Around 10 years ago, I had around 2 months with basically nothing to do. For some reason, I found myself watching Court TV.
It was a real eye opener.
If I was a guilty person, there is nothing I would like better than an American jury. If I were innocent, I would be scared to death of facing one.
It was truly shocking how bad some of them were. There really are a lot of dumb people in the world.
You will never get justice when you are judged by dumb people.
The Really smart ones, know how to get out of JURY duty, all that leaves are the Dredges.
Or, is it just the state of Florida, where all the really stupid people live? We know they don't know how to vote and now this, they did not want to listen to the States circumstantial evidence that all went to Casey as the murderer.
They just wanted to go home.
They did not deliberate on anything, simply too a Poll. They were only out for not even 24 hours. How did they have time between Lunch, Dinner, 4th of July entertainment and going to bed. What 2 hours max of talking, MAYBE.
When the whole purpose of jury selection is to find the 12 dumbest people possible to serve this is what you get.
However, from what I’ve heard and read the prosecutor failed to prove the case—because of incompetence and/or lack of credible evidence.
My own personal take, in the absence of any other info, is the child got into the pool and drowned. The mother, a serial and long time liar, paniced. She tried to make it look like someone drowned her child then carried the little girl in a trash bag into the woods.
The mother may be guilty of evidence tampering and perhaps child neglect (she many not have been keeping track of her kid), but she did not kill the child.
Frankly, I never heard a credible motive posited. And the mother’s story got so convoluted that at some point you have to wonder where it all was leading. I’m a big fan of the KISS principle. The injection of chloroform into the story seems to have come from the lying mother. But, as far as I know there was never any evidence that it was used. The coroner’s report indicated death by drowning as I recall. Don’t know how quickly the body decomposes chloroform. Is two days in the woods sufficient to make it undetectable? I don’t know. Bottom line: The whole thing sounds like a pathological liar just making things up as she went along.
I suspect an ambitious prosecutor saw a chance to convict this flawed woman in as sensational murder case. He lost sight of reality.
Unless a “smoking gun” appears pointing to the mother murdering her child I think all of this is just a tragic accident.