From the cutting room floor: Cameron Brown murder retrial closing arguments - Part III

• Sheriff's homicide Detective Jeff Leslie, the lead investigating officer, testified several times during the trial on various issues. What Brown told Leslie: Lauren led them out to Inspiration Point to look at the view (to which Hum asked - why not Portugese Point? Safer and with the same view? Because more people.)
• Brown said he sat in the U-shaped area four-feet from the edge while Lauren ran around throwing rocks over the edge.
• Brown told a friend he was looking around and didn't see how Lauren went over. She was there, then she was gone. He told Deputy Jessica Brothers the same thing.
• Then Brown told Leslie he heard "oh" and saw Lauren falling forward and he could just see her feet as she falls off the cliff. This is "not consistent with common sense."
• In the next version, Brown told Leslie he heard "uh-oh" and saw Lauren's left back side as she fell forward, arms out in front of her. "This is signifiantly different than the other two."
• "If the defendant's telling the truth, those three versions should be consistent, and they're not."
• Brown said he couldn't see Lauren after she fell, but told someone else from law enforcement or the fire department (not sure) that he looked over and saw Lauren floating in the water.
• There is no explanation why he didn't yell down to the people on the beach below to call 911. Instead, Brown went down to the nude sunbathing beach and asked to use someone's phone.
• While Brown told investigators he was crying on the 911 call, the tape of the 5 1/2 minute call proves he was lying. Brown sounds out of breath, but is telling the nude sunbathers they're going to have to "cover-up" and kinda "chuckles." He never says "hurry."
• Then, he goes all the way back up and over Inspiration Point so he can have access to the area of water where Lauren was. When he gets there, he sees his daughter floating face down, but he takes off his clothes and shoes like he'd seen in "Baywatch" so that he doesn't have to wait around in wet clothes and be uncomfortable. "That's what he's thinking about - himself. And that's what he's always thinking about."
• He pulls her out, says he tried to do CPR for about a minute, then flings off his wet underwear and gets dressed. He carries her up to the archery range and lies her on her back on the a picnic table.
• By then, a little more than nine minutes has passed since she fell.
• When the first responders arrive, he is "indifferent," "unemotional," "calm," "in control" and "normal." "Nobody has ever seen anything like this."
• The defense brought in an expert to say people react differently to grief, and opined that Brown was "disassociating." "They do, but not like that." Firefighters and detectives said they never saw anybody react like that in this kind of situation.
• Defendant talked about the election (this was during the whole Gore-Bush time) and complained about his wet boots.
• "He sobs a couple times for show, and sighs."
• He's concerned about the media that's arriving because he doesn't want Patti to find out what happened this way (but no mention of Key-Marer). He's concerned about his car and surfboard, left at the Abalone Cove parking lot.
• "He just doesn't care about Lauren, all he cares about his himself."
• During a three-hour interview with Leslie, Brown was "cold" and "indifferent." Leslie said usually parents or caregivers blame themselves. But Brown blamed Lauren. He is "selfish" and "self-centered." "I just followed her out there," he said.

OK. Taking another break. I'll try to get up the next portion today.