Both George and Cindy Anthony were impeached during the case. Fact - they lied. Cindy testified the last time she saw Caylee was the night before, June 15George testified the last time he saw Caylee was June 16 when she left with Casey. Three people in that house. With both Cindy and George being impeached, when was the last time Caylee was seen alive? Who was responsible for Caylee the last time she was seen alive?
The evidence was not lies or mistakes....it was the State only putting on evidence to support their theory.
The 84 chloroform hits was the Canadian guy who had a new computer program to sell to police. The State used that report because it supported their theory better. The State decided not to use the report prepared by the State's own crime guy which showed chloroform had only been searched one time and myspace had 84 hits. Uh, no. The 84 times was the Computer guy who worked for Genvita and the State tech computer guy, not anyone who had anything to sell.
In a nutshell, the State did what they usually accuse the defense of doing. The State found experts outside their own people who would testify to what supported their case the best. While the defense used the State's very own "employees" as well as FBI employees to counter most of the States evidence. Uh no, all of the defense experts in the end agreed with the States experts.
It would not have helped if Dr. Vass was a chemist. Because his research has not been verified by other scientists. So you have Dr. Vass with an unproven "method" get a extremely high reading of chloroform from "air" while scientists using proven methods cannot find enough chloroform in the lining to explain the air levels. Again, wrong. Dr. Vass's work was peer reviewed and accepted by his peers and passed a Frye hearing. The defense expert ended up agreeing with Dr. Vass. There was chloroform in the trunk, even when he examined it months later.
The State put the guy on to talk about the blow fly "leg" and the "gnats" to show a body was in the car. However, the defense shows that a blow fly "leg" is nothing if there was a dead body and it was all contained in the trash. You know that trash that was in a dumpster for while before it was picked up.
Wrong, in the end, Dr. Huntington, the defense expert agreed with Dr. Haskell the states expert about the leg found in the trunk, which was not a common trash fly but a fly who feeds on carrion, and that chloroform is a pesticide.
The smell in the car could or could not be true. Yes, some smelled it But those who smelled it had already been told there was a smell. So did they really smell it? Or did they expect to smell that horrible smell that the minute they even think of it, they smell it when there is nothing there? The police officers who did not know there was a smell of decomp in the car, did not smell it either in the car or in the garage. Yes, the smell should have been in the garage from Cindy opening the trunk. Wrong, more than ten professional experts testified there was the overbearing smell of human decomp in the trunk of the car. The initial police at the Anthony house were not near the car and did not investigate it that night. They were conducting enquiries about a missing child. The smell of human decomp in the car in not disputable.
The only "evidence" of the duct tape on the mouth was the "location" below the skull with the hair attached. However, the State themselves presented evidence that animals had scattered the bones. The defense presented testimony from Cindy and Lee that it was normal in that family to buy beloved pets in garbage bags with duct tape. It is a reasonable possibility when the animals were scattering the bones, the hair got stuck to the duct tape at that time. Despite the residue still being there to hold the hair to the tape, there was not even one little skin cell to show the tape was ever attached to Caylee's skin. Wrong, the tape had been under water for more than two months. What chance of coincidence is there that the duct tape would float towards the head of the remains, attach itself to each side of the skull into the hair on both sides of the skull, plus hold the mandible in place when normally through the nature of decomposition would detach because there were no longer muscle, ligaments or tissue to hold it in place. The chance of that happening on a scale of 1 - 100 would be -1000 to 1.
So while you believe everything the State presented. It is reasonable that the jury believed the "doubt" raised by the defense either through cross or testimony.
