2011.06.18 TRIAL Day Twenty-two (Morning Session Only)

[coloradoteacher]

I think what will backfire for this witness is the fact that the hair would not have remained there if there was no duct tape while the hair was still attached to the scalp. This was already testified to.

 

[npcougar]

DNA on the tape would have been expected? Even the adhesive had gone from the duct tape.

 

[2goldfish]

I am amused that he says he is absolutely convinced that perhaps the tape was placed to hold the jaw in place. he doesnt sound certain.

well sir I am ABSOLUTELY convinced that it CERTAINLY was placed to KEEP BREATH FROM OCCURING.

 

[heartfortruth]

I am not sure this testimony is relevant given the conditions the skull was subjected to for months.

But I'm still listening intently.

and I am here waiting for you to tell me what the doctor says.............I have my sound muted..........tia ;O)

 

[TortillaChip]

I think ICA knows jurors were shocked at her laughter yesterday, so she's trying to make up for it today.

yes, you are so right. Yesterday, what was said about babies in blankets was emotional for me........yet not even a tear from ICA. Totally told about that, and she has adjusted today.

 

[MaryAnn]

Did he submerge his arm under water for 6 months?

 

[Broderick]

#CaseyAnthony Spitz definitely connecting with jury.by bobkealing via twitter at 8:53 AM

But he is not helping the defense much in my estimation at all. If anything, he is helping the SA. So easy to cross I think.

 

[Mountain_Kat]

He would have expected DNA?! After all that flooding?! And the tape no longer attached to soft tissue because there WAS no soft tissue?! Seriously?!

 

[TiaM]

I really hope we get to Ashton's cross today! I'm putting so much faith in him!

Don't count on it by the way CM is just letting him talk on and on unchecked, and CM is subtly checking his watch in order to eat up time. :banghead:

 

[Chiquita71]

Twitter Twitter Twitter: ten o clock JURY DOES NOT LIKE THIS WITNESS. Juror number four is ready to find Casey guilty.

I can twitter too.

 

[fifteen89]

:doh: Dr. Spitz saying there was no tissue, no nerves, no blood, nothing!

And there was also 'no nothing' in Casey for a reaction to his words.

 

[kaki]

I wonder if the fact that she is crying now goes against the DT case that she is psychologically disturbed from abuse. It would be easy for the jury to think this was an act from the evidence that she was at blockbuster, hot body contest, etc. right after it happened as well as when 911 was called. Why the emotion now?

The DT probably instructed her to cry when they talk about bones when the jury is in the room... so she doesn't know yet to cry about decomp .. just bones and such talk..:crazy:

 

[Stella5]

Dr. Spitz... I put duct tape on my arm and pulled out hair by the roots. Tell me good Doctor, we're you dumped in a swamp & under water for weeks?

 

[Solomisskitty]

This duct tape scenario he's trying to put forth is crap IMO. Don't think it will fly with the jury either.

 

[STEADFAST]

. . .

 

[grammieto5]

Amazing, the real skull of baby Caylee does nothing to KC, a skull that does not belong to baby Caylee makes KC very upset. This is KC's best performance so far.

 

[mydailyopinions]

And I am so sure that someone would go through all that trouble to put duct tape on skeletal remains that no one wants found, just to hold the mandible in place. Really?

Insanity at it's finest.

 

[Chiquita71]

Twitter: this witness is for sale the jurors think.

 

[Lanie]

I think that is standard practice in autopsies (at least according to this witness). I know it is commonly done in dissection theatres in anatomy classes.

I do know however, that when my mother died and was autopsied (a very much of a formality because of the law in the UK) that I did not notice any evidence of the skull cap being cut open (however, the funeral director may have tried to hiide it).

BBM

According to Dr. G, it is not a standard practice in autopsies.

 

[2goldfish]

Seems to me that ICA cry's with bones and foliage. Bugs and Pigs don't bother her at all. JMO

my personal guess is that when "checking" the remains after dumping, she saw animals at work....at that bothered her where murder and rot did NOT.