I guess it’s time for me to say my piece.
Because I’ve been following this case right along and it’s kind of tough looking back, knowing how it unfolded, then to see it end like this.
First, I agree, reluctantly, with everything in your post. We’ve had endless hours of analysis by various pundits/lawyers/self-important drek. The jury was provided only what the law allowed.
Further, I kept getting continually shocked by the prosecution of this case. beginning with the shocker that they went after first degree murder.
This caused Cindy A to lie on the stand I think, because while I too have a granddaughter around Caylee’s age, and I’d be furious, beyond mad, knowing my daughter killed her, I’d sure wouldn’t want to get on that stand and testify against my own child, to an end of having to witness HER put to death.
It seemed like a bad strategy right from the start.
I don’t think Casey intended to kill little Caylee. Casey is not too bright, one of the dimmer bulbs in the lamp you might say. But if she plotted to kill Caylee surely she’d have come up with some kind of plan to dispose of the body besides driving around with the body in her car until it stunk so bad she had to abandon it. Surely she’s have a shovel handy to bury the body. Surely it wouldn’t have come down to just throwing the child’s body in the woods. Seems to me Casey, a dimbulb bear in mind, wanted to bury the child like her family had buried their pets.
Of course this is what I think happened to Caylee. I think Casey wanted a night on the town so she administered chlorphorm to the tot, covered her mouth so she couldn’t shout out, and left her in the trunk, to awaken when Mommy’s party was over or it was time to go to Grandma’s.
This is my speculation, just bear this in mind. I don’t know much more than anyone else but based on having witnessed the events as they unraveled and the testimony, this is how I think it happened.
Casey was so overwhelmed by what happened that she just, ladida, drove around town with the body in the car, not knowing what the hell to do with it. She tried to borrow a shovel from a neighbor to bury the child in her own yard but that was too much work.
Casey was in over her head which doesn’t have to be all that deep to begin with.
Events and life interfered so she just lied to her parents and lied to the cops and lied and lied and she lies quite well for such a dimbulb.
thus I think the prosecution did the big mistake by leaving the death penalty in the deal. However unlikely that may have been, it did kind of present a big challenge for the prosecution to prove that dim Casey premeditated the child’s death with no thought of disposing of the body, with no DNA, with no traces of poison in the car’s trunk. The prosecution had this great big charge out there and what they had to prove it beyond a reasonable doubt was not all that reasonable.
I never once bought into any kind of premeditation on Casey’s part but I did so believe, as above, she tried to come up with a way to shut the child up for the night.
Also the prosecution left Casey’s parents with the possibility of testifying against their own daughter that might eventually have them watching their child die.
I know a lot of you will huff and puff and we’re all big bad freepers after all, and claim you’d turn on your child in a minute had she killed a beloved grandchild but seriously, maybe Cindy thought Casey accidentally killed Caylee and it put a bigger burden on her to lie. Given the same set of circumstances, I’d never want to witness my daughter’s death by state needle, especially based on my testimony. The notion gives me the willies.
So right there you had the prosecution fighting its own witnesses for God’s sake.
The prosecution should have sought an appropriate punishment for a mother who did a rather silly thing by trying to chlorofom her child for a night’s rest. There was way more evidence that fit this template. And assuming that my scenario is right, ever important, Casey shouldn’t really spend the rest of life in jail, much less get the death needle.
The prosecution just threw everything at the wall and by me those jurors weren’t buying it. And hey, I listened, compelled, to the defense’s summation and they did one damn good job, like it or not.
They planted reasonable doubt all over the place as I see it. Had there just been an accidental manslaughter type of thing on the table the whole character of this case would be different.
It;s like the prosecution was appalled by Casey’s slutty lackadaisical behavior with the death of her child that they felt like she deserved the needle just for that.
the punishment should fit the crime and the prosecution wanted her punished for a crime far more heinous than dimbulb Casey actually committed.
But hey, that’s just my take on it. You may disagree but don’t be a nut about it.
A RATHER SILLY THING????
Silly duct tape, too, wrapped three times around the face and head. So, silly, Casey! Right Fishtalk? Such a common, silly thing.
Zanny the nanny was really xanax. Stupid mother drugged her and put duct tape over her mouth. She murdered the child but had no intention. (opinion). I have a tough time with the three pieces of duct tape instead of one covering just the mouth.
All those words.......and nothing made sense, to me.
“So right there you had the prosecution fighting its own witnesses for God’s sake.
“The prosecution should have sought an appropriate punishment for a mother who did a rather silly thing by trying to chlorofom her child for a night’s rest. There was way more evidence that fit this template”
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A short excerpt of a brilliant post. Thank you. It is my belief, too, that the prosecution greatly overreached for whatever reason.