But they were still sequestered, so no family contact.

Thank you. It would explain a lot. Like why she would try to hide what happened, how the kid died, why there was no forensic evidence after so long, etc.

The problem is that the prosecution left the door open to the reasonable possibility that there was no killer because the death was accidental.

The jury was  5 male, 7 female and it was unanimous, so you see, men can be stupid too and you just proved it.

“Tis better to be silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt. “

We can only hope, Mike, we can only hope.

It is the greatest judicial system in the world. Nobody said it was perfect, but at least with our adversarial judicial system a defendant has a chance. What happened in this trial was what was supposed to happen when an idiotic prosecutor tries to overreach as this prosecutor did in this case. The founders knew there would be a problem with prosecutors like this and set out to make sure defendants couldn’t be railroaded, and in fact went way out of their way to make sure. That’s why the burden of proof is always on the state to prove their case, not the defendant, among the many other built-in protections. They did not want a government running rampant and prosecuting citizens they didn’t like, and so they wisely threw up all kinds of roadblocks. Sure, that means sometimes guilty parties go free, but that’s a price I’m willing to pay to keep government in check.

“It was not an easy case to prove but the defense never presented any
evidence to dispute the circumstantial case. I suspect that the public
has grown to expect a smoking gun delivered by CSI’s in every case.”

You’ve been looking at too much TV. It’s not up to the defense to prove someone innocent, but the prosecution to prove them guilty. Far too many people assume guilt as a given, once someone is brought to trial.

Not really. People panic all the time and do stupid shit that makes things worse than they would ordinarily be. If she did something that she thought might cost her ten years in prison, she might have hit that panic mode. Bottom line, the prosecutor overreached.

There is no evidence that the child drowned, reasonable doubt isn’t what could have happened .

The defense attorneys are out, I see. 

The “lie” was answering “no” to the question, “Did you order any other tests ?” The answer the defense attorney wanted was the cocaine test which would have shown cocaine metabolites which are inadmissible since they may persist for 30 days and indicate cocaine use unrelated to the incident.

Had this answer been made in the presence of the jury, there would have been a mistrial. Mistrials can be useful as they may persuade a DA to reduce charges for a new trial to try to get the defendant to plead out.  That wouldn’t have happened in this case because the victim was the son of a deputy.

Since your high dudgeon is so obvious, I’ll fill you in on some details. The victim was a 15 year old boy riding his bicycle. The driver hit him so hard that the pattern of his corduroy trousers was imprinted in the paint of the fender. The driver then lost control and plowed into a bridge abutment half a mile away. When the Highway Patrol officer, who got to the scene quickly, asked the driver for his drivers’ license, he ate it.

We recovered the license when I passed an NG tube on the driver. He vomited it up. I spent a half hour trying to resuscitate the boy, and when that proved futile, I treated the driver. He had a laceration of his arm where the gear shift lever had hit it when he collided with the bridge abutment.

In court, I was accused of suturing the laceration without anesthetic (a lie) in order to “torture” the poor innocent driver. He, of course, had been considerably cleaned up for the trial. There was also a problem with the blood alcohol level. The cops won’t let us draw our own blood alcohol, as it is not admissible. We do anyway as it is important in treatment, but I had to testify that he was drunk by observation (such as eating his drivers’ license).

Now aren’t you proud of yourselves ?

Dopes.

Cayle Anthony “little Florida Sunshine”  I apologize to you.  I am so sorry that you didn’t get to live out your life as other children do.  You didn’t get to have tea parties with other little girls, you never experienced the unconditional Love of Family.  Instead your little Mouth was taped and you were inserted in the trunk of a car in the darkness while your Mother Played in your place.  Your Mother experienced Parties with other girls as you took your last little breath. You have already forgiven her as little girls and you are wearing your gossemer wings in heaven.  Earth isn’t your home anymore and you are in a joyful place.  God is the judge of life.  Casey will have a lot of explaining to do when the book of life is presented before her at those pearly gates.  She can’t lie when faced with the truth.  Her fate has already been sealed. 

This nations justice system SUCKS!!!  It puts people that commit minor crimes in jail for several years, lets child molesters out of jail due to “not enough room”   and If a murderer has an ample amount of money, then he can get away with murder  due to a glove not fitting his hand(O.J.)..If a woman is put on trial for killing her own child/flesh n blood..then the jury shows mercy on her for being a female…and gives a” not guilty” verdict….Whats next?? Can’t wait to see the next person that commits a horrible crime ..they will get of on insanity.