What would be better than "Caylee's Law"? An enforcement of ethical rules against defense teams and allowing prosecutors, when there is no evidence of some alternative explanation (e.g., Caylee drowned in the pool) proferred by the defense, to forcefully make that point. Casey Anthony's lead defense attorney ought, at a minimum, be suspended for his scurrilous attacks on Mr. Kronk (the guy who found the body) and his attacks on Mr. Anthony (again, completely without evidence). Moreover, defense counsel should not be allowed to argue these alternative explanations without evidence.

I'm not inclined to restrict what the defense can argue. It would be better, in my view, to recognize that Justice Stewart was right in his dissent in Griffin v. California regarding comment on the defendant's failure to testify:

I think the California comment rule is not a coercive device which impairs the right against self-incrimination, but rather a means of articulating and bringing into the light of rational discussion a fact inescapably impressed on the jury's consciousness. The California procedure is not only designed to protect the defendant against unwarranted inferences which might be drawn by an uninformed jury; it is also an attempt by the State to recognize and articulate what it believes to be the natural probative force of certain facts. Surely no one would deny that the State has an important interest in throwing the light of rational discussion on that which transpires in the course of a trial, both to protect the defendant from the very real dangers of silence and to shape a legal process designed to ascertain the truth.

The California rule allowing comment by counsel and instruction by the judge on the defendant's failure to take the stand is hardly an idiosyncratic aberration. The Model Code of Evidence, and the Uniform Rules of Evidence both sanction the use of such procedures. The practice has been endorsed by resolution of the American Bar Association and the American Law Institute, and has the support of the weight of scholarly opinion.

The weight of scholarly opinion had a much larger proportion of persons of sense in those days.