gitana1
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In your professional opinion, how would it taint a potential jury? It is my understanding that the autopsy is just cause/manner of death/toxicology. Forensic information is separate.
MOO
In the Casey Anthony trial multitudes of jurors were dismissed because they had already come to a conclusion that she was guilty.
That left a pool of jurors that no prosecution would want to pick from.
Releasing evidence about the way these children and SW died and were concealed after death -post mortem injuries, etc., would inflame a lot of people. One poster here stated he or she slid off the fence due to the experts on AB stating the oil tanks had 8 inch diameter holes (which means the bodies likely had to have been jammed, broken, crammed, to fit).
The prosecution surely doesn't want to be left with people for whom that isn't compelling evidence of guilt and depravity.
So, keeping that autopsy sealed makes perfect sense.
That may be disappointing for those convinced the state is hiding the COD because it's favorable to CW and right now they're in secret talks with SW's family to gently break the news that the charges are about to be dropped.