sick family. Lies and secrets. I don’t know.
The jury doesn’t need to be concerned with alternate theories, just proof of the state’s theory.
Of course they don't, especially when the defense eliminates 99.5% of those alternate theories.
In fact, the only "theory" the defense left open, other than that put forward by the state, is one so preposterous, so bereft of evidence, that only a moron would believe it.
And that is the crux of the matter here: the jurors were presented with two theories of the crime (the obvious crime that was committed, despite these morons' wish to make it disappear, leaving a dead and rotted 3 year-old to float around in a fetid swamp), and they chose the one with NO EVIDENCE WHATSOEVER.
If you want to latch onto that kind of genius, go ahead.