1. Age = 27
........... She's a fully formed adult who enjoyed adult perks like voting, credit, sexual freedom, mobility etc. Just because she's not willing to take adult responsibility for her actions doesn't make her age a mitigator. At age 27:
-Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. dropped out from his job at General Electric to become a full-time writer.
-Henry David Thoreau went off for two years to live alone in a cabin at Walden Pond.
-Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first person in space.
-Memphis millionaire Frederic W. Smith, whose father built the Greyhound bus system, founded Federal Express.
-Scottish botanist David Douglas discovered the Douglas fir.
-Ernest Hemingway published his first novel, The Sun Also Rises.
-Boston dentist William Morton pioneered modern anaesthesiology after learning that inhalation of ether will cause a loss of consciousness.
-kaRN was the Art Director at Colorization, was a single Mother to a thriving 4 yo boy, was on the Board of Directors at the Daily Bread Food Bank and volunteered 2 full days a month at her childs Montessori School.
-Other WSers here were accomplishing greatness, finishing school, raising beautiful children, running businesses, etc. and fighting for justice for souls they never knew.
-CKJA meticulously planned and executed an innocent mans execution.
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2. Lack of Criminal History
Lack of a criminal record perhaps but lying under oath and perjury are crimes the jurors got to witness first hand. Lots of evidence of deviant behavior starting at a very young age. CKJA wasn't charged with shoplifting to feed a hungry baby. She was charged and convicted of the ultimate crime with cruelty added for no reason except to satisfy her inner demon.
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3. A Good Friend
To Patti W when they were 13 years old? Patti's Dad paid for JA's bridesmaid dress and her travel expenses to be a good friend to her good friend. Didn't something happen to these wedding photographs and CKJA couldn't give them to Patti? I seem to recall testimony or a police interview to that effect. In any case, these wedding photos CKJA took are not the documentation of the wedding Patti sold to the media. Was she a good friend to DB while she was destroying his credit? Was she a good friend to BJ when she invaded his privacy and did god knows what else? Was she a good friend to TA?
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4. Lacked Support from Family
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.At the age of 27 CKJA shouldn't expect to receive financial support from her family and yet she received it. She also receives constant emotional support and for the last 5 months, she's received it at the expense of her 2 younger siblings, her gravely ill father and her aged and infirm grandparents. Her Mother came to assist her move. Her parents paid for and picked up her escape vehicle. She was financially and emotionally abusive to her chosen partner DB which no doubt had ramifications for his young son. From the photo evidence of her Grandparents home and the state of her bedroom there, it doesn't appear she even pulled her own weight in the home, let alone assisted her Grandparents by cleaning the house or exterior. Is staging a robbery at their home, stealing electronics, cash and a lethal weapon supportive of those supporting her? NO.
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5a. Suffered Abuse & Neglect as Child
..So says the convicted liar to explain away her slaughter of an innocent man. Projection isn't abuse.
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5b. Suffered Abuse & Neglect as Adult
..So says the convicted liar to blame her actions on the victim she slaughtered. Projection isn't abuse.
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6. Tried to Make the Best of her Life
No she didn't. She uses and throws away. Trying to make the best of incarceration doesn't count. If she had been attempting to make the best of her life, she would never have considered murder an option.
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7. Consistently Tried to Improve Herself
Her looks maybe....consistently. Jumping from one religious sect to another or from one new age philosophy to another isn't so much evidence of striving for self improvement but evidence of trying to find oneself. Education never figured into CKJA's self improvement plans nor did formal art training. What CKJHA consistently did was latch onto others like a parasite hoping their attempts at self improvement and growth would rub off on her. She's accomplished most of her self improvements while in jail out of boredom, not personal motivation.
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8. Talented Artist
.. CKJA has a hobby she enjoys and delusions of grandeur nothing more IMO. Her talents wouldn't get her accepted into an accredited Art School I can assure you of that. Artists conceptualize and create original works. They don't copy and trace magazine ads and frame them thinking they're worthy of hanging beside the works of great masters. After testifying about her friends gallery and her plan to hang her work there beside the Monet, the jury should get a real kick to see evidence of the great tracing talent. Any HS in North America has similar if not far better Art mounted on Bristol board and taped to their walls and the jury and knows it.
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