January 9th continued.
Cross examination of RB by male defence lawyer
--RB was at a convention in April 2008 and met TA when he was flown in as a guest speaker.
--Asking RB about the time before his initial meeting with JA and when they spoke after the convention. A friend of his, "Zion?" was playing "matchmaker" and Zion told RB to call give JA a call. This was in April or May 2008. RB was single at the time.
--RB called JA at the event where he was speaking to Zion. He spoke to JA on the phone for "quite a while".
--RB's interest in JA was romantic and he was interested in dating her.
--RB says that JA is "a business woman" and he found that attractive.
--RB noticed that in crowds JA was a shy girl but in private it was different.
--RB and JA met for the first time in June 2008 when he she came out to meet him. This is the one-on-one meeting not when they met through business. RB noticed that JA was shy when she was in front of people.
--RB thinks the phone contact with JA was in April or May 2008. JA told RB that her and Travis still talked " a couple of times a week" because he was her executive director and her mentor in the business. RB says he was shocked at first to find out JA and TA still talked.
--JA told RB that she helped TA maintain his executive director status. Staus is based on applications. The executive level paid more money. The "pay jump" was large, a $4000 difference.
--Executive director also came with other incentives such as banquets. Easier to get on the Cancun trips etc.
Now asking about the instant messages and their means of communication.
--JA and RB spoke 4-5 times a week and instant messaged throughout the day.
--Conversations were about books, hobbies, his dating history, if each of them had trust issues.
--RB admits that some of the conversations were phone sex. The phone sex started after they met in June.
--Between April and June 2008, RB is asked if he had any qualms about pre-marital sex. RB talks about when she visited in June 2008 and how he didn't want things to get too heated because of JA's religious beliefs. RB says that JA was "trying to being him closer to God". JA was a convert, baptized later on. JA mentioned reading RB's scriptures. RB never doubted her sincerity.
--JA told RB about having a sexual relationship with Travis. She also told RB that Travis had cheated on her and wasn't honest with her. JA never said any other "bad things" about Travis other than the trust issue.
--RB assumed the contact that TA had with another girl was "a long time ago". No idea when the "cheating" happened. RB says that it "seemed like she didn't trust him".
--RB wasn't aware of the time frame when JA and TA broke up.
--Seemed like the reason TA and JA broke up was because they didn't trust each other.
--Defence asks RB about "Travis didn't want their relationship to be public". RB states that is why JA moved away from TA because it was hard seeing TA when they were so close. RB doesn't know when JA moved away from TA.
--JA told RB that they "hooked up a few times" after they broke up.
Defence: Asking about the convention in Oklahoma. RB says that here were social events, training, parties, "hanging out". RB and JA had some mutual friends. Defence: "did you ever see at this convention, Travis and Jodi together as a couple". RB: "no".