PTSD is also the diagnosis given to truly battered women as battered womens syndrome isn't a recognized diagnosis. I think Dr.S kind of blew it for the defense when he stated JA's trauma stemmed from the killing when really he should have said it was from the cumulative effect of being battered. He even compounded his error by telling the jury it wasn't a get out of jail free card.
Just jumping off of this sentence.
I forgot about him saying that, and I think that sentence goes to his credit.
Still, I got the feeling from him and ALV that they were influencing JA's story in some way, either through books or outright coaching or both. It pained them to say anything positive about TA during their testimony and they both constantly minimized every odd thing that Jodi was known to do. It made me feel like I was being swindled or at least the attempt was afoot. They both heavily relied on text/im/email arguments to suggest that TA was an abuser. ALV in particular referenced reading numerous conversations between TA and Ja and would hint many were fights where Travis was being verbally abusive but kept referring to only a couple as examples, same with Dr S. I started to suspect that the majority were cordial. I also suspected that Travis was responding to something by the bits we've been able to view of these exchanges. That, along with the unsubstantiated pedo claims -that both JA and ALV threw out at every chance- caused me not to like, respect or trust either expert.
In contrast, Dr D gave many times when she should have. I can think of one where she could have given with less reluctance, the handwriting, if it looked like two people wrote it, just say it, you've established you aren't an expert in handwriting but give your opinion. She seemed, to me, to not want to admit that looked different. However, for ALL of her direct testimony and cross, I felt like she was
giving information not trying to sell the jury on her view. She criticized Travis when he earned it but she also confirmed what I had thought all along, this was not an everyday occurrence or typical behaviour for him and he was REACTING, not just starting trouble with JA because he was a world class DB . It convinced me further that the DT, JA, ALV and Dr S were running a con during their whole case in chief .
lease: have the trigger for her PTSD be from Tigers, or cats. It would be Bears or bear cubs, etc.
