Today the judge confirmed the Prosecution will be putting on rebuttal witnesses after the defense rests.
Looks like this trial will drag on awhile. I think the defense has at least another 7 to 8 days worth of testimony. They probably won’t finish until the end of June.
Hope the judge arranges a nice barbecue for July 4. I’d bet the jury will still be waiting for closing arguments by then.
Well, they do sometimes, but besides that George was a cop many years ago, in Ohio. He has no connections in the Orlando area police.
The police and prosecution know what George has in his past, because they have investigated him extensively. I’m pretty confident I know what he has in his past, because I’ve read like everything I can get my hands on about this case. And yeah–there’s nothing that interesting.
Susanann, have you read all the document dumps of evidence that have been released? Or are you just watching the trial?
I’ll take it even further than that. Having read Susanann’s posts before, it’s clear to me that in her world, no suspicious death is ever free of the involvement some EVIL MAN!!!
There is really no mystery here. Casey is missing the part that most of us have that makes us consider our actions further than “right now and how can I make myself happy?”. Her parents probably tried to do the right thing in in their view by forcing her to take some responsiblity for her little girl. She dealt with it as any in sociopath would-deal with the immediate issue of how to keep Caylee sleeping and out of her way ie “Zanny the Nanny”. This is someone who is irretrievably broken. Even now I am sure that Casey considers herself the victim. She certainly said as much in her jailhouse conversations with her family.
Agreed. Look at the ham handed theft from her good friend Amy Huizenga. Did she actually believe it would not be traced back to her? I don’t think she gave it a moment’s thought. When and if it came back to her, she would simply launch into a string of lies and ridiculous stories to explain why she did nothing wrong. She is very good at this.
Cindy had been telling Casey for some time that she felt Casey was an unfit mother. According to some accounts (which will never see the light of day in court), there was a big argument the weekend before Caylee’s disappearance, wherein Cindy threatened to take Casey to court to win custody of Caylee. Some bloggers out there point to this as another motive for Casey wanting Caylee out of the picture completely.
So the thinking here is that Casey would rather have Caylee gone forever than let her mother Cindy have custody?
Almost unfathomable for me to imagine someone that fucked up…
ETA—The closest thing I can relate that to is a spoiled two-year old child in tantrum mode throwing her ice cream on the ground rather than having to give someone else a taste of it.
LOL, hey, you probably just nailed it.
I don’t know the FL law, but I can’t imagine that your child accidentally drowning in your backyard pool would be something that could get you criminally charged. Sure, if the police show up and you are passed out on the couch with a heroin needle sticking out of your arm, that will get you in trouble, but a simple negligent act like failing to lock the gate, pull the ladder up, taking your eye off of the kid for a couple of moments, are almost never reasons to charge a parent.
Quoted for truth. In order to be found guilty of a crime like murder, the jury has to find that the defendant had the required “culpable mental state,” or in other words, a guilty mind, such that they performed some act with the intent to cause death or knowledge that it could cause death. You couldn’t be convicted of murder if a kid accidentally drowns in your pool, because you didn’t intend for the death to occur. If you didn’t take necessary care to prevent kids from drowning in your pool, you might be on the hook for a civil lawsuit, but not for a crime.
And as a former police officer, Casey’s dad knows that very well.
It probably would’ve been far better for Casey if she’d drugged Caylee and put her in the pool to actually drown. She could cry “my poor baby!” and people would’ve had sympathy towards her. She didn’t think this through far enough.
I wonder if she agreed to allocute and tell exactly what happened if they’d take the death penalty off the table?
StG
Intent is not a requirement for all crimes. There’s an entire class of criminal acts which require only negligence.
Under Florida law, a parent or other caregiver could certainly be charged with involuntary manslaughter for allowing a child to drown in a pool. This woman was charged with manslaughter for allowing her infant son to drown in the bathtub.
Given all of the lies she has told, turn after turn, who would believe her.
Aside from the trial details, I think fashion wise she’s presenting a bit chola, gangsta girl. Look at how she’s styled her hair, pulled back in a high ponytail, on the sides it’s tight and gelled maybe shaved around the hairline…
Settling in pretty well with the prison population?
I heard that she is in isolation…no contact other than writing, with other inmates.
Which is why I specified “a crime like murder”.
Leaving an 11-month-old alone in a tub has the easily-foreseeable consequence of a drowned infant. Possession of a pool does not.
I’m confused about these two exchanges.
Number one:
Number two:
So does an ex-policeman need to fear the strong arm of the law, or not?
Wow!!
Cindy just testified that she was searching google for Chlorophyll. Because she was worried about her dogs eating plants. That search lead to her searching chloroform. A byproduct of the Chlorophyll process. During prosecution rebuttal it came out that Cindy told the prosecutor this in her 2009 deposition.
They’ve been blaming Casey for this search.
The defense has the police computer forensic examiner on now discussing these searches.
Cindy also testified that the stain in the car trunk was there when she bought it many years ago.
It also came out that she was officially at work when those searches were done on the home computer, but the work records were somehow in error when they stated she was at work those three times.
That’s why I asked about FL law. Here simple negligence won’t get you charged with a crime. Even gross negligence will not get you charged. You must cross into the realm of reckless conduct to move into involuntary manslaughter.
I understand that some states charge recklessness as “malice murder” but that’s a pretty high threshold.