I'm in central Iowa and it's getting pretty dicey here. Sirens going off, wind is insane, temps just dropped about 15 degrees.
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I'm in central Iowa and it's getting pretty dicey here. Sirens going off, wind is insane, temps just dropped about 15 degrees.
So a jury that put their life on hold for the past 5 months does not have the right to go on TV if they so chose to talk about and explain what happened in the course of this trial? They have to remain quiet even though WE and thousands of others are continually talking about this trail, the crime committed, the way the jurors voted, etc? For some reason that sounds like a double standard to me. This jury has had to remain quiet for 5 months. They could not talk about this case, they could not talk about how they were feeling after seeing those gruesome crime scene and autopsy photos, they could not talk about how horrible this murder was and how disgusting the defense team antics were in trying to smear a murdered victims name. Yet now they are being called media hos because they chose to break their silence and speak about it to others that may understand what they went through?
Good thing I wasn't a member of that jury, I would take great offense at being called a media ho as it would be my right to speak out if I wanted to.
MOO
So a jury that put their life on hold for the past 5 months does not have the right to go on TV if they so chose to talk about and explain what happened in the course of this trial? They have to remain quiet even though WE and thousands of others are continually talking about this trail, the crime committed, the way the jurors voted, etc? For some reason that sounds like a double standard to me. This jury has had to remain quiet for 5 months. They could not talk about this case, they could not talk about how they were feeling after seeing those gruesome crime scene and autopsy photos, they could not talk about how horrible this murder was and how disgusting the defense team antics were in trying to smear a murdered victims name. Yet now they are being called media hos because they chose to break their silence and speak about it to others that may understand what they went through?
Good thing I wasn't a member of that jury, I would take great offense at being called a media ho as it would be my right to speak out if I wanted to.
MOO
All these comments are interesting considering it was his peers on the jury who elected him
I did highlighte the part of the other post that bugged me- the assumption that disappointment informs the post. Please.
And now you want to help me release my anger????? And I'm not supposed to be offended????
I have largely enjoyed your posts and agreed with many of them, so I am not getting this turn of events.
I am not persuaded that the jury did much beyond sharing and stating their views. I am still waiting for the articulate juror that helps me understand. They were deadlocked at hour 2. They were shocked that there was a mistrial. They had a doofus for a foreperson. Why should I believe that everything else was kosher?
ETA: It's not about feelings.
Wishbone, his interviews were OOZING with sympathy for CMJA. So sorry, not buying that. He can't pick and choose. It does NOT say you CAN be swayed by sympathy for the defendant.
The ironic thing is that defense never proved abuse from her family. We never saw any of the other siblings up on that stand testifying how abusive their mother and father were to Jodi. She was restricted. Really???? That's abusive? As far as physical abuse, JM proved that the viewing of the pedo material never happened. She was working that day, had his car and Travis had Family Night at church that night. It never happened so that makes the argument about the pictures where he knocked her down and breaking her finger pretty much a lie also. Does anyone think the jury caught when Flores said there was nothing in the attic? Jodi claims she helped Travis move the Christmas decorations to the attic in January. Another lie.
Last Night:
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Came here for JA's case, am staying for the music.
And maybe some new friends.
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The ironic thing is that defense never proved abuse from her family. We never saw any of the other siblings up on that stand testifying how abusive their mother and father were to Jodi. She was restricted. Really???? That's abusive? As far as physical abuse, JM proved that the viewing of the pedo material never happened. She was working that day, had his car and Travis had Family Night at church that night. It never happened so that makes the argument about the pictures where he knocked her down and breaking her finger pretty much a lie also. Does anyone think the jury caught when Flores said there was nothing in the attic? Jodi claims she helped Travis move the Christmas decorations to the attic in January. Another lie.
I'm against the death penalty, but it doesn't follow that I agree with the jury foreman's conclusion that Travis was abusive. In fact, I find it highly offensive for Travis to be posthumously abused by Jodi and her defense team. I'm also stunned that anyone on that jury would fall for the smear campaign. I blame much of it on ALV, too, who deliberately left the impression that there were many, many other instances not shown to the jury of verbal abuse by Travis when she knew there were none at all. Unforgivable, IMO.
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Just why??? To let someone else have a good at bashing Travis. Has the CM not had enough of a voice?
:banghead::banghead:
The things the media do for ratings.
I'm in central Iowa and it's getting pretty dicey here. Sirens going off, wind is insane, temps just dropped about 15 degrees.
Too lazy to look it up...is PDT Arizona time?
(I've seen squ irrel poop.) :floorlaugh:
Many of you have said you will move on to the Andrea Sneiderman trial. I hadn't heard about that case and decided I will just take the summer off and enjoy my beautiful Oregon.
I was taking a little break from my daily life this morning and turned on ID TV. I missed the 1st 5 minutes, but anyway the show was about a guy named Humi (?) Neuman who was on trial for murdering a guy named Rusty, husband of a co-worker. Well, guess who shows up on the witness stand? Yup! ANDREA SNEIDERMAN. It didn't even take 2 commercials before I decided that Oregon will still be just as beautiful in the fall. (Besides I've seen most of it twice over anyway.) I'm HOOKED! :banghead:
Cognitive dissonance. I think he felt genuinely sorry for T's family. He also felt sorry for JA. He did not feel sorry for Travis. He made sense of that mish-mosh by rationalizing that the suffering of T's family was awful, but irrelevant to his decision; that to decide anything based on their suffering would be to act on emotion, which they were told not to do.
I'm all for dissecting what jurors thought, but it contributes not very much to see them as one dimensional peeps who think only in black and white and in a straight line. We are all messier than that, and flawed.