I think that is the bottom line. Those who feel he's innocent view him as a kind of bumbling, hapless sort. Those who don't view his actions as those of someone about to or committing murder. Didn't shave because preoccupied with what he was about to do. Sat in car for 30 seconds because thinking about what he was going to do. Going back to car to check on progress. But didn't watnt to actually see. Etc.
I'm going to split hairs, because that's what I exist to do.
I think this was most likely an "accident," but am not entirely sure. I don't mean by that I have doubts whether or not it was planned or done with intent. I don't believe that, for all the reasons I've yammered about for weeks, but cliff note version- IMO the State's case was all over the place precisely because they never found one narrative about intent that made sense even to them.
By doubt I mean.....I can't call what happened "just" an accident, because of the many choices RH made that morning that precluded actually taking care of his son. IMO , for example, it's impossible to believe RH actually hugged and kissed Cooper after he strapped him in.
Not because thinking he did do those things makes it less likely to believe Ross would forget him, but because I think his indifference to Cooper that morning makes it nearly impossible to believe Ross would have bothered. It is IMO the fact of his indifference, his wilful preoccupation with texting (anyone, about anything), that makes his "forgetting" of Cooper believable.
I absolutely do not view Ross as some hapless bumbling innocent victim, entrapped and persecuted by nefarious LE.
The part of the State's case I can agree with is their portrayal of Ross as a man who loved his son (omitting the State's "might have"), but who was most certainly capable of putting his own needs above Cooper's, as well those of Leanna.
IMO, a degree of selfishness and more than I can't identify with at all, much less sympathize with, but also one that I don't believe made RH capable of murdering Cooper.