I just watched the episode, so I'm a little behind, but I have the feeling that they had to film the cast reactions to the sentencing otherwise it wouldn't have been "on the show" and couldn't have been brought up at the reunion. Aren't there rules about only being able to discuss what happened on the show? (I'm thinking Caroline mentioned this one or three dozen times about some sort of super secret personal tidbit.)
And TereSSA must have been so disappointed that Teresa just wasn't into the fight. Her big blow-up just fizzled when Teresa said ok, yeah, whatever...