The pop eye look was in response to Dr. Vass talking about the crematorium dumping bodies behind the crematorium instead of cremating them, to save money. Knowing the smell of one tiny body, she likely reacted to the thought of the smell of tons of bodies rotting in the elements.
I was very irritated by the video of casey entering on 3-24-11 - her strut, smirks and smiles at her "co-counsel". Then being handed the file and rifling through it with a look of "Okay, now what do we have here? Let's get to work." This is like a walk in the park to her. She likes to look and feel important. She's out of touch and so is her defense counsel.
I showed the video to a friend of mine who doesn't follow the case, except for highlights I give her. She just laughed. She thought it was funny but that was because she thought it showed how "crazy" casey is. Crazy as in should not be held accountable? No, but crazy as in very personality disordered and unaware of reality. So, I do think it will underscore how abnormal casey is but not in any way that could help get her off. This is the kind of abnormality that lets the public know something is wrong with a person such that that person is capable of murder.
Do I think the defense is allowing her to actually assist them? No, except maybe by handing them a folder now and then. Do I think she is mindlessly doodling or writing notes to her family? No. I think she is actively going through depos and making notes as to things she thinks are important, discrepancies she thinks she hears between hearing and depo testimony, things that the witnesses say that she thinks are b.s. or can be disproved, etc. and points she wants her attorneys to consider and use in questioning. Kind of like her mom, she will pick apart one thing and concentrate on that as if that one thing shows the entire case against her is nonsense.
Her demeanor, as if she doesn't have a care in the world, is a professional assisting on the case and as if she is not on trial for the murder of her baby and facing the DEATH PENALTY, drives me batty. It's irritating. But she needs to be paying attention and assisting in her own defense and by doing what she is doing, conferring with counsel as to issues she thinks are important, writing notes about testimony or things she thinks need to be explored in cross, which is the sense I get from her movements, I think she is. Otherwise she can claim she had no idea what was happening and was not competent enough to assist in her defense.
With my clients, I hand them a legal pad and tell them that if they need to tell me anything, to write it down instead of telling me or interrupting verbally, and to slide the pad in front of me or wait for a break to show me. Then I look at what they wrote and explain to them how that point is going to be made or how the point is not relevant.
So, IMO, the substance of what she is doing is not wrong but her demeanor while doing it reveals what she really is, as does her demeanor in any context. She can't understand the seriousness of her position because she doesn't care that a little girl is dead. So, no one else should. All of us dummies will eventually be convinced by her powers of persuasion, through her oh so smart defense counsel and she'll be free. She simply cannot comprehend that society is sufficiently horrified by the evil murder of a little snothead such that we will not give up and will continue to seek justice for Caylee.
To casey, this is just another conflict and she always wins those, by persisting in her lies or making excuses, so she thinks it's only a matter of time before she is released. Hence, the odd demeanor. Believe me, this is not a person who lies awake in her cell, consumed by the possibility that she will never live to walk out of the doors again as a free woman. Oh no, she is consumed with thoughts of revenge and delusions about adventures and romances she will have once free.
It's classic!!
