End-Around Justice

Let's assume you have a clearly guilty-by-all-accounts, tried and found guilty in the court of public opinion defendent, and the jury returns a verdict of innocent.  The prosecutors failed to prove beyond a reasonable suspicion or doubt in the minds of the jury, that the person did it. 

But hey, the rest of us all know they did it, amiright?  I mean, who else could have done it or would have done it and besides, I repeat, WE ALL KNOW THEY DID IT.  Nancy Grace said so!

OJ Simpson.  Casey Anthony.  I mean, seriously, right?  They clearly did it.  And they got off scot-free.  They got away with murder.  Outrage upon outrage, the whole country goes up in arms over these terrible miscarriages of justice.

So what can a country that doesn't like its own justice system when it fails to convict someone who is found guilty by the majority of the tabloid news junkies who-pass-for-patriotic-citizens, do? 

We've found a way!  We apply justice after the fact. 

We make sure to entrap these losers in every legal loophole we can dig up.  They won't know a moment of peace if we can help it.  We sue them in civil courts to make money off our loved ones' deaths and entrap them by stealing their possessions so they stupidly try to steal them back (OJ).

Or we say, OOPS, we goofed when we told you that your probation could be served while you were in jail (because we seriously never thought ever in a million years that you would ever be found innocent and be released) and presto!  Casey Anthony is returned to Florida to RE-serve probation that she already served...

One way or the other, we will get you if we want you bad enough.