Geraldo Rivera: 'Dimwit' Casey Anthony 'did it'.

Geraldo Rivera has strong opinions about the Casey Anthony case, and he
will share them on “Geraldo: Celebrating 40 Years.” The retrospective on
Rivera’s career airs at 10 p.m. Saturday and Sunday on Fox News
Channel, but he gave me a preview today.
“Are you picking on my friend Jose Baez?” Rivera asked when we
started talking about the case. Rivera wouldn’t discuss how Anthony
defense attorney Baez is holding up, but said, “I support him 100
percent.”
What does Rivera think of the case? “Any prosecutor who attempts to
impose the ultimate penalty on Casey Anthony is more concerned with
scoring cheap political points than attaining justice. It’s an absurd
overprosecution.”
Not that Rivera has a high opinion of Casey Anthony, who is charged with first-degree murder in the death of daughter Caylee.
“Casey is a selfish, self-involved dimwit,” Rivera said. “But to seek
to kill her, because she killed that sweet baby is an absurd
overprosecution and will color the whole prosecution.”
Rivera cited the example of Andrea Yates, who is in a mental institution after drowning her five children.
“That’s how cases of infanticide are treated,” Rivera said. “It’s a
sad aspect of human existence. It’s been happening since the beginning
of time. These are not the people Florida has lethal injection for.”

And Rivera added: “In an enlightened society, to put her [Casey] to
death is absurd. I’m so scornful of that effort. I think they risk
putting the entire case in jeopardy. She has a better chance of being
acquitted now if they had gone for a more realistic sentence or
negotiated a reasonable sentence.”
What’s reasonable? “Fifteen to 20 years would be fine, including time
served,” Rivera said. “It’s the best way out for everybody involved,
including the prosecution. Outside of Orlando, I believe most people
agree with me. In Orlando, it’s a constant drumbeat of ‘Let’s exorcise
the devil.’ ”
Rivera described Anthony as “someone who’s clearly guilty, nobody has
many doubts about that. To put her on the same plane with a mass killer
has no kind of possible justification. I believe she did it. She’s
responsible. The defense would never concede that and is going for
actual innocence. They have a case, long shot it may be. You take this
out of context of capital murder, the state’s chances of success are far
higher.”http://blogs.orlandosentinel.com/entertainment_tv_tvblog/2010/09/casey-anthony-geraldo-rivera-says-clearly-guilty-casey-anthony-faces-absurd-overprosecution.html