I cant say I disagree w/the alternate juror in that I didnt trust GAs testimony, either. He was shady.
1) I believe he lied on the stand about having an affairhe kept saying thats funny to JB but GAs eyes and facial expression indicated no humor whatsoeverhis words contradicted his expression, like when people lie & nod yes while saying no.
2) He claimed to see Casey & Caylee leaving before he left for work
but he could be lying, and anything could have happened that day. He had very detailed descriptions of ICA & Caylees clothes when they left that day, which seems odd if it was just an ordinary day for him. CA was obviously dominant in the family, ICA & LA answered to her and GA felt he never lived up to her expectations; Casey & Caylee usually slept together, and if Casey overslept & Caylee got out of the house on her own (which it was demonstrated that she could open the doors) and GA left the pool ladder down by accident and Caylee climbed in herself & drowned, both GA & Casey could be afraid of CA blaming them forever, and so GAa former police detectivehelped create a coverup. Caylee was like CAs baby, GA said the doctor handed Caylee to CA when she was born instead of ICA. CA would never forgive them if she thought either of them were involved in the death of her granddaughter.
3) The dogs hit in the yard
GA or Casey may have pulled Caylee out of the pool to try to save her, and when the couldnt, left her there until one of them transported the body elsewhere. It would have been much easier to keep CA out of that area of the yard where the body was (in or near the playhouse) if GA was involvedthe yard was his domain (he landscapes out there, & he got angry & called the police about his shed/gas cans when he knew Casey had borrowed his gas in the past
instead of asking her first, he calls the cops about someone breaking into his shed & taking his gas can). GA blames Casey for not watching Caylee and Casey hates her father for blaming her (did you read the lipreaders posts about what ICA was saying during trial: that it was all GAs fault, that hes a monster, and that GA knew shed never tell the police what happened?) GA may blame ICA not only for not watching Caylee and an accident happened, but for getting pregnant out of wedlock in the first place, and therefore didnt feel bad enough to confess that they were covering the whole thing up & let ICA spend 3 years in prison.
4) I believe that he told that woman it was an accident that snowballed out of control.
5) I do not buy his attempted suicide & the letter. Those are not the kinds of last words you write to your wife of decades. Those are the kinds of words you write to try and prove your own innocence in a bad D movie.
6) CA was the one keeping in touch w/Casey when Casey flee. GA was staying out of it. Why didnt he want to talk to his daughter or granddaughter, and it was all CA?
7) Why did he not report the smell in the car & go on about his business if he knew his daughter and granddaughter were missing?
8) It was GAs duct tape.
9) The FBI labs tested Caseys shoes for the swampy soil, not GAs. They mightve found something more in his car or on his shoes.
10) The family has a history of covering things up, like ICAs pregnancy.
11) The DT did cast doubt upon the chloroform searches (looking up what an ex posted on MySpace about chloro, and the way the report changed between net analysis software).
12) Not that this is relevant to the case itself, but I notice in court GA shows no support for CA and just stands clear out of her waynot a glance, not a pat on the arm as she walks by him, nothing, even when she is in tears. And then when the verdict was read, people felt he looked angry (I didnt see that part). He has such questionable behavior overall.
ICA may be guilty of no more than oversleeping, and then using her habit of lying to lie to herself & others about where Caylee was from that point forward, and to police. Didnt GA tell the police he followed ICA one day & the epass records would prove it, and then turned out to be lying? The more I think about it, the more I can understand the jurors reasonable doubt. Theres no proof that ICA hated or abused her child, and theres no proven motive. She shopped & partied to forget, possibly to delay grief, she used alcohol and marijuana (which LA said she never did before) during that time to self-medicate. That doesnt make a motive, just poor choices.
I was as shocked as all of you and all along felt that she probably did it, but after hearing what the alternate jurors had to say, Im beginning to understand why the jurors felt there is at least reasonable doubt there. It would probably only take a juror or two to feel that way and plant the seed of doubt in everyone elses minds. ICA has been a liar for a long time and GA is not truthful, either. There were no (other) witnesses that could or would testify to the actual death. If I were a juror I wouldnt put a needle in someones arm without being 100% sure, either. Id extend that same courtesy to any and all of you. And in the end, only God can and will judge us, anyhow. JMO.
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