I mentioned on another thread that I asked myself what could have been done differently to convince the jury?
The only answer I could come up with is a better, ongoing narrative. Getting in accounts of the family blowup on the 15th might have filled in some of the holes.
I personally think the family issues goes to motive much more than Casey wanting to party. My opinion is that all that has simmered in the Anthony family (especially between Cindy and Casey) came to a head that night and all hell broke loose.
Cindy considered herself to be “co-mama” at the very least and she knew (by her myspace post) why Caylee was gone. Jealousy.
The investigators could not crack the nuts. They tried. The prosecution could not get it in. They only had what they had.
A better flowing narrative in the same vein as the closing statement just might have helped the jurors make the connections which seem so obvious to us.
“I mentioned on another thread that I asked myself what could have been done differently to convince the jury?”
The jury consisted of lazy imbeciles. If they had videotape of the killing, they would possibly consider convicting. I’m sure that a doctored tape expert would give them pause though, in their limited understanding of reasonable doubt.
I wish the state would have hammered on the car. The car was with Casey. She alone was seen driving around in the car on the dates in question. There was a dead body in the car as proved by the cadaver dogs. Dogs don’t lie (people trust dogs more than people) Why did Casey abandon the car. If not Caylee’s body, whose? The car was the connection between dead Caylee and Casey. The State needed to connect those dots over and over. IMHO
The only people who can give accounts of the family blow up on June 15th WHEN it happened were Cindy, Casey, George, and possibly Lee. Now do you see where the problem was for the prosecution with this?