I think it was an accidental drowning.
The states burden is to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that KC is guilty of premeditated murder.
They did a great job of proving KC is a liar, but being a liar does not make someone a premeditated murderer.
When and where and how did KC murder Caylee? The duct tape and chloroform are allegedly the how, but there is reasonable doubt attached to both of these. Leaving where and when unanswered may be legal to do, but leaves room for doubt with the jury if this can't be answered. In the states CIC the where and when were not addressed.
Why did she do it? So she could Party. pretty weak motive.
The white trash bag from the trunk. This sat in a dumpster for 18 hours. This evidence and the bug evidence inside have a strong potential of being compromised from other insects that were in the dumpster prior to the white trash bag being in there. The single leg of the important fly would be included in this, and that leg was the major factor in the scenario of what might have happened in Dr. Haskell's report.
The single hair with apparent decomp cannot be determined to have come from a dead person or a live person according to the FBI. The death band usually takes 3 months or longer to form, but has apparently been found to form earlier than that.
The heart shaped sticker residue no longer exists according to the FBI.
Chloroform levels in trunk carpet were normal according to FBI. Air sample claims shockingly high levels of chloroform. However, the chemist says that the test was not a quantative test, so how can they determine a high level of chloroform if they do not know how much chloroform was in there? I may confused on this particular issue, however, one of more of the jurors may also be confused and if so, then reasonable doubt is here. Also Dr. Vass did not get his own samples, this may be important to some jurors.
The lack of flies and casings in the trunk. Yes a lot of flies flew out when GA and SB opened trunk, however, there should have been many (100's if not 1,000's) of dead flies and there should have been many, many casings. GA and CA testified they did not vacuum the car, and their vacuums were picked up with a search warrant, and nothing was found.
The fatty substance like adipocere on the paper towels. Adipocere can form in as little as 3 days, but normally takes at least 2 to 3 weeks to start forming. Butterfat contains myristic, palmitic, stearic, oleic, linoleic, and palmitoleic acids basically the same fatty acids that are found in the substance like adipocere on the paper towels. Visually bacon grease can easily be mistaken for adipocere, but a simple test can easily prove which it is. If a libs test proving this was adipocere was brought up in trial I missed it.
The stain in the carpet of the trunk. Scrapings of traces of butyric acid were found in the carpet. Butyric acid can be found in butter, parmesan cheese, and vomit. What exactly caused the stain in the trunk carpet, could it have been vomit? Not in evidence, but then neither is decomp fluid.
One botonist says the remains could have been placed in their final resting spot as late as the 4th week in November. JA's demeanor and facial expressions say he feels he disproved this with his cross, but what does the jury think?
The superimposed duct tape over the nose and mouth, with KC in the background definately proved this was a possibility. However, I think this could have easily been explained without the visual, and that the video may have been taken as an act of desperation from a prosecution that has not been able to prove their case beyond a reasonable doubt.
The state seemingly has wanted evidence legally supressed because of JB's failures to get his experts to file reports. The jury may see this as the state trying to hide something, because most people think that the state wants to find out the truth, and suppressing potential evidence does not look good.
Dr. S. vs. Dr. G. testimonies if even one of the jurors found credence in the opinion of the extremely experienced Dr. S. there could be a hung jury on his opinion alone. Seems like there is some pretty good reasonable doubt attached to the testimony that Caylee's skull was laying on her left side during decomposition.
Two cadaver dogs each alerted once in near the same place in the back yard one day, but the next day neither alerted. That doesn't make any sense when the prosecution is claiming the unmistakeable odor of death lasts for years, in this part of the case, it didn't even last until the next day.
GB legally destroyed his notes. Legal or not, it makes me wonder whether or not he scraped food off the containers in the white trash bag.
The odor in the trunk. Until the alternate light source showed potential human decomp in the trunk, NO ONE'S actions were those of any professional personel who knew beyond a reasonable doubt what human decomp smells like vs. a trash bag sitting in a trunk for 3 weeks in the hot Florida sun.
Not only do I think the state has not proven their case, I think at this time roughly halfway through the dt's side of the case, I think it is a hung jury for sure, and if it keeps going the way it has, there is going to be a pretty good possiblity of an acquittal.
As always, my entire post is my opinion only.
Then they get to do closing arguments and connect all the dots for the jury. :woohoo:
