire to avoid contentiousness and seek harmony and you can see how individuality begins to erode in a sequestered jury.

Marcia Clark on the jury’s groupthink in the Casey Anthony trial.

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1:14 PM, July 6th, 2011
Because Casey Anthony was no celebrity. She never wowed the nation with her athletic prowess, shilled in countless car commercials, or entertained in film comedies. There were no racial issues, no violent Rodney King citywide riot just two years earlier.

Marcia Clark on why the Casey Anthony verdict was more shocking than O.J. Simpson trial outcome.

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