January 5, 2013 Afternoon testimony
Jodi Arias on the stand
--People at the banquet encouraged Jodi to become more involved in PPL. Travis encouraged her the most.
--There were people giving ring speeches, they had earned $100,000 within a year. Travis did not have his ring. Said he made close to $80,000, Martinez objects due to hearsay.
--Travis would have been at the executive director level to get tickets to the banquet.
--You can be an executive director and not earn $100,000.
--Travis did not make a speech at this banquet.
--re: level of income of people in the room, you get a ring when you earn $100,000, when you earn $1,000,000 you get three diamonds. People were mentioning their lifestyle and how it had changed.
--What sort of statements did they make about the lifestyle with PPL? Their lifestyle...they no longer struggled, they no longer worried about paying the bills or where their money would come from, more concered with things like philanthropy.
--After the banquet her and Travis left the ballroom. They milled around outside and he took her around to get pictures done with some of the other executives. Then went back to the room to change into regular clothes.
--Travis was not flirting with Jodi but was talking to the guy next to him about income. Did not get the impression Travis was trying to woo her.
--Travis didn't talk about his family, said he was from Riverside and said he was a 49ers fan, said he liked UFC (cage fighting, no holds barred).
--Travis did not convey his faith to Jodi that evening.
--The day after the banquet she sat with Travis at another convention event. The area where they sat was for executive directors.
--The session was in a large room that can hold over 15,000 people. Jodi took her over to where their seats were. There's training, speeches, "entertrainment". Jodi took notes in her journal and took pictures. Training is for new products and speakers rally up the crowd, more ring speeches.
--Traning session goes until late afternoon. Jodi did not have lunch with Travis during that day. After lunch she returned to her seat with Travis and stuck with that seat for the rest of the convention.
--Jodi doesn't remember the Friday night.
--On Saturday she was clear that Travis liked her. He was being very friendly.
--Jodi was still with Daryl at this time, says that Travis was aware she had a boyfriend.
--Travis was friendly but not inappriate. She pulled Travis aside and told him she had a boyfriend. They had supper at the Ranforest cafe with team renew.
--Jodi says she texted Travis and told him she would like to talk to him later. Martinez objects.
--Jodi indicated she would like to talk to him alone and they went for a walk around the casino. It was around 0100 in the morning. As they walked she told him she had a boyfriend, she liked him but she had was in a relationship.
--Says she is monogamous, if she is with Daryl she is with Daryl.
--Says that Travis assumed that is what she was going to talk about. She was able to relax a bit more. They then went and sat down and talked for a few hours about everything.
--Travis encouraged her about her relationship.
--Michelle had warned Jodi that Travis was Mormon. She was aware Travis was Mormon. Didn't know a lot about Mormonism but knows it is the butt of a lot of jokes on South Park.
--Travis implied she should learn more about his faith.
--Travis did not attempt to kiss her while they were talking on the bench.
--When on the elevator, Travis leaned in like he wanted to kiss her, he was licking his lips and got close, he was in her face, about 4" away. Martinez objects...sustained. Travis licked his lips and said "I wish you didn't have a boyfriend". Martinez objects...sustained. Jodi says she did not kiss him. Travis put his arm around her when he walked her back to the hotel room.
--Travis made it very obvious that he wanted to kiss her but he was obviouly restraining himself. He did not attempt to invite himself into the room.
--The next time she saw Travis was on Sunday morning at a break out session. Travis invited her to go back to the MGM for a buffet breakfast. Jodi accepted the invitation. There were other people there. They were people from Jodi's team.
--After breakfast Travis checked out.
--Travis said that he would call Jodi but she didn't expect him to call. They hugged.
--Jodi left the convention with Michelle and Lenore and then checked out and dove back to California.
--Jodi went back to Palm Desert and still considered Daryl her boyfriend but was not sexually active.
--Doesn't remember why her and Daryl didn't have sex but then says it was because they broke up.
--Came back from convention on Sunday and broke up with Daryl on Thursday. She loved him very much but it wasn't going anywhere. They had different visions that been like that since day 1.
--On Wednesday night she was invited to Travis' friend's house and knew Travis would be there and didn't want anything overlapping since she knew Travis was interested. Didn't want to be in a relationship and then see Travis. Didn't want to cheat on anybody.
--The things Travis said made her take a step back and take a look at where things were going and it motivated her to break up with Daryl.