I don't know anymore. I am actually kind of worried, for the first time. I just had dinner with my older brother, an attorney. We briefly talked about this case, and I was saying how confident I was, because the DT has not and will not be able to prove Self Defense.
My bro said 'so what ?'. They are probably not even really aiming for that. A great strategy is sometimes to 'hide the ball in the laundry basket', as he calls it. You get the state to spend time and energy arguing against 'self defense' and so they feel confident in their position.
Meanwhile the DT slowly builds a legal foundation for something else, and gets the judge to include the lesser charges.
So for example, if they can get the DV expert to convince the jury that Jodi was a true victim of violence, then the battered woman syndrome creeps up.
And they try to get one or two sympathetic jurors to believe that
JA was a silent victim and snapped when he came at her once again. It is not a true self defense strategy, it is more like a '
self defense at first but then I snapped from the constant abuse and committed overkill.'
It could come out of nowhere if they play it right.