Retrial for Sentencing of Jodi Arias - Day 31

[DebinGA]

This jury heard JA describe in detail working in her father's restaurant from age 14 and many others after. If there's one experience JA should be familiar with, it's the feel of a knife prick. I call BS on the razor tale.

 

[wvjules]

Juan shouldn't even bother calling Smith to the stand now, IMO.

 

[tlckgram]

For me, the above tweet about Advil proves how disingenuous she is. Especially when you consider an aspirin overdose relative to the ABSOLUTE SLAUGHTER she perpetrated against Travis.

Also, despite the notion that all of this info certainly makes her look crazy, I think most people agree that to be a murderer a level of cray cray is required. (And by crazy, I mean it the way us lay people mean it)

Excellent point! Ok, I will calm down then.

 

[Nali87]

Seriously?

Yes. Unless JM shows me that people with BPD can somehow keep from doing things people with BPD apparently have no choice but to do: devaluing people, extreme emotions, etc.

 

[Hope4More]

Bet the jury needed the break!!

Not sure what else they need to hear. Wonder if Nurmi just might reconsider doubling down on the computer *advertiser censored* thing with Smith...

 

[EquallyDivided]

DT strategy now? I mean, this isn't just good testimoney y'all. Martinez and DeMarte just burned down the house. There is nothing left. Completely crushed it. Homerun. Grand Slam.

I wonder if Nurms and Willnotstop were having sidebars in their heads during all of this, completely dumbfounded by how it all makes sense now!!

 

[Moonchime]

I say she lied about that on the stand to explain her televised statement. With her high opinion of herself, she honestly thought no jury would convict her! Anyone else?

Totally agree!

 

[katydid23]

Yes. Unless JM shows me that people with BPD can somehow keep from doing things people with BPD apparently have no choice but to do: devaluing people, extreme emotions, etc.

There are MILLIONS of people with BPD. How many actually kill anyone? Very very few of them commit brutal murders. BPD is not an excuse to stab your stalking victim to death.

 

[RickshawFan]

From what I just read on the Sidebar Thread to get caught up this morning, looks like Juan's starting out with DeMarte destroying Jodi's Super Secret Testimony and mitigating factors of parental abuse!!! Crush 'em Juan!:skip::juanettes::juanettes::juanettes:

This is waaay better than getting to cross JA! JM doesn't have to poke through JA's web of lies and deal with her craziness live. Instead, all the counters to mitigation are coming matter of factly out of Dr. D's straightforward BOOM!

 

[Love Never Fails]

Is that so? I would vote for death. Heck, I'd put the needle in myself. I'm not proud of this.

Rose, I think at the end of Dr. DeMarte's testimony, she will say that Jodi has the mind of a killer, that she intended to kill and that she would kill again. Right now it is all about her illness or psychosis, whatever they want to call it. But make no mistake, she didn't just kill Travis. That would have been awful. But she slaughtered him as if he was an animal. DeMarte will point out again that Jodi had no feeling for TA after the kill and no remorse whatsoever. And the defense cannot make that go away.

 

[Kamille]

And that's the 'win', isn't it? Not death over LWOP, but that he is vindicated and she is revealed.

Yep...it doesn't matter now. She can sit in prison and try to regale her followers with stories of abuse but everyone now knows the truth. The emperor has no clothes.

MOO

 

[dog.gone.cute]

It seems Jodi has been sick since birth. Every boyfriend liked her and then couldn't wait to get far away from her. I wish her parents would have had her committed to a mental hospital before Travis had to die. In most States I don't think an adult can be forced into a hospital by family

but everyone who knew her knew she was mentally ill.

This is all so sad. Travis didn't have a chance. Unfortunately, there are people like Jodi walking our streets. Very very scary.

:seeya:

BBM: While I agree with some of these points, I think she is pure EVIL !

This was posted this before: The Bad Seed !

I bet she acted just like Rhoda when she was younger, and as recent as yesterday, you could see the evilness in her face per yesterday's the court photos!

 

[Frigga]

Yes. Unless JM shows me that people with BPD can somehow keep from doing things people with BPD apparently have no choice but to do: devaluing people, extreme emotions, etc.

Nali, you have an absolute right to your opinion and we need to hear this. If you can change your mind- so can someone on the jury. We better be prepared for anything at this point. I'm sure it wasn't easy for you to admit.

 

[Nali87]

There are MILLIONS of people with BPD. How many actually kill anyone? Very very few of them commit brutal murders. BPD is not an excuse to stab your stalking victim to death.

I never said that. I'm saying, the way Dr. DeMarte is explaining it to me, sounds like her BPD is behind some the devaluing things she said after murdering Travis: the abuse lies, the pedophilia, the letter to his family etc. Those were the main things that would have led me to personally vote for DP. To me right now, it sounds like this is what BPD people apparently do and that they somehow can't control.

Of course it's not an excuse, but I'd consider it a mitigating factor while deciding her punishment.

I don't want to antagonize people though, so this is my last comment on this...

 

[tinkabella]

If she has any survival instincts at all, she'll skip allocution.

if she has any survival skills she'll get up there and for once in her life be real and tell the damn truth. be remorseful and beg for her life the same way I know Travis did.

 

[LambChop]

I have a question. If we know for sure she had access to his computer (JA admits it to Flores) then isn't it possible that *advertiser censored* could have gotten onto TA's computer from JA logging on has him?

 

[Magdalyn]

I'll never understand why he kept talking to her or didn't get a restraining order. He even said if I'm killed, it would've been JA. :gaah:

It's pretty common for men to *not* report stalking. They either think they can handle it, hope the stalker will go away on their own, fear they won't be believed/will be mocked/blamed for encouraging it, or find the idea of reporting it emasculating/unmanly. Marvin Sapp (Teleka Patrick case) was stalked by Teleka for a long while and he didn't report it/get a restraining order until she showed up at his house when he wasn't home and talked to his kids. That was his red line.

(He never knew her personally/communicated with her. She suffered delusions.)

 

[Hope4More]

Yes. Unless JM shows me that people with BPD can somehow keep from doing things people with BPD apparently have no choice but to do: devaluing people, extreme emotions, etc.

That was my point much earlier. But....even if BPD somehow could explain away the why of what she did, and even if it can explain away her lack of remorse, and even her WANTING to devalue him after the murder, it can't explain away why she hasn't taken responsibility after all these years, and as bad, why she looked straight at the jury and lied about her PARENTS abusing her, not to mention the utter filth against Travis they've been subjected to for months.

I think the jury will very much dislike the DT after today, and will not be inclined to believe a word they say.

 

[memoriesbymichelle]

Never overreacted??? How about when he admits she melted down and he had to block her car???

well then except for that ONE time.....LOL

 

[kolokolo]

Wonder how Nurmi will attack DeMarte, who has proven every point she made using test results and all that material from e-mails and interviews?

He can't say she's lying!

.... or making it up.