I can appreciate your opinion. I would just hope that after seven weeks, the jury give it more thought before coming to a decision. Especially in a DP case. JMO
I appreciate your opinon as well, and if we were really on the jury, well here goes what I would want to discuss during deliberations:
Not guilty on counts 1 through 3. I have had the opinion that the only thing that ever made any sense to me was that this was a tragic accident from the very start. I have listened to the testimony, seen all the evidence, listened to the opening and closing statements, and as someone already mentioned, the evidence is the same today as it was yesterday, as it will be tomorrow after LDB does her closing.
If I were on the jury, I would try to sway the other jurors to follow the law and not their emotions. I do not believe anything whatsoever about the chloroform and or the use of it in any way shape or form by KC. She probably can't bake a cake let alone whip up a batch of chloroform. There was one search for chloroform and that was from curiousity of her boyfriends myspace page win her over with chloroform. The duct tape was not wrapped around the head, it was in the vicinity of the head, or likely may have been, or might have been, those do NOT give you the choice of proof beyond a reasonable doubt. Sorry, but that is the law, maybe does not equal fact. So, without the duct tape and the chloroform, there was no premeditated murder, no murder of the 2nd degree, no aggravated child abuse, and no aggravated manslaughter of a child.
I can go through each piece of evidence like JB did, but I'm too tired to do that tonight.
But to keep it short and sweet, I do not think the state has proven any of the charges beyond a reasonable doubt, so if I were one of the 12 jurors, we would be deliberating till I changed all your minds or till He!! freezes over whichever comes first. So that would most likely end in a hung jury.
Sorry, but that is my opinion.