Casey Anthony and Experts

In today's testimony the prosecution inquired as to a forensic pathologists prior knowledge of the case and I think it is proper that the defense be permitted to employ experts who will have no preconceived notions. The failure of the defense attorneys to inform their expert of a possible drowning is not a fit matter of inquiry and the judge should never have allowed a question that implies lack of a belief in the client's version of events.

Compulsive liar who simply does not face the truth? Perhaps. She never revealed her being a half credit short of high school graduation to her family. Did this start at age 8 as a result of sexual molestation? I have no idea! So far, I've heard simply that she was a good mother when she was with her daughter, a good roommate, and a good sport who joined in the festivities when the turnout at her boyfriends club-night event was rather sparse. I've not heard any motive to rid herself of her daughter or take up a lifestyle of booze, boyfriends and nightclubs.

A compulsive liar is just as likely to leave a child in a hot car as any other harried mother. A compulsive liar is just as likely to be forgetful about a swimming pool ladder as any other harried mother. The defendant's father may indeed have misguided his daughter by playing on her fears of criminal prosecution for the drowning incident. Or she simply may have left the child in a hot car and gone just as blithely along ignoring reality of that as she did when she allowed her parents to plan a graduation party that would not be taking place.