VERDICT WATCH - Sentencing of Jodi Arias - Retrial Day 43

[Truth Detector]

Why was the media asked to leave

Isn't that obvious?

JA wants them gone.

Reason enough for JSKS.

 

[kimi_SFC]

Sending the Alexander Family continued strength, well wishes and prayer. This is beyond cruel. How they manage to withstand this :rollercoaster: of emotion is truly amazing.

I know in my heart they're doing this for Travis, out of complete dedication and love. My heart breaks for them, and I can't even put into words how much their continued display of unconditional love moves me.

This debacle just proves (IMVHO) that the current system in AZ is broken. There has to be a better way.

I send this post from The City, with unending hope that #JusticeForTravis is still within reach.... lease:

:candle:

:rose:


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[MsJosie]

Been sick and sleeping all day...so the jury was sent back to try again....is there any family there for the felon?

 

[mugwump*]

Ok, so now, who thinks today and who thinks tomorrow?

I called tomorrow already, "Wednesdays child is full of woe". I finally watched Troy Haydens video of her cell, and she will have a porcelain goddess throne. Maybe with luck it will break and cut her when she's sitting on it.

 

[Steve44]

Why was the media asked to leave

To give JSS a much needed mid-afternoon boost?

 

[JSR]

I'm wishing the victim impact statements had been given in February instead of December

That might have made a difference yes.

 

[mydirtysecret]

Aren't there 4 men on the jury

 

[RadarLuv]

both families there. be thankful you've slept!

Been sick and sleeping all day...so the jury was sent back to try again....is there any family there for the felon?

 

[Madeleine74]

Either way, Jodi goes into Perryville alive and comes out dead.

You got it!

 

[TexMex]

Justice for Travis

 

[dog.gone.cute]

Photos from Court:


Tom Tingle ‏@TomTingle2 · 3m3 minutes ago

Judge Sherry Stephens gives jury additional instructions during Tues sentencing phase retrial of #JodiArias in PHX

Tom Tingle ‏@TomTingle2 · 3m3 minutes ago

#Convicted murderer #JodiArias watches jury enter courtroom for new instructions from Judge Sherry Stephens Tues

Tom Tingle ‏@TomTingle2 · 4m4 minutes ago

#JodiArias defense attorney Kirk Nurmi looks back at gallery during Tues session of sent. retrial. Jury deliberating.

 

[alwaysonmymind]

Yeah. IMO, this was the DT's strategy all along--juror attrition, expert fatigue, Arias fatigue, drag out the irrelevant testimony so they forget the actual crime against the primary victim and the effect it had on all the secondary victims.

Right?
If you can't convince them with your ability, confuse them with bull$#¥T.....


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[Truth Detector]

Lethal injection is a far more merciful death than the one Travis suffered at the hands of this treacherous killer.

 

[wendiesan]

I thought they cleared the courtroom?

Apparently JW brought in files and spoke to SA just before the court was cleared of press and public, so BK was reporting what she was seeing on her way out of the courtroom.

 

[RickshawFan]

And we don't even have the satisfaction of JA's life at Perryville being worse than Estrella, if the stories I've read about Sheriff Joe's place are true. The food will almost certainly be better. I'd love to see future pics showing JA put on 50 lbs.

Per the State of Arizona's Information Packet on the prisons, Jodi will have to earn every little privilege she gets, including making more than $.10 an hour cleaning toilets. It is likely to be some years before she earns any upgrades, plus the Big Berthas of Perryville will undoubtedly make sure she loses privileges as fast as she can earn them. And, since Jodi has never been able to hold a job in her life, following through on the employment tasks she will be ordered to take on will not very soon put her at the "arts and crafts" permissible phase. I'm predicting it will take years for her to get the concept of working for a living.

 

[dog.gone.cute]

Been sick and sleeping all day...so the jury was sent back to try again....is there any family there for the felon?

:seeya: Hope you are feeling better !

Per the tweets, the felon has her mother there and Donovan.

I hope that helps !

 

[Madeleine74]

Has anyone considered that maybe Travis himself doesn't agree with the DP? And to whatever extent his energy can sway things, it is? Humans get caught up with revenge. That's one of our curses.

 

[ScarlettScarpetta]

From Tingle:

Tom Tingle ‏@TomTingle2 · 4m4 minutes ago

#JodiArias and team look at jury as new instructions are read by Judge Sherry Stephens during the sent retrial Tues

Tom Tingle ‏@TomTingle2 · 2m2 minutes ago

#JodiArias look back at the gallery Tues during the sentencing phase retrial in Phoenix. Jury is out deliberating

she is starting to look deformed in a way don't you think?

 

[Fuskier]

exhibited by the trial management skills of this judge, combined with the the excess of testimony concerning the victim rather than the defendant, may have tended to skew the perception of the jury here as to what the actual issues were. I have a legal background and I found it incredibly difficult to reconcile the fact that this was supposed to be a trial about whether there was sufficient mitigation to spare the life of the defendant with the actual proceedings which focused on proctorial misconduct, *advertiser censored*/child *advertiser censored*/computer evidence and the psychological "experts" who focused on the psychological makeup and tendencies of the victim rather than on the defendant. I really believe a different judge may have made a difference. This should never have taken this long. The scope of evidence and testimony should have been limited. To allow the focus of so much of the mitigation testimony to be on the victim presented a false picture of what the proceeding was about and what mitigation is. But how would the jury know? If 90% of the testimony is about the victim why should they be thinking about heinous the crime was and how the defendant lacked mitigation.

Defense experts should not have been attempting to "diagnose" the victim which is the reality of what they were doing despite their claims otherwise and despite the fact that I doubt the standards of their profession would have allowed such a diagnosis on a deceased person via selected e-mails sent by a victim to the person who murdered him. I know for sure victims rights were not advanced by this process. And the guarantees of due process for the defendant are not a license to "convict" a murder victim on charges never leveled against him. All along Nurmi's strategy was to wear down the jury, to drag this out so that any serious urgency was negated and to confuse the jury with regard to who was on trial for what. And this judge let him win time and time again. He is simply getting the mistrial and thus life sentence he has bargained for all along one way or another. And I do totally blame this judge.

I am not one who thinks JSS is taken in by Jodi or has any sympathy for her at all. She acknowledged as much when she permitted the absurd secret testimony but noted that Jodi was being manipulative. Yet she allowed herself to be manipulated. Over and over. I think she lacks confidence in her decisions. My experience with tough NY judges was that they never lived in fear of appeal. They made what they felt were the correct decisions and let appeals lie in the future. They had no qualms about time limits and holding both sides to schedules. Once the DT sensed JSS's uncertainly they took full advantage. She has aided and abetted their strategy.

Personally, I don't care what sentence Jodi gets. Either way her goose is cooked. All I cared about was the 1st degree conviction. But I felt the victim's family deserved to get the DP they wanted. This whole process has been absurd-this murder occurred in June 2008 people! That family has gone through way too much. I agree with KCL and others that victims rights needs some work in AZ if this trial is an example.

... and this articulates well, gives us context, calls it "as it is". Well done. :tyou: My opinion only.

 

[oceanblueeyes]

BK: JA smiling at JW. JW came in with files and spoke to SA.

Seeing this tweet makes me want to throw up.

She smiles while the entire Alexander family is dying inside.