I agree that the only real chance of punishing Casey was during her trial.
Our justice system just doesn't afford victims enough rights, IMO. Especially if a criminal defendant can get up and with virtually no proof, accuse the victim or someone else of abusing or attacking them and the jury can't be bothered to see if there is any real substance to their lies.
That seems like what happened. She told a bunch of lies, the jury couldn't be bothered to sort through them for the truth and they called that reasonable doubt. It still makes me angry five years later.
I recently got in a discussion with someone going around picking fights with people on one of the news articles about Casey. They had no critical thinking skills, they just couldn't put all the evidence together and take a good hard look at it. They kept insisting all the evidence in Casey's trunk was science fiction and myth. The death band hair was inconclusive, cadaver dogs make mistakes, the smell in the trunk was garbage, all the police officers, the towyard employee, Casey's own parents and oh yeah, the decomposition expert from the body farm had no idea what they were talking about.
When I brought up the fact that the bag of trash that they were alleging caused the smell in Casey's car had been retrieved and smelled nothing like it and was full of non-food matter, they insisted it was because the trash had aired out, so the smell went away. I asked them why Casey's car hadn't aired out in the three years preceding the trial if that's all it took to make the smell go away and they made some kind of vague accusation that law enforcement had tampered with evidence by drying out the trash.
They insisted Casey was "in the habit of carrying trash around in the trunk of her car" but couldn't prove it. I asked them why, if Casey habitually carried trash in her car, why her car started to stink from her habitual trash carrying only right around the time Caylee died and they went back to the "myth and science fiction" argument.
They found nothing strange about Casey parking her car near a dumpster, complaining about the smell to Amy, and then not bothering to get rid of this smell (that was bothering her enough that she felt the need to complain about it) in the dumpster that her car was conveniently parked beside.
Roy Kronk tampered with Caylee's remains and that means that he's a suspect. They decided that Kronk had moved Caylee's skull to an upright position or moved it so that it would be easier for the police to find.
Baez was just "doing his job" accusing Kronk of "being equally likely to have caused the death of Caylee" nine months after he claimed he found out that Caylee died in an accidental pool drowning.
They stated as fact that Casey was abused, because in their opinion, the way she behaved was enough evidence for them that she'd been abused. River Cruz and her hearsay statement about Caylee's death being "an accident that snowballed out of control" was the end all for them to decide George disposed of her body.
They didn't want to talk about Casey sneaking in and out of her house when her parents weren't home and borrowing the shovel at all. Totally irrelevant, they'd rather accuse George of trying to frame Casey by putting a piece of duct tape on a gas can. Robyn Adams, who compared Casey's reaction to the Blanchard Park remains to Casey's reaction to remains found on Suburban, was just a jailhouse snitch. However it made perfect sense for them to believe everything River Cruz the scorned mistress (who also had a criminal record) said.
The FBI agent just made up the heart sticker residue, blah blah blah. No common sense, they could only focus on one piece of evidence at the time, everything was coincidence.
I bet that's what was like in the deliberations room. The government really needs to start IQ testing people before they become jurors.
