MissJames
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Actually, it IS the state's job to show how she died if they are charging capital murder and put forward a theory as to how it happened. The problem was that their theory was complete speculation, there were no facts to support it. The facts that they did provide had other obvious and more plausible explanations.
Btw, the theory put forward by the defence, that Caylee fell into, and drowned in the swimming pool, provides a better explanation for how chlorinated agents may have ended up in the trunk. The only way for that to have happened is for the person to have been doused in chlorinated agents, such that their clothes were soaked. Falling into a Floridian swimming pool seems a pretty good way to achieve that to me. There is no other way to get enough to accumulate in the car. If you were going to knock someone out with chloroform that simply would not have happened.
The prosecution also didn't prove that KA drove around with the body in the car for three days, or that a body was even in the car for that matter. All they showed was that something had decomposed there at some point, but that could be just about anything. So the question to the jury would have been was that Caylee? And if so, who put her there and when? Obviously the jury didn't have answers to those questions beyond the prosecutions speculation. This is why actual evidence that corroborates the theory they are presenting is important.
Lastly, if KA does have this severe mental illness you suggest, then the alternative explanation for the evidence would still be consistent with the facts as presented. Because you wouldn't act the way she did doesn't mean that she is guilty of murder. Everyone reacts to a particular situation in different ways, and if someone happens to be mentally ill then they may react in a way very different from how you might react. Her lack of emotion may simply reflect how she is, it is not evidence of wrongdoing.
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1.) According to the law the State does NOT have to prove cause of death,no matter how much one wishes that to be so. There are often convictions ,even when a body is never found or when a body has decomposed beyond the ability to establish that fact.Many have been cited on WS.
2.) Wrong. There is NO CHLORINE in the Anthony's pool,so your reasoning is not based on the true facts. Now what ?
3.) The defense had Casey tested repeatedly and fought hard to keep the findings out of court. They went so far ,as to stop the SA's in the middle of a deposition of one of the drs and immediately withdrew both of their psychiatric expert witnesses.They then added a so-called grief expert ,who never examined Casey. Obviously there were things that the DT didn't want known about Casey's state of mind.
4.) Having lost a child suddenly and unexpectedly I will never be convinced that ANY loving mother could be so different that she could appear to be totally unaffected just hours after the child's death. Only a heartless sociopath like Casey could pull that off,IMO. The "grief expert" was not given the facts of the case before she testified.I strongly suspect she would have told the DT that Casey's behavior was indicative of a sociopath,just as I suspect the other Drs told the DT.
There were a lot of Dream Team experts that did not end up being called to the stand. Why? They could not help the defense because what they found implicated Casey.JMO.