TIA to all the lawyers who have helped us understand things here from a legal perspective.
I've got two questions.
Firstly, yesterday morning started off with almost 2 hours of meetings in chambers and court observers were tweeting like crazy, especially when DT counsel left the courtroom for more than 10 minutes (tweets below). Any buzz from the legal community in terms of best guess for what was happening?
Wild About Trial @WildAboutTrial Valerie just called the defense team back into chambers. Mike B. is there waiting. Jodi is in all black, she goes back as well. 9:41 AM - 21 May 13
Wild About Trial @WildAboutTrial Also, Juan, Flores and Steven and Samantha head back into chambers as well. 9:42 AM - 21 May 13
Wild About Trial @WildAboutTrial DP Mitigation Specialist just took #JodiArias' mother out side of the courtroom. Interesting. 9:43 AM - 21 May 13
Wild About Trial @WildAboutTrial DP Mitigation Specialist and #JodiArias' mother just came back in. Errone else is in chambers sippin dom and listening to Manilow I assume? 9:48 AM - 21 May 13
Wild About Trial @WildAboutTrial Prosecution and two Travis' sisters just came out. Flores and Juan went into side room by me. He was moving fast. 10:05 AM - 21 May 13
Wild About Trial @WildAboutTrial Juan and Samantha just came out of side room. Juan is talking to both sisters. 10:08 AM - 21 May 13
Wild About Trial @WildAboutTrial Juan and Flores are seated. SIsters didn't look upset to me from what others seem to be saying. Defense and #JodiArias are still in chambers 10:10 AM - 21 May 13
Wild About Trial @WildAboutTrial Mike B. and #JodiArias just came out of chambers. She is speaking with DP Mitigation Specialist now. 10:33 AM - 21 May 13
Wild About Trial @WildAboutTrial Deputy just took #JodiArias into the side room. :::yawwnnn::: 10:34 AM - 21 May 13
Wild About Trial @WildAboutTrial #JodiArias father just left the courtroom. Jodi didn't look happy or sad, just complacent as she went by. Nurmi just returned. 10:35 AM - 21 May 13
Wild About Trial @WildAboutTrial Mike B placed a paper on the attorneys desk. Nurmi read it, handed it to WIllmott then he left the courtroom. Didn't look happy. 10:36 AM - 21 May 13
Wild About Trial @WildAboutTrial Willmott took the paper, grabbed her maroon/salmon bag and also left the courtroom. Can someone please just tell me what's up? 10:36 AM - 21 May 13
Wild About Trial @WildAboutTrial Valerie just handed a stack of papers to each attorney table. Possible jury instructions? 10:40 AM - 21 May 13
Wild About Trial @WildAboutTrial Multiple sherrif deputies just came in and talked to Valerie and left. 10:41 AM - 21 May 13
Wild About Trial @WildAboutTrial Two official looking sheriff type guys just went into the side room where #JodiArias is held. Very suspenseful in here! SUP?!?!? 10:43 AM - 21 May 13
Wild About Trial @WildAboutTrial #JodiArias' mother just left out the back of the courtroom. I don't see any more of her family in the front row now. 10:44 AM - 21 May 13
Wild About Trial @WildAboutTrial It's so quiet in here you can hear a chicken wing move from nurmi and he left the courtroom mintues ago.
Wild About Trial @WildAboutTrial Defense team just came back into the courtroom. 10:47 AM - 21 May 13
Wild About Trial @WildAboutTrial Nurmi just bolted out the courtroom, he has the stride length of OJ Simpson. 10:50 AM - 21 May 13
Wild About Trial @WildAboutTrial #JodiArias just came back into the courtroom. We are all present now. Judge is here, waiting for Jury. 10:51 AM - 21 May 13
Secondly, I was most disturbed when JA's allocution included several new prevarications which could have easily been dis-proven. For instance, she told the jury "100% of proceeds" from her Survivor T's would be going to support DV. Her representations outside of court are that profits, not proceeds, would be donated. Big difference. She also said that it was never her intent to malign Travis in court, but her plea motion clearly indicates otherwise. So my question is why was she allowed to include these misrepresentations in her allocution, or could Martinez have challenged them if he so chose?