NINJAS TO SELF-DEFENSE LIE
PART 1. NINJAS AND NO MITIGATION.
October 2008. DP notice filed. The ninjas did it.
Early-mid 2009. Mitigation investigation—Brewer, MM, parents, brother, grandparents, employers. No mitigation to be found, and precious few folks who are willing to say anything good about the .
May 22, 2009. tells Judge Duncan she wants attorneys Schaffer and Greg P. fired. Duncan tells her to talk it out with Schaffer.
August 18, 2009. Schaffer and Greg P. withdraw. Nurmi and Washington appointed. The ninjas did it.
October 14, 2009. DT begins relentless campaign to access TA’s texts and emails.
November 13, 2009. DT wants access to TA’s hard drive.
December 28, 2009. Dr. Samuels administers MCMI test. He will visit/interview the 12 times over 4 years and administer 2 tests.
January 15, 2010. Dr. Samuels administers PTSD test. The ninjas did it.
PART II. THE NINJAS DIDN’T DO IT & THE PEDO LIE IS BORN.
(Perhaps Nurmi tried out the ninja story with students sometime in late January, hoping to convince the the ninjas simply wouldn’t do as a defense? And the came up with pedo and abuse because she thought…worst case, TA’s family would back down and agree to a 2nd degree plea, best case she’d con a jury and walk free?)
February 2-3, 2010. Two day forensic evaluation by Karp (interviews). Typed report by Dr. Karp; in it is first mention of pedo accusations, saying internet and it happened on Jan 21, 2008.
Reports by of physical abuse “too numerous to count” (DeMarte, PP2 testimony). Broken finger is linked to TA rage on February 5, 2008, the day she was fired by Mimi’s. No childhood abuse.
February 10, 2010. Dr. Karp administers TMI test and DV test.
On DV test. Question: “Used force to make me have sex.” Told Karp-“some of the time.” Same test post-verdict, on December 2013, told Geffner—“never.”
Question. “Demanded sex when I didn’t want it.” Told Karp-“all of the time.” Told Geffner-“some of the time.”
PART III. BUTTRESSING THE PEDO & ABUSE LIES WITH FORGED LETTERS; TRANSITIONING TO FULL LIE OF SELF-DEFENSE
April 10, 2010. Ten forged letters sent to Nurmi. The letters are dated November 27, 2006 - May 27, 2008. The letter referencing pedo (and TA calling himself “pure evil,” the exact words Travis used to describe her May 26) is dated January 21, 2007. This is the letter Nurmi told Sky about in June 2011; the letter said TA was interested in Sky’s son.
The pedo letter had Travis telling JA to call him after she read his confession, not to judge him, and that he knows she’ll be compassionate.
The forged January 21 letter is in keeping with the pedo not yet being linked to physical violence, so not yet the core of her self-defense claim that TA’s violence resulted from her knowledge of his pedo.
April 29, 2010. Handwritten notes by Karp on pedo say bed and *advertiser censored* on paper. (Perhaps…changed because the DT didn’t find *advertiser censored* on TA’s hard drive)?
June 18, 2010. Psych evaluation by Samuels. Best guess- -an evaluation intended to establish a causal link between the pedo lie and the abuse lie.
June 22, 2010. The DT drops ninjas, files notice of affirmative defense.
July 2010. JM motion to preclude pedo letters from trial.
JM describes some of the content of letters in his motion: sexual acts and fantasies, regret over his behavior, no “corroborated acts of abuse.” In his book says one or more of the letters was very disparaging of Deanna.
Says letters can be authenticated by an expert, but would need originals. Neither originals or the source of emailer has been disclosed.
The “current version (of her story) is that Travis became angry when she dropped the camera.”
The DT argued: letters are evidence of sexual and physical abuse. Goes to her awareness of prior acts of violence. Contains “confession to having assaulted her.”
(MM was to corroborate abuse by lying that he’d seen bruises on her. IMO, the ’s emphasis on sex was to conceal/deny/take revenge for the fact TA had rejected her, a storyline she began working on in April-May 2008 ---the May 2 email about tree “fantasy,” TA getting jealous when she mentioned her fictictious BF’s, etc.).
DT: Letters are probative because every aspect of her relationship could give rise to self-defense OR to heat of passion. (Sounds like Nurmi was trying to keep the door open to his preferred “snapped” defense).
October 26, 2010. First “plea offer” by . All the threats she’d reprise in her 3rd and last plea offer in July 2011 were already there…that a trial would expose Travis as a “sexual deviant,” a “sexually active playboy hiding behind the façade of a Mormon choir boy,” that marriages would be destroyed and friendships ruined, yada yada.
Judging by the spiteful evil words directed at TA’s family during sentencing, I’m betting the is still pissed the TA’s family didn’t get with her program and agree to a plea.
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