Casey Anthony Verdict Flashback: October 3 1995

Like the shocking Casey Anthony not guilty verdict, the acquital of O. J. Simpson for a double murder linked by DNA evidence sparked outrage nationwide about juries citing reasonable doubt as reasons for their decisions.

With the Anthony verdict still raw in the minds of millions, the inevitable link to Simpson is often made. In that case, the divisions were along racial lines.

In the Anthony case, it was shared outrage by mothers and grandmothers obsessed with case media coverage who still packed their unavenged horror and unquenchable thirst for justice about a two year old girl dumped in a swamp, with much evidence -- but not enough to convince a jury -- that pointed to her mother as the killer.
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How do you feel abou how the cases are linked, and any lessons that could be used to improve the criminal justice system?

That was one question put to a panel of experts the day after O.J. Simpson was acquitted in 1995, when CNN'S show, Talk Back Live, assembled a round table of post verdict experts to talk about the victims' families' anger and angst, including grandparents who would have to turn the children of their slain daughter, Nicole Brown Simpson, over to the killer, who was their father.

As for the other victim's family, the Goldman's were just plain uncomprehending that a man who had sliced and diced their son, had gone free, leaving behind a bloody pool with Simpson's DNA foudn in blood at the scene and the victim's DNA found in blood in his Bronco. Still not enough to win the jury.

Take a listen as CNN Special Assignment correspondent Art Harris, who broke most of the network's exclusives on the case, is joined by Harvard Law School Professor Alan Dershowitz, top Atlanta criminal lawyers Mark Kadish and Ed Garland, to explore the aftermath of the trial of the century and its implications,
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