I was going to title this blog, “Hey, Jose, Ask the Right Questions.” But having heard that the prosecution has told the judge in the Casey Anthony trial that Casey may have “gotten” the story about her child drowning in a pool and being found by her grandfather from a neighboring cellmate, I’m utterly baffled.

America, wake up!

If we continue on this path, justice in this country is doomed. This new news story is nothing but innuendo and rumor. Yet national news outlets are reporting “facts” that not only haven’t been proved, they haven’t even been alleged.

I’m not naïve. I don’t believe every tale a pathological liar tells me. I didn’t believe Scott Peterson anymore than I believe what I’ve heard so far from Casey Anthony. But in neither case do I believe the state proved or has proved so far their guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.

In Peterson’s case I believe the most likely scenario was that Amber called the Peterson house and Laci answered the phone. Later Laci confronted Scott with his philandering and they argued. He struck her and killed her—unintentionally. I even think he may have tried a C-section to save his unborn son. In the end, he wrapped the body in a blanket and tossed it in the bay. Murder, yes. First degree, pre-meditated murder, no.

I think the most logical explanation in the Casey Anthony case is that Casey used chloroform to sedate Caylee, and she died—accidentally. Then Casey concocted elaborate lies to cover up. Child abuse and murder, perhaps. First-degree, pre-meditated murder, no.

It’s hard to believe the prosecution will be able to prove the cellmate (so to speak) story predated Casey’s story to her defense attorneys. The attorneys cannot be compelled to say when she first told them the drowning story. And one has to ask whether or not the cellmate borrowed her story from Casey—apparently the woman has a long criminal record (which Casey does not, a fact no one seems to give her credit for, that is, her history of good behavior).

So—frankly—unlike the national media, this news story interests me little.

What I think is shocking is the national media. Last night, a popular talk show asked the question, “Will Caylee Anthony get justice? The Casey Anthony trial is the most-followed trial since O. J. Simpson. Will justice be served this time?”

Get real! O. J. Simpson was a major sports hero. He was a celebrity. He was wealthy. He was a mature adult. He had abused and divorced one wife before he abused and murdered a second. He didn’t just murder his wife, he butchered her and her friend while his two young children slept inside their home.

Casey Anthony is nobody. She isn’t famous except as the media has made her infamous. She is indigent. She is in her twenties and has never lived outside her parent’s home. She never abused her daughter or anybody else’s daughter. If she murdered her daughter, the evidence suggests she did so by putting her to sleep (the idea of suffocation by duct tape AND plastic bag is absurd on its face).

Sidebar: Jose, you did a great job showing that the Vass evidence of a huge amount of chloroform in the air sample was bogus. But you didn’t make it clear to the jury. In addition, you tried to claim Oak Ridge scientists have no quality controls—by using the “standards” which are in fact “controls.” The “errors” you pointed out in the tests were actually quality control. What you should have asked was, “Your research experiments are open-ended, are they not? Isn’t that the purpose of research, namely, to see what will happen?” The chemist would have said, “Yes.” Then you should have asked, “But Vass’s experiments weren’t to see what was in the air sample; they were conducted to prove the air samples came from decomposing human flesh, right?”

It’s METHOD, not PROTOCOLS.