The one major concern is that the majority of jurors are men and JA has "that thing." She has "it," if you will. That thing that is not seen with the naked eye but that demonic spiritual thing that captures unsuspecting individuals.
Fortunately, the jurors are not unsuspecting prospective dates being offered sexual favors. They are
jurors who have spent
months learning of the of this woman, her psychopathy, her disordered thinking, her evil wiles.
To the jurors, Jodi Arias does not represent a fun romp on at a Vegas convention. She's not a tempting bit of fluff with just the tiny potential of turning bunny-boiler (that little frisson of danger that gives spark to so many affairs). She's already
shown herself to be a bunny boiler of epic proportions.
She is a self-admitted killer. She concocted an absurd rationale for her behavior, which was unsubstantiated in
any way. She changed horses mid-stream, when the wind left the sails of her first defense. We've gone from self-defense to heat of passion.
No.
Jodi Arias does not have
it. Trust me; I was raised by a malignant narcissist/sociopath father, raised in the same household as a sociopath nephew, and lived with my profoundly personality-disordered husband (mixed disorder; lots of overlap, but mostly sociopathic) for 25 years.
None of
them had "it" either. Early on? Sure, these individuals can sense the vulnerable. They can be charming and delightful---and then slowly morph. (If you want a greater understanding of this, visit outofthefog.net, which describes how people who love personality disorders are affected; it also describes the disorders very well.)
Those who
are taken in by these individuals are taken in .... differently. They are met, initially, with charm. Then, like a frog placed in cold water, the heat is gradually increased until ...wow! They're boiled before they even realize they're cooking.
The jurors, on the other hand, were plunged RIGHT into that boiling water with Jodi Arias. There was no gradual revelation, or slow dawning that they were facing a scary woman; they were
immediately shown her evil and her handiwork. They will hop out of the boiling water so fast our heads will spin.
Please, don't worry about men on the jury being taken in by any "It Factor" Jodi Arias may have exercised with men before her true nature was revealed. Because what it really comes down to is that
that nature WAS revealed.
It was revealed before the murder of Travis Alexander--the cracks in her veneer were showing to everyone who knew her, and most who encountered her casually.
Did you observe her in the courtroom? Her creepy behavior? The jurors did, too.
We have NO cause for concern. At least, not for the reasons you suppose.
How did I end up with a sociopath when I should have known better? Well, I had no way of knowing better. I was raised in a disordered home, and I fell in love with my husband at 16, well before I knew or understood this. By the time I realized what was happening, I was the proverbial frog, boiling in the stockpot. Luckily, I hopped out in time.
Travis Alexander hopped out of the water. The demented chef chased him with a knife.
And no amount of
It will blind the jurors to this.