Hi MsBrisbee,
Maybe somebody can clear this up because I'm not sure, but doesn't the defendant have to be deemed by a psych professional as mentally incompetant for that defense to even be used? I'm curious.
As far as I know yes. The defense however, has not mentioned any psychological disorders or brought them up other than she has a propensity to lie. I guess that was one of my points. She is obviously functioning in a different reality than the rest of us, that's been an ongoing public consensious since day one, defense was stupid to open with what they did. Will probably go down in law book history. They could have had a realistic defense which has been shown by public opinion, how not right she is for almost 3 years. Just saying, it's been shown here, and elsewhere for a long time that this wasn't right, the thinking was way off base of a normal person. It's coming out in trial now, backed up by opinions here, that she is NOT RIGHT. With everything seen and documented, they had a much stronger case with insanity or trying to function under the restraints of a mental disorder, did they did with GA being a molester. They kind of sunk their case in my eyes when they said that, no disrespect to anyone anywhere, but, she thinks she might have dreamed this, etc., etc., she has a lousy lawyer, a lousy defense, a lousy demeaner and attitude, a circumstantial case and a history of having what could be documented as psychological disorders. As well as observable disorders, the jury doesn't have the back ground WSer's have, I can bet they have already determined they are looking at a very disturbed individual, she has not been, nor is she currently behaving as a normal person would, there may be circumstantial evidence, but there is not a compelling motive as to that time as opposed to all others and so on, I'm willing to bet the jury is thinking, well she probably was there, might have been accidental, duct tape might have been to stop more fluids from purging, ( as someone else here already mentioned), could have bagged her up then, a few days later and dumped her, car really started to stink, got rid of car, so forth so on, but she was always a lier, always not normal, all of Caylees life telling stories, according to J Grunde, she became a totally different person. So why isnt this compelling evidence that she may indeed be functioning outside the norm, I didn't follow this case after the bounty hunter crap, until this actual trial started. I have more infor than the jurors, and still see how they could call this based on what I've seen so far. Sure clhoroform has been brought in with computer history, but it confused me, and didn't take away reasonable doubt. Just rambling at this point, but could be this girl is truly disturbed, does not and did not have a fix on reality after her child was born.
