"How could finding the button make her innocent in anyway, or even raise doubts?
Finding it doesn't really mean anything.
Lara claims she lost her button by running into the murder. Then at the end of the movie the cop starts looking for the button. Finding it wouldn't mean that she didn't murder that woman.
For example the button could of been ripped off during a slight struggle between the murder (Lara) and the victim.
Or Lara could of been in the parking lot for a while waiting for the woman to go to her car. While she was waiting someone could of bumped into her knocking off her button..
Or the button could of gotten tore off by Lara running into someone after she murdered the woman. She could of bumped into a person as she was fleeing the crime.
The button really doesn't prove anything more than she was there. Finding it doesn't mean that she couldn't of killed that woman. It actually would work against her since it would only prove that she was in fact there at some point. Barely even that though, because she could of been there and lost that button days before the murder even took place... "
Actually, the button COULD have been used as strong evidence that Lara DID NOT commit the murder.
1."For example the button could of been ripped off during a slight struggle between the murder (Lara) and the victim."
False.
A). The victim was hit on the head with a fire extinguisher.
B).There was no other evidence on either Lara or the victim of a struggle.
C). The victim was on the side of her car INSIDE the parking structure.
D). A button ripped off at the spot where the victim was found would not have found its way into the gutter, as it would have had to traveled across the dry floor of a covered parking lot, out into the driving, by the edge of sidewalk, and into the gutter.
2."Or Lara could of been in the parking lot for a while waiting for the woman to go to her car. While she was waiting someone could of bumped into her knocking off her button.."
False.
A). Buttons, much less those fastened onto someone's back, do not pop off with an audible "pop" from someone bumping into you while you're waiting.
3. "Or the button could of gotten tore off by Lara running into someone after she murdered the woman. She could of bumped into a person as she was fleeing the crime."
False.
A). It was shown, numerous times, that Lara did not leave the crime scene on foot - she DROVE off.
B). Lara's coworker witnessed that he saw her DRIVING out of the parking structure, moments before he saw the murder victim.
4."It actually would work against her since it would only prove that she was in fact there at some point. "
False.
A). No one - not even Lara herself - is disputing that she was at the crime scene at some point.
The button could
A). Be matched with the brand, style, make, and year of the jacket she was wearing. If the jacket in question could still be procured, one could check to see that is missing one button on the back.
B). A button popping off with an audible "pop" indicates to force beyond mere bump. It indicates an altercation with someone - which would prove that there was at least one other person at the crime scene. The altercation would have needed to have involved heightened enough force - applied abruptly and in concisely enough - so as to create enough sudden tension in the several short threads of string between the jacket and the button so as to cause the threads to break. This heightened force does not occur by two people merely bumping. There would have had to have been either A) physical struggle, or B) the two people had to have been coming at each other from opposite directions, and at least one person had to have been running and not paying close attention.
C). The button would have had to have been at a distance where, after being severed from the jacket, it could have fallen into the gutter.
Argument B in and of itself would prove there was at least one other person at the scene, thereby changing the the perspective of the case IMMENSELY. The button alone could have proved her innocence, as often we have to look at what is PLAUSIBLE.
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