I believe the state made several mistakes in the way they presented their CIC. In the OS, LDB went through 31 days, over 2 hours worth of basically saying you must hate KC, she is evil. What mother would lie day after day about the whereabouts of her child to her own mother. Where was Caylee? ETC. ETC. ETC. Then she spent a lot less time on the other evidence than she did on the 31 days. I think the jury after the states OS knew BARD that KC was a liar, but wondered why the state would spend so much time proving what a despicable person she was, and so little time with other evidence.
The state had GA as its first witness, possibly to dispell any doubt about GA from the DT's OS. JA asked GA if he had ever molested his daughter, and GA looked down, hestitated and then answered NO. To me, right from this point, it looked as if GA was not being truthful. GA very well could have been being truthful, but if his actions were perceived by the jury as he may be lying, this would hurt the states case, and I believe this is what happened. Later GA was combative and elusive, as well as argumentative with JB. The Jury felt GA was not a credible witness, and again, I believe this hurt the states case.
The next group of witnesses following GA, all were KC's friends, and although they said she was at Fusions etc., they all said she seemed to have a good relationship with Caylee, and seemed to be a good mother. I know many murdering moms seem to be good mothers, but this was a direct contrast to the first couple hours of opening statements from the PT. I do not think this group of witnesses helped the states case at all, and in fact I believe it hurt the states case. The state spent a lot of time on KC's behavior, days and days, and even though the forensics were complex, they spent as much time on KC's behavior as they did on forensics, or very nearly as much time. The state showed all those jailhouse videos, which were all a month after Caylee had died. I wondered how were these tapes relevant to proving the murder of Caylee. It was obvious from OS that KC was a liar, and her friends said she was out with them, the jailhouse tapes may have just made the jury wonder where is the evidence to prove KC murdered Caylee? I believe the state went into overkill on the lies, the parties, and the bad behavior, and they did this because it was their strongest evidence, however, it does not prove KC murdered Caylee BARD.
The state finally brought in its experts, and I believe that between the cross examinations by the defense and the defense's own experts, could have ended up a tie, if not for a few things, like the FBI inadvertantly getting DNA on the duct tape, the unidentified allele 17, JA and AV making a mistake on the smell can, YM misspeaking, the lack of DNA and Decomp fluid in the carpet, and the 84 times. This being a case where the outcome could mean someones death, the jurors had to consider that if the state made mistakes like these, what other mistakes were made?
I also believe, that when JA was laughing at both the OS and CS of JB, that this hurt the states case. Why, it had nothing to do with the evidence you might say, but I disagree, I think it had everything to do with it. By laughing at what JB was saying, JA was undermining what JB was saying, and by extension, was depriving KC of her rights to a fair trial. It was plain and simple contempt of court, and could have influenced the jurors. It was also against HHJP's courtroom policies. JA was absolutely in the wrong with that disrespectful behavior.
The biggest mistake I believe the state made was when JA said "we can only hope the chloroform was used before the duct tape was applied, so Caylee didn't suffer." I believe the state realized it had pushed the hate KC agenda too far, and was actually trying to humanize her just a little, or at the very least, show that the state was compassionate and hoped Caylee didn't suffer. The reason I believe this was the biggest mistake made by the state, is because this simple sentence proved the state had no idea what really happened to Caylee. Regardless of what you think of the dt's performance throughout the trial, JB pounced on this tidbit and drove it home with the Mack truck HHJP was so fond of talking about. Personally, that one statement by JA would have been enough for me to find KC NG on count 1.
I totally agree with the verdict.
As always, my entire post is my opinion only.
hoh: ,floated around until it was EXACTLY across Caylee's skull :balloon: ,and re-stickied :doh: ,but only on each end :stretch: ,so that it became attached to her hair.:froggie:
