I think the jury will take atleast a week if not longer to return a verdict when the time comes, LL’s story has been conflicting on many details and they’ll have to go right back to the testimony of each witness for each baby to recognise the discrepancies in what they’ve testified to vs what LL has said in her time on the stand and that’s just so far, NJ has barely scratched the surface yet!
It’s easy for the defence to say that there’s not enough evidence and IMO if we were looking at 1 or even 5 cases there could be room for reasonable doubt. However it’s going to be a case of looking at the totality of the evidence, the entire picture painted by both the prosecution and defence once the time comes. Whether they can safely assume that the likelihood of there being more than one murderer on the unit between 2015-2016 is close to none. If we are to believe that LL wasn’t involved then someone else was injecting babies with air, poisoning them with insulin and over feeding. To believe that, then one has to believe that there was more than one person committing these crimes because there was not another staff member on shift for all of the incidents except for LL.
Personally, I think that’s going to be the biggest hurdle for the defence to overcome. If they have experts who can testify to a reasonable degree of certainty that there was another cause for each collapse/death then the jury’s job is going to be even more difficult IMO, they will have to all agree on who’s argument they find most convincing. If the defence do have some convincing expert testimony then IMO a hung jury would not shock me one bit, finding 12 people to agree on guilt or innocence is going to be tough. In this thread alone for the several of us who believe the prosecution have a strong case, there are more than one or two who disagree, and I wouldn’t be surprised if that was the case amongst the jury.
There are only so many times you can get away with saying ‘it was just an unfortunate coincidence’ though IMO, and here we have the defence saying there were 22 ‘unfortunate coincidences’ all involving LL and babies who by most accounts were doing very well and many close to going home. That they would suddenly collapse and die/almost die is extremely unlikely IMO.
All MOO