Just as celebrities in Los Angeles are entitled to one free pre-meditated murder, it seems that mothers are entitled to one free pre-meditated murder of an infant.

Stacy McCain provides a wrap-up on the bizarre ending to the recent trial that captivated everyone's attention:

The Florida jury just acquitted her of killing her 2-year-old, and I expect her soon to announce that she will now go hunting the “real killers” . . .


UPDATE: The Orlando Sentinel:

The verdict means 25-year-old Anthony was found not guilty of all charges except for four counts of providing false information to law enforcement officer. She will be spared a death sentence, but could still potentially face years behind bars in a Florida prison.

She will be sentenced Thursday at 9 a.m.

Jurors deliberated for less than 11 hours over two days, pondering the witness testimony and hundreds of pieces evidence they were presented with over the several-week trial. The jury found Anthony not-guilty of first-degree murder, aggravated child abuse, aggravated manslaughter of a child.

Frankly, I thought she deserved the death penalty for hogging up endless hours of cable-TV news coverage, but apparently that’s not a capital felony in Florida.

Sheesh, Geraldo Rivera has been prating about how juries never give mothers the death penalty and that this case involved overcharging, and now it seems that he was right.

I hate it when Geraldo Rivera is right.