Ashley Flowers

That for me, like this thing is what really painted a picture.

When the responding deputy testified on the witness stand about the bed, he said that when he pulled the covers back, he found that it was wet in the middle, about where JoJo's bottom would have been if he was laying on the bed.

Just that area?

Yes, from what I can tell, that's what he's saying.

Now, the thing I don't know for sure is if that wetness was water or urine and if that wetness happened before or after the toilet bowl losing water.

Like, did JoJo have an accident?

And then whatever happened after that was prompted by that accident.

I thought, but the front of him is what is wet.

As if his, in my mind, as if his face were pushed into the bowl of water and then the water ran down the front of him when he was pulled out.

It's cut and dry when someone immediately dies from drowning.

This one is complicated because of the fact that Jojo didn't die right away, right?

In the hospital for days.

During this hearing, the medical examiner testifies that there was water present in Joseph's airways.

But that doesn't necessarily mean drowning because Joseph had been on a ventilator for several days before he died.

And the ME testified that fluid in the airways can be consistent with prolonged ventilator use.

So according to this ME, there is just no way to narrow down the list by testing for drowning in cases like this, which means the autopsy can say asphyxia, meaning he couldn't get oxygen.

It can say that there is a concern for something, but it can't say how.

The oxygen deprivation happened.

Now, the state's argument is that if the toy chest theory doesn't work and drowning can't be ruled out and there is no trauma, then the only explanation left is that someone caused the asphyxiation.

And the only someone in that house was Brandon.