I did not forget the aggravated child abuse and manslaughter charges. My focus has been on the huge void of inculpatory evidence needed to prove the murder one charge.
For the record, like the murder one charge, the bug report can't prove either aggravated child abuse or manslaughter. We don't know how Caylee died, nor do we know the circumstances surrounding her death.
Some people appear to think the law permits substituting guesses for evidence.
As long as the state can successfully tie the duct tape to KC's person, and they have already tied it to her house, they have aggravated child abuse. It does not matter if she was playing a game with Caylee, it is abusive to tape a 2 year-old's mouth.
The medical examiner already determined when the tape was placed on Caylee's mouth (not after her death), so if the defense wants to disprove that, they have to cast doubt on Dr. G.
This abuse still carries the DP when the victim dies, as I'm sure you know....the defense will have to tie SOD to the duct tape and Caylee at the time of the murder, regardless of the ultimate method of murder.
If the defense disagrees about the time of the murder, they have the state's plant guys and the bug guys to deal with.
The plant guy will be easier to cast doubt upon than the bug guys, since the plant people were not to-the-day accurate.
I appreciate you're turning over every stone as far as presumption of innocense or non-guilt in a DP case. It would be an state attorney's dream if everything lined up perfectly, but it won't, and in reality it does not have to. Inferences will be made by the jury, and the justice system goes a long way to make sure that those inferences are limited to small leaps.
That's the thing about this whole case, a lot of small leaps are coming together to form a nice path/murder scenario-The biggest leap to date still seems to be the name ZFG and Sawgrass.