Recent content by bryanwd

Well I have seen the photos, finally, and I'm not sure the police today still feel the way they did in 2008. The ceiling looks very close, like she held the camera over her head and took a picture of the ceiling intentionally. I bet she turned off the lights, bounced the flash off the ceiling...

The story Jennifer Willmott laid out in opening statements was that that the camera dropped, accidentally taking a picture of the ceiling, and this is what set Travis off into a murderous rage from which Jodi had to defend herself. I say baloney. I'm not a "professional photographer" like Jodi...

The pink is a Joe Arpaio thing. If you watch the singing competition, you'll see that all inmates including the men are dressed in pink. Sheriff Joe is famous for pink jail uniforms, green bologna, tent city, female chain gangs, and "the loaf." He proclaims himself as "America's toughest...

Tiger, I can't remember where I read it or who said it, but someone said on another forum that it wouldn't surprise him if Jodi, under cross-examination, has a reaction like Ed Norton in Primal Fear. She is soft-spoken, but also has a whole lot of rage. I can easily see her completely loosing...

I hear what Chanler is saying, but it seems like double talk because the "battered woman syndrome defense" is a claim of diminished capacity, or some kind of temporary insanity with the added twist of smearing the dead victim. If her claim of self-defense only has a basis if you take her mental...

Doctor patient privilege would be the defense's argument against turning over unredacted notes from a psychologist, but I think Arizona gets an exception if she's pleading insanity: http://apaac.az.gov/specialized-topics/topics/category/39-rule%2011%20incompetency%20and%20mental%20examinations

The defense will have to do a hell of a tapdance. They'll have to do an insanity defense without explicitly calling it that, but at the end of the day they still have to have some sort of legal theory behind it besides "Travis was a bad guy and deserved die just because Jodi says so." There is...

But isn't "post-traumatic stress disorder" a mental disease or defect? That's exactly what an insanity defense is, isn't it? The only extra twist is that she's also blaming her victim as the cause of her mental illness, instead of God or nature. Wouldn't that still be an insanity defense that...

Seems that the best she can get at this point is a "guilty, but insane" which would pretty much be a one way ticket, no return, express train to the snake pit for the rest of her life. http://www.azleg.state.az.us/legtext/44leg/1r/bills/hb2110p.htm EDIT: "Conditions that do not constitute...

No: http://www.courtminutes.maricopa.gov/docs/Criminal/072011/m4810307.pdf

Jailhouse snitch?

SheStartedIt, I mentioned it on the other forum, but "protective orders" appear to be special restraint orders specific to domestic violence. The person has to have a specific relationship in order to qualify, like be a blood family member,married or formerly married, have a child in common...

pssht, try Feb 2012. Maybe she's waiting for the world to end, first.

She couldn't have done that from behind bars. There is an accomplice on the outside who could make a very, very good witness for the prosecution.

This is speculation, but it certainly looks like she successfully lied through a polygraph about the authenticity of the handwritten letters, and tried to use that to support their veracity (in the face of both side's experts describing them as forgeries). To me, this proves that she is...