<p>Good point, alwaysamom. There are always high-profile lawyers stepping up in high profile cases. I wonder why this didn’t happen here?</p>
<p>^Maybe no one anticipated this case would stir such interest?</p>
<p>Maybe no lawyer (on either side) wanted to work with a psychopath? </p>
<p>Lawyer getting her free: the public would be outraged
Lawyer getting her convicted: sad story
Lawyer getting her the DP: a political hotbed
Result: too risky</p>
<p>It is too bad we will end up feeding killer for the rest of her life, while innocent child is dead. What a waste!</p>
<p>If the glove doesn’t fit, you must acquit!</p>
<p>Oh, wait, sorry. Wrong trial.</p>
<p>^^^^ Hahaha!</p>
<p>I actually think her lawyers have done a GREAT job. I think there is virtually no chance she’ll be found guilty of first-degree murder, as the prosecution’s case for premeditiation is full of holes, and now her lawyer is fishing for reasonable doubt - the doubt part I think he has already established, but whether reasonable remains to be seen.</p>
<p>The prosecution doesn’t need to prove pre-med…felony murder is also on the table.</p>
<p>*There are always high-profile lawyers stepping up in high profile cases. I wonder why this didn’t happen here? *</p>
<p>Actually some did at first, but after awhile, they couldn’t afford to stay. That said, the first chair atty, Cheney Mason is a high profile Florida DP atty. He’s tried many DP cases including the Nelson Serrano case (a story that was featured in one of those crime file shows)</p>
<p>Linda Kenney Baden was one of the high profile attys that was on the case at one point, but she could no longer afford to stay on the case.</p>
<p>It’s very costly for an OOS attorney to take on a case like this on the salary that the state pays for indigent clients.</p>
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<p>Either that, or the prosecution did a lousy job. </p>
<p>Before this trial started, I was absolutely convinced that Casey had murdered her child. Now, I’m no longer sure. I don’t believe the drowning story, but the more contradictory evidence I hear, the more I realize that there are multiple possible ways in which Caylee could have died, and not all of them are murder. I have LOTS of reasonable doubt, and if I were on the jury, I could not vote to convict Casey of first-degree murder.</p>
<p>Assuming it wasn’t premeditated, what scenario do you think was the most likely one? Every time I try to think it through I come back to those internet searches and I just can’t reconcile those with an accidental death. i think if I was on the jury, that would be hounding me.</p>
<p>I just came off a sequestered murder trial - not a high profile case. nevertheless, when much the jury thinks it is going to be easy to convict, there will be some who have their doubts…making it easy for the jury to come to a conclusion that the public doesn’t understand…</p>
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I can only imagine. It is such a big responsibility. i was on a very small case once and even that made me feel edgy because it was a teen who was accused and I wanted to be 100 percent sure that he did it. I remember the other jurors were much more casual about it, though and it bothered me.</p>
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<p>The internet searches definitely seem like a factor to me. However, one scenario COULD be that she intended to sedate or knock the child out for a while with chloroform (so Casey could go out) and didn’t mean for the child to die but she did. Though even that would be a crime.</p>
<p>One thing, however, is that the search included other things like “neck breaking,” which one could infer that Casey was looking into various murder methods. </p>
<p>I think there is a chance the death was accidental due to negligence or something Casey did to harm (but not kill) the child, or it was an intentional death. But the bottom line to me is that Casey did something resulting in the child’s death. </p>
<p>On top of Casey’s many lies, I think the defense’s case is hurt somewhat by the pool drowning story which is so obviously not true.</p>
<p>*Assuming it wasn’t premeditated, what scenario do you think was the most likely one? *</p>
<p>When this first happened, I first thought Caylee accidentally drowned. I thought that Casey put the ladder up on the pool, then somehow got distracted on the phone, and Caylee got into the pool and drowned…but her behavior (the partying) and going to the video store a few hours later kind of destroyed that view in my head (this is caught on video).</p>
<p>Then, I thought this happened… Casey’s phone records showed that she was calling lots of people on Monday afternoon, presumably to find someone to babysit Caylee so that she could to go her boyfriend’s home. So, perhaps she drugged Caylee with chloroform, and put her in the trunk. Then went to boyfriends, and went to the video store. Then, she found Caylee’s dead body the next morning…she spent that next day in bed all day with the BF. Then she didn’t know what to do…a few days later she went back to her home, put duct tape on Caylee to make it look like a kidnapping and got rid of the body.</p>
<p>@barbara960,</p>
<p>I have just started to watch the trial last week. I spent the weekend researching the facts and what has been going on the past three years. I am totally hooked. Some websites that helped me get up to date are the following:</p>
<p>Nancy Grace is possessed. She has an essential guide to the trial.
