Verdict Watch 05/06/2013 and 05/07/2013

[askeptikalhippo]

If anyone has ever appreciated my brazen opinions and courtroom observations could you please find a way to email me that dancing Simplicity girl? I saved it but it only came as a photo, not the dancing part. I need this so badly to share with someone. Thank you! katiecoolady@yahoo.com (will it transfer to Facebook doing that?)

It's a gif format, so unfortunately Facebook doesn't support that format currently.

Source: I work in social media and marketing

 

[Snoopy1]

Juan Martinez ‏@AskJuanMartinez 2m
SING WITH THEM WHILE WAITING: There's been another outbreak of "99 Bottles Of Beer On The Wall" outside the #JodiArias Courthouse

 

[TexMex]

Beth on phone on HLN ...activity very different than yesterday. Willmott, MIT specialist, Martinez and the victim advocate who is assigned to Alexander family also spotted
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[tomato]

Also, this is what JSS has to hear first this morning. IIRC longer than anything she's had before, even when we had later start times. Perhaps the notifications for trial will come out at 10:00/10:30 so trial may not start til 11:00 ish.

Trial at 10? does that mean a verdict reached?

 

[Jasper52]

Dang, I need to go downstairs to watch this on the big screen tv!

 

[MidwestMama]

:floorlaugh: LOVE this post!

I like my coffee simple and black. I even toss back an occasional espresso. For JA, I'd bring in an extra large strawberry frappe - then make a huge display of throwing it in the nearest trash can, untouched. :blushing:

I love strawberries, but not strawberry flavored things.
But even I would "take one for the team" and slurp a strawberry frap today! :floorlaugh:

 

[gcharlie]

Yes when I was in school we had to take sewing, I hated the sewing teacher! Mrs. Hamilton, how I remember that is beyond me. I think I have PTSD also.

My home ec teacher was Mrs. Kitchen. :floorlaugh:

Better yet were some of my son's doctors...his shrink, Dr. Anger and other docs, Dr. Hack and Dr. Payne.

I kid you not.:floorlaugh::floorlaugh::floorlaugh:

 

[Snoopy1]

Beth Karas ‏@BethKaras 2m
Three more jurors just arrived. #jodiarias

 

[EGirl]

that most of y'all are doing the same thing I am while we wait.... replaying the trial and testimony over in your minds.


We talked a lot about how ridiculous the DV defense was given that they never lived together, had kids, etc. JA obviously wasn't trapped.

BUT!, I just thought of something sitting here.... Did Travis ever even go to JA's space? I mean, was he ever even a guest in a place that she lived?

Their entire relationship was HER showing up at HIS home or friends home!

 

[Cherry Baby]

Is it bad that I kinda wish the jury would take two weeks to come back with a guilty 1st degree verdict, just to drive people crazy.

Yes! Fifty lashes with a wet noodle! No second helping of ice cream!

 

[CookedGooseinOrlando]

I don't know if anyone else is thinking of Jeffrey MacDonald's trial as we wait for the verdict. I can't help seeing similarities: brutal murder, no witnesses, a lot of nonsense from the defense to draw attention away from the physical evidence.

I've always thought that the closing argument in that case was a masterpiece of rhetoric. This excerpted quote, in particular, seems appropriate to remember in this case:

"I suggest to you, ladies and gentlemen, that if you prove to you that that was MacDonald's footprint in type A blood...then it doesn't make any difference if there were 5,000 hippies outside Castle Drive at 4:00 in the morning...it doesn't matter what was going on outside unless they can tie that in to the inside...I can only tell you from the physical evidence in this case that things do not lie, but I suggest that people can and do lie."

We all have our own theories that may or may not agree with the Prosecution's description of the sequence of events. Some may disagree that Travis was stabbed, then shot. Others might think that there was no consensual sex and that the whole scene was staged. Given the fact the some cleaning was attempted and that significant time elapsed between the murder and the discovery of the the body, it would be extremely surprising if JM and Dr. Horn got everything exactly right.

In a case like this, there will always be things that can't be explained. Why would Jodi wait so long to kill Travis? Why use a knife at all? Why leave the camera and the memory card behind? While we can speculate, and I'm sure the jury is puzzled by some of these decisions, the only real issue is premeditation. If Jodi planned the murder then there's no need to understand how or why she carried it out the way that she did. The evidence for premeditation is overwhelming and the only explanations are given by a defendant who is known to be dishonest. She wasn't just lying out of panic in the days following the murder. She lied over the course of years to anyone who would listen, and embellished her story with more details as time went by. She did it with the same earnest voice that she used when she told the jury that she only shot Travis in self-defense...because he was in a murderous rage...because she dropped a $200 camera...2 feet...on to a bathmat.

I don't know what process the jury has adopted, so I have no idea if they'll address premeditation first, last or somewhere in between. In the end, they'll get to the point where they realize that Jodi planned the trip and came prepared to kill Travis and the verdict will reflect that determination.

Let not your hearts be troubled.

i always hoped he would have been innocent
what a brutal thing to inflict on your wife and child

 

[gitana1]

It's finals week here. I'm grading research essays in the home office while reading these posts!

I have to do some research of my own in some museum archives early in the afternoon, so I know how you feel about having to be away from the computer.

:seeya:

Who has finals week so early?

 

[amica]

Sending prayers to the Alexander family. Hoping their wait will soon be over.

 

[Snoopy1]

Wild About Trial ‏@WildAboutTrial 2m
Inside hallway now. Keeping my eyes open. Jurors are seen dressed down for the most part. #JodiArias

 

[TigerBalm]

A link or two is fine. It's just that when it gets quoted and there's more links the speed is slowed down. Lightening the mood is good. We all need that at the moment!

It's the same with people posting rumors (non MSM media tweets).
It all slows the thread down, with people refreshing every second to keep reading.

The site was down for hours this morning, we don't want to see that happen again.

 

[Fudge29]

Can anyone post the link that I can watch HLN on? Im in the UK. THere was one posted last night but I cant find it now.

Apologies if its been posted already x

 

[gauntlet]

@AMYABC15: #jodiarias Prosecutor Juan Martinez just walked in Smiling ear to ear

Like ^^^^^^

Here Comes Justice

 

[ShadyLady]

hln is showing local news....what link will show what is happening??? Please post. ))

 

[MidwestMama]

I love this and agree with the sentiment completely! Napoleon is a victim in all of this as well. I believe that he must have been so anxious and upset knowing something awful happened in that bedroom, and wondered why he never saw his best friend again.

^^This breaks my heart! One of our three dogs is ESPECIALLY connected with my hubby. If he was in Naps position for 5 days he would howl and howl his broken little heart out at not seeing his "daddy" for so long (even if he didn't know what had happened). I hope Nap didn't see anything - I know he is an animal, but I still hope he was spared that.

 

[Agatha_C]

Wild About Trial ‏@WildAboutTrial 1m

Inside hallway now. Keeping my eyes open. Jurors are seen dressed down for the most part. #JodiArias