When There's No 2nd Shoe (2#) -

imo: Casey Anthony & Amanda Knox . . .

In movies and TV shows, legal cases are configured into a story which has a beginning, a middle, and an end. In real life, cases do not always have a satisfactory closure; they are not always wrapped up in a neat little package.

Reporter Anthony Colarossi, who has been covering the Casey Anthony case, got his hands on a copy of former prosecutor Jeff Ashton's new book on the case, Imperfect Justice, and tells us about it at the Orlando Sentinel.

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Amanda Knox went
grocery shopping in Seattle!

But why is this news? It appears that the Tabloids have decided to treat her like a Reality TV celebrity - as if she is like Snooki from the Jersey Shore TV series.

This situation is likely to get worse before it gets better, because the Boca-based company that owns The National Enquirer and Radar is planning to produce a new publication devoted to this new type of celebrity, as I noted in yesterday's entry.

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