There was chloroform in the car, a syringe and bottle at the body site that tested positive for chlorofom, her parents and the car-lot guy (who know the smell of death through work) have said that the car smelled like death, the car still smells like death, there was duct tape on the child's head (hair was caught in the tape) and a heart sticker on the tape, the mother wanted to spend more time with her boyfriend, on June 16 mother couldn't find a babysitter, that night she was child-free, she avoided family for 31 days and told friends there was a Zanny the Nanny (although she didn't have a job for a couple of years), she partied hard for a month until her mother cornered her. I can't imagine a jury falling for defence tricks, although they could have difficulties with the death penalty. Personally, I'd prefer to see her locked up for another 70 years. She is nasty to the core and has a terrific temper. I think she is already half mad and that perpetual prison will leave her completely mad - living in her fantasy world of pretend people. She's dangerously manipulative (as we saw with the guard that was fired for delivering mail between Anthony and another inmate). The latest question is whether she is mimicking a story from an inmate that was jailed, at the same time as Anthony, for letting her son drown in a swimming pool - where that grandfather provided 911 assistance. Anthony may have heard the story - and that is being explored as a source for her "story" about the death of her child - but Anthony added the twist of the grandfather (George Anthony) disappearing with the child because he abused Casey at the age of 8 ... and then the meter reader ran off with the body.
My first thought was that the defence was "perpetrating a fraud upon the court", and now I think the defence is trying to baffle them with bullschittz.
Seriously ... the defence brought in a low number count DNA expert from the Netherlands to testify that it is possible to get DNA from duct tape sometimes, but if it was in the water and swamps for a long time that possibility would be diminished. Really? The state expert couldn't get DNA from the duct tape, but it was found attached to the skull hair so it's not that difficult to figure out that the duct tape was on the head before it was found attached to the hair of the skull. The child is still dead, still in a swamp behind the house where the suspect grew up, the car still smells like a dead body and whether there was DNA on the duct tape is rather insignificant ... yet the defence introduced a Dutch expert on LNC DNA to say there might be readable DNA on the duct tape - which is rather meaningless in terms of evidence.