Secondly, even if he's color blind, he would see tones. When someone cant' see, say, the color red, they don't see nothing, they see gray. So, even assuming he was color blind and cannot differentiate the color blue (the tint of the windows), he would still be able to recognize that they were tinted, but might think that they're tinted gray. So, he could discern the tinting, regardless.
Exactly! I was talking to an art teacher about this a couple weeks ago. She said she has a few colorblind students and was wondering what to do? I recommended a painting & drawing technique called Grisaille painting which is totally with different
tones of gray, black & white. NO colors at all. (Some kids naturally doodle and draw this way in their notebooks, with their pencils. They realize that when they pressed lighter and darker with the side of their pencils, they can change the tone of their gray #2 pencil.)
Also there is a popular painting method called monotone painting in which a person uses just one color, say purple, and white and black paint, and only paints with those, mixing lighter and darker tones of that one color to make highlights & shadows.
So, the man would be able to see that the tinted darker window panes, or in this case, the lack thereof, would be different. Not, to mention, as other posters have said, there would be a breeze, smells & sound coming through the lighter window pane.
So this "elderly," "doddering," (at 51,) now "colorblind," grandfather placed an 18 month old child on a thin wood railing, yet somehow it's RC's fault she fell OFF and THROUGH. Not!
I have to wonder who the attorney for the grandfather thinks he will get as jury members? Is he betting he can make up a whole jury of only young people who think 51 is ancient, and has no squirmy kids of their own? That they will buy the claims that he is elderly, doddering and colorblind, so it's all RC's fault?
I also have to wonder about the parents. One is a police officer and the other a prosecutor. Both professions require that they are able to strongly and accurately assess people. Yet, neither were able to assess that the father/father-in-law might have lacked the judgement abilities to have been left with an 18 month old in his care. (NOT that in a million years would they ever have thought of him placing her near an open window to fall through.) But, they might have had some doubts, deep down inside about his judgement or abilities. And they just can't face that fact, that had they listened to their own instincts and not have left Chloe alone in Grandpa's care, Chloe would be alive today. So, instead, it HAS to, instead, be RC's fault. I feel for this family's devastating heartbreak. But, in my opinion, in no way, shape or form, is this RC's fault.