It's hard to produce clothes,shoes,murder weapon when it has been disposed of. No link to him being there? What is your opinion on the HP print found at the crime scene that matched a pair of shoes JY onced owned and was believed to be wearing said shoes that night?
Yes, it is hard to find things that have been disposed of. But it is still the job of the prosecution to provide that evidence. Just how and when the would be evidence has been disposed of is something the prosecution needs ascertain and present. The search for the clothes, hushpuppies, etc did not happen until something like three years after the incident. Unless the prosecution can prove otherwise, Jason's account of what he thinks happened to those hushpuppies is plausible and has to stand. Now, if it were proven that Jason's pair of hushpuppies were extremely rare, it would put a different light on the subject. But there are several models that it could have been. I don't know how popular hushpuppies were at the time of the murder, but they were definitely not rare. It is putting the shoe on the wrong foot (bad pun intended) to have Jason have to prove his innocence, to produce something that he just may not know how to find any longer. It is up to the prosecution to find that evidence. Anything else is just opinion and conjecture.
This is where the presumption of innocence comes in. If a person has made up their minds that Jason committed the crime, they will fit the evidence, lack of it, and narrative to fit their beliefs. I.E., jason at one time had a pair of hushpuppies, size twelve. Footprints from a pair of size twelve hushpuppies were found at the scene of the crime. Jason cannot produce the hushpuppies. Ergo, Jason must have disposed of them. The presumption of innocence notes that the hushpuppies could have been one of several models. Information has not been provided, that I am aware of, that huspuppies were not very popular and that especially size twelve pups are really rare. The prosecution needs to produce something. But no one has ever found any shoes or other clothing that Jason was supposed to be wearing. The presumption of evidence sides with Jason, in this case.
I am not going to try to argue with anyone who has made up their mind. it is not productive, because it just boils down to opinions. Such as, who would have cleaned up Cassidy. That is somesthing I don't know. What I do know is that it is very unusual for a two and one half year old to go for nine hours without urinating several times or defecating maybe once. That si an unexplained anomaly which I haven't fitted into any ration picture right yet. I don't have enough information.
As I have previously noted, I am big on evidence and small on conjecture.
Glenn