Well you guys have pretty much summed up my thoughts but generally when I saw the tape I was at first surprised at how calm and well-rested she looked. Then, after thinking it over, I decided that I was, again, trying to make her behavior fit how *I* would behave. :bang:
Obviously I am not sure of this, but I think she has already resigned herself to the fact that she will spend the rest of her life behind bars. At the beginning, during the infamous "give me TonE's number" call, she was acting like this might be all over soon and she would be able to go back to making Tyson chicken at his place by the next week. Over time, her conversations became (IMO) much more angled towards finding a way to get a not guilty verdict, and her face and demeanor stayed hard and aloof. She needed to get that evidence removed, and I imagine that figuring out a way to do that took up a lot of her time. However, I think since the remains were found, and she knows that LE knows that she was the one who was the start of the "daisy chain" to the location, she had to face the facts that there is no way to get out of this. She can come up with all manner of excuses, but the best case scenario is many, many years behind bars. There really is (I think) no hope that she will not be convicted, and now that she knows that, the ONLY thing she can do to help herself is lay low, and say as little as possible in public. There are no plans to be made, secret messages to write, schemes to create, lies to tell. It's really over for her, and I think she has realized it. She doesn't have to lie awake thinking of ways to get out of this. That's what I see on her face - the end result of the realization that life without scheming is much more relaxing.
How will a jury react to her? I am still not convinced that they will be able to find anyone in the whole state of Florida who doesn't have an opinion about the case. If they do though, it will clearly be hard to reconcile a softer, sweeter Casey with the Best Body Contest Casey who is out at Blockbuster with her boyfriend while her baby is in the trunk of the car. Anything she can do to look different from THAT girl will help her case, IMO. but it won't be enough. There are so many pictures and videos and phone calls that demonstrate the real KC of June 16th, 2009, that trying to make her into a sweet, caring mom will be impossible.