6) TA's abuse led to extreme emotional distress at time of incident
This one has struck me from the time I first saw it. It's the most peculiar mitigator I've ever seen.
First, it insults by calling an especially cruel first degree premeditated murder an "incident."
Second, it says outright that Travis the victim was responsible for causing his murderer "distress."
Third, it implies - and not very subtly- that the distress Travis caused her was a factor at the time of the "incident." Suggesting that she snapped, not premeditated a slaughter.
I'm very interested in how Nurmi frames this mitigator in closing, if he does at all. Seems more a piece of the DT's stealth case that Travis deserved to die.
Hope, I think that is exactly why Nurmi is calling Fonseca and Geffner back to the stand. They are the very ones who so adamantly claimed that Travis was the 'abuser', by using her for sex, even tho' they were not dating. You won't hear them say a word about her moving almost within arms reach of him AFTER they had 'broken up'. They will not admit how she sneaked into his house even when he was not there and helped herself to his private accounts like Facebook, MySpace, his bank account, etc. I think it was Taylor Searle who Travis told that sometimes she awoke him climbing into his bed...
naked.
In her narcissistic way of thinking, SHE would force herself on him and he'd be a fool not to let her finally move in and enjoy his lifestyle. She was the one causing him so much distress and costing him so much money. I forget who it was who told about one time when he was at a large PPL meeting and was scheduled as the featured speaker, but someone over him sent people to find him 10 minutes before he was to speak because he was nowhere to be found.
Finally, he called the person in charge and told them, "I'm out in the parking lot in a huge argument with Jodi and I'm no condition right now to speak. I'm shaking from arguing with her so much." And he made it sound like if he came in, she was going to follow him and continue the 'scene' in front of everyone. But neither Fonseca nor Geffner will mention anything like that.
I pity any man who could become involved with someone like her! That one mitigating factor is how the DT will cover up the charge of her 'stalking'. I see her more of a Psychopath/Narcissist than Borderline, or perhaps on top of 'Borderline'. But I suppose if that had been the diagnosis, then the death penalty would have been off the table. What do y'all think? They would have argued, "She's sick. She needs a hospital and treatmen, not a cell." And certainly, that would have been a recognized mental illness and no jury would want to convict her if they REALLY thought she SUFFERED from a mental illness. Would they?