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<blockquote data-quote="Malika" data-source="post: 442894" data-attributes="member: 11227"><p>To engage in stating the bleedin' obvious, no-one other than the perpetrator(s) know what happened in this case. We all have our theories, more or less plausible, but the jurors have the serious task of reaching a verdict <strong>based on the evidence</strong>. If I were a juror, trying to imagine that I have only evidence presented to go on, I would find it beyond a reasonable doubt that Casey was implicated in the death of her daughter. But how? What evidence has been presented to show the manner of death? Would I be able to find Casey guilty of 1st degree murder <strong>based on the evidence</strong>? I don't know that I could. Although she may very well have been guilty of that. It is one of the quandaries of this case that all the evidence could be interpreted in different ways. It looks beyond reasonable doubt that Caylee's body was kept in the back of the car. But that tells us nothing about how she died. There was evidence of chloroform and of someone, almost certainly Casey, making searches about chloroform. But that does not tell us whether the child died of an accidental overdose or deliberately. As to forgiveness, it seems to me that all things can be forgiven. One of the predicates for that, though, is that there is regret and remorse. We do not know what is going on in Casey's secret heart, but to external appearances, she does not seem to be engaging with any serious level of truth about what happened. That seems to me frightening and dysfunctional.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Malika, post: 442894, member: 11227"] To engage in stating the bleedin' obvious, no-one other than the perpetrator(s) know what happened in this case. We all have our theories, more or less plausible, but the jurors have the serious task of reaching a verdict [B]based on the evidence[/B]. If I were a juror, trying to imagine that I have only evidence presented to go on, I would find it beyond a reasonable doubt that Casey was implicated in the death of her daughter. But how? What evidence has been presented to show the manner of death? Would I be able to find Casey guilty of 1st degree murder [B]based on the evidence[/B]? I don't know that I could. Although she may very well have been guilty of that. It is one of the quandaries of this case that all the evidence could be interpreted in different ways. It looks beyond reasonable doubt that Caylee's body was kept in the back of the car. But that tells us nothing about how she died. There was evidence of chloroform and of someone, almost certainly Casey, making searches about chloroform. But that does not tell us whether the child died of an accidental overdose or deliberately. As to forgiveness, it seems to me that all things can be forgiven. One of the predicates for that, though, is that there is regret and remorse. We do not know what is going on in Casey's secret heart, but to external appearances, she does not seem to be engaging with any serious level of truth about what happened. That seems to me frightening and dysfunctional. [/QUOTE]
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