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Originally Posted by housenuts
1. so we can watch the testimony and see the evidence that he did not know and had to be fed that information by the cops, or we can speculate that he knew and was withholding...
i thought you pushed for evidence over speculation?
2. you can think whatever you want from the 'expert' evidence and reach your own conclusion. You cannot however infer that the jury 'knew' this. for all we know the jury deliberations could've gone as follows:
juror 1: well there's nothing to show she was shot. those experts were idiots.
juror 2: ya i agree. culhane sucks at her job too and that TH dna on the bullet was probably accidentally transferred onto it in her terrible lab.
juror 3: i agree. we can't really say that she was shot, but how she died doesn't matter. she died somehow, and avery's blood is in her rav4 so he likely killed her.
juror 4: ya these are all good points. avery killed her.
juror 5: ok lets all vote that he killed her, but we don't even know if it was her body in the fire pit or if avery did that, so we'll let him off on that one.
all jurors: ok, that sounds fair. lets do that and get out of here!
1. Both things you said are opinions. No one knows for sure what he knew except him.
2. I said "
I'd guess the jury knew", and it's a lot more realistic than your bizarre alternative.
The evidence showed a bullet wound in her skull from before she was burned with traces of lead found around the wound. A fired bullet was found with her DNA on it. If you read the testimony of Eisenberg, Jentzen, Olson, and Fairgrieve, there is a clear consensus by every expert involved in the case (on both sides) that the victim was shot in the head.
I guess you can argue in a more abstract sense "How do we really know that a person with a bullet wound was shot and it wasn't actually some kind of magic or aliens or something?" or "How do we know that everyone wasn't lying, or that this was even actually the victim?"
So in that sense, no, I guess you can't prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that the victim was shot in the head.
However, any reasonable person would conclude that the victim was shot in the head.
I will assume the jury was more informed/reasonable than most people ITT, as they are getting their information from the trial rather than MaM.
I'm not going to continue arguing this with you about this, and frankly I might just start ignoring you as well if you continue being so unreasonable.