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As I'm watching and listening to Judge Perry read the counts to the jury an attempt to instruct them as to the charges in which they might find Casey Anthony Guilty or Not Guilty of, I can't help but to reflect back on the case and the evidence provided.
In order for a person to be convicted of 1st Degree Murder, pre-meditation would've had to occur. In this case, the prosecution relied upon computer searches retrieved from Casey's computer which indicated searches for chloroform, chorlofill, and other related items. The prosecution suggested that chloroform was used to either sedate Caylee, or out right kill Caylee. However, the searches that occured for these items happened directly after visiting her boyfriend's Myspace page which had posted a picture of something relating to chloroform. That suggests that this pciture instigated some sort of search and is not directly tied to the matter in which Caylee died.
The problem with that theory is that chloroform occurs naturally in common household items, water, and a variety of things that one would enounter everyday. Although its prescense is questionalble in the death of Caylee, the prescence of chlorform does not conclusivley indicate that Casey used chlorform to commit any crime.
The second proposition suggested by the prosecution is that duct tape was put on the mouth and nose of Caylee Marie Anthony resulting in the sufficiation of Caylee Marie Anthony.
Dr. Spitz, the individual who conducted analysis upon President John F. Kennedy, as wells Dr. Martin Luther King, and as completed over 600,000 autopsies, testified that the manner in which Caylee decomposed, does not fit with the prosecutions theory.
Additionally, all evidence retrieved from the scene in which Caylee's remains were found, are suspect, as Mr. Cronk, the founder of said remains, admited to have had contact with the remains and admitted to have altered the placement, surroundings, overall appearance of the items found.
This indicates that the duct tape found near the body, which has conclusively been tied to the family of Casey Anthony, does not necessairly indicate the positioning of the duct tape and whether it was indeed the cause of death.
Furthermore, no cause of death was conclusivley submitted to jury for consideration. The medical examiner indicated that the cause of death was "unknown".
Also, as it was the defense's defense, Caylee Marie Anthony alledgedly drowned in the pool. This is believable due to the enthuasism of Caylee to be in or around the pool. However, Dr. Spitz indicated that in a suffication case there is normally discoloration behind the ears. A fact that was ommitted by both sides is that if a child drowned in the pool, suffication by materiality, then one would and could assume that the same discoloriation would occur. However, Dr. Spitz further testified that the discoloration doesn't always occur.
Regardless of Casey Anthony's antics regarding the lies and misinformation provided to law enforcement, that does not necessairly constitute murder in the first.
Furthermore, in order to convict someone of murder evidence would've had to been submitted to indicated how and by what means the murder occured. This information throughout this six week trial has not appeared. Therefore, it is my opinion, that all murder charges should be dropped and "negligent manslaughter" or other lesser charges would be warranted.
Last edited by DJRYAN™ on Jul-04-2011 at 16:11
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I feel like a grown person probably wouldn't need chloroform to kill a 3 year old girl, and there are far easier ways than breaking her neck. 
