What the State eliminated and hopes the jury will too is Skylar first telling LE over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over, before she realized it was hopeless, that there was no fire, that she didn't try to burn her baby by any method (including when asked, no, not in a microwave either-- ffs!).
The State really does want to have it both ways. That what Skylar says is a lie unless what she says supports the State's case. She says no fire or burning and that's a lie. She says lit a heel and the flames reached her baby's chest and that's the truth.
Skylar says her baby was white, the cord didn't have to be cut, she thought her baby was stillborn, but that's all just lies, and to be mocked and dismissed because Skylar didn't have the medical training to have made a determination of stillbirth.
But when Skylar eventually capitulates and says yes, her baby "gurgled" once, somewhere, maybe, those words are to be taken at face value as truth, even if Skylar also says shortly afterwards....I didn't think she was alive, and even though experts testified that actually, newborn babies don't in fact gurgle.
Just no.
