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Originally Posted by E90SoFlo
He is also pretty good at it.
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With all due respect, I beg to differ on this point. If you review the proceedings and hear from other defense attorneys, they do not feel he did a particularly good job. He was lucky that the prosecution could never determine a true cause of death, and that was the main point.
Jose made some very damaging statements about other family members at the beginning but never offered proof for these allegations. Thats why the defense was on their heels for much of the trial because he could not prove his claims that he made at the beginning of the trial.
With that said, he did correctly identify that a true cause of death had not been shown, and this is what created doubt in the minds of the jury (at least that is as much as we know at thispoint from what has been released through the media).
I agree that negligent homicide, or some equivalent, should have been the goal from the beginning. For 3 years they knew that they could not prove that Caylee did not drown, so this should not have been a surprise here at the end.