Really well written post.
I also believe that JA does feel attacked by the Alexander family because they wanted her put to death. They did not want the death penalty taken off the table. When the plea bargaining was going down, JA wanted to plead guilty to second degree murder which would have had her out in twelve years. She warned everyone at the time that if they did not give her what she wanted that she would destroy Travis's reputation. So that is what she and her supporters and the DT set out to do. They repeated the lies ad nauseum using the advice of that master manipulator and propagandist, Joseph Goebbels: "If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it."
The eleven jurors, contrary to the DT's efforts to persuade them through their vindictive falsehoods and insulting cross-examinations, were not swayed. They saw through to the truth of Travis Alexander's character. Just like the Alexander family, they spoke the truth as they had realized it through their court experience. And, as a result, they were targeted by JA's supporters.
To paraphrase Geobbels: It thus became vitally important for the Defence Team to use all of its powers to ridicule and denigrate the Prosecution's witnesses, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth about Travis Alexander is the greatest enemy of Jodi Arias.
