trial day 45: the defense continues its case in chief #136

[popsicle]

Mine too, JSR. Despite my clearly female avatar!

That's ok, I realized awhile back that for some reason I thought most of the posters here were male. :floorlaugh:

 

[scorpio24]

Wild About Trial just tweeted they're all coming out of chambers...

 

[Weebles]

What is this creature?

baby sloth

 

[seguek9]

I'm gonna go out on a limb, and say I don't think they will be back today. It's too late. I bet she excuses everyone for the day. :sigh:

between vetting the juror questions, all the social network crape, the DTs constant mistrial carpe...you may be right.

but we still have an hour and a half-ish

(Call me Pollyanna :floorlaugh

 

[Nezumi]

this is driving me to drink!!!

Me too. But I have to wait until the cleaning lady leaves before I pop the cork. I have standards yanno.

 

[Schuby]

I'll paste the below from a site with people in the legal/court area.I will later post about Leading Questions and how bad that is to have done by ALV. It includes this tid-bit:

Leading questions are questions that are framed in a way that evokes a specific response from the individual being questioned. Issues about such questions can come up in journalistic interviews, court rooms, and surveys, and in some cases, the use of such questions is viewed as a breach of ethics and professionalism.
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The behaviors allowed in the spectator seats confuse me. The very few times I was in a gallery watching a trial, there were rules in place. No distractive behaviors, no food, no drink, no laughter. I am curious to see the jurors thoughts on those things after trial, if they even discuss anything.


IMO: On Monday the judge should include in her "daily admonitions" that any outburst from the gallery will result in removal from and revocation of access to the courtroom... without consequences the "Alyce LaViolette Trio" will continue their antics...


I have never seen anything quite like it, either. I have been observing trials since I was young, and the atmosphere in the courtroom is usually respectful and controlled. Most judges won't tolerate any less. What really surprises me is how often the MIT spec is allowed to go and sit with Jodi, every time there is a sidebar. She sits, and they whisper and laugh and giggle together like they are besties in Jr. High! Usually, for security purposes, no one but the attorneys are allowed to get near the defendant. This judge just seems to have let all common sense and control fly out the window, and I don't get why.


Yes! I could not agree with you more. I go to court pretty much every day for my job. I also work for 2 judges. We were talking about this very issue on Friday at lunch. I was describing the behavior of the gallery, attorneys, witnesses etc. and I even played the ALV "Are you angry at me Mr. Martinez" bit. They were appalled.

Our courtrooms here do not allow ANY FOOD or drink (besides water bottles) in the court. There is no gum chewing, no using your cell phones, no reading newspapers. That kind of thing. In my opinion, this judge has no respect from anyone in her courtroom and she doesn't demand it. If an outburst of laughing happened here, anyone who was caught laughing would have been thrown out. The Mitigation Specialist would have been sanctioned and probably her supervisors as well.

When ALV was becoming combative, the judge should have looked at her and said, "I'm going to ask you one more time to answer the questions Yes or No or you will be held in contempt."

This stopping court for people being "sick" is a joke too. They needed a hard nosed Judge to handle this case. Maybe after/if JM speaks to the Judge about the ALV/Sam thing, she will realize things are out of control and she better get her courtroom on track fast.

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32:42 Juan starts cross in his normal tone of voice. Firm but not raised.

AL is deliberately evasive and being obtuse and combative

38:47 Yes or no! ...
AL pulls her 'are you angry at me'

Her PLANTS not only laugh but make it very loud acting up.
(at this point they should have been told to exit the court room)

Interesting. Great info.

Honestly, aside from the laissez-faire schedule, I don't really see why people care so much if she lets people drink mountain dew or slouch in their chairs.

 

[vulcangurl]

maybe they showed jodi the juror questions and advised her to plead guilty to 1st degree / premed / LWOP ? possible?

My husband just said the same thing

 

[SyraKelly]

Is JA going to plead out? What's going on?

Salem

I really don't think Juan would go for that,I think its the DT not liking the ????

 

[SoCalBuck]

I'm gonna go out on a limb, and say I don't think they will be back today. It's too late. I bet she excuses everyone for the day. :sigh:

Absolutely. I am certain that the defense team is using every delay tactic and objection in the book so as not to put Alyce back on the stand until she can be thoroughly "prepped" overnight.

 

[Love Never Fails]

Everyone coming out of chambers. Yay!!,

 

[VivianVance]

You know, there really is some truth to that. She started singing that song from Disney's "Snow White" ("I'm Wishing", if that's the name) in her hideous lecture. That is for sure copyrighted material and requires permission and Disney doesn't take their brand lightly. There's something about just a few bars of copyrighted songs that seems to have really restrictive laws. I've been told that you can't even use more than a line of lyrics (if that) without permission in a book you write. Wouldn't that be interesting if Disney is upset?

Oh boy, then I am in MAJOR trouble... I'd better get Joey Jackson on the line...

 

[tss]

Me, too! I had to refresh like 5x before it let me back in. Yikes!



Absolutely.

yes, my last post took 4-5 attempts, refreshed also

 

[JSR]

Mine too, JSR. Despite my clearly female avatar!

LOL.

Well since I have a golden girls avatar you would think the same thing would go for me. I don't know too many men who love Golden Girls, hilarious as they may be.

 

[Pink Panther]

where the heck are they

Is JM with them or are they with LAV going over the questions on their own? How does this work? We didn't have this with Dr. D...

:banghead:

 

[BetteDavisEyes]

Methinks that the jury isn't buying the "domestic violence" argument. :moo:

 

[Paintr]

Bet judge calls court for today and ALV has all night to form her answers.
:banghead:

 

[newsjunkie]

We're live!

 

[Sedonia Sunset]

Every time I try to reply to a post in the last 15 min or so, WS times out. I discovered that I had to a) copy the text (including the quoted portion), b) open a new tab, c) close the old tab, d) paste what I want to post in the Quick Reply box near the bottom of the page, and THEN post a quick reply.

 

[CoachSue]

WildAboutTrial ‏@WildAboutTrial 2m
Everyone is coming out of chambers. Do you think we can start this up soon? Let's do this Judge Sherry! #JodiArias

 

[AngelWings444]

Here We Go!!!!!!!!!!