George was used as a scapegoat for sure but that has nothing to do with whether she killed someone or not.
All your arguments are emotional and not evidentiary.
I get it. I get the passion behind people wanting her locked up. I understand people don't like her and want her to rot. I think she was a crappy mother. But I also can't prove she murdered Caylee. At best I get neglect out of the evidence. The prosecution only has themselves to blame.
Okay, lets review the evidence.
1) Caylee was found in the woods triple bagged and skeletonized. BTW, you never answered my original question about what your gut reaction would be if you stumbled on such a discovery. Would it be, gee the child who was dumped here must have suffered a horrible accident and the people who dumped her there couldn't possibly be to blame in any way for what happened to her?
2) Casey lied. Her lies by themselves do not make her guilty. But-
a) Fact: She was pointing the finger at innocent people who we now know had nothing to do with Caylee's death.
b) Fact: She was insisting Caylee was alive. Fact: She was not.
c) She was attacking the police investigation into her daughter's appearance, trying to cast blame on them.
Emotion is making excuses for any of these facts. Do you see what I'm saying?
Fact: Casey's car smelled of death and five different people identified the smell as such along with two cadaver dogs. A death band was found in the trunk of her car. Casey was making excuses for the smell. Casey ultimately dumped her car after complaining about the smell.
Emotion: Well, just because she was driving around with her daughter's body in the trunk of her car doesn't mean she killed her. Saying that doesn't detract from the evidence pointing towards Casey knowingly driving around in a car that smelled of death and ultimately dumping it. Saying that is making excuses for Casey, the same way saying "oh well, maybe she was scared and that's why she was driving around with her daughter's body in the trunk of her car" is making excuses for Casey not based on evidence, but based on speculation.
You have no evidence that Casey was scared. Her actions, in fact, indicate that she was not scared. Either way, she was still driving around with her daughter's body in the trunk of her car, whether she was scared, and whether she murdered her or not.
That points towards Casey, not George.
FACT: Casey claimed George disposed of the body, not her.
FACT: Casey was covering up Caylee's death. There is no evidence that George was covering up Caylee's death.
FACT: There is zero evidence that Casey is a victim of incest deserving of leniency. No psychiatrists have attested to Casey suffering from any mental illness. Caylee was under her charge and she failed to care for her and protect her. She then didn't report her death and dumped her daughter's body in the woods for the animals to chew on and went and by all appearances, had the time of her life.
When she was finally found out, she couldn't even be bothered to explain this was a horrible accident, take the police back to her old pet cemetary and give her daughter a proper burial. She obstructed the investigation into her daughters death, FACT and made it harder for them to find her and...
FACT, that contributed significantly to the reason Caylee Marie was found six months later and a cause of death could not be determined.
The jury ignored that great gaping hole in logic.
They should have had no problem coming to the conclusion that Casey is an adult and that she was to blame for Caylee's death. They didn't have to convict her of first degree. They had a number of lesser charges, including, as you stated above "Second Degree Murder" and "Manslaughter."