natsound
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Does, not providing the answer to that question prove there was no food in the maggot infested white trash bag, legally yes, but does that remove reasonable doubt as to whether there was food in there, for most yes, for me, not so much.
Without food being in the white trash bag, we have what exactly in evidence that caused the odor? We have a single hair with apparent decomp, but I doubt that has any odor at all. We have an adipocere like fatty substance in the white trash bag, that can't be the odor according to everyone because when the trash bag was removed the odor remained.
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I hate to argue these things, especially now that the trial is over, but I think when you take the (very, very, very thin) gray area on whether there was food in the trash bag, coupled with the adipocere on the paper towels in the bag, that proves beyond a reasonable doubt that a dead body was in the vicinity of the paper towels and the bag. The hair found in the trunk with decomp tells me that body was in the trunk.