I think it's gonna go like this....
Robert came in from playing at 7:30 pm. DE left him 'watching' the toddler at 7:45 pm so that he could, maybe, go outside and smoke? I remember it being reported that a neighbor saw DE outside of his apartment at 7:45 pm.
DE hears crying or screaming, goes back inside and toddler is screaming, and ANGRY. Robert supposedly has injured the toddler. Not seriously, just enough to make his lil self mad at his brother. Maybe there is a bruise forming, red marks, maybe he said Robert hit his little head, and maybe something valuable is broken? My kids almost killed one another regulary, or at least you would have thought so at the time. And they broke everything I owned...twice....LOLOL.
And DE snapped. After what had happened to the baby before (poor DE), the stress of being a stay-at-home-Dad (for only the last two months as near as I can tell) and potentially from drug use, and a violent temper, he went off and beat the boy to...well...you know the rest.
I'm not saying it happened that way, and I am IN NO WAY defending this man if he did this....this is just how it looks to me it's going to come down. His only 'out' is to come up with something believable because I'm sure they'll offer him a plea deal in exchange for the truth. Crime of Passion "temporary insanity' type defense instead of just insanity, or it that the same thing? I'm no law expert and I'm still learning guys. I trust YOU to pick this apart and tell me why it CAN'T happen this way.:blowkiss:
BTW...do we know if Robert was present at the time the baby's head was cracked? I know it's been reported that CM had custody, but was he THERE, at MJ's, the day the head cracking happened? The middle child was IIRC? I ask because if Robert were there that day, DE could blame that on Robert as well...say that's why he snapped, because he thought he was going to kill HIS SON 'this time', and follow that up with something like...MJ took the fall for the head cracking to protect Robert.
That could explain this need for that awful reference to Robert's temper on that MySpace page, and the 'case history' for an obituary.
ETA: I just posted this and now, looking at it, I have the urge to crawl under my chair for putting it out there.....someone tell me to remove it, that it was in poor taste....and it'll be gone before you can blink. I'm sorry if I offended anyone...geez.