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Originally Posted by beaner
Shellycrash:
She got acquitted because the state made a case out of information obtained over the years to be proven "tainted".
Example, testimony from her father. What father ever would knowingly make statements on the stand, in the final hours, that not only conflict with original statements but said in a manner that would lead to her daughters execution?
Think about that for a second? He was a cop and knew exactly how cases get tried.
Is it so far fetched that Caylee actually drowned by accident?
Well the answer is no by a jury of 12 people in 11 hours saying, all you have given me is a possible story and fuck you florida for putting me through your attempt of a lynching!
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If you agree that the parent's contradictory behavior is what created reasonable doubt then we are in agreement there.
A few of the reasons I don't find the pool drowning plausable- I don't believe if George found his granddaughter drowned in the pool he would not attempt CPR, or call 911. I agree the whole family is shady, but as dysfunctional as the family is I feel the one thing that was established is the grandparents loved and cared for their granddaughter. I also can find no reasonable explanation for duct tape to be placed over a child's face other than homicide.
It may not have been premeditated murder, the tape may have been placed there in a fit of rage, but there is no logical reason to put duct tape on a corpse. It also doesn't make alot of sense why someone would dress an accident to appear to be a homicide, but if I were to believe if a former police officer was going to stage a kidnapping / homicide to the point they applied duct tape to the child's face that person would also invest the time and effort to place the body away from their home.
Why not pull a Melinda Duckett and place it somewhere alligators could get to it? Not a ditch walking distance from the house. And why triple bag it preserving it with evidence from your own home? If george had a hand in the duct taping of that baby why would he allow himself to be seen with and continue to use something in public that is traceable and ties back to the crime. In my mind it doesn't make sense.
I think the duct tape was tainted by shotty handling in the fbi lab, they have admitted it was accidentally handled by staff members who were not wearing gloves. However I do believe that child's body was in the trunk of that car, which can be established was in the custody of Casey. She even texted her friends that the smell was from a dead animal plastered to the frame and after she ditched it she told them it was in the shop to get the animal remains removed.
Not to mention the numerous times it was proposed to her by law enforcement that it might have been an accident, and was explained to her that had it been an accident she would receive a lesser sentence. They were offering her pleas all the way up until the body was found.
This is just some of what I got out of the evidence. Just my opinion, and I offer it respectfully. As you have been touched by this case, besides my association with the guys at Cast Iron I find myself deeply touched and disturbed that a child died and no one in it's immediate family seems to REALLY care (the grandparents seem to, but not as much as they care for Casey, or themselves for that matter). It is an important element of a trial, how much is hard to say, that there is a family presence in the court to represent the victim. Everyone in that family had their own motives, and none of them put that child before themselves.
