Hi Zoey,
I'm the owner of juror13lw on Wordpress. I've had that blog for about two years. I spent all of last year blogging about Oscar Pistorius, and now I'm working on Jodi Arias. I noticed about a month ago that there was another blogger out there going by the 13th Juror (Paul). So yes, it is definitely confusing. But hopefully we each bring something interesting to the table
BTW, I really enjoy your posts on Twitter!
Thank you so much. GREAT WORK. So nice to meet you!! I literally have a question up on Twitter right now "Friends, help me figure out who the author of this blog is!" regarding yours . I tried to click on the title and it doesn't give your name. It really matters to give credit to the author, there is so much stealing going on on the Internet. I am so happy to now know who you are, but that you are right here , at home at Websleuths. Your explanation about BPD is brilliant. It breaks it down so well. I understand it completely now and I sure hope the jury does too. It is hard to imagine that most murderers on death row don't suffer from something. That has nothing, whatsoever to do with the high standard of not knowing right from wrong. The only question that remains then is.....does having BPD rise to the level of calling for mercy.
This is where the jury instructions are unclear. The way the state presents it is a balancing test. Do her mitigating factors, tip the scale, outweighing the cruelty of the murder. On that test.....she loses, hands down. The way the defense presents is the jury need just find ONE of the mitigating factors to be true, in fact any factor, whether it be real or imagined, one they raised now or ever before in the trial, or one they feel on their own accord. WOW. That is a wide array. In my shock I watched the foreman's interviews over and over listening closely to what he opined. He had a poor understanding of an important thing, in my opinion. He said over and over again that the jury was NOT permitted to consider the victim's impact statements, as "That was NOT evidence". I they weren't intended to consider the victim impact statements, then they WOULD NOT have been provided,in open court by the siblings. The pain just jumps off the screen
The way she continued to torture this family with flowers and letters yells out I am NOT SORRY so loudly to me. That matters. What do you think of him saying that? When one sees ( which I know the jury cannot ) that dear MumMum ; who died literally of TRUE PTSD, unable to cope with the horror of the murder of her boy, is laid to rest right by Travis' side, just as she stood in life it is just too much to look away from.
If I ever sit on a murder trial, I will go in with one thing in this life I know for sure. WE ARE going to consider the victim impact statements. Jodi Arias did a lot more than kill Travis that day. I hope for the sake of the hard life being on death row will bring, that the jury gets it right this time
http://youtu.be/6HZovnt7hh0 Tanisha and Steve explain hell yes they and all of the brothers and sisters want to be there the day she is put down.