Retrial for Sentencing of Jodi Arias - Day 23

[josie1986]

@TrialDiariesJ: Only a one hour lunch today and Thursday...yee haw! Tomorrow trial starts at 12:45pm #jodiarias #3tvarias

 

[Wolfpack Fan]

I could see how the way Jodi talks would influence a juror or two. When she was on the stand giving her secret testimony, I guarantee you she was using a really sweet, innocent voice that may have had some jurors wondering how someone this nice could have done something so vicious. There was a link to an article about borderline personality disorder on one of these threads that I read over the weekend. The article was saying that people with BPD usually were abused when they were young and they had feelings of abandonment even when they were young. I never have felt that Jodi was physically abused. I guess she was hit on the rear with a wooden spoon by her mother, but I'm older and don't consider that abuse. I also don't think her parents ever abandoned her. Maybe she felt abandoned when she was 17 and moved in with Bobby. Her parents didn't come after her, but I suspect they'd had as much of her sass as they could stand. I taught sixth grade for thirty years and did paddle several kids each year during the first decade ('70s) or so when I first started teaching. The kids who were paddled and the rest of the kids behaved well after that because they didn't want a paddling. Jodi and Carl knew what made their parents upset. My thought is that if they didn't want to get hit with the spoon, they should have behaved.

In that secret testimony, Jodi said her father was working all the time and seemed distant when he was at home. I was always a daddy's girl, and I guess I won't ever understand that. My mother had been married before, before World War II, and my sister had a different father. My sister married young, and I felt like an only child after that. But my daddy basically built his life around me. I went everywhere with him. We went to church practically every time something was going on. We went to the rec center at night for me to shoot basketball. Out of five years (grades 8-12), he only missed one junior varsity basketball game out of all the games in which I played. He's the person who took my friends and me to all of our high school football games. I'm bringing this in because I was spanked with a belt one time-- by my daddy. I can't even remember what I had done wrong. I do know that after the spanking, I ran and jumped on my daddy's lap, and he held me while I cried. My daddy died when I was 29, and I'm 66 now. I have lived my life in a way that I thought would make my daddy proud. I think that is what has surprised me about Jodi. How could she have sat there and said all of those things that she and Travis did, especially with her parents in the courtroom? I wonder if I would have done things differently if I hadn't had a father who cared so much for me.

 

[geevee]

William Pitts ‏@william_pitts · 32s32 seconds ago
Judge is asking for a one hour lunch today and thursday. #JodiArias

William Pitts ‏@william_pitts · 22s22 seconds ago
Trial tomorrow will start at 12:45 pm . #JodiArias
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So much for Full Court Days this week.

 

[josie1986]

@TrialDiariesJ: Geffner is back on the stand with Jen Willmott on direct #jodiarias #3tvarias

 

[dog.gone.cute]

From WAT:

Wild About Trial @WildAboutTrial · 8s 9 seconds ago


Judge going over scheduling issues. Asking if they can take a 1 hour lunch today and Thursday. They have no problems with that. #JodiArias

 

[geevee]

Katie Conner ‏@KatieJConner · 59s60 seconds ago
Dr. Geffner back on the witness stand again for #JodiArias #TravisAlexander #abc15

 

[geevee]

MC Superior Court ‏@courtpio · 15s15 seconds ago
Schedule changes--Lunch break will be shorter today and Thursday and trial will start tomorrow at 1:00pm. #JodiArias

 

[5bigfish5]

@TrialDiariesJ: Only a one hour lunch today and Thursday...yee haw! Tomorrow trial starts at 12:45pm #jodiarias #3tvarias

Good Grief.

 

[Myvice]

I wonder if the judge has had any requests for days off in Feb? Maybe trying to set a timeline? One can hope!

 

[dog.gone.cute]

From WAT:


Wild About Trial @WildAboutTrial · 1m 1 minute ago

Judge going over scheduling issues.

Asking if they can take a 1 hour lunch today and Thursday.

They have no problems with that. #JodiArias



Wild About Trial @WildAboutTrial · 34s 35 seconds ago

We will start tomorrow at 12:45 with 1 afternoon break.

Geffner lopes up to the stand, he is still under oath. #JodiArias



Wild About Trial @WildAboutTrial · now

Willmott is at the lectern.

Geffner sets up his plethora of paperal items and binders/books. #JodiArias

 

[geevee]

Michael Kiefer ‏@michaelbkiefer · 29s30 seconds ago
Jennifer Willmott asks Geffner about emails, IMs and texts from Travis Alexander to other women.

 

[geevee]

Katie Conner ‏@KatieJConner · 18s19 seconds ago
Geffner one of the main issues we’ve been told to look at is domestic violence, manipulation #JodiArias #TravisAlexander #abc15

 

[dog.gone.cute]

From WAT:

Wild About Trial @WildAboutTrial · 1m 1 minute ago

Willmott says we will finish Geffners testimony this morning.

She brings up #JodiArias journal entries. June 1st 2008.


:great: It's about time they finish with Geff !



Wild About Trial @WildAboutTrial · 1m 1 minute ago

Again my hearing is bad so I will just be making all of this up. #JodiArias

 

[geevee]

William Pitts ‏@william_pitts · 26s26 seconds ago
Geffner's back to the cycle of abuse based on interviews, writings, etc. #JodiArias

 

[josie1986]

@TrialDiariesJ: Geffner looked at emails and text messages that TA sent to other women #jodiarias #3tvarias

@TrialDiariesJ: Geffner says that gave him insight into JA and TA's relationship #jodiarias #3tvarias

 

[Nali87]

I hope Wilmott doesn't feel the need to do a recap. :sigh:

 

[geevee]

Michael Kiefer ‏@michaelbkiefer · 48s49 seconds ago
Geffner looking at domestic violence and manipulation issues. Does anything support #Jodiarias stories about relationship with Alexander?

 

[geevee]

Katie Conner ‏@KatieJConner · 37s38 seconds ago
Geffner: When we looked at relationships between #TravisAlexander and other women — we looked for signs of manipulation #JodiArias #abc15

 

[dog.gone.cute]

From WAT:

Wild About Trial @WildAboutTrial · 2m 2 minutes ago


#JodiArias is opened her yellow notebook to a new page.

She is folding pages too.. obvi some sort of crafting/origami.


Wild About Trial @WildAboutTrial · 1m 1 minute ago


Geffner was looking for consistency and patterns between messages/emails from TA to other females and messages with #JodiArias.

 

[josie1986]

@TrialDiariesJ: Geffner says he was looking for a pattern of behavior with abuse #jodiarias #3tvarias