[Casey</a> Anthony – Nancy Grace - CNN.com Blogs](<a href=“http://nancygrace.blogs.cnn.com/category/casey-anthony/]Casey”>http://nancygrace.blogs.cnn.com/category/casey-anthony/)</p>
<p>She is also on every night on HLN, recapping and discussing the events of the day.</p>
<p>This is a local new network in Orlando that has live streaming of the trial:
[url=<a href=“FOX 35 Orlando”>FOX 35 Orlando]www.caseyanthonymurdertrial.com[/url</a>]</p>
<p>Also I have found a fantastic website that does the 31 day timeline of the activities of Casey Anthony when Caylee was missing to the time she was reported missing. It give the actual daily record of what happened each day, cell phone records, actual police reports, text messages. </p>
<p>[url=<a href=“http://www.acandyrose.com/caylee_anthony_murder_trial_060211.htm]caylee_anthony_murder_trial_060211.htm[/url”>caylee_anthony_murder_trial_060211.htm]caylee_anthony_murder_trial_060211.htm[/url</a>]</p>
<p>I say we fry her. Sick woman killed her little girl, and tried to cover it up. There might have been something going on with Caylee’s grandparents though. If my daughter went missing with my grandkid, and I didn’t talk to her for a full month, although my daughter was constantly making mistakes, I’d definitely get a bit concerned.</p>
<p>It is hard for the prosecution to prepare for multiple witnesses who are willing to lie. The contradictory evidence, in my opinion, is made up of lies. If it’s unbelievable, it can be ignored.</p>
<p>^^^Right…some of the doubt that they seem to be raising is not reasonable doubt when there are lies involved. The pool story has to be a lie. Even the grandmother’s claim to have looked up chloroform herself repeatedly when she was supposedly at work just doesn’t seem true. So, not sure those things are raising reasonable doubt. More lies doesn’t raise doubt to me but actually makes the defense look weaker and raises my doubt about anything they put forth, rather than doubt that the prosecution puts forth (though I admit to not having watched any of the trial and only reading periodic news stories).</p>
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<p>I find it hard to believe that Caylee actually died in the car. It’s a possibility, but it’s just not sitting with me. I feel like Casey would have just left her home, why bother to take her with her at all-- especially with all the (rightful) hype about infants dying after being left in cars, I mean goodness she lived in Florida-- it wouldn’t have taken chloroform to kill a baby left in the trunk of a car in Florida all day. Unless she meant to kill her, unless she’s REALLY stupid I can’t believe she’d have done that. And what if she woke up while laying in the trunk in boyfriend’s driveway? Why would Casey take that risk if she could just leave her safely sleeping in her room with her pooh blanket?</p>
<p>I would buy, however, that she tried to drug her, left her home, came home and found her dead, and then stuffed her in the trunk to get her out of the way while she thought about what to do next.</p>
<p>Just speculation. I can’t imagine anyone putting someone in the trunk of a car in Florida without the intent to kill them.</p>
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Who uses chloroform to sedate a child? Benadryl yes chloroform NO. Benadryl is available in every grocery store and pharmacy in the country, but where do you buy chloroform?</p>
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<p>From what I’ve heard, they were concerned. But I don’t think you can call the police and say, “My daughter won’t let us see our granddaughter.” All they could really do is hound Casey about where Caylee was and why they couldn’t see her, and it sounds as though they did that. I’m sure the idea that Caylee was dead was farthest from their minds.</p>