I agree with most of what you have said. But I do have one question. If JSS is secretly pulling for JA, why is she so worried about preventing an issues for appeal. Wouldnt she want the appeals to be successful?
Bird in the hand, katy.
JSKS controls everything, and I do mean everything, in her courtroom.
Just one example: Remember when she wouldn't let the Alexander siblings wear ribbons to honor their murdered brother, but she later allowed the Arias crowd to wear theirs?
Nothing happens without her tolerance and/or imprimatur.
Why should she risk leaving her favorite killer's future to an uncertain appeal outcome where she will have
ZERO control and influence unless the case is remanded to her court?
In short, JSKS and JA don't want this going to appeal until they first mitigate her punishment. It can only get better -- not worse -- after that.
No, she needs to allow in all the tripe that JA can trump up so as to convince the jury that TA was a violent abuser, an especially cruel predatory pedophile who sadly -- because he wouldn't read and obey the mall pamphlets -- had to be 'neutralized' in order to render the world safe once again for children whose paper will e'er sail off the bed, falling in that chaotic pattern that paper doth fall -- doth it not? -- as it hastens helter-skelter, to and fro on its meandering way, drawn, as it were, by that glorious, inexorable gravitational force prevailing upon it, indirectly directing it to that certain plane wheree'er it shall meet terra firma... blah, blah, blah.
Poor St. Jodi of Arias. Woe is she.
