I think there are doubts available to jurors to ponder. Children die accidental deaths every day and sometimes they are due to very neglectful parents. Could someone flip out and try to lie her way out of big trouble that would ensue? Probably, especially if your name is Casey Anthony.
Casey lied her way out of everything else, why not this? She lied about her job, her babysitter, her boyfriends, her child's father, that her family did/did not molest her, graduating from high school, stealing people's money and things. God only knows what else she lied about and swept under the rug. She was not accountable for anything ever before, why start taking heat when you totally buggered up supervising your child. For all anyone knows, "chloroform habit" was Casey's very own self indulgence, getting high while her daughter drowned in the tub or pool, unattended.
If I were a juror, I would wonder about those searches and what things like "hand to hand combat" and "household weapons" have to do with a plot to suffocate your kid. Why search shovel but not even bother to have one? As a juror, I really would like an explanation from the state why they included plots of hand to hand combat with a two year old to help me decide to agree with all of the state's assertions.
Btw, if Cindy was going to lie, she probably would have been better off saying she told Casey to search those things because of the dog being sick, Casey being home alone sometimes etc.
