I couldn't bear to listen to Gus II blather on for hours, but think I get the DT game plan (?)
Gus II's role is to give the jury a reason (PTSD) to explain away JA's lies, so as to restore her credibility. Wasn't her fault she lied all those times before, and she isn't lying now on the stand when she says she doesn't remember the murder. If JM loses and the judge allows Gus II to testify about the crime scene/types of murders, all the better, since they will have slid in "expert" testimony that TA's murder wasn't 1st degree but a crime of passion.
Enter DT expert 2, who in testifying that JA is a battered woman hopes to establish the foundation for self-defense.
A certain jury in Florida probably would buy all this malarky--they believed the grief lady after all.. 'nuf said.
This jury? I seriously doubt they're swayed one iota. They seem to despise JA. They don't believe her, and likely are past any point of WANTING to believe her. JM has the goods and the skill to prove premeditation beyond a reasonable doubt, to disprove that the murder could possibly have happened the way JA says it did-again beyond a reasonable doubt. Secure a first degree conviction --check.
I'm less positive (only 95% sure) but very optimistic that JM will also prove beyond a reasonable doubt that JA's vilest smear--that she witnessed TA as pedophile on January 21, 2008-- was and is a complete fabrication, unnecessary for her defense, and asserted by JA solely out of a vindictive desire to destroy her victim's reputation. Secure death penalty. Check.