NOT GUILTY!

somehow the casey anthony story slipped right past my usually perceptive senses. all of this momentum toward the verdict has been building over the weekend, and i've just been like "who?" anyway, the verdict is IN! she's not guilty?

so, the office and gchat and facebook are a-buzz with the news, and i decided the least i could do is read a wikipedia page. i don't think anyone will be surprised to learn that it was highly complimentary of the state of tennessee:

The Anthony case broke new ground regarding scientific evidence.

University of Tennessee's "Body farm" discovered "hair banding," a phenomenon in which hair roots can form a dark band after death. A hair found in the trunk of the Anthony car exhibited this pattern.[50] Also new is the work of University of Tennessee's Oak Ridge National Laboratory in which air extracted from the trunk of the Anthony car revealed human decomposition and the presence of chloroform.[50] (via)

so, despite the best efforts of the brilliant scientists at my alma mater and the home of the atom bomb, florida still managed to blow it. GO VOLS!!