Murder was the appropriate charge. The ME determined murder of undetermined means. 1st degree may have been a stretch, but no one buys the accidental theory.
Everyone saw her parents and her on video disputing drowning, that is except the jury because they weren’t paying attention or it sailed over their moronic heads. Wasn’t that little scene played in court a few times?
Homicide of undetermined means. Not all homicide is murder. Murder is a criminal homicide. Homicide is the killing of one human by another. Period.
All the ME said was that Caylee died at the hands of another human being which is different from saying she was murdered by another human.