Just really have to hope that he gets a smart jury. A jury without any people who will think "poor grandpa" instead of "poor Chloe".
I think RCCL will have attorneys who are very experienced at making that distinction.
They have defended the corporation from children dying in swimming pools and falling off balconies, and drunk people falling off the decks into the water.
And they have to defend themselves while also questioning the surviving family members on the stand. So they have to ask a grieving wife or mother how much their deceased loved one drank that night, and if they were sitting on the railing or purposely jumping off the deck.
It is a very hard job, to not 'attack' the grieving witnesses and turn off the jury, but to still get to the truth about the circumstances.
So I think this family might be surprised at how experienced and skilful this defense team will be.
They will use use ALL of these public statements and media interviews AGAINST grandpa because of the inconsistencies.
And the holes that we see in his stories---- the defense team will drive a truck through them.
They will have power point presentations showing how impossible it would be for that sweet baby to fall out that window if it happened the way he tries to explain it. She would fall down inside of the ship if it was as he described, with her sitting on the guard rail and falling down.
She had to be pushed forward, out of the open window ledge, to end up on the pavement. That will be clear to the jury. And color blindness will not save him in that case. Even if there was a window there, if he had set her on the guard rail, then pushed himself forward, she would have been pushed into the glass, and still been injured, considering how fragile she was, compared to him.
